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: 2006.70.19 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0019
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undated:
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.31 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0031
Date:
interview: 1988 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… memories of communicating with a Wels II prisoner in Yiddish; his memories of Straubing labor camp in Germany; his memories of corpses in ditches at…
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…,700 Japan didn't have that anti-Semitic tone to it, 317 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:36,640 which it really didn't. 318 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:37,410 And Germany…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.118 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0118
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Oranienburg, Germany; being attacked by a dog and hospitalized for three months; being shipped to Mauthausen; escaping the camp when the guards ran away one…
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… of leaving Czechoslovakia. Mother instilled athletics in Yakov's education. 1.30 Although Jews knew about Jewish laws in Germany, they still did not…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.19 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0019
Date:
interview: 1990 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… conditions there; her transport to Hamburg, Germany, in January 1945 to work in a plastic factory and a beating she received from a German guard there; her…
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… source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. machines came from Germany. 76 00:05:21,070 --> 00:05:24,440 All the machines who divided the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.3 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0003
Date:
interview: 2017 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Communism; working as an interpreter at the DP camp in Ebensee and with UNRRA in Ansbach, Germany; moving to Paris, France and receiving help from HIAS while…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.4 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0004
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
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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… from Wels to Linz in Germany. 223 00:16:12,745 --> 00:16:15,580 224 00:16:15,580 --> 00:16:18,580 Linz was another displaced persons camp, 225 00:16:18…
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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.