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Oral History Interview with Walter Poppe, November 6, 2018

Description: Edited transcript of an interview with Walter Poppe, discussing immigration from Germany to Kerrville as a child, his time in the Navy, and his family. Copies of photos and documents are included at the end of the transcript.
Date: November 6, 2018
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Poppe, Walter Eric
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
transcript

Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001

Description: Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman regarding her experiences during World War II. She begins by discussing her family background: her parents were Jews born in Poland and emigrated to the United States. Ethel's European aunts, uncles and grandparents all likely died in the Holocaust. As a first grade student, she taught her mother, a Polish immigrant, how to read and write English. She recalls, wartime rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, and antisemitism among her school-aged classma… more
Date: March 24, 2001
Duration: 43 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

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

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Maria Landowska, December 21, 1989

Description: Interview with Maria Landowska, a Holocaust survivor from Metz, France. Landowska discusses family, her upbringing, her Jewish father being taken away by strangers, Kristallnacht (Chrystal Night/Night of Broken Glass), deportation by train to Dachau concentration camp, her shock and trauma, work at the camps, Auschwitz, being experimented on along with her twin, eventual recuperation, and her career as an advisor and author.
Date: December 21, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Landowska, Maria
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Lore Price, December 3, 1989

Description: Interview with Lore Price, a Holocaust survivor from Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany. Price discusses her family, growing up, antisemitism, the Kristallnacht and subsequent growth of arrests and deportations, the Berlin ghetto, the Riga ghetto, the Riga concentration camp and events there, transfer to camps at Stutthof and Thorn, a forced march to Bromberg, escaping and hiding, becoming a nurse with Polish soldiers, the end of the war and immigration to Israel, and reflections on … more
Date: December 3, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Price, Lore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Mike Jacobs, November 26, 1989

Description: Interview with Mike Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor from Konin, Poland. Jacobs discusses his family background and growing up in Konin's Jewish community, the growth of antisemitism, attending an integrated school, the German invasion and occupation, moving to the ghetto and life inside, collaborators and Jewish police, hostages, moving to a smaller ghetto, losing his family to Treblinka, working with Polish partisans, escaping the ghetto and working from Ostrowiec concentration camp, engaging in … more
Date: November 26, 1989
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Jacobs, Mike
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Scrapbook of John Briggs travels to Portugal, Poland and France]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the travels of John Logan Briggs Jr. between 1988 and 1989, including color photographs, tickets, menus, business cards, stamps, receipts, clippings, coins, stickers, and other records of travel throughout Europe. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community.
Date: 1988/1989
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Location: 38.707692 -9.136507
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Luther Statue in Bielsko-Biala, Poland]

Description: Photograph of a statue of Martin Luther set atop a stone plinth amid trees and assorted vegetation that partially obscures a large multi-story church with a clock tower. The statue of of Martin Luther is depicted with arms stretched out in front of him holding a bible in front of him.
Date: July 2, 1987
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Green Tractor Harvesting Hay in Rural Poland]

Description: Photograph of farmers gathering harvested hay in a farming equipment wagon being towed by a blueish-gray tractor. Unharvested golden brown hay waits for farmers to harvest the remainder of the field. Single-story buildings partially obscured by trees line the background of the photograph. Deep green trees cast their shadow on the hay field to the left of the tractor. A paved asphalt road with painted white lines runs across the bottom of the photograph.
Date: June 30, 1987
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Lutheran University
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[News Clip: Local Poles]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 13, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: C423]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Gerd Mueller who scored with 15 minutes left, giving west Germany a 1- 0 victory over Poland and sending the Germans into the World cup soccer championship game.
Date: July 3, 1974
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Rangers who received a big assist from Kansas city as the Royals upended Oakland 4- 1.
Date: June 23, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 24 year old Tom Watson who posted a fine 69 for his three over 213 total for the lead.
Date: June 15, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Polish Joke]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the authorities saying that 81 passengers defected from a Polish ocean liner during stopovers in Denmark, Norway and West Germany.
Date: January 31, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Museum]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a grant from U.S. Information Agency, the Amon Carter Museum has assembled the first major exhibition of American art destined to tour east Europe.
Date: September 6, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Northern Ireland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about William Whitelaw meeting with Protestant leaders and the Vatican recognizing Dioceses in Poland.
Date: June 28, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nixon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the people of Poland celebrating Pat Nixon.
Date: June 1, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, March 23, 1972

Description: Interview with Carlton J. Killgo, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Slocum, Texas, who was shot down and captured by German forces. Killgo discusses enlisting in the Air Corps before the war, training and becoming a B-17 crewmember, deployment to England, his missions, getting shot down, capture by German civilians, transfer to Stalag Luft #4, experiences in internment there, liberation by the Soviet Army, and return to the United States.
Date: March 23, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Killgo, Carlton J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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