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.
… succeeded in immigrating to America on her own in 1939.…
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… biographical materials, camp documents, and emigration and immigration records documenting the Seligmanns’ journey aboard the SS St. Louis, return to Europe…
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… murder at Auschwitz in 1942. The letter, dated 15 November 1940, was likely sent to his cousin, Justin Adler, who immigrated to the United States in 1938…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.795 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0795
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… first in school, then in hiding with French farmers; receiving help from the French underground; going to Geneva, Switzerland eventually; and immigrating…
… cards, correspondence, letters, immigration documents, and press clippings. Also includes an English translation of a book on the Neu family by Martin…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1324 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1324
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in during the war; the kindness they experienced and the dangers they faced; their fear of separation; their immigration to the United States in 1946…
… grain brokers. Most of his extended Rubel family had immigrated to Chicago in the mid-19th century. Ferdinand had been involved in ad hoc anti-Nazi…
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… Else Rubel originally of Steinbach am Donnersberg, Germany, who had immigrated to the United States and loved ones in Nazi-occupied Europe. The bulk of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0108 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0015
Date:
interview: 1998 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences living in a work camp; immigrating to the United States; being diagnosed with tuberculosis; trying to survive and raise their daughter in New York…
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… legal because my family had obtained an immigration visa for me. So only my crossing was, in a way, illegal. But once I was in Switzerland I was a legal…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.6 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0006
Date:
interview: 2000 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Carmen Villalba, born in Asturias, Spain, discusses her personal background and her father prewar profession; her immigration to France in 1939 as a…
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… and mentions Franco as a reason for her immigration to France; comments again on her route of immigration to France via Barcelona; talks about her…
These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
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.