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: 1999.A.0065 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0115
Date:
interview: 1999 April 08
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…
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… , helped Jews to Czechoslovakia, captured and jailed, escaped to Lodz Met wife,went to Germany, France, sailed to Israel but forced to Cyprus for 3-4 months…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.14 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0014
Date:
interview: 1995 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… marching and fighting through Warsaw to Germany; demobilization in 1945; and post-war life.…
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… sent to fight near Riza. Then the unit marched to Warsaw and later on to Germany. 3.29 Demobilized in 1945. Goes to Pinsk. Began to work in furniture…
… then went to Germany, first staying at the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in Berlin, and then moving to the Landsberg displaced persons camp in…
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…), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.228 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0228
Date:
interview: 1995 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… being sent to a hospital in Vilnius, Lithuania; returning to his unit in Konigsberg, Germany; helping to take the town of Pillau (Baltiisk, Russia); being…
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… nationalists are attacking Jews and Poles. M-37/11 (1/22/72) Arrest of a Jew on suspicion of spying for Germany. M-37/12 (1/22/33) Report on German plans for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.160 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0160
Date:
interview: 1992 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… partisan and moving to Gomel, Belarus, then Minsk, Belarus; the birth of her children in an UNRRA camp in Berlin, Germany; and immigrating to Israel in…
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.