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: 1999.A.0296 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0050
Date:
interview: 1999 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Carla Lessing discusses living in the Hague, Netherlands; going into hiding with her family with help from the Catholic Church; her experiences in…
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… -- to after the war. Answer: Yeah. I was born, and went to school in Holland, in The Hague, and in August of 1942, my mother and my brother and I went…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0028
Date:
interview: 1996 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and pressed into labor after Kristallnacht; being sent to Amsterdam, Netherlands by her father; living with other Jewish teenagers in The Hague…
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… went to The Hague. 634 00:27:07,260 --> 00:27:08,216 [PHONE RINGING] 635 00:27:08,216 --> 00:27:09,650 Who's that? 636 00:27:09,650 --> 00:27:10,990 What…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0449.5 | RG Number: RG-50.090.0005
Date:
interview: 1994 April 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eline Hoekstra Dresden, born on January 4, 1923 in the Hague, Netherlands, discusses being the youngest of four Jewish children; her family’s move to…
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… Dresden Hoekstra was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, in 1923. She describes her life before the Nazi occupation of Holland, her years in Barneveld, a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.181 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0156
Date:
interview: 2002 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alfred Munzer, born in The Hague, Netherlands on November 23, 1941, describes his family; how his parents debated over having him circumcised; his…
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… Alfred Munzer RG-50.106*0156 Born on November 23,1941 in The Hague, The Netherlands Parents, Simcha and Gitel, sisters - Eva (1936) and Leah (1938…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.181 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0477
Date:
interview: 2003 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Charles Siegman (né Jechiel Sigmann), born in 1935 in Scheveningen, Hague, Netherlands, discusses his childhood; how anti-Jewish laws in the…
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… you born? A: October 13th, 1935. Q: And you were born where? A: In a little suburb town of The Hague called Scheveningen, which was a fishing town, but…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.371 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0481
Date:
interview: 2003 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berendina Diet Eman, born in 1920 in Hague, Netherlands, discusses her childhood in a Protestant family; the five days the Netherlands was at war…
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…Summary: Diet Eman Diet Eman was born Berendina Roelfina Hendrika Eman on April 30, 1920, in The Hague, Netherlands. She grew up in The Hague with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.302 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0302
Date:
interview: 1996 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Polly Bergtraun (née Hertz), born in April 1925 in the Hague, Netherlands, describes her parents Alexander Leopold Hertz and Yoland Sophia (Snow…
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… Summary: Polly Bergtraun was born Polly Hertz in the Hague, the Netherlands, in April 1925, to an affluent family. Her parents were Alexander Leopold Hertz…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.32 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0032
Date:
interview: 1991 February 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to the Hague, Netherlands and being interrogated; refusing to renounce his faith; being in jail for three months and transferred to Dusseldorf, Germany…
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…-TITLE-WILLEM LAROS -I_DATE-FEBRUARY 1, 1991 - DELFT - NETHERLANDS -SOURCE-JEHOVAH WITNESS -RESTRICTIONS- -SOUND_QUALITY- -IMAGE_QUALITY- -DURATION…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.39 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0149
Date:
interview: 2002 April 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tolé Johannes Hendricus Madna, born June 8, 1931 in The Hague, the Netherlands, describes his Indonesian father and his Dutch Protestant mother…
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… Tole Johannes (Rob) Madna RG-50.106*0149 June 8, 1931 - Tole Johannes Hendricus (Rob) Madna born in The Hague, The Netherlands 1936 - Rob’s parents…
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