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: 1997.A.0441.84 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0084
Date:
interview: 1992 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Aktions (roundups and mass murders of Jews) from November 1941 to 1943, and the murder of 600 Jews in Doly; how some Aktions were conducted by a German…
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… of forced labor battallions organized by the Judenrat. He describes a series of Aktions (roundups and mass murders of Jews) from November 1941 to 1943…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.39 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0039
Date:
interview: 1992 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Russian occupation beginning in September 1939; the German invasion of Boryslaw in June 1941; the efforts of local Ukrainians to save Jews; the…
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… 1941 include efforts of local Ukrainians to save Jews. She focuses on successive waves of pogroms encouraged by Germans and carried out by local Poles…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.381 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0381
Date:
interview: 2000 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews in Skhodnitsa; the Russians entering the village on September 16, 1939; survivors from the West bringing stories of pogroms, ghettos, and burnings…
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… heder but loved Gordonia, the Zionist movement. There were about 500 Jews in Skhodnitsa. The Russians entered the village on September 16, 1939…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.265 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0175
Date:
interview: 2009 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; living in a Jewish neighborhood and attending a Jewish school; moving to various cities around Poland with her father and step-mother; being the only Jew…
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… that he himself farmed it, but he was a farmer, basically, and that was a little bit unusual for Jews at that time to owe -- own land and be a farmer…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.62 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0062
Date:
interview: 1992 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews and non-Jews in Borislav; his childhood and adolescence; Polish politics before World War II and the roots of antisemitism; what happened to the…
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….09 Describes rabbi from Beltz who was an anti-Zionist. 1.11 Describes Zionist youth movement. 1.13 Population of Borislav was 50,000. 15,000 of those were Jews…
… Horodok, Ukraine). He had a sister, Hilda (later Adler, 1910-1943), and a brother, Aron (1914-1943). Grodek’s gentile population barred Jews from entering…
… Horodok, Ukraine). He had a sister, Hilda (later Adler, 1910-1943), and a brother, Aron (1914-1943). Grodek’s gentile population barred Jews from entering…
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