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: 1993.A.0089.6 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0006
Date:
interview: approximately 1984 December 19 publication/distribution: approximately
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. This is a verbatim…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0130.15 | RG Number: RG-50.307.0015
Date:
interview: 1990 December 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… her; attending a school/yeshiva for the Deaf in Lvov named Kehana, with 30-50 Deaf children from various countries; learning Polish, Hebrew; being…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.10.3 | RG Number: RG-50.652.0003
Date:
interview: 2010 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine--Odesa.…
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… addition, Ljudmila and her older sister saw graves where Jewish people were buried after a mass shooting somewhere inthe Bobruisk area. She says that the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.21 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0021
Date:
interview: 1983 February 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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…. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.83.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0700
Date:
interview: 2013 May 08
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… the class of 35 or 40 children, there would be at least 15 Jewishchildren. And when the lessons in religion, everybody was obliged to take…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.30 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0030
Date:
interview: 1992 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… a Jewish woman, who unfortunately lost her two sons and survived with her husband in Poland. And when she told my mother of the two children, she gave…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.9.4 | RG Number: RG-50.609.0004
Date:
interview: 2006
Subtitle:
Worry: A Jewish Deaf-Blind Survivor Shares Her Story
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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…. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.11 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0011
Date:
interview: 1999 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… soldier fighting inthe army. Ukrainian and Romanian policemen governed the ghetto, and Jews were restricted. Jews were not allowed to leave, and they had…
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… • Born in 1930 inthe small, all-Jewish town of Trochenbrod, Poland • Nazis invaded her town when she was 9, shooting most of theJewish residents…
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… no children, cause they were a young couple. And that’s how I ended up with them. But inthe meantime -- Q: What -- what town did you -- do they take…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.430.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0020
Date:
interview: 1990 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… about 3,000 Jewishin that...and then about 7,000 Christians in that area there. My father was allowed to keep the store, because for some reason that I…
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… American soldiers • Red Cross and Jewish agencies found two surviving brothers • Parents and two sisters murdered by the Nazis • Immigrated to Cleveland in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.20 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0020
Date:
interview: 1989 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. This is a verbatim…
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… camps for all the poor childreninthe area. It was not just a camp for theJewishchildren. Meetings were going on and the congregation kept coming, I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.148.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0227
Date:
interview: 2014 August 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… the war. Because after the war there were no Jewish people. Q: You’re born in 1938 and what is the first memory you have. I know you were a child. A: I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.209 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0190
Date:
interview: 2011 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… save them. 243 00:11:28,510 --> 00:11:31,120 Though we didn't. 244 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,150 Where was your brother inthe order of children? Contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.595.31 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0031
Date:
interview: 2006 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… interview, Vera Mironova, a life-long citizen of the city of Kiev inthe Ukraine (born April 10, 1924), talks about her experiences with German occupation…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.443.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0083
Date:
interview: 1990 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… in a work camp. You know, that they weren't going to be inthe army, but they gonna be working. So my mother and, and us children--my grandparents were…
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… children and woman seated in middle (students of first grade and their teacher; Reuven Bronshtein, stands first on left in second row); dated: 1946; location…
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… our town. At that time the Nazis had already fencing in about 20 blocks or so – and all theJewish people had to move out of their homes and go to live…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.5 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0005
Date:
interview: 1994 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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…RG-50.226 #0005 BARTIK [GABA], ESTER YANKELOVNA 1.00 Born in 1929, last of 6 children. Father was accused of operating a private tanning business…
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… taken by the Germans and were killed too. From time to time we discovered new Jewish kids in our children’s home. Some of them escaped from horrible…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.209.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0198
Date:
interview: 2012 August 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… would meet me at the other end, in Cleveland. And so I was being sent to Bellefaire JewishChildren's Home for Problem Children. And it was in Shaker…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.303 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0303
Date:
interview: 1996 November 07
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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…. They lived near the city square, across the street from City Hall. 1:13:17 Shoshana was 6 years old then started school in a Jewish school. 1:14:00 The…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.7 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0007
Date:
interview: 1994 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… of our family. I was the youngest. I had my mother, my father and my brother Mityz. He was older than me by 6 years. I was born in 1934. 7…
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… Jews‐‐Ukraine‐‐Z ︠H︡ ovkva. Hidden children (Holocaust)‐‐Ukraine‐‐Z ︠H︡ ovkva. JewishchildrenintheHolocaust‐‐Ukraine‐‐Z ︠H︡ ovkva. Żółkiew…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.306.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0263
Date:
interview: 2017 August 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… store, Harriet graduating from a public high school where she had been the only Jewish student, never talking about her childhood, getting married in 1958…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.415.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0075
Date:
interview: 1990 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… went to school. The night before going to school, my friend who was not Jewish – she and I slept in our home. Slept inthe same bed, played as children…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.302.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0904
Date:
interview: 2016 October 06
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…JewishchildrenintheHolocaust--Ukraine.…
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… people died every day. During his stay inthe ghetto, in winter Mikhail Zozulya worked at the vegetable store sorting vegetables. Children who tried to eat…
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… Hebrew is 'learner'. And they were from a family of learners and rabbis, and -- very, you know, intheJewish religion very important. Q: So they were…
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