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Oral History Interview with William P. Schiff, January 12, 1990

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Interview with William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor from Kraków, Poland. Schiff discusses his family, antisemitism before the war, the invasion of Poland, being put into forced labor by the Germans and Poles, the ghetto and survival there, getting married, experiences in internment at Kraków-Płaszów, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, liberation, returning to Kraków and finding his wife, and life afterwards.
Date: January 12, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Schiff, William P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turkey: Situation Update (open access)

Turkey: Situation Update

This report briefly discusses recent political, economic, and security issues in Turkey, especially relating to Turkey's relationship with Greece, the European Union, and the United States.
Date: September 12, 1997
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memories of Nelly Levy Berg: Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948 (open access)

Memories of Nelly Levy Berg: Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948

Biographical narrative about Nelly Levy Berg and her family, detailing her early life in Germany (now part of Poland) and subsequent immigration to Houston, Texas. It also discusses World War II and the effects of the Holocaust on her extended family. The author (Berg's daughter) also describes a modern-day trip to Eastern Europe to revisit the locations.
Date: 1995
Creator: Wulfe, Lorraine
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Pola Bekker, October 12, 1996

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Interview with Pola Bekker, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Bekker discusses her family, the Jewish District in Warsaw, life in the city before the war, antisemitism in Warsaw, the invasion of Poland and bombing of the city, fleeing to Russia, life in Orsk, moving to Voroshilovgrad, returning to Poland at the end of the war, and moving to Israel.
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Anson, Jennifer & Bekker, Pola
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Max Pila, 1993-1994

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Interview with Max Pila, a Holocaust survivor from Zlav, Poland. Pila discusses his family and Jewish background, antisemitism, the German invasion, life in the ghetto, executions, labor, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, daily experience in internment, mining at Janina, the forced march to Bergen-Belsen, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: {1993-10-15,1994-04-01}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Pila, Max
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Seidel, September 7, 1999

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Interview with Robert Seidel, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Elkhart, Indiana, who served in the 763rd Bomb Squadron in the European Theater. Accompanied by his wife Helen, Seidel discusses his family, the start of the war and joining the Air Corps, training as a flight engineer, assignment to the B-24 and deployment to Spinazzola, Italy, flying combat missions, life at the base, ditching his aircraft near Salzburg and getting captured, being interrogated, internment at Stalag Luft IV, liberation, and returning to the US. In appendix are three photos of Seidel, his B-24 crew, and their aircraft, Seidel's papers from when he was a German prisoner, his POW log book, the official narrative report of the mission he was lost on, and a letter from his family while he was in Italy.
Date: September 7, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Seidel, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library