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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 Sally Charsinsky

Interviewee: Sally Charsinsky
Interviewer: Marsha Bucher
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Oral History Interview with Nathan Chorowski

Interviewee: Nathan Chorowski
Interviewer: Amy Small
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Oral History Interview with Rosalyn Chorowski

Interviewee: Rosalyn Chorowski
Interviewer: Nina Albert
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Oral History Interview with Sabina Cuker

Interviewee: Sabina Cuker
Interviewer: Mildred Feldman
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Oral History Interview with Ethel Dannenberg

Interviewee: Ethel Dannenberg
Interviewer: Judith S. Finkel
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Oral History Interview with Sara Dembowski

Interviewee: Sara Dembowski
Interviewer: David Kalkstein
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Oral History Interview with Eugene Deutsch

Interviewee: Eugene Deutsch
Interviewer: Beth Daiman
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Oral History Interview with Gabriel Drimer

Interviewee: Gabriel Drimer
Interviewer: Sue Rosenthal
Gabriel Drimer was born May 2, 1922 in Dubova, Czechoslovakia. His family owned a bakery. He studied at the yeshiva in Bratislava and later apprenticed to learn tailoring and design. He belonged to B’nai Akiva, an Orthodox Zionist organization. He describes how anti-Jewish measures, confiscations, a...
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Oral History Interview with Israel Dubner

Interviewee: Israel Dubner
Interviewer: Eileen Steinberg
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Oral History Interview with Lillian Eckstein

Interviewee: Lillian Eckstein
Interviewer: Ronna Rutstein
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