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A fighter pilot stationed near Weimar, Gabe was present at the liberation of nearby Buchenwald. He describes how German civilians were forced to "tour" the camp to see the consequences of Nazi genocide.

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Sam's family farmed in Poland and escaped persecution until 1941, but eventually all his relatives died at Treblinka. Sam himself was a prisoner in four camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. As the War ended he participated in one of the infamous "Death Marches."

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust is divided into two record groups: Group A: Dr. Charles R. Berry's The Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project, and Group B: Renate Frydman's "Faces of the Holocaust" Project. Note that reference access to the original analog audio and/or video is restricted; a digitized version must be used instead.Group A, Dr. Charles R. Berry's The Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project, consists of 3...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust is divided into two record groups: Group A: Dr. Charles R. Berry's The Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project, and Group B: Renate Frydman's "Faces of the Holocaust" Project. Note that reference access to the original analog audio and/or video is restricted; a digitized version must be used instead.Group A, Dr. Charles R. Berry's The Survivors of the Holocaust Oral History Project, consists of 3...

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Helga, a native of Berlin, tells of her experiences as a German Jewish child, teenager and young adult under the Nazi regime. She describes how discriminatory laws affected an individual family, how she watched her parents being taken away and how she survived the War hidden in Berlin.

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Murray was picked up off the streets of Lodz, Poland, at the age of nine. He survived a total of seven concentration camps and countless horrors. The last camp was Buchenwald from which he was liberated.

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Rachel, a native of Poland, describes how, as a teenager, she evaded the roundup of Jews in her small hometown. She survived in the forests with her mother, who was eventually killed by German soldiers. Totally alone, she joined bands of partisans. Later, before the end of the War, she realized the dream of finding her brother alive.

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Ben and Bernice survived the Holocaust by being exiled to Russia from their individual hometowns in Poland at the War's beginning. They tell their own stories until the time they met as young adults in Russia.

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Dr. Froug was a medical officer in the advancing U.S. Army. He tells what they found when they happened upon Dachau concentration camp.

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Col. Seibel was the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to command a concentration camp after liberation. He stayed to restore order to Maulthausen, rescuing 18,000 persons interned there.