Charles A., Elizabeth, and Charles E. Kading Papers, 1893-1976

Contents List

Container Title
Series: Interviews
530A/1-3 and 801A/1-2
Alpert, Pela, 1974 January 30, 1975 June 5, and 1980 March 5
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
803A/1-2
Applegate, William, 1980 March 11
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.

Note: Applegate was the only liberator interviewed for the Oral Histories: Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust project.
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   1
Transcription
876A/1-9
Bader, Flora, 1980 November 17-18
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   2
Transcription
Baras, Lucy, 1980 November 12-13
870A/1
Life as a child in Poland, Jewish traditions at home, her education in Poland, community life, and anti-Semitism
870A/2
Loyalty to Jewish traditions, beginnings of war, Russian occupation, problems of living under Russian occupation, life under Germans, and establishment of the ghetto
870A/3
Beginnings of the ghetto, preparations for disaster, hiding from Germans as they took Jews from the ghetto, working as a seamstress for a German family, and hiding her mother from Germans
870A/4
Hiding in the forest, losing mother, survival in the forest, feelings about God in relation to the Holocaust, night of liberation, return to Skalat, and getting married
870A/5
Departure from Skalat, going west, life in a refugee camp, coming to America, and life in New York
870A/6
Unidentified
870A/7
Living in America, children, fellow Jews, and writing
870A/8
Current political situations, rise of the KKK and Nazi organizations, economic conditions, anti-Semitism in the United States, and the political situation in Germany today
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   3
Transcription
877A/1-10
Blasberg, Sylvia, 1980 November 3, 1981 January 22, February 2
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   4
Transcription
871A/1-4
Chulew, Manny, 1980 October 8-9
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
784A/1-3
Comins, Chana, 1980 January 28
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   5
Transcription
804A/1-6
DeLevie, Herb, 1980 March 11, 13, 20
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   6
Transcription
862A/1-7
Deutschkron, Eva, 1980 September 3, 5
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   7
Transcription
869A/1-5
Epstein, Karola, 1980 October 6, 9
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   1
Folder   8
Transcription
866A/1-7
Golde, Henry, 1980 October 1-2
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   2
Folder   1
Transcription
785A/1-5
Goldfarb, Susanne, 1980 February 7, October 8
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   2
Folder   2
Transcription
849A/1-6
Gordon, Harry, 1980 August 24, October 27, November 19
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   2
Folder   3
Transcription
Herzberger, Magda, 1980 July 21-22, August 27
Use Restrictions: Copyright belongs to the heirs of Magda Herzberger, see Archives Reference staff.
Audio
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.

