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: 2013.306.60 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0060
Date:
interview: 1996 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; immigrating to the United States; family; interfaith marriage; and the Jewish communities of Shanghai and Venezuela.…
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… were three other Jewishfamilies, we were very, very friendly with the Simonoffs, who are very dear friends of ours, who belong to the Reconstructionist…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.145 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0145
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishfamilies.…
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… family who held Polish passports. She attended public school until 1935, when the Nuremberg Laws forced Jewish students to leave and go to Jewish schools…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.146 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0146
Date:
interview: 1999 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishfamilies.…
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… 12 years old during a roundup of Jews with Polish passports. A Jewish organization intervened to secure her release, but other Polish families were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.147 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0147
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishfamilies.…
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…00033 Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 #53 Restrictions: None SUMMARY Leo Awin was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1919 into a traditional Jewish home. His parents were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.4 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0004
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishfamilies.…
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… cruise ship. Through this connection he was able to get his family out of Germany in 1939 when she was three years old. The family went to Shanghai, China…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.69 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0069
Date:
interview: 2011 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishfamilies.…
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… tree and saw that her entire family was Jewish so that she could not stay in school. Her father had been taken away to Buchenwald in the early hours of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.155 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0155
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishfamilies.…
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… only child of a well-to-do family. She was harassed by gentile students during the early 1930s until her transfer to a private Jewish school. After…
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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.
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