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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 Fred Stamm

Interviewee: Fred Stamm
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Fred Stamm, born in Wrexen, Germany, discusses his prewar life; not experiencing antisemitism; the radical change after the rise of Hitler; the effects on his education; serving as an apprentice in a clothing store and as a cabinet maker till 1938 in Neheim (near Ruhr); being forced into a Jewish la...
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Oral History Interview with Ilse Stamm

Interviewee: Ilse Stamm
Interviewer: Nora Levin
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Oral History Interview with Morris Steiman

Interviewee: Morris Steiman
Interviewer: Nora Levin
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Oral History Interview with Hedy Tower

Interviewee: Hedy Tower
Interviewer: Self-WRITTEN memoir
Hedy Tower (née Kaufman), born March 11, 1913, discusses her upbringing in Bayreuth, Germany; the synagogue and kosher lifestyle; German nationalism; how she and her sister were the only Jews in class; becoming aware of Hitler’s influence in 1934; the growing antisemitism in Germany; joining the Jew...
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Oral History Interview with Arnold Vanderhorst

Interviewee: Arnold Vanderhorst
Interviewer: Natalie Packel
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Oral History Interview with Alfred Waldner

Interviewee: Alfred Waldner
Interviewer: Edith Millman
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Oral History Interview with Maurice J. Wasser

Interviewee: Maurice J. Wasser
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
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Oral History Interview with Diane G. Weinstock

Interviewee: Diane G. Weinstock
Interviewer: Bernice Zoslaw
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Oral History Interview with Adele Wertheimer

Interviewee: Adele Wertheimer
Interviewer: Unknown
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Oral History Interview with Charles Willner

Interviewee: Charles Willner
Interviewer: Lucille Fisher
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