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.
… married in Budapest in 1924. He survived several labor camps in Hungary. His father Julius was imprisoned on March 20, 1944 in Kistarcsa concentration camp…
…. They then were deported to Auschwitz. Moses and Chana were killed immediately. Esther also perished. Helena and Ruth remained together and survived…
…Judith Sleed (née Weinberger) was born in 1932 to Pál and Margit Weinberger. She had one sibling Tamàs (Tomi). She survived the Holocaust as a hidden…
… Schwarz (later Mimi Schwarz Reed); and Klári and László Kovács, all of whom survived the Holocaust. Included are Swiss protection documents, identification…
… to the handbag guild in Hungary. She survived the war with her parents and sister, Eva, in Budapest using false papers. After the end of the war she…
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… grandfather, her early career in handbag design, her uncle’s experiences as a refugee in Nice, her family’s survival in Budapest, the confiscation or loss of…
… survived the war. The vast majority of this collection consists of extensive correspondence in the form of postcards and letters between János and Anna…
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… Ohrdruf in 1944. Anna and Zsusana survived the war. The vast majority of this collection consists of extensive correspondence in the form of postcards and…
… Jewish ghetto, but she and her sister stayed in a Swiss safe house. Her immediate family survived the war, but her paternal uncle Arnold Hirtenstein’s wife…
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… Gestapo. He likely survived deportation by hiding in a hospital under Swiss protection. Joseph married Veronika Hirtenstein (1922-2004) in June 1944, and…
…. Their mother Rozsa immigrated to Israel in 1956 with her second husband, Dr. Gyula Sugár (b. 1899), who had survived multiple labor and concentration…
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…. Their mother Rozsa immigrated to Israel in 1956 with her second husband, Dr. Gyula Sugár (b. 1899), who had survived multiple labor and concentration…
These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.