Holocaust and Genocide Oral Testimonies: Recent submissions

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    • James Townsend
      Townsend, James (1995-05-19)
      James Townsend, born September 23, 1923, in Claremont, New Hampshire, Untied States of America, provides Holocaust witness testimony. Mr. Townsend recalls, while having served in the American army during WWII, his experience witnessing the Buchenwald concentration camp during liberation. Interviewer: Peter Merry. Notetaker: Harriet Tarnor Wacks. Holocaust center of the North Shore. Taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.

    • Martin Sokoloff
      Sokoloff, Martin (Holocaust Center, 1995-08-24)
      Martin Sokoloff, born in New York City, New York, United States of America, provides testimony as a witness to Holocaust liberation. Mr. Sokoloff recalls, while having served in the American army during WWII, his experience witnessing Buchenwald concentration camp during liberation. Interviewer: Steven Cohen. Notetaker: Ann Solov Walker. The Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts. Produced at C3TV, South Yarmouth, Mass.

    • John Mulhern
      Mulhern, John (Holocaust Center, 1992-08-11)
      John Mulhern, born March 26, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, provides Holocaust liberator testimony. Dr. Mulhern recalls, while having served in the American army during WWII, his experience witnessing Ludwiglust/Wöbbelin concentration camp during liberation. Interviewer: Steve Cohen. Notetaker: Zelda Kaplan. Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts, and Cablevision, Peabody/Lynnfield, Mass.

    • Edward Lemme
      Lemme, Edward (Holocaust Center, 1994-06-16)
      Edward Lemme, born 1918 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States of America, provides Holocaust liberator testimony. Mr. Lemme recalls, while having served in the American army during WWII, his experience liberating Ohrdruf concentration camp. Interviewer: Steven Cohen. Notetaker: Ann Solov Walker. Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts. Taple at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.

    • George Kaiser
      Kaiser, George (1988-02-25)
      George Kaiser, born 1922 in Roxbury, provides Holocaust liberator testimony. Mr. Kaiser recalls, while having served in the American army during WWII, his experience witnessing Dachau concentration camp during liberation. Interviewers: Steve Cohen and Ann Walker. Camera: Don Berman.

    • William Haley
      Haley, William (Holocaust Center of the North Shore, 1990-12-14)
      William Haley, born 1916, provides testimony as a witness to Holocaust liberation. Dr. Haley recalls, while serving in the American army during WWII, his war service and witnessing the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camps. Interviewer: Steven Cohen. Notetaker: Zelda Kaplan. Produced by the Holocaust Center of the North Shore Jewish Federation, Peabody, Massachusetts.

    • Louis Demarkles
      Demarkles, Louis (1988-05-26)
      Louis Demarkles provides Holocaust liberator testimony. Mr. Demarkles recalls, while serving in the American army during WWII, liberating the Buchenwald concentration camp. Interviewers: Steve Schulz and Dorothy Klepper. Camera: Peter Drougas.

    • Jack Coughlin
      Coughlin, Jack (Holocaust Center of the North Shore, 1997-11-05)
      Jack Coughlin provides testimony as a witness of Holocaust liberation. Mr. Coughlins recalls, while having served in the American army during WWII, witnessing the liberation of Wöbbelin concentration camp in Germany. Interviewers: Zelda Kaplan and Rabbi Sam Kenner. Notetaker: Jodie Birdwell. Produced by the Holocaust Center of the North Shore, Peabody, Massachusetts. Taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.

    • George Costello
      Costello, George (1987-08-12)
      George Costello provides testimony as a witness of Holocaust liberation. Mr. Costello recalls, while having served in the American army during WWII, witnessing the liberation of Wöbbelin concentration camp in Germany. Interviewers: Steve Schulz and Helene Levin. Camera: Richard Adelman. Taped at Continental Cablevision, Beverly, Massachusetts.

    • Robert Coombs
      Coombs, Robert (1987-12-18)
      Robert Coombs provides Holocaust liberator testimony. Mr. Coombs recalls, while serving in the American army during WWII, liberating the Nordhausen concentration camp. Interviewers: Richard Adelman and Harriet Wacks. Beverly High School.

    • Sam Ahman
      Ahman, Sam (1988-03-24)
      Samuel "Sam" B. Ahman, born February 23, 1921, provides Holocuast liberator testimony. Mr. Ahman recalls, while he was serving in the American army during WWII, his experience liberating the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Interviewers: Steve Schulz and Zelda Kaplan. Camera: Herschel Huber.

    • Lenke Berger Zorova
      Zorova, Lenke
      Lenka Belger Zorova provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Russian language. Mrs. Zorova died in 1992: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235020167/lenka-zorova.

    • Borys Zinger
      Zinger, Borys (2010-01-19)
      Borys Zinger, born 1916 in Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewer: Harriet Wacks. The Holocaust Center Boston-North.

    • Lenke Zam
      Zam, Lenke (1990-03-04)
      Lenke Zam, born in Czechoslovakia, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewers: Evelyn Umlas and Helene Levin. Camera: Don Berman. Continental Cablevision, Beverly, Massachusetts.

    • Irene Schlesinger Woods
      Woods, Irene (Holocaust Center, 1993-06-10)
      Irene Schlesinger Woods, born 1921 in Berlin, Germany, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewer: Ann Walker. Notetaker: Harriet Wacks. Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts. Filmed at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.

    • Martha Wolf
      Wolf, Martha (Holocaust Center, 1989-08-28)
      Martha Wolf, from Holland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mrs. Wolf recalls fleeing Holland through France and North Africa before coming to the United States. Interviewer: Rabbi Sam Kenner. Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts.

    • Ina Winokur
      Winokur, Ina (1987-05-13)
      Ina Winokur, from Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewers: Rabbi Sam Kenner and Deborah Shelkan Remis. Camera: Richard Adelman. Filmed at Continental Cablevision, Beverly, Massachusetts.

    • Walter Jacob Wertheimer
      Wertheimer, Walter (Holocaust Center of the North Shore, 1996-03-20)
      Walter Jacob Wertheimer, born January 18, 1922, in Emmendingen, Germany, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mr. Wrtheimer recalls growing up the son of a lawyer in a German Jewish family, the rise of the Nazis and anti-Semitic persecutions in 1930s Germany, emigrating, and coming to the United States. Interviewer: Ann Solov Walker. Notetaker: Betty Ann Fishman. Produced by the Holocaust Center of the North Shore, Peabody, Massachusetts, and taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.

    • Helen Wachen Wertheimer
      Wertheimer, Helen (Holocaust Center of the North Shore, 1996-03-20)
      Helen Wachen Wertheimer, born January 22, 1932, in Karlsruhe, Germany, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mrs. Wertheimer recalls growing up as the daughter of a doctor in a German Jewish family and her family's experience emigrating in 1939, eventually coming to the United States. Interviewer: Ann Solov Walker. Notetaker: Betty Ann Fishman. Produced by the Holocaust Center of the North Shore, Peabody, Massachusetts, and taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.

    • Sonia Weitz
      Weitz, Sonia (1989-03-02)
      Sonia Schreiber Weitz, born August 27, 1928, in Kraków, Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mrs. Weitz recalls growing up up in Kraków, the coming of war and persecutions by the Nazis, surviving numerous concentration camps, liberation and recovery, and coming to the United States. Interviewers: Rabbi Sam Kenner and Harriet Wacks. Camera: Richard Adelman. Notes: Deborah Edinburg.