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.
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…. Concentration camp inmates. Executions and executioners. Poles--Crimes against. Poles--Nazi persecution. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements. Łódź (Poland…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… one, and whether a prisoner was released or executed). The files relate to the following prisons: 1. Police Prison (Gestapo) on 16 Sterlinga St…
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… such data as the first and last name, date of arrest, relocation from one prison or camp to another one, and whether a prisoner was released or executed…
Selected records of the Generalgouverneur in Polen
… the civilian population, both Jews and non-Jews; the plundering of Polish cultural treasures for his personal benefit; and the deportation and execution…
… Christian. She cared for Celina along with her own two young girls, until her husband was executed by the Germans. After his death, she was forced to place…
…, Schwind, a deputy to the administrator of the ghetto, ordered a roll of the labor camp. Worried there would be an execution, Julian used his key to the…
… Germans, forced to walk to Pszczyna, escaped execution, returned to Łódź , and was forced into the ghetto in 1940. He worked in the ghetto post office and…
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… in 1936. He tried to escape to Warsaw in 1939, but he was captured by Germans, forced to walk to Pszczyna, escaped execution, returned to Łódź , and…
… secretly photograph and document the daily lives of ghetto inhabitants, including starving families, deportations, Zionist youth movements, executions, and…
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… movements, executions, and the overall worsening conditions of the camp. He printed and distributed as many prints as he could. Shortly before the ghetto was…
… Gestapo who executed the couple near the Brudno cemetery. Their daughter, Krystyna survived the war in hiding. After the war, she was adopted by her aunt…
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… Polish couple. The Polish police turned them over to the Gestapo who executed the couple near the Brudno cemetery. Their daughter, Krystyna survived the…
… over to the Gestapo who executed the couple near the Brudno cemetery. Their daughter, Krystyna survived the war in hiding. After the war, she was adopted…
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… denounced by an unnamed Polish couple. The Polish police turned them over to the Gestapo who executed the couple near the Brudno cemetery. Their daughter…
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.