Note: Magda's mother is present during the interview and sometimes comments.
848A/1
Childhood in Transylvania, her family before the war and the shattering effects of war on her family, childhood activities and family traditions, invasion of Poland, Romanian rule of Transylvania, and poverty of the war years
848A/2
Religious practices in Transylvania, childhood experiences, pre-war knowledge of Nazi activities
848A/3
German invasion of Rumania, her arrest and internment in a ghetto, transport in a cattle car, entrance into the concentration camp, life in the camp
848A/4
In-depth details about the concentration camp, daily routines, closeness with the other female prisoners
Note: She reads the eulogy written to her father, a passage to her daughter, and other poetic pieces she wrote about the camp.
848A/5
Continues to discuss life in the concentration camp, tactics for survival, fight against insanity, attempts to escape, departure from Auschwitz to Brehman, bombings at Brehman
Note: She recites a piece of her writing at Brehman.
848A/6
Continues to discuss life in Brehman: Typhus epidemic and her escape to avoid contracting it, arrival of the British, Liberation Day, and the survivors; she reads two of her poems – “Anguish, Liberation;” return to her home and finds her mother, goes to medical school, marries, exodus to Israel
848A/7
Courtship of her husband, attempt and success at entering medical school, early years of marriage and medical school, political situation in Rumania during the 1940s, first pregnancy
Note: She reads several of her poems and begins describing their move to Israel.
848A/8
Life in Israel, motherhood, her husband's medical career (she ends her career to be a mother), Palestinian bombing of Tel Aviv and the family's subsequent departure to the U.S., move to Georgia for about a year, move to Monroe, Wisconsin in 1960, life in Monroe
848A/9
Magda's life presently and the effect of her past on it, response from her book, response from American Jews about her Holocaust experience, her public speaking career, occupation as wife and mother
848A/10
Her impressions of Wisconsin, life in Monroe as the only Jew, contrast with life in Dubuque, Iowa, her contribution to the Monroe community, political ideas including positions on Israel, anti-Semitism in the U.S.
Mss 605
Box   2
Folder   4-5
Transcription
Katz, Rosa, 1980 October 28-29
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
875A/1
Tradition and culture of family in Poland, in-depth description of family members, life in Poland before the war
875A/2
Going into the ghetto, going to Warsaw to escape going to the ghetto, description of the ghetto, being shipped to Auschwitz
875A/3
Living in the ghetto, speaking about the underground, life in prison camps and how bad everything was
875A/4
Leaving Auschwitz to Berlin, in quarantine, working in ammunition factory, life in barracks, being liberated, going to Denmark
875A/5
Events after liberation, contact with relatives, meeting her husband, husband's life during the war, coming to America, life in America
875A/6
Her children; dealing with Holocaust experience in relationship with children; daily life; thoughts about Wisconsin; answers to general questions; feelings about Germany, Poland, and Israel; feelings about participating in the oral history project
794A/1-6
Koplin, Louis, 1980 February 13, 19
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   2
Folder   6
Transcription
874A/1-6
Moshe, Salvator, 1980 November 18, 1981 January 22, February 2
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
796A/1-10
Peltz, Walter, 1980 February 26-27, March 10
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   3
Folder   1
Transcription
872A/1-11
Platner, Fred, 1980 October 1-2, 22
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   3
Folder   2
Transcription
838A/1-10
Relles, Meyer, Rabbi, 1980 October 12-13, 25
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   3
Folder   3
Transcription
788A/1-6
Sorrin, Saul, 1980 February 13, 19
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   3
Folder   4
Transcription
795A/1-5
Stundel, Cyla, 1980 February 20, March 9
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
797A/1-12
Swarsensky, Manfred, Rabbi, 1980 Spring, Summer
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Box   3
Folder   5
Transcription
802A/1-9
Wolnerman, Israel, 1980 March 9, 16, August 11, November 18
Alternate Format: Interview and transcript also available online.
Mss 605
Series: Abstracts
Box   4
Folder   1-24
A-Z
PH 3187
Series: Visual Materials
Photographs and transparencies
Box   1
Folder   1
Albert, Pela
Box   1
Folder   2
Bader, Flora
Box   1
Folder   3
Baras, Lucy
Box   1
Folder   4
Chulew, Manny
Box   1
Folder   5
Chana, Comins
Box   1
Folder   6
Daniels, Irmgaard Moser
Box   1
Folder   7
DeLevie, Herb
Box   1
Folder   8
Deutschkron, Eva
Box   1
Folder   9
Epstein, Karola
Box   1
Folder   10
Golde, Henry
Box   1
Folder   11
Goldfarb, Susanne
Box   1
Folder   12
Herzberger, Magda
Use Restrictions: Copyright belongs to the heirs of Magda Herzberger, see Archives Reference staff.
Box   1
Folder   13
Katz, Rosa
Box   1
Folder   14
Koplin, Louis
Box   1
Folder   15
Moshe, Salvator
Box   1
Folder   16
Peltz, Walter
Box   1
Folder   17
Platner, Fred
Box   1
Folder   18
Porter, Faye Merin
Box   1
Folder   19
Relles, Meyer, Rabbi
Box   1
Folder   20
Sorrin, Saul
Box   1
Folder   21
Stundel, Cyla
Box   1
Folder   22
Swarsensky, Manfred, Rabbi
Box   1
Folder   23
Wolnerman, Israel
Box   1
Folder   24
Book cover collages
Negatives
Box   2
Folder   1
Albert, Pela
Box   2
Folder   2
Bader, Flora
Box   2
Folder   3
Baras, Lucy
Box   2
Folder   4
Chulew, Manny
Box   2
Folder   5
Chana, Comins
Box   2
Folder   6
Daniels, Irmgaard Moser
Box   2
Folder   7
Deutschkron, Eva
Box   2
Folder   8
Epstein, Karola
Box   2
Folder   9
Golde, Henry
Box   2
Folder   10
Goldfarb, Susanne
Box   2
Folder   11
Herzberger, Magda
Use Restrictions: Copyright belongs to the heirs of Magda Herzberger, see Archives Reference staff.
Box   2
Folder   12
Katz, Rosa
Box   2
Folder   13
Koplin, Louis
Box   2
Folder   14
Moshe, Salvator
Box   2
Folder   15
Peltz, Walter
Box   2
Folder   16
Platner, Fred
Box   2
Folder   17
Porter, Faye Merin
Box   2
Folder   18
Relles, Meyer, Rabbi
Box   2
Folder   19
Sorrin, Saul
Box   2
Folder   20
Stundel, Cyla
Box   2
Folder   21
Swarsensky, Manfred, Rabbi
Box   2
Folder   22
Wolnerman, Israel
Box   2
Folder   23
Book cover collages