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: 1995.A.1272.56 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0056
Date:
interview: 1991 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… hospitalized in Linz, Austria; going to Italy with the JewishBrigade to help out those wanting to immigrate to Palestine; his immigration to Palestine and…
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… time), was helped by others, some non- Jews, but left soon because he heard JewishBrigade was in Italy. 12:04 to 12:50 Italy, Work with Refugees Was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.173 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0173
Date:
interview: 1993 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… organization and getting papers; traveling to Berlin, Germany, Kissel, Germany, and a Kibbutz in Buchenwald; being sent by the JewishBrigade to bring groups of…
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… spelling or accuracy. 2.25 He was sent by the JewishBrigade to bring groups of refugees from Dusseldorf to Antwerp. Somebody alerted the British army and…
… in March 1945 and settling in Budapest, Hungary; sneaking into Italy, where she stayed for two years, with the help of a Palestinian JewishBrigade…
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… Italy and there we passed a border. We were of the JewishBrigade, and this was a wonderful thing what happened to us. It was like coming to . It was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.92 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0092
Date:
interview: 1992 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish Avengers); living in Italy with the JewishBrigade; being caught by the British; internment in Cyprus; immigration to Israel; and adjustment to a…
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…. Encounter with the JewishBrigade, and with Isareli envoys. Abba Kovner preceeded him. In Sept- Oct the Brigade was dispersed, some of them joined the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.9 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0009
Date:
interview: 1991 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the JewishBrigade over his desire to go to Israel via England; being taken to England by the Canadian Air Force in October 1945; being housed with a…
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… Kinderheim begin. I wanted to go to England but the unit of the JewishBrigade opposed the children to be sent to England. [He is interrupted by the camera-and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.7 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0007
Date:
interview: 1992 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forces; returning to Greece; immigrating to Palestine with the help of the JewishBrigade; traveling by illegal boat to Atlit, Israel; settling in Haifa…
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… entry of Russians who were feared. 5.48 Traveled by train across Europe trying to get to Greece. 6.04 Returned to Greece. JewishBrigade prepared them for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.167 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0167
Date:
interview: 1993 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… by the British; being sent to a sanitarium in Neustadt, Germany; being sent to a relocation camp in Schleswig Hollstein; meeting JewishBrigade…
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…. Father’s story, his marriages, business life and Jewish party membership. 1.32 Sept. 1940, Munich agreement and town reverts back to Hungary. Stories about…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.23 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0023
Date:
interview: 2007 March 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Russian authorities because he did not want to return to Poland; joining a group being smuggled into Palestine by the JewishBrigade; being caught…
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… • JewishBrigade attempted to smuggle him and others to Palestine • Caught by American soldiers in Italy and sent to DP camp in Germany • One sister moved to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.366 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0366
Date:
interview: 2000 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… taken to an empty camp in Wels, Austria; members of the JewishBrigade convincing the survivors to immigrate to Israel; being moved to Bologna, Italy…
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…. He and other survivors were taken to Wels, an empty German camp. There, members of the JewishBrigade convinced the survivors to emigrate to Israel…
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