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.
… promoted to Major in May1944, and deployed to Europe at the end of the year, landing in France in January 1945. He served as a regimental operations officer…
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… officer who assisted in the liberation of Gunskirchen, and was tasked in the administration of the Landsberg am Lech displaced persons camp. Within the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.17 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0017
Date:
interview: 1995 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 600 Jewish survivors go from Germany to illegal ships in Marseilles to get to Palestine; being asked to be the liaison officer to General Eisenhower to…
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… had a militaryofficer in charge 15 00:01:03,550 --> 00:01:09,710 together with a UNRRA team and one or more people 16 00:01:09,710 --> 00:01:18…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.12 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitic comments when he was in the military; being transferred to the military police in Starnberg, Germany in October 1945; being transferred to Landsberg…
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… anti-Semitic comments from the officers and others he was fighting with. 15:20 In October, 1945 Herbert was transferred to the Military Police in…
…, 1947; a photograph of Abram Gastfreund and co-workers in the Community Office of the Landsberg am Lech displaced persons camp (DC camp), 1948; and a…
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… the landscape. After three days there, we again boarded trucks for a journey that brought us to a former German military camp in the Bavarian city of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.1 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0001
Date:
interview: 1995 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… persons camp in Landsberg, Germany; becoming a police officer in the camp; meeting his future wife in the camp; courting his wife while they were in the…
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… police department an employment office, everything was kind of temporarily, and a hospital, of course was a hospital there because it was a military…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.82.1 | RG Number: RG-50.926.0001
Date:
interview: 2013 January 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… year at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem; fulfilling his military service then spending three years (1956-1959) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris…
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…. Now, Major Plagge – I remember him, but you know, as you can remember a German officer in his uniform and his boots, and so on, from far away – but I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.265 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0265
Date:
interview: 1995 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… privileged job as a messenger for SA Lieutenant Gustav Hermann, head of the German labor office; being approached to assist the ghetto underground; forming a…
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…, but this was discovered. He became so ill he almost died in Jerusalem, left his military position, and became Yigal Allon’s driver. Uri and Danny return…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.11 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0011
Date:
interview: 1987 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…,990 some information. 278 00:13:54,990 --> 00:13:57,820 My father was working the office, 279 00:13:57,820 --> 00:14:03,320 and some workers from the mill…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.154.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0914
Date:
interview: 2017 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…:14,639 into the US military? Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word…
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