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: 1995.A.1272.219 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0219
Date:
interview: 1995 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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….00 Many groups from other Polish cities joined the'hachshara' in Kalish. And then war broke out. 16.00 Kalish was 30 km from the border with Germany. People…
… occupied by Nazi Germany. Eastern Poland, where Vilna was located, was occupied by the Soviet Union. In October, control of the city was given to Lithuania…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.19 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0019
Date:
interview: 1992 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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… sisters. He shows his ID in 1944 when he was in Germany looking for surviving family members. 1:11:04 Zachary shows a picture from a suburb of Frankfurt…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.276 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0527
Date:
interview: 2008 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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… was like a style in those days, you had a baby born in Germany, and my mother was on the way to Germany. Right on the border, I was born. She didn…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.29.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0211
Date:
interview: 2013 June 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.4 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0004
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (Brzesć Litewski, Poland) then Warsaw, Poland; antisemitism in Poland; crossing into Czechoslovakia; going to Austria then Munich, Germany; remaining in…
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… Germany. We had no financial means and no relatives in the West to go to so we remained. In 1939 the war started in Poland and in June 1940 the Russians…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0182 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0400
Date:
interview: 1999 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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…, it’s a very bi -- it was a very big fluence from Germany. Q: ’37 and ’38? A: And -- yes, yes. Q: Mm-hm. A: And then in ’39, Poland was divided, and…
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.