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.
…, including his mother Klara. By 1942 his brother Leo and sister Betty had both immigrated to the United States, but his brother Max and his wife Isabel…
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… Werner in the Netherlands and the post-war search for his fate, and post-war restitution claims. Included are biographical documents, immigration papers…
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… was deported to Auschwitz where she perished. Franz immigrated to the Unites States in April 1946 and Henry joined him in September.…
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…, Henry Blumenstein’s identification papers, and emigration and immigration papers. Languages: German, Dutch, English, Spanish Administrative…
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… and later were interned in the Heijplatte. In November 1939 the family's quota number came up allowing them to immigrate to the United States. In late…
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… documenting the Jacobson family's attempts to immigrate to the United States; two American Joint Distribution Committee press releases and a letter documenting…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640
Date:
interview: 1998 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… countries who agreed to take these passengers, his family's return to Holland, their successful immigration to Chile during the war, and his immigration to…
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… arrived at the harbor the immigration people came on board and they said You have to fill out these forms these forms and more forms and then it will take…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.68 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0068
Date:
interview: 1987 June 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during the war; and immigrating to the United States in 1951; and his life in California.
Martha Oversloot describes her immigration to the United States…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.376 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0549
Date:
interview: 2008 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… struggle with her identity; being renamed Sonja van der Kaden; immigrating to the United States; her feelings of being raised as a Christian; trying to find…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.381 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0381
Date:
interview: 2001 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1938, including her father's arrest; her family's decision to send her to Rotterdam, Netherlands to live with a relative; her attempts to immigrate to…
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… one of our happier times. We were realizing we were finally going to immigrate. So we were quite happy that way. AND THAT WAS THEN... 1938 just maybe…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.33 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0141
Date:
interview: 2001 March 16 interview: 2020 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the Hitler Youth in his community; his Bar Mitzvah; how his brother, Harry, immigrated in 1936 to Holland, the Netherlands to live with their maternal…
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… – customs and immigration. So the last two hours as the ship steams in, they are http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1286 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1286
Date:
interview: 1991 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… until the camp's liberation by Russians in May 1945; the reunion of her family in Holland; and her family’s immigration to the United States.…
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… it. dont care what other peoples doing let me alone. SO YOU WERE PRETTY MUCH GROWN BY THE TIME YOU IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES. Iwasl9. DID YOU…
…’ purchase of false papers for immigration to Santo Domingo for 50,000 Reichsmarks, which enabled them to free the two imprisoned brothers in December of 1938…
… Rotterdam in 1947 eventually sponsored the Ehrismann family’s immigration to the United States in 1950.…
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… Pander, and Martin Hess as they disembarked. Correspondence includes a photostat of a Cuban permission for immigration for Heinz Georg and Elsa Blumenstein…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.29 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0029
Date:
interview: 1981 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; immigrating to the United States; joining the military; fighting against Japan; losing his left leg in battle in Indonesia; studying law after his retirement…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.238.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0887
Date:
interview: 2016 August 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… design after the war; starting his own business; his two daughters; immigrating with his family to the United States in 1956; and settling in New Jersey.…
… January 31, 1944. Gerd and Henriette von Halle managed to avoid arrest and stayed in hiding until the end of the war. They immigrated to the United States…
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… of the war. They immigrated to the United States with the assistance of relatives, the Charles family. Scope and content of collection The von Halle…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.308 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0308
Date:
interview: 1997 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of his parents' deaths in Auschwitz; his immigration to the United States in 1948; his marriage; moving with his family to San Francisco, CA; his…
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… THESE BE PEOPLE WHO WERE POOR OR.. Poor or yeah mostly immigrant mostly poor. And some handicapped think. was pretty young in those days. DID YOUR MOTHER…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.46 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0046
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’ deaths from typhus; being repatriated to the Netherlands by the Red Cross in June 1945; life in post-war Holland; immigrating to the United States in…
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… American consulate that I would have to wait, because I wanted to go on an immigration visa and I was a quota visa. Since I knew I was going to America, I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.357 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0592
Date:
interview: 2010 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Netherlands to England; immigrating to the United States with his family; settling in Manhattan, NY and later moving to Ohio; entering the Army Specialized…
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… government had not prepared linguists who could speak Arabic. I’m sure there are plenty guys around there who are maybe people who immigrated from Jordan, or…
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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.