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.
…Records reflect primarily the activities of the Amsterdam Judenrat with its various departments, and the Jewish interaction with the German and Dutch…
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… of the Dutch Jews, centered in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Languages: The collection is in Dutch, German, English, and Yiddish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.68 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0068
Date:
interview: 1987 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… parents' divorce; the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940; the posting of the Nuremberg laws; the protest of the occupation by the Dutch people…
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… in the first and second grade in Germany. In 1935, my father decided since we were Dutch citizens that it was about time that we returned to Holland…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.58 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0058
Date:
interview: 1988 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pieter and Joyce Miedema were born in 1914 in the Netherlands; Pieter’s work as a teacher and adjusting to life in Canada; participation in the Dutch…
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… spelling or accuracy. 10:00 Pieter missed his mother a great deal when she died in 1948. 11:00 He a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. 12:00 Pieter had an…
… growing up; losing many of her rights and trying to escape from the Netherlands after the Nazi invasion in 1940; the Dutch queen escaping and losing hope…
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… mother was Berthe Kattenberg-Rueff. She came from Switzerland, as well as all her sisters who had married Dutch hus...uh, husbands. And my grandfather…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.76 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0076
Date:
interview: 1988 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dutch…
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…. Jansje related that she and her father were arrested in connection with posession of illegal rationing coupons and were held in a Dutch prison for seven…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.5 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0005
Date:
interview: 1980 November 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… schooling; not experiencing antisemitism before the Nazi occupation; the anti-Jewish laws decreed by the Germans; the Dutch underground; escaping to Brussels…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.503 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0503
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences; being liberated by United States soldiers in August 1945; the threat to Dutch citizens by Indonesian extremists; the camp they lived in while being…
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…Could you start by just talking a little bit about how you happened to be in Indonesia? Indonesia was a Dutch colony. And my father went as a young…
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.