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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
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
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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
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
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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
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
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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
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
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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
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
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Carole Erich interviewed Hans Erman about his life before, during, and after World War II. Erman begins the interview by describing his family history and childhood in Wittlich Germany, his parents' employment and training, and his family class status. Erman also discussed his training to become a teacher, his parents going to a concentration camp, and his travel to Palestine. He also spoke at length about the culture and history of Palestine at the time he immigrated and what it was like to...
Dates:
1981
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
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Carole Erich interviewed Helene Erman about her life before, during, and after World War II. During the interview Mrs. Erman describes her childhood in Dortmund, Germany as well as her Polish heritage and family history. In her interview she details leaving Germany with a small group of other children her age trying to travel to Palestine. Because of a variety of laws and hostilities a direct route wasn't possible so she ended up traveling to Palestine by way of Poland, Russia, and Turkey...
Dates:
1981
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
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Julie Orenstein interviewed John Farnbacher about his life before, during, and after World War II. In his interview Farnbacher details his early childhood and education in Augsburg, Bavaria, his parents education and careers, and other family history. Farnbacher also discusses how his family came to Dayton as well as how his background in engineering and language skills helped him get a job at Wright Patterson Air Force Base during the war.
Dates:
1984
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
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Dr. Willis Stoesz interviewed Johannes Feenstra about his life before, during, and after World War II. In this interview Feenstra details his travels after World War II, his father's profession, his training as a dentist in Germany and more. Feenstra also discusses his involvement in The Underground resistance movement in Holland and his eventual incarceration in the Oranienburg concentration camp and what life was like there. Mr. Feenstra ends his part of the interview describing coming to...
Dates:
1979
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File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
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In this two part interview, Ann Hurst and Dr. Charles Berry interview Bob Feist about his life before, during, and after World War II. In this interview Feist details his early childhood in Germany and France, his father's career, his early education, and more. Feist also discusses being interned in the French camp, Camp du Richard, being set free, travelling to Marseilles, and eventually coming to the United States with his family. The second interview conducted discusses the perceptiveness...
Dates:
1979, 1988
