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: 2003.47 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0068
Date:
interview: 2003 January 29
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews.…
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… lot of Jews before the war. On the fourth of July, 1946, the local populace got together and murdered 42 Jewish survivors. And that was one of the most…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.172 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0172
Date:
interview: 1982 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw.…
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…. Hyman also gives numerous of examples of Poles smuggling into the ghetto to buy Jewish wares at unreasonably low prices and describes how Jews managed to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.86 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0086
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and local collaborators in summer of 1941; her father’s murder; hiding with her mother and other relatives after warnings from non-Jews, including the…
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… Jews in Russia. And they settled in a small town. Maybe they settled to 1née Swerdlin. 2Recorded at the 1985 American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.69 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0069
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09 interview: 1981 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his father serving as rabbi to the refugee community; their life after the December 1941 occupation by the Japanese; serving with other Jews, Russians…
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… people were living in Pomerania for maybe a longer time, but they were not organized as a Gemeinde, as a congregation. There were many Jews in the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.21 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0021
Date:
interview: 1989 August 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Polish--Ukraine.…
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… the Revolution Jews used as scapegoats, bandits stole from them, tied an old man by his beard to a horse 1918 - family went back to Zamosc 1921 - became…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.318 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0318
Date:
interview: 1996 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Semeliskes.…
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… optimistic. He believed they would survive the war (he did) and hoped the Germans would be defeated in some fashion. After education for Jews ended, Moshe…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.273 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0273
Date:
interview: 1996 January 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invading again in June 1941; the forcing of 300 Jews into a synagogue, which was then burned; ghettoization; forced factory labor; an action in 1942; hiding…
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… Germans bombarded the city and then reentered. They forced 300 Jews into a synagogue and burned them. All the Jews in the city were ordered into a ghetto…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.264 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0264
Date:
interview: 1995 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Bialystok.…
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… a few months. There it was decided how they will 'escape' to Israel [through Marseilles]. Encounter with Israeli Jews who came to accompany them [the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.240 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0240
Date:
interview: 1995 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… their home; her father's resignation; her father secretly trading for food with non-Jews and supplying it to others; ghettoization in 1942; forced labor…
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… hearing about the war only when refugees started coming into town. Russians wanted the Jews to go to Russia – Siberia - but the borders closed. Thus most…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.137 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0137
Date:
interview: 1991 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw.…
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…, the poverty of many Jews, the schooling in elementary and vocational schools. TAPE II .0.19 War outbreak: They barely believed it til the terrible…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.103.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0255
Date:
interview: 2016 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Aktions; hiding under the bed with her family for a whole day; seeing Jews being shot in the ghetto; her father arranging for Etta to stay with an older…
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… anybody in Europe, all these Polish Jews were observant like that. And some were very observant. Q: What language did you speak at home? A: Well this is…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0094 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0116
Date:
interview: 1999 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… without any money; meeting a man on the train with whom she had been imprisoned in Pionki, Poland; returning to Radom where she was told that returning Jews…
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…Regina Spiegel RG-50.106*0116 May 12, 1926 - born in Radom, Poland September 1939 - Germans took over town father forced to dig ditches, Jews wore…
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… the Jews. Yom Kippur they...they...how to say? They took us around...they took us around, all around. And we were all in shul,5 this I remember…
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