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: 1999.A.0122.1414 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1414
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kamenets-Podolski; her journey on foot to Budapest, Hungary; the violence toward Jews that accompanied the rise of the Szalasi government in 1944; receiving…
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… were killed too in 1941 in 17 November in Kamenets-Podolski in the Ukraine. About 60000 18 Jews perished there. They were all shot. They were --. We 19…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.12 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0012
Date:
interview: 1982 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… establishment of the Rovno ghetto and escaping from slave labor with help from former Polish soldiers; living with 10 other Jews in near by forests until 1943…
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… was very much afraid, and as being a Jew, an Orthodox Jew, he didn’t accept the idea for being, he knew, the doctors told him he’s not gonna make it…
…. It begins by describing her prewar life in Germany, Nazi persecution of Jews, her deportation to Theresienstadt with her parents, her transport to…
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…. It begins by describing her prewar life in Germany, Nazi persecution of Jews, her deportation to Theresienstadt with her parents, her transport to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.175 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0175
Date:
interview: 1981 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht; the destruction during Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938, when synagogues and Jewish stores were burned and Jews were put into concentration camps…
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… stores were burned and Jews were put into concentration camps for weeks. In 1939 Caroline remarried a decorated WWI veteran. She describes the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.147.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0959
Date:
interview: 2018 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Berlin.…
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… of fact, I had a teacher in regular school, before we had to go to a Jewish school, who pointed out to the class that you can tell a Jew from anybody…
… immigrate to the US after the war. She worked to raise money to bring more displaced Jews to the country and remained active in Holocaust remembrance…
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… 47,000th person to immigrate to the US after the war. She worked to raise money to bring more displaced Jews to the country and remained active in…
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… single series: Series 1: Gertrude Jorisch papers, approximately 1945‐2007 Indexing terms Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp) Jews‐‐Ukraine…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.18 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0018
Date:
interview: 1995 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Polish.…
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…,820 the Jews should step forward. 80 00:04:36,820 --> 00:04:38,650 I would estimate that at that time, Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
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