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: 2012.17.4 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0004
Date:
interview: 1998 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… War II; fighting Germany while experiencing antisemitism in the Polish Army; being sent to a labor camp following Poland’s defeat, where he was captive…
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…
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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: 2012.17.10 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0010
Date:
interview: 2004 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… began; antisemitism in the army; being classified as Lithuanian (and Lithuania was not at war with Germany); being sent to a labor camp following Poland…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1456 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1456
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
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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… WHAT. WENT THREE TIMES TO GERMANY AS 16 WITNESS TO THE COURTS. 17 THE INTERVIEWER DID YOU 18 MR. SOFFER YES. AND THE ATTORNEY 19 FOR THE OTHER SIDE…
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: 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…
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… arranged chronologically. Indexing Terms Wajsman, Sender. Germany. -- Geheime Staatspolizei. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius…
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…
…. There was widespread anti-semitism in Vilna and it increased during the 1930s with the rise to power of the Nazi Party in Germany. There was a boycott on…
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
… killing site in the Vilna suburb called Ponary; the end of the war and continuing to paint at the displaced persons camp in Landsberg, Germany (1945-1948…
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… Hitler came to power in Germany and this certainly was shaking up the world, very much the world in which I lived. I was born in Vilnius. Today Vilnius…
…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.0441.524 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0524
Date:
interview: 1994 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bergen (Celle, Germany)…
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…. Mr. Shnaper and his wife Luba eventually left Poland for the American Zone in Germany and lived in the Displaced Persons camp at Bergen-Belsen. He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.82.2.5 | RG Number: RG-50.810.0005
Date:
interview: 2015
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent on a death march; going to Ostrach, Germany, where they were liberated by French troops; going to Balingen near Frommern and working for the…
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…-denazification distorted by Allies fear of another war with Soviets - all Germany supported Hitler- Catholics now ask forgiveness - Jacob Gens actions and…
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: 1998.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0026
Date:
interview: 1998 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her feelings of guilt; traveling to West Germany from Poland; becoming a nurse in Landsberg, Germany; immigrating to the United States; helping her…
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… liberation by Russian troops; finding family members in the United States through a Jewish newspaper; her feelings of guilt; traveling to West Germany from…
… 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: 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…
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.