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: 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
… between England and Poland prior to World War II; her father's move to Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine), under the advice of the mayor of Warsaw; the invasion…
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… she left Germany-- that, I do recall being told-- because she felt it would be safer in England. But still, I was too young to really take it all in and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.341.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0046
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… persecution from the Hlinka Guard; moving to Katowice, Poland and registering with the British Consul; leaving for England on September 1, 1939 but being…
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… political refugee status, my father, and we went to Katowice, in southern – in Poland, to await our entry, or the right to leave for England. My father had…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.152.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0912
Date:
interview: 2017 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his grandfather securing his release in Warsaw; his uncle going to England where he was placed in a detention camp as an enemy alien; Kielce being…
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… uncle went to England where he was placed in a detention camp as he was an enemy alien. Kielce was bombed three days after Germany declared war on Poland…
… fled into Poland to avoid Nazi persecution. The two Jacoby children, Klaus and Irene, were sent by children's transport to live in England. Kurt Jacoby…
… uprising and the attack. Talks of unity of resistance and the plead for help from the Polish government in exile in England. (p. 164 "Liberation of Camps…
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Richard Glazar
Date:
Event: Late Spring 1979 Production: 1985
Duration:
07:24:00
… thought about emigrating to England but decided in the end that it would be too hard to start over with a new life in a new country. Glazar said he only…
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… of the Sudetenland, my father flew to England with the thought that we could perhaps emigrate to England. La: Not your father. Gl: My second father, by…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.85 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0085
Date:
interview: 1987 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… country and other countries, Europe, England. It's the same problem. Did not open up the door. They could have saved thousands of lives. Did not give damn…
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… where I lay, there were German, Polish, Russian, Jewish and Hungarian patients. Next to me lay a young Jewish man born in England. He had come to Poland…
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… Vochek. He came from England. He was a very nice man. And so I was one of the first members of this regiment. And we made very well, and after a short time…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0091 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0014
Date:
interview: 1993 January 13-1993 January 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…,960 --> 00:05:38,440 I left school and I started selling pants and gabardines. 120 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:47,170 And then Walter Schott came from England. 121…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5063 | Film ID: 3895, 3896, 3897, 3898, 3899
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Alfred Spiess
Date:
Event: 1978-1981 Production: 1985
Duration:
02:15:00
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… information. See? Q Yes. A You see, the Gerstein Report, I think, didn’t reach England, which was his intention. Just to name an example. And even if the report…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.111 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0111
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… pressure. Q: You stayed in Sweden until ’49 and then you came to America in ’49. Now I’ve got basically, your brother’s story up until he left for England…
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… with, the people around the whole world how did they let it happen like this? The United States knowing about it. The Arab countries know. England…
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… named Eric after Eric Schott. And I got to know his family in England, and I became very close with his family. He had a brother and a sister-in-law and a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.17 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0017
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…:58:47,790 England didn't care, because if they would care, 1230 00:58:47,790 --> 00:58:50,572 they would save children. 1231 00:58:50,572 --> 00:58:58…
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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… was prisoner of World War in England and he knew the taste of being prisoner. We lay down on thefloor on the floor on the--on the straw and suddenly the…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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… 000 mapa regionu zły, wymaga konserwacji bd 167/3 ENGLAND, ENGLANDS 40 000 000 qkm, KRIEGSSCHAUPLATZ NORDSEE Wielka Brytania bd bd niemiecki…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.71 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0071
Date:
interview: 1993 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… me? What have I done? That question always existed with me. What have I done? I didn't do nothing. I could have been born into Queen of England. I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.12 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… errors in spelling or accuracy. 00:50:36,490 --> 00:50:39,400 This is from England soldiers, or America when -- 1123 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,740 I don…
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