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: 1989.345.1 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0001
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… great amount of destruction. His building wasn't hit, but there were pieces of shrapnel stuck in the walls of his families apartment. The Germans overtook…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.7 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0007
Date:
interview: 1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… would get on and off the car fast and used it to smuggle things. Smuggling food was quite easy for children. 1:33:00 There were walls broken through in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.9 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0009
Date:
interview: 1983 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… babies' heads were smashed against the wall in front of their mothers. Ilse remembers the craziness - the screaming and the praying - the selection of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.44 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0044
Date:
interview: 1983 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Warsaw when the ghetto walls were going up; being involved in smuggling food and goods from the outside of the ghetto with his father and brother…
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… Russia. Soon, however, he returned to Warsaw at the time the walls that soon became their ghetto prison were being constructed. In the ghetto, he was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.16 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0016
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… walls were built; conditions in the ghetto; being taken in 1942 to a concentration camp in Szamos and then Majdanek a year later; never seeing his parents…
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… going quite a long time, till about, I would say, in 1941, '42. And then, when they start to-- time when they start to build the ghetto walls. Could you…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.378.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0184
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… be disinfected." They even had a wall with nails where everybody hung up his belonging. German efficiency. (Sigh) And they said, "You just get…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.425.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0066
Date:
interview: 1990 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… business like here: you go out, you open four walls and put in merchandise, you have a business. So it was a hard time for me. Now I had also from Selma…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.6 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0006
Date:
interview: 1992 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…, our own home in Israel. It’s right by the beach. Whoever comes, we get together; we pray there and one is empty wall. All the names they -- is honored…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.116 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0116
Date:
interview: 1992 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… level. But I went to not all the sessions but many of the sessions. I went to the final session which was held at the kotel, at the wall, when there were…
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: 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.0088.51 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0051
Date:
interview: 1989 March 30 interview: 2006 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… barn where it was not heated, 513 00:28:57,730 --> 00:29:01,060 there was no animals, but I was under four walls. 514 00:29:01,060 --> 00:29:03,560 The…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.31 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0031
Date:
interview: 1991 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… outside the ghetto walls. The landlord insisted on registering him so that he will be eligible for food rations. The next day, while Aharon had decided to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0419 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0377
Date:
interview: 1996 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… plus tall, because I am six foot so I can judge the height, some 250 pounds heavy takes a little Jewish girl by the hand. Leads her to the wall, sits her…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0465 | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0019
Date:
interview: 1996 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… things were different over there. there was no going back. there was only a black wall from what happened there and everything here was good and rosy. We…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.43 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0043
Date:
interview: 1981 October 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… wall, and as the ghetto was made smaller we always had to move. I remember the first house we moved into, we lived in a dining room. The other rooms were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0119.13 | RG Number: RG-50.471.0013
Date:
interview: 1997 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…,630 --> 00:07:20,750 Announce. 134 00:07:20,750 --> 00:07:22,530 Announcement, public announcement 135 00:07:22,530 --> 00:07:27,050 on the walls of the ghetto…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.132 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0132
Date:
interview: 2002 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… with them; soon after their arrival, gendarmes beat Wala very badly; Jadwiga escaped by running across the double wall of barbed wire surrounding the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.177 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0177
Date:
interview: 2003 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… arrived there, they took Jewish people to help them; recalls memories of seeing Jewish people standing along the wall and noticing how they groaned from…
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