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: 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: 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: 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…
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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: 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.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…
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… arranged chronologically. Indexing Terms Wajsman, Sender. Germany. -- Geheime Staatspolizei. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius…
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: 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…
…. 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…
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