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: 2019.125.2 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0002
Date:
interview: 1985 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during the war; living in Germany and working as a tailor; his work with the US Counter Intelligence Corps; some of his siblings immigrating to Australia…
… permission to move to Linz, Austria but instead going to Łódź, Poland in an attempt to immigrate to Palestine; reuniting with his wife; and immigrating to the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.22 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0022
Date:
interview: 1982 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during the war; living in Germany and working as a tailor; his work with the US Counter Intelligence Corps; some of his siblings immigrating to Australia…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1227 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1227
Date:
interview: 1984 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in October 1938; his immigration immediately after to the United States; how he arrived one week after Kristallnacht; adn the difficulties of starting…
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… Germany as soon as 12 could do it. 13 When they arrested me had already visa to 14 the United States. had applied for immigration visa and 15 so naturally…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0032
Date:
interview: 1999 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Munich; living in a Nazi’s house; reuniting with his father; immigrating to the United States; religion; his life in New York; how the Holocaust…
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…; reuniting with his father; immigrating to the United States; religion; his life in New York; how the Holocaust affected his identity and sense of well being…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.106 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0106
Date:
interview: 1996 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emigration and immigration--United States.…
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… moved us to—not a labor camp—a children's camp with a nice location, a wonderful place on the lake, where we were awaiting immigration to the States. In…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.95 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0408
Date:
interview: 2000 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… immigration to Ohio in June 1931; his graduation from Miami University and marriage to Winifred Englehart in 1942; being drafted November 13, 1942; starting a…
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…’s interesting. A: But she actually is involved in my coming to the United States as an immigrant. I don’t know if you want to hear that -- Q: Yeah, I do, I do…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0421 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0070
Date:
interview: 1997 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joseph Ichiuji describes his parents as having immigrated to the US in the early 1900s; his father being a truck farmer and then owning a shoe repair…
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… thought they would be a problem if sent overseas. 05:00 His parents had immigrated to the US in the early 1900s and first worked in farming and ended up in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.13 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0013
Date:
interview: 1995 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… help from him; meeting his future wife; drawing and painting scenes from the concentration camps; and immigrating to the US.…
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… start looking for places to go for immigrate, 383 00:28:29,650 --> 00:28:35,710 while the UNRRA in between was trying to repatriate us 384 00:28:35…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.402.1 | RG Number: RG-90.103.0001
Date:
interview: 1980 November-1981 February
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… involved in the black market in Waldheim; immigrating to the United States in 1949 on the SS Langfried; settling in Milwaukee, WI; receiving help from the…
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…, marriage customs and educational systems. 90% of the Jews in Greece lived in Salonika before WWII. Salvator’s father wanted the family to immigrate to…
… for his family after the war; reuniting with his brother Zachary; and immigrating to the US where he reunited with his sister Dina and brother David…
… for his family after the war; reuniting with his brother Zachary; and immigrating to the US where he reunited with his sister Dina and brother David…
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… 17 he was liberated and one year later he immigrated to the United States. Please welcome Henry Greenbaum. (Applause). Henry Greenbaum: Okay. Warren…
… for his family after the war; reuniting with his brother Zachary; and immigrating to the US where he reunited with his sister Dina and brother David…
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…, and told him where he could find Henry. Once they were reunited, the brothers sent a telegram to their sister, Dina, who had immigrated to the U.S. in…
… for his family after the war; reuniting with his brother Zachary; and immigrating to the US where he reunited with his sister Dina and brother David…
… for his family after the war; reuniting with his brother Zachary; and immigrating to the US where he reunited with his sister Dina and brother David…
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… here in 1905, something around that time. They settled in New York. But the immigration laws were so tough here they wouldn't just let you in. Nowadays…
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