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.
…The Zyga Butler papers include a diary, correspondence, and photographs as well as academic, claims, employment, immigration, medical, and military…
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…, DC 20024-2126. Abstract: The Zyga Butler papers include a diary, correspondence, and photographs as well as academic, claims, employment, immigration…
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0266 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0029
Date:
interview: 1998 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… western Poland to escape Stalin; the black market in Poland; immigrating to England; daily life in Newcastle, where he lived for three years; immigrating to…
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… Stalin; the black market in Poland; anti-Semitism; immigrating to England; daily life in England; immigrating to the United States on the Queen Elizabeth I…
… the Russian soldiers send him back to Uhniv; finally returning to Lwów, where he reunited with his brother; his and his brother’s immigration to England…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.19 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0019
Date:
interview: 1991 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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… Budapest. He tells of helping with the Aliyah “B”, the second illegal immigration that went through Hungary to Italy and Yugoslavia (?). Leon decided not to…
…Harry Deutsch was born in 1938 to a German family living in Katowice. He immigrated to the United States in April 1939 with his mother, Stella…
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… Deutsch’s family and their immigration to the United States, her Pollitzer and Gerova relatives’ survival in Žilina and Vienna, and her parents…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.337 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0337
Date:
interview: 1998 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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…. In 1947, Walter received a Czech passport with which he immigrated to Israel and first joined Kubbutz Kfar Masaryk, and later Kibbutz Evron. Transcript…
Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War
… help them immigrate to England. In December 1945, the brothers (accompanied by ‘Mother Tola’) left Poland and reunited with their relatives in England.…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.373.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0832
Date:
interview: 2015 October 28-2015 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Pocking displaced persons camp in Germany; his attempted immigration to Palestine in May 1947 on a ship that was intercepted by the British; being…
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…, abschließend mit Ihrer Immigration nach Israel. Der zweite Teil des Interviews beschäftigt sich mit ihrer Karriere in der israelischen Polizei und Ihrer Arbeit…
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.