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: 2018.266.1 | RG Number: RG-50.110.0001
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Recorded: 1971-1991
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… epidemic. How I was sent to Piotrkov— over the wall. Side 2 of this tape tells about her decision to go to Piotrkov and the various opinions about this…
… residents from the city and surrounding towns relocate there. The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and…
… residents from the city and surrounding towns relocate there. The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.428.1 | RG Number: RG-50.822.0001
Date:
interview: 2014
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… came and took them out; it wasn’t a very sophisticated hiding place. They were all put against the wall, but they were not shot; they were taken to a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.203 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0203
Date:
interview: 2000 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…’re going somewhere if I am late, if he’s ready and I’m late, he considers himself, it’s being manipulated, this behavior. And it could drive him up the wall…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.153 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0153
Date:
interview: 1995 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…: Next door. It was a very thin wall separated. And this factory was making...for the...for the fields. What do you call it? INT: Fertilizer? DOBA…
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
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… whole street was nothing. Where he bombed, there was the uprising, the Warsawer ghetto uprising. INT: Was the wall there of the ghetto? Did you see the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.92 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0092
Date:
interview: 1998 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… children started to cry, and we felt that we’re suffocating. And the way they built, they had to knock down the walls so we could go out to the air. (Sighs…
Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Lublin = Jewish Council in Lublin
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… leave ghettos without permission under the threat of death penalty. Major ghettos were surrounded by walls (e.g. Warsaw) or wire entanglements. The…
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
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… glass on a wall at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. It was such a small village—it was never important enough for a regular map. But on…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.3 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0003
Date:
interview: 2010 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… wall and hit my left leg, and my cannon-bone—I have been having problems with my periosteum [of the cannon-bone] all the time. So this is the kind of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.42 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0464
Date:
interview: 2002 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…, on -- on walls and all that. And it was just an announcement http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.144 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0413
Date:
interview: 2001 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… went in there, and Mother built, from the firewood a false wall, you know, just with the openings for breathing, and you know, and I was there for about…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.686 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0686
Date:
interview: 1991 July 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… a cheder, I was six years my father got me to the cheder, and now I was in Lublin. I was near the cheder. I have a picture from the wall of the cheder…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.270 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0270
Date:
interview: 2009 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Cow” fired his gun three more times or so, but he missed. I saw bullet marks on the wall. So he escaped. A couple days later, I saw a huge poster. There…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.177 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0177
Date:
interview: 2003 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… arrived there, they took Jewish people to help them; recalls memories of seeing Jewish people standing along the wall and noticing how they groaned from…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.132 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0132
Date:
interview: 2002 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… with them; soon after their arrival, gendarmes beat Wala very badly; Jadwiga escaped by running across the double wall of barbed wire surrounding the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0119.13 | RG Number: RG-50.471.0013
Date:
interview: 1997 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…,630 --> 00:07:20,750 Announce. 134 00:07:20,750 --> 00:07:22,530 Announcement, public announcement 135 00:07:22,530 --> 00:07:27,050 on the walls of the ghetto…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.43 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0043
Date:
interview: 1981 October 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… wall, and as the ghetto was made smaller we always had to move. I remember the first house we moved into, we lived in a dining room. The other rooms were…
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
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… things were different over there. there was no going back. there was only a black wall from what happened there and everything here was good and rosy. We…
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