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.
… their relatives discussing their wartime experiences. The collection also includes immigration documents related to the Blaugrunds and the surviving…
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… daughters Edith and Klari were deported to Auschwitz in 1944, where Julius and Klari perished, while Ladislav survived work on a forced labor battalion…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.1 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0001
Date:
interview: 1997 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… smuggle food to his family; his belief that the strength from this food and the fact that he hid whenever the Kapos arrived contributed to his survival…
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… survive? A: Mom survived it; my aunt didn't survive it. They were at that point standing in front of the ov--_______ Q: _______ well, may we? Voice: We may…
…, their prewar lives, the deaths of family members in the Holocaust, the immigration of surviving family members to the United States, and their efforts to…
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… documenting the Freidman family from Mukachevo, their prewar lives, the deaths of family members in the Holocaust, the immigration of surviving family members…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.20 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0020
Date:
interview: 1997 June 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1944 when the Russians came to Dubova; walking alone for three weeks; arriving at the door of her stepmother's home and surviving by begging in the…
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… like to weddings and made a few crowns ____, there was only enough to survive. So I didn’t go. Q: Did you live with that peasant then too? A: No. We went…
… Monte Carlo where his cousin Hilda Lorant lived. He was arrested in 1944 and transported to Drancy and then Auschwitz. He did not survive. Henry…
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… internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual…
… that she would not survive. In April 1945, the factory ran out of raw material and work was halted.
On May 5, 1945, the guards opened the camp gates…
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…, and Theresienstadt materials documenting Hana and Charles Bruml from Czechoslovakia, their families, their survival in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and…
… 1944), Reichenbach (early 1945), and ending with Dachau (February 1945), from which he was liberated in April 1945. His father also survived the…
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… printed and audiovisual material documenting John M. Steiner, his survival of the Holocaust, postwar migration, academic career, research interests in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.7 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0007
Date:
interview: 1997 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… being sent on to Lety concentration camp in Czechoslovakia; life in the camp and smuggling food from the kitchen to survive; discovering the dead body of…
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… those months. You’re there, you’re there. It wasn’t a camp for anything like that. Survive, somehow, some way. Q: And how was it when they finally took…
… German-occupied Poland and Irene never saw him again. A week later, on October 6, Irene was taken to Auschwitz on Transport Eo. Upon arrival, she survived…
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… Berlin, their survival in concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust, and their immigration to the United States in 1946. Correspondence primarily…
… cousin survived.
Michal spent another six weeks in a sanitarium in Stirin, and then went to live with a friend of his parents, Vera Loewenbach, in Ceska…
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… schooling and lived with other family friends, Rudolf and Vilma Beck. The Becks had survived the camps but lost their son who would have been the same age as…
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.