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: 1990.338.18 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0018
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nordon High School; moving to New York, NY in 1951 and being drafted into the army; being sent to Korea and Japan; attending college at Columbia and…
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… then to Japan. And I had a good life in Japan. I stayed there for almost two years. But when I got out, I found out I had a GI Bill. And this was-- Oh…
… Jewish refugees to ecape to Japan. Although the family lacked destination visas, they left in December aboard the Trans-Siberian railroad, travelling from…
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… Melamed) of Białystok, Poland. Also included are blank postcards from Japan; a notebook kept by Leo Melamed containing Lithuanian words and their Yiddish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.47 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0068
Date:
interview: 2003 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Japan; how the memory of her experiences during the Holocaust has affected her daily life; the Vietnam War; going to Israel; meeting with other…
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… stationed in Japan; Judaism; how the memory of her experiences during the Holocaust have affected her daily life; the Vietnam War; going to Israel; meeting…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.1 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0001
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Japan.…
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… Japan to Curacao because-- From Latvia to Japan? From Lithuania. From Lithuania to Japan to Curacao? I think it was Curacao, I hope so. Because this is…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.205 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0205
Date:
interview: 1999 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… parents buying visas for Curacao through the Japanese consul; traveling via train to Moscow, Vladivostok, and Japan; staying in Japan for approximately nine…
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… immigrated to Japan with transit visas and visas for Curacao, which were not used. Instead, they went to Shanghai, in 1941, after a year in Kobe, Japan, where…
…, Victor (1940-2012). They eventually made their way east, ending up in Japan. In April 1941, they sailed from Japan to San Francisco, California, under the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.946 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0946
Date:
interview: 1995 March 21 interview: 1996 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being forced out because of his Jewish practices; fleeing to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he obtained a visa to Japan signed by Chiune Sugihara; his trans…
… cartoons. Many of these cartoons depicted national leaders from around the globe, including Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Japan. As part of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.53 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0053
Date:
interview: 1996 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… getting visas to Japan from Chiune Sugihara; taking the Trans-Siberian railway to Vladivostok, Russia; taking a ship in 1941 to Japan; staying in Japan for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0026 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0036
Date:
interview: 1999 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; working with textiles across Asia and Europe; his pre and postwar experiences in Shanghai, China and Japan; the Shanghai ghetto; Communism in China after…
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… starting a family; working with textiles across Asia and Europe; his pre and postwar experiences in Shanghai, China and Japan; the Shanghai ghetto; Communism…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.912 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0912
Date:
interview: 2004 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Trans-Siberian Railroad ending in Harbin, Manchuria and then to Korea, Japan and Honolulu, Hawaii; their arrival in San Francisco, CA in October 1940…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.402 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0065
Date:
interview: 2000 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… restitution from Germany for slave labor; his views on contemporary Germans and antisemitism; segregation in the United States; being stationed in Japan; his…
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… that just on the sideline. We go further. When I came from -- back from Korea, and I was in -- actually, before moving to Japan, I was on teedeewhy, in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.153.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0965
Date:
interview: 2018 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, China from Genoa; leaving with her father from Austria at the age of four in 1941; taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Vladivostok and a boat to Japan…
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…, obviously, off the train. And we ended up going by boat to Japan, going south in Japan. And my father and I arrived in Shanghai by boat from Japan. Wow. So I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.33 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0033
Date:
interview: 1987 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to the Hawaii Air Force Base for nine months; being sent to Guam; going on a bomb trip to Japan with scientists; and his life after the war.…
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… scientists, and went with them up to Japan on a research mission. This is before the great mass of the occupation troops moved in, although there were some…
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
… Photographic Archives; returning to the United States and working for the Department of Defense as a librarian; living overseas in Okinawa, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan…
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… October 14, 2010 A: Southeast Asia. And Japan. And Vietnam. Q: Who were you working for? A: Department of Defense. Q: When did you start working for them? A…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.95 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0095
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… professor in Japan; and how he considers himself a devout agnostic.…
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…” from an UNRRA camp in Bremen to New York 1947-1950 had a Mellon fellowship at Harvard Was a visiting professor in Japan Considers himself a “devout…
…, where they began a business of importing woolens from Japan. There he married Gita Preisman whose family had also come to Manchuria from Irkutsk. In 1935…
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… consist of photographs documenting Ponevejsky’s work on behalf of Jewish refugees in Kobe, Japan in the early years of World War II and correspondence…
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