The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.4 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0004
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, then to a camp complex in Bratislava (Slovakia), and then to Austria; going to the American zone from the Russian zone; pretending to be Jewish refugees…
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… Austria. 112 00:08:51,870 --> 00:08:55,170 The object of our journey was to go out 113 00:08:55,170 --> 00:09:01,620 of the Russian occupation zone, leave…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.118 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0118
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… night; going to Wels, Austria; being treated by German prisoners of war in Hershing (possibly Hörsching); staying in a monastery in Melk for several days…
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… continue and survive the death march by sheer will power and stamina. After 3 days the march arrived in Gunskirchen - a small village in Austria. Survivors…
… Austria, Fried reached Mauthausen where he was reunited with his father, Jozef Fried. Together, they were marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp where…
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… forces in Hungary, 1945. 10. Certificate of incarceration issued by the Allied occupying forces (DP camp administration in Austria), 1945 June 16. http…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.21 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0021
Date:
interview: 2011 July 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp; returning to Hajdúböszörmény; reuniting with her father and older brothers; traveling to Vienna, Austria; living in Salzburg displaced persons camp…
… Army. In his testimony, written in 1989, Butensky described his experiences liberating a labor camp near Wels, Austria, the Straubing concentration camp…
… learned that her parents were deported and murdered in Treblinka killing center in September 1942. Wanda and her sisters left for Austria. Wanda worked for…
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…‐Zdrój and made her way to Austria with her sisters. In June 1946 she married Jewish American soldier Jacob Lomazow (1917‐2012) and immigrated to the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.3 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0003
Date:
interview: 2017 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… indifferent; staying in Wels, Austria, where he received food and medical assistance from the American army and worked as translator; returning to Budapest and…
… Eastern Europe move to Palestine and later Israel. The Wagners travelled with the Bricha through Czechoslovakia to Austria. In Austria, they stayed in a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.5 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0005
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; serving with the 71st Infantry Division of the US Army; his experiences in Lambach, Austria near the end of World War II; his duties in the K Company; being…
… Eastern Europe move to Palestine and later Israel. The Wagners travelled with the Bricha through Czechoslovakia to Austria. In Austria, they stayed in a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.76 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0076
Date:
interview: 1992 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp; being sent to Ebensee concentration camp and his experiences there; working in the aircraft factory in Schwechat, Austria; his participation…
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… camp. Our time came, and we were told to board this truck. We were on that truck, and we went to the Mauthausen, which is in Austria. Now when did you go…
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… refugees--France--Ambert. Jewish refugees--Utah--Salt Lake City. Amsterdam (Netherlands) Brussels (Belgium) Salt Lake City (Utah) Wels (Austria…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.31 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0031
Date:
interview: 1988 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates--Austria--Wels.…
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…:28:16,000 we were already going into Austria and into that-- 499 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,590 I think we were the-- 500 00:28:17,590 --> 00:28:22…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.366 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0366
Date:
interview: 2000 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… taken to an empty camp in Wels, Austria; members of the Jewish Brigade convincing the survivors to immigrate to Israel; being moved to Bologna, Italy…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.282 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0282
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; abandonment by German guards; walking to Wels, Austria; liberation by United States troops; taking food from German homes; being sent to a displaced persons…
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