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: 1989.345.6 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0006
Date:
interview: 1983 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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….005*0006 6 22:00 They met up with partisans who wanted to break through the ghetto walls. They wanted to at least die fighting. The Germans came earlier than…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.5 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0005
Date:
interview: 1992 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… against the wall with Jewish religious things on him and the Cossacks chasing were chasing him, they came in, they looked for him and they couldn’t find him…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.125 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0125
Date:
interview: 1992 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… summer and into the fall. Then in October, I believe, of that year, which was in 1941, they constructed the Bialystok ghetto. They walled in a section of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.29 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0029
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… was a bombed-out house with open rooms where pictures were still hanging on the walls. 33:25 Her apartment was habitable with a living room in the front…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1240 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0020
Date:
interview: 1994 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…. So walls went in. This went in. You know, like they say the walls in ______ where you’re not supposed to walk on the sidewalk. Commonsense, you’re not…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.333 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0333
Date:
interview: 1998 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… accuracy. 4:32:00 The camp was formerly a prison for Russian soldiers. On the walls was written, in blood: Avenge us. 4:34:00 A few days before Sara was…
…’ apartment was located within the walls of the ghetto. During the summer of 1941, George Topas was sent from the ghetto to work on a farm. He encouraged his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0417 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0066
Date:
interview: 1997 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… 591 00:28:13,550 --> 00:28:14,600 Shoes on Wall Street. 592 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,580 I mean, that was an achievement. 593 00:28:16,580 --> 00:28:20…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.41 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0041
Date:
interview: 1988 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his family survived by creating hiding places under the floor and within a false wall; her two-year-old niece being sheltered in a Russian orphanage…
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… the killings by Germans and Ukrainians. His family survived by creating hiding places under the floor and within a false wall. A 2-year-old niece was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.154 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0154
Date:
interview: 1983 August 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… crawl against the walls. And the searchlight used to go around, things like this, I don’t have to tell you, the searchlight used to go on day and night…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0111 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0388
Date:
interview: 1998 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Schirrocca Street, I remember, we -- in order to be able to hide, we built a double wall. A very -- we moved the wall in our apartment, made it a little…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.48 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0048
Date:
interview: 1998 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… to SN vandalizing his house by painting anti-Jewish slogans on the walls; denies that under occupation the SN turned Jews over to Germans, says many…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.71 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0071
Date:
interview: 1992 June 25 interview: 1992 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…,010 into our living room-- got a huge hole in the wall. 76 00:05:28,010 --> 00:05:34,860 And we had a little bird, my little niece's canary, 77 00:05:34…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.217 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0217
Date:
interview: 1993 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… the patrol are coming by day and night. Says Ill bring you to the barn behind wall behind hay. Then you can stay few days. We came into the barn. He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.819 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0819
Date:
interview: 1989 December 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… next three years, if we had classes in this auditorium, we are standing outside the benches, at the wall facing the lecturer. This lasted till the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1159 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1159
Date:
interview: 1989 December 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… IT THE 1.S. A. Yeah something like that. They took us to hotel Hotel Marsaille. And from there to Wall Street think it was. And from there was shipped…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1223 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1223
Date:
interview: 1987 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… brick walls. said dont want it. They needed people to work to unload ten tons cement day stone. enlist myself the oldest of the ghetto said He said It pay…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1304 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1304
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… ghetto wall and looked and said Is there some memory of that little Irene looking at me here Now were grown up. And was child. wrote letters to grown Irene…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1468 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1468
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… wall 11 place And they make segregations like. some of 12 them they put to work there and some they put them 13 away to concentration camps. They shoot…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0298 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0045
Date:
interview: 1999 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… they’ve changed? A: I wasn’t -- I was mad when they took away the wall from -- End of Tape Two, Side A Beginning Tape Two, Side B Q: This is a…
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