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.
…Carl Heinz Rosner (born Karl Heinz Rosner, 1929-) was born on 4 April 1929 in Hamburg, Germany to David and Rachel (née Hausner) Rosner. He had two…
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… Carl Heinz Rosner of Hamburg, Germany including his stay at a Jewish orphanage from 1937-1942; the deportation of Rosner and his brother Joseph to the…
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: 2008.276 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0527
Date:
interview: 2008 November 17
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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… was like a style in those days, you had a baby born in Germany, and my mother was on the way to Germany. Right on the border, I was born. She didn…
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: 1995.A.1272.33 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0033
Date:
interview: 1993 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Jewish Brigade and awaiting orders; his travel to Germany, Italy, and Palestine; and life in Kibbutz Yakum.…
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… Ribbentrap agreement. 1.49 June 1941, war between Russia and Germany, the bombardment of Vilnius and his attempt to escape to the Russian zone which came to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.235 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0235
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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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… was liquidated, the Germans killed 50,000 prisoners. After liberation, Arie returned to his hometown. He then went to Germany and emigrated to Israel in…
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…
… Germany and then Stutthof, where he worked on roofs; being in Buchenwald for two weeks, where he felt like he was dying but people gave him a little more…
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… Stuthoff you were on a ship with a lot of people? 2:31:7 A: Then they put us on small boats, sloyzen(?) as they call this in Germany. Finally we came to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.27 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0027
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… suicide; being transported after nine days to work in Bremen, Germany, where she had to clean up streets after air raids; having to walk to Bergen-Belsen…
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… happened after the war? You you stayed in Germany? I lost my husband. How did you know where your husband was? Because somebody came back and told me, from…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0424 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0073
Date:
interview: 1997 July 27
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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… father was [PERSONAL NAME] 40 00:02:19,830 --> 00:02:22,340 Hirsch. 41 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:28,070 He descended from Germany to Lithuania, 42 00:02:28…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1276 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1276
Date:
interview: 1986 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… displaced persons camp in Germany, where she met her second husband; and their immigration to the United States in 1951.…
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… want to go to 35 Germany this one so this will be my husband. man Hes my husband. There is man. This one will be your wife.. So they made papers and they…
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: 1993.A.0097.4 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0004
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (Brzesć Litewski, Poland) then Warsaw, Poland; antisemitism in Poland; crossing into Czechoslovakia; going to Austria then Munich, Germany; remaining in…
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… Germany. We had no financial means and no relatives in the West to go to so we remained. In 1939 the war started in Poland and in June 1940 the Russians…
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…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.14 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0014
Date:
interview: 1980 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Australia; returning to Germany in 1965 to be a witness in a trial of an SS man named Krutt; visiting Israel in 1973; and his involvement in the Jewish…
… a labor camp in Stuttgart, Germany; going on a death march in late January or early February of 1945; going to sleep in a barn in eastern Prussia on…
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… this...this was called in Germany Revere. This...you know, it was a German doctor that had a daughter the same age and she looked like my sister. The…
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.