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.
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.429 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0429
Date:
interview: 1989 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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… raised in family with an orthodox Jewish grandfather and secular/Zionist father whose ancestors had been settled in Poland for 350 years.As soon as the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1069 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1069
Date:
interview: 1991 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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… JEWISHFAMILIES 19 IN LINZ AND ABOUT WHAT SIZE OF TOWN WAS LINZ 20 WELL LINZ WOULD SAY WAS ANYWHERE AND 21 IM GUESSING NOW BETWEEN 250 AND 350000…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.142 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0142
Date:
interview: 1999 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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… following June 22, 1941. War broke out and she ran to the Russian section in Tiraspol. There she hid in the basement of a theater with her entire family. They…
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…: Jewishfamilies--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Personal narratives, Jewish. Emigration & immigration--United States--1940-1950. Holocaust Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.48 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0048
Date:
interview: 1982 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… home; receiving aid from non-Jewish Poles, who gave her false identification papers and hid her brother and parents; a Polish family in Przedborz…
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… relates in detail aid by non-Jewish Poles who gave her false identification papers and hid her brother and parents. Another Polish family in Przedborz, near…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1064 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1064
Date:
interview: 1996 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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… move to Montevideo, Uruguay, where Sylvia lived for 20 years. She attended a German-Spanish school in a small Jewish community. Fluently speaking Spanish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.401 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0401
Date:
interview: 1990 September 13 interview: 1990 November 14 interview: 1990 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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… married and she had family she had little 10-year-old and 20yearold in college and here she was pregnant from this Jewish man and he could not divorce…
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.