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.
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Jan Karski
Date:
Event: 1978 October Production: 1985
Duration:
04:13:12
… underground. Karski describes the brutal treatment of Jews as they were loaded onto trucks, either to be taken to Sobibor or left to die on the trucks. Karski…
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… accuracy. 205 00:11:31,980 --> 00:11:37,690 And then the train, which consisted of 40-- 206 00:11:37,690 --> 00:11:43,390 some 40 cattle trucks. 207 00:11:43…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.27 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0027
Date:
interview: 1993 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… day, they come with big trucks. 771 00:33:09,670 --> 00:33:10,490 They caught people. 772 00:33:10,490 --> 00:33:14,020 They closed the buildings. 773…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.23 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0023
Date:
interview: 1992 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… better care of. 280 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,340 All the way to camp three to the gas chambers. 281 00:16:57,340 --> 00:16:59,105 Let's stop for the truck…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.15 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0015
Date:
interview: 1998 March 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…, but adds that there were truck 04/14/1998 transports; says that people were escaping from the Germans [it is not clear whether they were Jews or…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.428.1 | RG Number: RG-50.822.0001
Date:
interview: 2014
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… separately; children were taken away in trucks; dogs were barking; German music was playing. Those from the jail were the last ones to be put on trucks and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.84 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0084
Date:
interview: 1992 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…: Katzman. EM: K-... RH: Katzman. K-A-T-Z-M-A-N, who was a crazy man, small, redhead, crazy man, whom I saw when I was passing already in a truck, when they…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.13 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0013
Date:
interview: 1982
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… 00:02:58,140 --> 00:02:58,930 so I remember. 60 00:02:58,930 --> 00:03:01,510 I saw through the window the truck 61 00:03:01,510 --> 00:03:04,630 when…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.9 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0009
Date:
interview: 1992 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… like that. 198 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,740 What we could take with us from the truck. 199 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:19,790 And she did it. 200 00:10:19…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.495.2 | RG Number: RG-50.061.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Russians left and the Germans came, we were in hiding. And then one day, one of my uncles came with a truck and came to pick us up, and we went back to Nowy…
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