Holocaust Oral History Archive
The Holocaust Oral History Archive is one of the earliest and largest collections of Holocaust testimony in the United States. Established in 1979 by Nora Levin (1916-1989), and maintained by a dedicated volunteer staff, the Archive is one of the earliest Holocaust oral history projects in the U.S. documenting a wide range of experiences during the Nazi era and Jewish life in pre-Nazi Europe. Holdings include interviews with over 900 survivors, rescuers, liberators, and other witnesses to the persecution and extermination of the Nazi era, 1933-1945. Special groupings include the testimonies of "Kindertransport" children sheltered in England, the 1985 Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, the 1991 and 1999 Rickshaw Reunions of Shanghai Survivors, and the Vilna Ghetto Fighters.
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Oral History Interview with Malvina Lebovic
Date:
12/09/1981
Interviewee: Malvina Lebovic
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Malvina Lebovic, born in 1920 in Kal'nyk, near Munkac, Czechoslovakia (now Mukacheve, Ukraine); being the oldest of nine children; her father, who was a butcher; how her family was very poor and life was difficult; her father organizing a school for Jewish children because of antisemitism in the loc...
Oral History Interview with Herbert Lindemeyer
Date:
12/06/1983
Interviewee: Herbert Lindemeyer
Interviewer: Eileen Steinberg
Interviewer: Eileen Steinberg
Herbert Lindemeyer, born in Minden, Germany in 1922, describes his father, who owned a pharmacy; antisemitism after Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor; the boycott of Jewish stores in April 1933 and the Nuremberg Laws of 1935; his parents’ discussions of whether to emigrate; Kristallnacht and his fa...
Oral History Interview with Jacques Lipetz
Date:
07/21/1988
Interviewee: Jacques Lipetz
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Jacques Lipetz, born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1932, describes being educated at a Jewish school; his family’s flight through France to Marseille in May 1940; going with his mother and two brothers to Lisbon, Portugal via Spain and his father went via Morocco; sailing to New York, NY in 1941 but not st...
Oral History Interview with Liesl Loeb
Date:
11/17/1998
Interviewee: Liesl Loeb
Interviewer: Self-taped Memoir
Interviewer: Self-taped Memoir
Liesl Joseph Loeb, born on June 17, 1928 in Rheydt, Rhineland, Germany, describes being a passenger on the St. Louis along with her father, Josef Joseph, an attorney, and her mother, Lilly Salmon Joseph; sailing on May 13, 1939 from Hamburg toward Havana, Cuba with 937 Jewish refugees on board; her ...
Oral History Interview with Samuel Makower
Date:
08/03/1988
Interviewee: Samuel Makower
Interviewer: Gerry Schneeberg
Interviewer: Gerry Schneeberg
Samuel Makower, born January 6, 1922 in Przasnysz, Poland, describes attending a cheder and public school; fleeing after the German invasion on September 1, 1939 with his family to Warsaw and then to Bialystok, Poland; life under the Russian occupation; being offered contracts to work in the Ural Mo...
Oral History Interview with Zenek Maor
Date:
10/20/1987
Interviewee: Zenek Maor
Interviewer: Sylvia Brockmon
Interviewer: Sylvia Brockmon
Zenick Maor, born August 9, 1923, in Wloclawek, Poland, describes his religious, Jewish family; his father, who was a factory owner; his family living comfortably until the German occupation; pre-war life, including his Hashomer Hatzair activities; the German restrictions and brutalities in Wloclawe...
Oral History Interview with William McCormick
Date:
01/11/1988
Interviewee: William McCormick
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
William McCormick describes being a sergeant in the 15th Reconnaissance Group, attached to Seventh Army Headquarters; entering Dachau one day after the initial liberation and staying for two days; giving a very powerful description of the physical and mental condition of the survivors; seeing bodies...
Oral History Interview with Armand Mednick
Date:
06/15/1983
Interviewee: Armand Mednick
Interviewer: Janice Booker
Interviewer: Janice Booker
Armand Mednick, born in 1933 in Brussels, Belgium, describes being called “Avrum” by his Yiddish-speaking parents; growing up in a close family in Brussels; growing up feeling ostracized in a non-Jewish neighborhood and experiencing antisemitism that was influenced by the fascist Rex Party; contract...
Oral History Interview with Bernard S. Mednicki
Date:
04/27/1982
Interviewee: Bernard S. Mednicki
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Bernard Mednicki, born in 1910 in Brussels, Belgium, describes being the youngest of four children in an Orthodox Russian Jewish family from Kishinev (Chisinau, Moldova); his father serving in the Russian Army until the 1903 pogrom, when he deserted and moved his family to the west; attending a ched...
Oral History Interview with Albert Miller
Date:
10/14/1994
Interviewee: Albert Miller
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Albert Miller describes being a sergeant in the 303rd Bomb Group, 358th Squadron of the US First Air Force, stationed in England in 1944; his missions in France; serving his 35th mission on November 21, 1944 as a radio operator gunman when his B17 bomber was shot down near Frankfurt, Germany; landin...