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: 2017.487.1 | RG Number: RG-50.067.0001
Date:
interview: 1998 March 12 interview: 1998 May 19 interview: 1998 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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… neighborhood. Not poor, but blue collar [BOTH TALKING] And we had a Jewish butcher, kosher butcher store. But we didn't know from any thing. You know, political…
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… years it was no more allowed the Jewish people could perform music, or be in the theater business, or be in the movie industry. So this was the first…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.155 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0155
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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… only child of a well-to-do family. She was harassed by gentile students during the early 1930s until her transfer to a private Jewish school. After…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.624 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0624
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14 interview: 1898 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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… it was after that that he could not attend his public school and switched to a Jewish school. He was always a very good student, and it was at this…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.205 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0205
Date:
interview: 1999 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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…: None SUMMARY Myra Davis, nee Miki Heller, was born July 12, 1936 in Kovno, Lithuania, the only child in an affluent Jewish family. Her parents were Franz…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.670 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0670
Date:
interview: 1996 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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… which was in every passport of Jewish refugees. And to your own name you had to it's Sara at the time. So that's why so many middle names. My real name is…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.335 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0335
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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… expelled from this institution in 1933 for being Jewish. A Hitler Youth leader warned Bruno about Kristallnacht two nights prior; he experiences…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.376 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0376
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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… leave Germany. In June 1939, financed by the Jewish community in Goeppingen, Leo sailed with his parents and sister on a luxury liner to Shanghai. Housed…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.783 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0783
Date:
interview: 1990 May 03
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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… suffer very much. Actually, that came in 1933, when Hitler came to power. That was when it got real bad? Yeah. Yes, but still the Jewish merchants, they…
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Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.