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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 Y. Vinokurov

Interviewee: Y. Vinokurov
Interviewer: Leon Friedman
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Oral History Interview with Yekaterina Volodaskaya

Interviewee: Yekaterina Volodaskaya
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
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Oral History Interview with Robert J. Weil

Interviewee: Robert J. Weil
Interviewer: Bernice Zoslaw
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Oral History Interview with Robert J. Weil

Interviewee: Robert J. Weil
Interviewer: Miriam Bisk
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Oral History Interview with Sara Weingram

Interviewee: Sara Weingram
Interviewer: Edith Millman
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Oral History Interview with Jack Weiss

Interviewee: Jack Weiss
Interviewer: Stanley Richman
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Oral History Interview with Theodore Wertheimer

Interviewee: Theodore Wertheimer
Interviewer: Fred Stamm
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Oral History Interview with Edith West

Interviewee: Edith West
Interviewer: Marian Salkin
Edith West, née Quasnik, was born August 13, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. She left Austria for Shanghai with her mother in September, 1940 and describes their three week journey via Berlin, Moscow, Siberia and Manchuria. Her father had preceded them in 1939, after his release from Dachau. All their poss...
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Oral History Interview with Nelli Wieghardt

Interviewee: Nelli Wieghardt
Interviewer: Helen Schneeberg
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Oral History Interview with René Willdorff

Interviewee: René Willdorff
Interviewer: Gerry Schneeberg
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