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: 1989.A.0320 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0010
Date:
interview: 1989 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Germany for three years; immigrating to Jerusalem; living with her mother for 40 years until her mother’s death; and her deep understanding about…
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… their family. They decided to emigrate to Palestine, but after crossing many borders, they came to a Displaced Persons camp in Germany, where they…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.27 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0027
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… suicide; being transported after nine days to work in Bremen, Germany, where she had to clean up streets after air raids; having to walk to Bergen-Belsen…
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… happened after the war? You you stayed in Germany? I lost my husband. How did you know where your husband was? Because somebody came back and told me, from…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.411.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0216
Date:
interview: 1990 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… back to Vilnius with her sister but instead going to West Germany; separating from her sister while they both awaited permission to go to the United…
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… Germany and Poland. We we were at the time at our summer home in outskirts of Vilno, but we heard that Germany attacked Poland in September 1st, 1939. And…
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… arranged chronologically. Indexing Terms Wajsman, Sender. Germany. -- Geheime Staatspolizei. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0123.1.5 | RG Number: RG-50.035.01.0005
Date:
interview: 1986
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, and Germany; going to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp; arriving in Boston, MA on October 14, 1949; going to a small town in Mississippi; and…
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… split of Poland between Germany and Russia, life for Ben would no longer be the same, thankfully however, his area went to Russia, and 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: 1993.A.0087.34 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0034
Date:
interview: 1985 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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… started and it came closer to '38 and in Germany already went on the Holocaust, then it got real bad. Sylvia, you talked about the youths belonging-- Yeah…
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…
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… Indersdorf (Kibbuz Dror) near Dachau, Germany. Scope and content of collection The Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers consist of Allied Expeditionary Forces…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.7 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0007
Date:
interview: 1995 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… years after the war; being taken to St. Ottilien, a church in Eresing, Germany; going to Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany and staying there for two years…
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…,360 --> 00:16:23,785 to form in Bavaria, in Germany. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.33 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0033
Date:
interview: 1993 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Jewish Brigade and awaiting orders; his travel to Germany, Italy, and Palestine; and life in Kibbutz Yakum.…
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… Ribbentrap agreement. 1.49 June 1941, war between Russia and Germany, the bombardment of Vilnius and his attempt to escape to the Russian zone which came to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.42 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0042
Date:
interview: 1993 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…" camp in Auschwitz and their extermination; being in a transport arriving in Berlin, Germany during a bombing; marching to Oranienburg, Germany; his…
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… revenge. Talks again about the gypsy camp and the crematoria. He was ill and received treatment in Germany and then moved to Italy. Talks about his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.54 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0054
Date:
interview: 1992 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… returned to Vilna at the end of July 1944; being recruited to teach children Hebrew; going to Łódź, Germany, Prague, and Paris in order to care for Jewish…
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… homes where they had been placed. 5.48 She was sent, with groups of children (destined to immigrate to Palestine) to Germany and then Prague and back to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.128 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0128
Date:
interview: 1993 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the partisans; several missions his unit went on before going to Berlin, Germany in April 1945; liberation; spending three to four months in a camp near…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.151 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0151
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
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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…. Reestablishes contact with Leslie Hartman, who published the book 'Survivors'. 13.25 Her views about faith, Germany, forgiving. 13.38 She is a witness in the…
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…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.235 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0235
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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 liquidated, the Germans killed 50,000 prisoners. After liberation, Arie returned to his hometown. He then went to Germany and emigrated to Israel in…
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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…--Austria. Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony, Germany) Leoben (Styria, Austria) Bad Schallerbach (Austria) Photographs. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0418 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0067
Date:
interview: 1997 February 23
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…
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…:22,200 when Germany divided Eastern Poland, and our-- 312 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:31,710 our town became under the occupation of the Soviet Union. 313…
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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.
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.