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: 1989.A.0352 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0246
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… arrested. They looked at the little belongings we had. They saw a picture of our daughter on the wall, because our friends brought us always picture to show…
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… of Hedwig Kahn (nee Klein). Approximately 1932. Black and white copy print of the wall that surrounded the Warsaw ghetto, n.d. Newsprint copy of a map…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.409.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0192
Date:
interview: 1990 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… double wall and we had suitcases. They used to be called elephants. They were more like trunks with a rounded top and they were grey, and that's why they…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.420.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0120
Date:
interview: 1990 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… the war, our train went through Berlin and everybody was cheering because all that you could see was bombed out in Berlin...just walls were standing…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.426.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0067
Date:
interview: 1990 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…. And I cried so much that there was neighbors that, that the walls were very thin, that the neighbors made the same sound already from my crying. Because…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.68 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0068
Date:
interview: 1987 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Christian high school that they had taken over which had nice walls and all this. And that is where we were brought. And there were hundreds and hundreds of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.29 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0029
Date:
interview: 1992 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… of the last picture we got 544 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:49,320 from our daughter on the wall. 545 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,580 And one of them said, if…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.101 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0101
Date:
interview: 1991 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… 100 meter ahead of me a building with matt glass wall. Inside I saw people who got undressed to take a shower. We entered a huge hall. Mangle(?) or one…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.52 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0052
Date:
interview: 1986 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… know, I've been registering. He said, let me tell you something. I know you're British, but I'm not going up to the wall for you. I can only stamp you…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0028
Date:
interview: 1996 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… errors in spelling or accuracy. 1148 00:48:32,170 --> 00:48:34,630 And then they put us in barracks. 1149 00:48:34,630 --> 00:48:36,535 We had a [? wall…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0289 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0370
Date:
interview: 1996 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Post Auto, you know, one of those busses squeezed a woman who was running against the wall and she died. And he, as a physician, was called in and while…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.24 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0024
Date:
interview: 1981 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…'t remember whether it was a rabbi or a civil ceremony, but they did get married. And her husband's name is Harold Wall. It was something else in German, but he…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.59 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0059
Date:
interview: 1991 March 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…, four, six on a wall. And there was a washing room also. In the middle was, from the tub, that we, we, with, with water tapes [taps]. And then there was a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.64 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0064
Date:
interview: 1982 December 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… living-room and the dining-room, there was a hollow space, and they had opened the wall, and in there were hollow. In there were all the things--the radios…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.67 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0067
Date:
interview: 1989 July 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… the German works, the west wall against the English. They were terribly afraid of an English invasion on the shores of France and they built their…
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… places. He worked briefly on the European defense wall. He made pill box and did cement work. Before any project began they would look the men over and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.28 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 April 08 interview: 1992 April 23 interview: 1992 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… three steps down while was doing that heard the cent roll in the walls. And thought better get out of here before get house on my head. So that was left…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.181 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0181
Date:
interview: 1993 December 10 interview: 1994 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… same. 198 00:12:20,110 --> 00:12:23,340 199 00:12:23,340 --> 00:12:26,760 As you come in, on the left side is a wall 200 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:32…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.291 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0291
Date:
interview: 1994 December 08 interview: 1995 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… that many of the Jews in Germany realized 15 that the handwriting was on the wall that either get out 16 or flee somewhere or go in hiding whatever is…
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