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.
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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…
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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.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: 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…
… a labor camp in Stuttgart, Germany; going on a death march in late January or early February of 1945; going to sleep in a barn in eastern Prussia on…
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… this...this was called in Germany Revere. This...you know, it was a German doctor that had a daughter the same age and she looked like my sister. The…
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…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0399
Date:
interview: 1999 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stayed from August 1944 to March 1945; going on a death march; her liberation in Lauenburg, Germany on March 10, 1945 by the Russian Army; and her…
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… unhappy with it. And fer -- we had books at home, books of -- books which described the situation in Germany after Hitler come -- came to power. It was…
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…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.441 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0514
Date:
interview: 2007 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Army to do research for the Office of Military Government (OMGUS); his work with the Joint Distribution Committee in Berlin, Germany until the…
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… c-country was an organized -- the Jewish kehilla -- the Jewish community was an organized, legal entity, like in Germany, for instance, the Gemeinde…
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: 2010.351 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0608
Date:
interview: 2010 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Rügen off the coast of Germany; his move to East Prussia because of the inevitable takeover by Russian forces; being forced to work in the Luftwaffe; his…
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… Germany wanted to get back from Lithuania; mentions the relatively large Jewish population in the area. He describes his close-knit family and how they…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0424 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0073
Date:
interview: 1997 July 27
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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… father was [PERSONAL NAME] 40 00:02:19,830 --> 00:02:22,340 Hirsch. 41 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:28,070 He descended from Germany to Lithuania, 42 00:02:28…
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: 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…
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