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Contains 74 Results:
HANNA NORTHWAY, interviewed by Barbara Turoff, 1981 Oct 9
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Barbara Turoff interviewed Hannah Northway about her life before, during, and after World War II. Northway begins her interview by talking about meeting her husband and his family and how she came to Yellow Springs, Ohio. She also talks about her early memories of when Hitler came to power and how that affected her everyday life. Towards the end of the interview Northway discusses her feelings about the United States entering the war and how her early childhood experiences may have impacted...
Dates:
1981 Oct 9
SIG SANDER, interviewed by Cary Kozberg, 1978 Sept 6
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Rabbi Cary Kozberg interviewed Sig Sander about his life before, during, and after World War II. In his interview Sander discusses growing up in Germany, his family history, and his religious background and education. He also talks about being an accountant and how it became increasingly difficult to work after Hitler came to power. Towards the end of the interview Sander details his arrival to the United States and how he eventually came to Dayton.
Dates:
1978 Sept 6
HELGA SILBERMANN, interviewed by Rose Mary Lawson, 1979 Jan 25
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Rose Mary Lawson interviewe Helga Silbermann about her life before, during, and after World War II. In her interview Silbermann discusses being her early childhood in Berlin, Germany, her family history, and her religious background. Over the course of the interview she details how she began hiding from the Gestapo in Berlin and staying in a variety of places with different people that she knew or met. Towards the end of the interview Silbermann talks about coming to America, how she felt...
Dates:
1979 Jan 25
HELGA SILBERMANN, interviewed by Rose Mary Lawson, 1979 Jan 30
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Rose Mary Lawson interviewe Helga Silbermann about her life before, during, and after World War II. In her interview Silbermann discusses being her early childhood in Berlin, Germany, her family history, and her religious background. Over the course of the interview she details how she began hiding from the Gestapo in Berlin and staying in a variety of places with different people that she knew or met. Towards the end of the interview Silbermann talks about coming to America, how she felt...
Dates:
1979 Jan 30
HELEN ABRAMOVITZ, interviewed by Julie Orenstein, 1984 July 30
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Julie Orenstein interviewed Helen Hoffman Abramovitz about her family and life growing up in Czechoslovakia prior to World War II and her life after the war in the United States. On side one Helen discussed her early life and schooling in a variety of locations in the Sudetenland and Prague. Of note, she mentions that she feared for her life everyday she lived in Sudetenland. In addition to her experiences growing up in Czechoslovakia, Helen discussed the varying jobs of her parents and...
Dates:
1984 July 30
CARMEN APPEL, interviewed by Julie Orenstein, 1984 July 27, 1984 Aug 3
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Julie Orenstein interviewed Carmen Appel about her family and life in Frankfurt and Zurich and her later life in the United States. One side one of the interview tape Carmen details her father’s varied career choices including serving as in an anti-aircraft detachment in Belgium. She discusses the family decision to move to Zurich at the urging of her paternal uncle and her schooling there. Carmen also chats about life after returning to Frankfurt, her marriage, and her eventual departure...
Dates:
1984 July 27, 1984 Aug 3
CARMEN APPEL, interviewed by Julie Orenstein, 1984 Aug 3
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Julie Orenstein interviewed Carmen Appel about her family and life in Frankfurt and Zurich and her later life in the United States. One side one of the interview tape Carmen details her father’s varied career choices including serving as in an anti-aircraft detachment in Belgium. She discusses the family decision to move to Zurich at the urging of her paternal uncle and her schooling there. Carmen also chats about life after returning to Frankfurt, her marriage, and her eventual departure...
Dates:
1984 Aug 3
WERNER BECKER, interviewed by Stephen Kahn, 1978 Sept 13
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Stephen Kahn interviewed Werner Becker about his life in before, during, and after World War II. In the beginning of this interview Werner discusses his early childhood and his family in Mecklenburg province in Germany. As the interview progresses Werner recounts how he intended to attend college in France but declined to enroll because he foresaw Jewish students being excluded from attending and completing college. Towards the end of the interview he recounts his time working in Algeria,...
Dates:
1978 Sept 13
DONALD BENDER, interviewed by Julie Orenstein, 1984 July 11
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Julie Orenstein interviewed Donald Bender about his life in before, during, and after World War II. In this interview Bender recounts his childhood in a city formerly known as Wappertal, his parents work and religious standing, and his early education. Bender also spoke about encountering anti-semitism, coming to the United States, being drafted to fight in World War II, coming back to work in Dayton, his family, and more.
Dates:
1984 July 11
MARGARET EBERT, interviewed by Robert Friedman, 1978 June 4, 1978 Aug 7
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Dr. Robert Friedman interviewed Dr. Margaret Ebert about her life before, during, and after World War II. Ebert at first discusses her childhood and family history before leaving Germany after Kristallnacht in 1938. Ebert also discussed experiences with anti-semitism, her traveling the United States, her first job, and more. A year later Barbara Turoff conducted a second interview with Dr. Ebert on Aug 19th, 1979. In this interview Ebert recounts her work in Germany as an economist, and that...
Dates:
1978 June 4, 1978 Aug 7
