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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 Jacob M. Finkelstein

Interviewee: Jacob M. Finkelstein
Interviewer: Carol Halpern
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Oral History Interview with Michael Finkelstein

Interviewee: Michael Finkelstein
Interviewer: Maxine Weiner
Michael Finkelstein, born in Radom, Poland in 1928, was educated in both cheder and public schools. He describes anti-Jewish measures and restrictions after the German invasion of Poland in 1939. He cites several instances of German-Polish cooperation in persecuting Jews. He and his family moved int...
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Oral History Interview with Marie Fischler

Interviewee: Marie Fischler
Interviewer: June Wolfson
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Oral History Interview with David Fishel

Interviewee: David Fishel
Interviewer: Jerry Flinker
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Oral History Interview with Esther Fisher

Interviewee: Esther Fisher
Interviewer: Mildred Binder-Zavin
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Oral History Interview with Joseph Fishman

Interviewee: Joseph Fishman
Interviewer: James A. Gradwell
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Oral History Interview with Linda Fishman

Interviewee: Linda Fishman
Interviewer: Mildred H. Zavin
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Oral History Interview with Nathan Form

Interviewee: Nathan Form
Interviewer: Barbara Spector
Nathan Form, born in Kroscienko, Poland February 28, 1922, was educated in Polish and Hebrew schools. Warned by a Polish policeman, his family fled from the Germans but failed September, 1939. He describes surviving during the German occupation, operating a clandestine leather factory, and barely es...
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Oral History Interview with Izrail Frenkel

Interviewee: Izrail Frenkel
Interviewer: Stan Richman
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Oral History Interview with Chana Friedman

Interviewee: Chana Friedman
Interviewer: Selma Askin
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