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: 1992.A.0125.143 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0143
Date:
interview: 1992 August
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… happened to be in the same bus. We were the first survivors in Holland. They looked at us; they had posters made up of the three of us. Put on the walls all…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.10 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0010
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… walls Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word generated with 3Play Media…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.38 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0038
Date:
interview: 1990 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… they-- 497 00:38:33,860 --> 00:38:42,190 a little piece of bread that you could, paste the wall with it, 498 00:38:42,190 --> 00:38:45,735 it was so raw…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.74 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0074
Date:
interview: 1987 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… this-- there, my mother had a premonition that this was not a good thing to be behind the wall. See, this part of this-- the building of the wall, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.4 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… understand you have company. You know you have rats the size of cats. You have bugs and roaches on the walls. Ants. The filth is un, is indescribable, that is…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2006 | Film ID: 837
Film Title:
Nazi Concentration Camps -- Prosecution Exhibit #230
Date:
Event: 1945 Production: 1945
Duration:
00:08:02
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… survivors, seated outside on benches, boarding Red Cross trucks, lying against wall under blankets. U.S. doctors examine and treat victims with gangrenous…
Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2285 | Film ID: 876
Film Title:
Nazi Concentration Camps -- Prosecution Exhibit #230
Date:
Event: 1945 Production: 1945
Duration:
00:08:02
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, boarding Red Cross trucks, lying against wall under blankets. U.S. doctors examine and treat victims with gangrenous wounds. Others have fever, TB, etc. MCU…
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.0441.34 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0034
Date:
interview: 1994 September 05 interview: 1994 November 16 interview: 1995 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… through that hole in the wall, well there was a Polish policeman there and I told him, I gave him twenty zlotys and I said, “I’m going to buy furs from the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.69 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0069
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09 interview: 1981 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… comple-, to that I come. And this part of the city was separated. You heard about the Berlin wall? But this is not the first time that happened. Shanghai…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.502 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0502
Date:
interview: 1998 January 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…:01,540 --> 00:05:04,600 just after the wall come down, and now it's 74 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,960 still between 17% and 27% unemployed people. 75 00…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.796 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0796
Date:
interview: 1996 January 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…. Well, they didn't want to kill us. They wanted us to build a West wall and try to prevent the invasion. What were the ages of most of the people who were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.96 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0096
Date:
interview: 1980 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… the Israeli people have to be able to protect themselves and how can they protect themselves but to surround themselves with sort of a protective wall…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.374 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0185
Date:
interview: 2010 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… were the walls. 736 00:29:22,980 --> 00:29:24,660 Right. 737 00:29:24,660 --> 00:29:28,080 And what they had done was they rounded up all the Orthodox…
… finally sold that property. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1988, Helga fought for restitution for two additional properties located in eastern Berlin: the…
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…’s death in 1977, Helga finally sold that property. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1988, Helga fought for restitution for two additional properties located in…
… by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded. Life in the ghetto was difficult; food was scarce, sanitation was…
issue: 1937 January 30 publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
… by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded. Life in the ghetto was difficult; food was scarce, sanitation was…
… move into an apartment with other families. The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded…
… by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded. Life in the ghetto was difficult; food was scarce, sanitation was…
Film | Accession Number: 2016.518 | RG Number: RG-60.1062 | Film ID: 4217
Film Title:
Film 63 -- Walther Lenger -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1941?
Duration:
00:13:47
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… staircase. They play around with an old cannon at the fortress wall. 11:43:29 Intertitle: “Auszug der Polen.” Soldiers, carrying their items, walk in a long…
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