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: 1996.A.0476 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0445
Date:
interview: 1996 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of persecution against homosexuals and Jews; his and Emil's decision to leave the country in 1936; their journey through Europe until they immigrated…
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…, beautiful fellow, what do you want from him? And Emil(ph) is very fond of him. So, but you know in that time, homosexuality in the 20's was like the red cloth…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1200 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0018
Date:
interview: 1995 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz; his experiences with Kapos in Auschwitz, some of whom he describes as homosexuals; the evacuation of Auschwitz and liberation by Russian troops…
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… kapos were mostly homosexuals, 1222 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,050 and for whatever political reasons they were in prison. 1223 00:53:31,050 --> 00:53:34…
… for his homosexuality; his sentence to five years in prison on December 5, 1942 for demoralizing the German military; his transport to the forced labor…
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… he tell anything about the persecution of homosexual men? A. No, it was only the attention given to me in this way, but it was in a real 1941 when we…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.106 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0106
Date:
interview: 1996 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Homosexuality.…
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… boys, homosexuals. So, fortunately, they didn't pick me. They picked two others. And I was assigned to the work group. The workgroup in Mauthausen was…
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… from work another one was gone. No more children, no more playing, no more singing and they didn't like homosexuals and they killed them all too. Q: So…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.286.1 | RG Number: RG-50.740.0001
Date:
interview: 2011 February-2011 August
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Homosexuality.…
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… different color triangles. There were no homosexuals in Amersfoort, there were political prisoners were most of it. And some black market and some of them…
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