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.
Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0117B | Film ID: 150
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star] (part 2)
Date:
Event: 1933 Production: 1980
Duration:
00:50:13
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage; stills. Nazis entering towns via truck; Hitler speeches; clips from Nazi propaganda and…
Film | Accession Number: 2002.546.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3716 | Film ID: 2576
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star]
Date:
Event: 1933 - 1945 Production: 1980
Duration:
01:24:15
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… weeks later. Refugees flee. Train station, train scenes. Still of those who went into exile. DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage…
Film | Accession Number: 1998.191.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2417 | Film ID: 67
Film Title:
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Date:
Production: 1948
Duration:
00:09:42
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Round-ups, confusion, women and men pushed through Nazi crowd. Soft focus amateur footage of Lvov attack on Jews: unclothed women driven past, old man…
Film | Accession Number: 2006.350.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4291 | Film ID: 2758
Film Title:
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Date:
Production: 1948
Duration:
00:18:00
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… (speech translated to English). Round-ups, confusion, women and men pushed through Nazi crowd. Soft focus amateur footage of Lvov attack on Jews: nude women…
… 1939, he was denounced for antifascist writings, arrested by the Gestapo, and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin. An amateur…
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… Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin. An amateur singer and songwriter, Kulisiewicz composed 54 songs during more than five years of imprisonment at…
Film | Accession Number: 2006.350.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4295 | Film ID: 2754
Film Title:
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Date:
Production: 1948
Duration:
00:19:47
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… amateur footage of Lvov attack on Jews: unclothed women driven past, old man lying on ground, more naked women, hands up, terrified, women clutch own necks…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.31 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0031
Date:
interview: 1985 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…, I being a professional actress, plus a lot of very gifted amateur actors and some fabulous German actors from the Volkstheater in Berlin were giving…
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… address. We had no way to reach him, so Henry met in Dachau -- a major from the American army. He was an amateur cellist, and his father belonged to the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.419.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0036
Date:
interview: 1990 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… actually an amateur conductor. He was a very fine conductor, by the way, but amateur if you don't make money. In...in Transylvania. He was a Transylvanian…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… way. They just felt that they don't want amateur guides to go and show the German soldiers Paris. They wanted them to go to official guides. Were you…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.208 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0478
Date:
interview: 2003 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… -- such ardent musicians, amateurs and professionals, who loved to play, and because everybody thought it’s going to be over in six months. I spoke about…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.121 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0121
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… or amateur theaters anywhere we went and because of being military person he was rotated on his duty from one place to another, therefore we recognized…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0127.3 | RG Number: RG-50.154.0003
Date:
interview: 1986 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… his two brothers, he owned a necktie factory. He was also a very good amateur photographer. On October 30, 1941, they were captured by the SS and sent…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0160 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0430
Date:
interview: 1996 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… contact. Q: How old were you at the time? A: At that time, that was in 1938, I was 22. Q: And you were a professional boxer? A: No, I was an amateur boxer…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.28 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0410
Date:
interview: 2001 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… theatre, but there were the amateur groups, because I know my mother’s brother, my uncle Morris - Moish - he was very much involved in amateur theatrical…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.554 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0554
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18 interview: 1990 November 15 interview: 1991 February 21 interview: 1991 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… collection work on and things like that and am an amateur pastry baker and do all that. KNOW YOU HAVE ALSO HAD REAL CONNECTION WITH THE HOLOCAUST CENTER AND…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.38 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0038
Date:
interview: 1992 April 22 interview: 1992 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… beat up some Polish kid. He was pretty pretty tough guy. He was amateur boxer so he took care of himself probably and took care of me too in some ways…
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… accuracy. USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0427 34 me pictures of my sister when she was about three years old. My father, Ches-wap (ph) was an amateur photographer…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.39 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0039
Date:
interview: 1992 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… musician? RH: My father was a musician too, but he wasn't a professional musician, only an amateur. He played the violin. He conducted orchestras whenever he…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.304 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0304
Date:
interview: 1991 May 16 interview: 1991 July 11 interview: 1991 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… entertainment you went out and we were walking there and somebody just snapped it. It wasnt professional it was just an amateur somebody just took it. It was…
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