Nazis/ Nazi Germany

Scope and Contents This interview covers Truda Kaschmann's life growing up in Germany, her family's departure upon the Nazi rise to power, and settling into America in both Boston and Hartford. In Hartford, she taught dance to support her family (including her parents and in-laws who came from Germany in 1936). She taught at the Hartford Conservatory starting in 1935 and at the Hartford School for Women starting in 1940. As of the 1982 interview, she was still teaching. Was on many school's dance faculty (Miss...

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Jewish Ledger newspaper clipping by Cindy Mindell (11/07/2008) featuring the recollections of Julius Kirchheimer concerning Kristallnacht.

Scope and Contents Folder contains: Oral history transcript relating details of Lazowski's escape from the Holocaust; news clippings from the Hartford Jewish Ledger relating work of Lazowski; typed piography of Lazowski's membershps and occupations with news clipping attached; photocopies of news clippings; flyer announcing April 13 1977 meeting of Jewish Historical Society, with nes clipping attached. Interview subjects Interview subjects include: Lazowski's...

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Newspaper clipping of map from the Hartford Times, of "How Nazis Struck for World Domination." Also, two photocopiez of the map.

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New York Times newspaper articles pertaining to testimonies about the atrocities of Josef Mengele.

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Subject of interview is ben Cooper's experiences in World War II, including fighting in France, witnessing Dachau, and speaking to Jewish survivors of Nazi France.

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File contains three photocopied manuscripts:

Bauer, Yehuda (1978) "Against Mystification: The Holocaust as a Historical Phenomenon", Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Noakes, J. and Pridham, G. eds. (1975) "Documents on Nazism 1919-1945". New York: Viking Press.

Leopold, John A. (undated) "Nazi Determination and the Destruction of Dutch Jewry". Publication in the Holocaust Studies Annual.

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A Boston Globe Magazine article by Shira Springer (07/13/2003) with cover feature story on the Katten (Kadden) Family and their escape from Nazi Germany with the help of Senator John A. Danaher.