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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

[Buildings in Trier, Germany]

Photograph of light-colored buildings in Trier, Germany at night. The photograph was taken from an angle at a higher level of another building. The buildings are slim and have many windows.
Date: [1990..2000]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Moore), IV
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Hilda Rubinstein Green, January 2, 1990

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Interview with Hilda Rubinstein-Green, a Holocaust survivor from Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania). Green discusses growing up in Memel, the Jewish community, her family background, Hitler, fleeing to Krottingen, returning to Memel to destroy valuables so the Germans couldn't take them, moving to Kovno, having a sympathetic German officer as a tenant, moving to the ghetto, life there, executions, labor, suicides, internment at Stutthof, her mother's declining health, a forced march to Posen, liberation and hospital treatment, living with her uncle in Germany, moving to the United States, her faith, and other reflections. In appendix is a letter by Green, and a letter from the International Tracing Service.
Date: January 2, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Rubinstein-Green, Hilda
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990

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Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert, and reflections on the Holocaust and Jewishness.
Date: January 4, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Max Glauben, January 1990

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Interviews with Max Glauben, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Glauben discusses his family origins, growing up with Sephardic Hebrew, education, the invasion of Poland, losing the family business, the move to the ghetto and life there, people's different reactions to oppression, ventures outside the ghetto, escalating extermination by the Germans, Warsaw Uprising, transfer to KL Lublin, the organization of the camp, transfers to and labor at Wieliczka, Mielec, Budzyn and Flossenburg, illness, sabotage, daily routine in the camps, the approach of the front, being on a train strafed by Allied planes and wounded, escape, rescue by American forces, moving to the United States, and his thoughts on faith.
Date: 1990-01-09/1990-01-24
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Glauben, Max
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

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

Oral History Interview with Alfred Czerner, January 16, 1990

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Interview with Alfred Czerner, a Army WWII veteran and German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses growing up in the crises of the Weimar Republic, politics at the time, his parents' background, the Jewish community in Frankfurt and Jewish identity, his father's unemployment after the rise of the Nazis, fleeing Germany and moving to Brooklyn in 1938, news of concentration camps, work in New York, attending school and perfecting his English, becoming an Army intelligence officer, service at Camp Ritchie with Henry Kissinger and meeting Eleanor Roosevelt, transfer to Europe and service with the 78th Infantry Division, witnessing Buchwenwald, service in Berlin postwar and operations carried out there, meeting and marrying his wife, and reflections on the Holocaust.
Date: January 16, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Alfred
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990

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Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: January 27, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Walter Littmann, May 12, 1990

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Interview with Walter Littmann, a businessman, chemist, and former German prisoner-of-war of the United States during World War II. Littmann discusses his involvement in the Afrika Korps, miliary conflicts, life at the internment camp in Mexia, Texas, and eventual repatriation.
Date: May 12, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Littman, Walter
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: E. German Doctor] captions transcript

[News Clip: E. German Doctor]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 2, 1990, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: "Special Souvenir Edition Sweetwater Reporter", November 1990] (open access)

[Clipping: "Special Souvenir Edition Sweetwater Reporter", November 1990]

November 1990 issue of the Sweetwater Reporter of significant historical events from the 20th century.
Date: November 1990
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
German Unification (open access)

German Unification

This is a report on German Unification and the poliitical transformations in Germany.
Date: November 6, 1990
Creator: Gallis, Paul E. & Woehrel, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Berlin Wall] captions transcript

[News Clip: Berlin Wall]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 9, 1990, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Wall - Dallas] captions transcript

[News Clip: Wall - Dallas]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 9, 1990, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[A Field Located Near Herrberchtheim]

Photograph of a field of dirt near the town of Herrnberchtheim, Germany. A mountain looms in the background.
Date: 1991?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Looking at an Ambush Location]

Photograph of the location where an ambush had taken place during the war; the road alongside leads to Köenigshofen, Germany.
Date: 1991?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[On the Road to Köenigshofen, Germany]

Photograph of the road to Köenigshofen, Germany. The countryside is covered with hills, and pastures.
Date: 1991?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Overlooking Old Defensive Positions at Schweighausen, Germany]

Photograph of old defensive positions taken during the war in Schweighausen, Germany.
Date: 1991?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph Inside Schweighausen, Germany]

Photograph of Schweighausen, Germany from inside of the town.
Date: 1991?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph Overlooking Bullenheim]

Photograph of a flat field overlooking Bullenheim, Germany.
Date: 1991?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Road to Köenigshofen]

Photograph of a road on the way to Köenigshofen, Germany.
Date: 1991?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Men Standing by a Fence on a Hill]

Photograph of two men standing next to a fence overlooking farm land near Herrnbrechtheim, Germany. The back of the photo reads: "Germans strafed column here."
Date: 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, May 28, 1991 captions transcript

Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, May 28, 1991

Interview with Dr. Odo Turowski, consultant for businesses in Eastern Europe. In the interview, Dr. Turowski discusses his life growing up in east Germany, escaping to west Germany, and the reunification of his country after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Date: May 28, 1991
Creator: Turowski, Odo & McCaleb, Gary
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paul Hindemith and Neue Sachlichkeit: Zeitoper in the Weimar Republic (open access)

Paul Hindemith and Neue Sachlichkeit: Zeitoper in the Weimar Republic

The focus of this study will be the impact of Neue Sachlichkeit on Zeitoper, specifically its influence upon Hindemith's operatic output. The purpose of this paper is not to.subject these works to detailed musical analysis, but rather to place Hindemith's Zeitopern in historical perspective, examining how they were influenced by and mirrored the aesthetic atmosphere of the Weimar Republic.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Kresge, Kristine Helene
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library