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: 1992.A.0125.80 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0080
Date:
interview: 1992 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent in 1943 first to Birkenau and then to Auschwitz; working as a tailor in Birkenau; being put to work outside the camp while he was imprisoned in…
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… tailor in Birkenau, and in Auschwitz he was put to work outside the camp. He escaped from Auschwitz and joined the underground resistance where he was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.11 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0011
Date:
interview: 1988 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… tailor; moving to Lvov (L'viv, Ukraine) when World War II began; working with his hands and sleeping in parks at night in Lvov; being put to work by the…
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… these crises with his life. Joseph Dattner was a tailor born in a village outside Givitz (ph) in Austrian- occupied Poland in 1907. When WWII broke out he…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.13 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0013
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… scouts, Zionist organizations, and sports; going to a trade school to learn tailoring; the antisemitic parties became very strong in Poland in the 1930…
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…. And then, when I finished public school, I went to a vocational school because my brothers were tailors, and I learned the tailoring. And in order for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.59.1 | RG Number: RG-90.186.0001
Date:
interview: 2001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tailors.…
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….9 Speaker 1: What was the name of it? 0:00:47.4 Sherman: Białystok. 0:00:49.4 S1: Białystok. 0:00:51.3 Sherman: And my father was a tailor, and I had two…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0128.58 | RG Number: RG-50.165.0058
Date:
interview: 1989 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being one of six children and the only one of his siblings to survive the Holocaust; working as a tailor’s apprentice when he was twelve years old…
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… survive the Holocaust. When he was twelve years old, he worked as a tailor’s apprentice, and later became a tailor. He got married in the ghetto(?) in 1943…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.95 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0095
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Russia; stopping at the border and remaining in Slawatycza, Poland, where he worked with a local tailor for German SS border guards; being warned by an SS…
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…. Stopped at the border, he remained in Slawatycze and worked with a local tailor for German SS border guards. Warned by an SS officer, who had made a…
…) Schrott. She had two siblings, Rosa (1908-1957) and Josef (1911-1911). Her father worked as a tailor. Her mother Franziska died in 1913 and her father later…
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…) Schrott. She had two siblings, Rosa (1908-1957) and Josef (1911-1911). Her father worked as a tailor. Her mother Franziska died in 1913 and her father later…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.47 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0047
Date:
interview: 1984 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… religious education; being an apprentice to a tailor; being a member of Hechalutz Hatzair; serving in the Polish Army (1937-1938); the endemic antisemitism in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… clean streets; Kristallnacht; growing restrictions of Jewish civilians; deciding to leave Austria; attending a tailoring college in 1938; entering Belgium…
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…? I went to a, what we called, a tailoring college, a schneider academy, where we were allowed to go because we were learning a trade. And in this…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.75 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0075
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian guards; working as a tailor for the German Army; witnessing the massacre of 350 Jews and having to dig trenches to bury the dead…
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…? JZ: The year was in ‘3-, this was in ‘39, still in ‘39. VK: O.K. JZ: So I took off, and I went to Wolanow, and I moved in with a family of tailors…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.23 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0023
Date:
interview: 1989 February 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family; his deportation to Khust, Ukraine in September 1939; the Hungarian annexation of the region; his work as a tailor in Budapest, Hungary and Cherna…
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… work for you no more. So then went away to Budapest and learned tailoring. My father was big believer in the old saying Malaka meliche.ph if you have…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.8 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… persons camp in Germany from 1945 to 1947; moving to Montreal; the Canadian government welcoming tailors like her father; staying in Canada until 1955; and…
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… welcomed tailors. Her father was a tailor so it was easier to get into Canada than the US. They stayed there until 1955. In September 1955 Lily and her…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.131 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0131
Date:
interview: 1992 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… fall of 1939; working in a tailor shop for a German until being relocated to a ghetto with approximately 1,200 people; receiving help from some Poles…
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…, what did you want to be when you were growing up? A: There wasn’t, in that town, wasn’t much to choose from. Either a shoemaker, or a tailor. There was a…
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… States--Army. World War II. Holocaust survivors--Germany. Merchants--Germany. Tailors--Germany. Jews--Germany--Aachen. Aachen (Germany). Brooklyn (New York…
…David “Deszo” Schneider was born in Budapest, Hungary on January 14, 1907. David was trained as a tailor and was living in Belgium at the time of…
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… trained as a tailor and was living in Belgium at the time of Nazi invasion. In 1943 he was sent to Camp de Gurs but managed to escape after only six months…
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