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.
… had relocated to Austria from Poland (Łuków and Skierniewice). Sidney immigrated to the United States via Cherbourg in March 1939, and Jacob and Eva…
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… Eva Lindenheim, an immigration registration receipt for Chaskel, Gitta, and Amos Lindenheim, and an address book, notebook, and photograph taken…
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… university in Prague and later graduated from medical school in Vienna. She immigrated to the US and settled in New York City, where she completed her medical…
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… immigrated to the US and settled in New York City, where she completed her medical internship and residency. In 1951 she married Dr. William J. Laufer. After…
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.328 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0328
Date:
interview: 2000 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… labor camps; their arduous journey home; her plan to immigrate to Israel to live on a kibbutz, which was forbidden by her father; her family surviving the…
… was the daughter of Moshe and Chaya Bernstein, and was born in Szczebrzeszyn. Her parents immigrated to the United States before the war. Abram had at…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.137 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0137
Date:
interview: 1994 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after the war; having a child in a DP camp; immigration to Canada and then the US; his Jewish identity; coping after the war.…
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… years. INT: And you worked as a tailor. ABRAM: And when I came to America, I came not like already like an immigrant from the beginning. I was already…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.112.1 | RG Number: RG-50.655.0001
Date:
interview: 2010 October 07 interview: 2010 November 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… years in displaced persons camps, including one in Ebelsberg, Austria (near Linz); immigrating to the United States; and her reflections about lessons…
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… when we immigrated, we couldn’t have the typical nuclear family. Some women who had the same experience as my mother, totally abandoned any thought of…
… was the daughter of Moshe and Chaya Bernstein, and was born in Szczebrzeszyn. Her parents immigrated to the United States before the war. Abram had at…
… weeks later. After the war, Fania's mother remarried and her stepfather, David, helped the family immigrate to Italy, where they lived until 1947, when…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.201 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0201
Date:
interview: 1994 June 03
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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… Samuel was a descendant of King David. Samuel answered, thanked the grandfather and offered to send him an immigration certificate. But the grandfather…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.114 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0114
Date:
interview: 1992 May 04
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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…]. Describes youth movements in town. 1.27 Reasons for father’s reluctance to immigrate to Palestine. Other family members did go. 1.33 Jews from Ziebice are…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.92 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0092
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… hiding there until Russian troops liberated the area; immigrating to Italy with his mother after the war; planning to go to Palestine where relatives lived…
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… area. After the war, he and his mother immigrated to Italy. They had planned to go to Palestine where they had relatives, but did not go because they did…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.302 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0302
Date:
interview: 1996 October 31
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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… Givat Aliya, where many other survivors settled. 3:12:00 Sara went to a school for new immigrants and describes her wonderful teacher and school…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.116 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0116
Date:
interview: 1992 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… immigration to the United States in December 1947; his marriage and birth of his daughter Marsha Rozenblit; his trauma from losing his first two children and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0465 | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0019
Date:
interview: 1996 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… person; her immigration with her husband, Felix Horn, to the United States; her first Thanksgiving; her positive experiences living in New York; having her…
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…: I’m just curious and maybe this is just me from seeing, reading about immigrants and seeing these films. You always have this image of the boat coming…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.2 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0002
Date:
interview: 1993 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Belsen to join her sister there; her move to a children's home in Hamburg, Germany; her immigration to Palestine in 1947; her marriage in Israel in 1950…
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