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Family Stories and Videos of Local Interest

Ann Erlich
Ann Erlich

Ann Erlich speaks about her life as a child of Holocaust survivors.  Born in a DP camp in Mittenwald, Germany, Ann is the oldest child of a young couple whose large Polish Jewish families were dest

Noemi Kraut
Noemi Kraut

Noemi Kraut was born in Antwerp, Belgium into a Jewish family of active Zionists who worked in the diamond trade.   After the invasion of Belgium by the Germans in 1940, Noemi’s parents planned the

Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann speaks about the war-time circumstances of his life as a young child in the small town of Złoczów in Eastern Poland.  Born into a happy and loving extended family, he and his parents

Marion Wimpfheimer
Marion Wimpfheimer

Marion Joseph Wimpfheimer recounts the life of her family as wine-makers in Osthofen, a small town in the Rhineland of Germany.

Kurt Gottfried
Kurt Gottfried

Kurt was born in 1929 in Vienna to a family originating in Romania and Poland.

Mary Salton
Mary Salton

Mary tells the story of growing up in Vienna to Austrian parents surrounded by a large extended family including her mother's sisters and both sets of grandparents.

Maria Rabb
Maria Rabb

Maria is interviewed by her daughter and grand-daughter in Ithaca about her experience as a 10 year old girl whose family hid a Jewish family in their home on the outskirts of Budapest near the end

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