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: 1998.A.0110 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0016
Date:
interview: 1998 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Baltimore, MD and his views on segregation; the community group he founded, Prejudiced Anonymous, and their open speeches against hate; his survivor guilt…
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… segregation; the community group he founded, Prejudiced Anonymous, and their open speeches against hate; his survivor guilt; his family in America; his views on…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1107 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1107
Date:
interview: 1991 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT); the segregation he witnessed there; his assignment to the 522nd Battalion; his artillery training in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.206 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0070
Date:
interview: 2003 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; segregation and civil rights in the United States; moving to Richmond, Virginia; working in a tobacco factory; becoming an American citizen; working for Circuit…
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… resettlement camp in Landsberg, Germany; working as a policemen; meeting his wife and starting a family; immigrating to the United States; segregation and civil…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.485.11 | RG Number: RG-50.718.0011
Date:
interview: 2003 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… segregation of public spaces for Roma and non-Roma; being expelled from school in 1938; she and the rest of her family registering as Roma with the Nazi…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.743 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0743
Date:
interview: 1993 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Billy Taylor, born in 1913, discusses his decision to join the United States Army in June 1941; his training in Hawaii with the segregated Japanese…
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… what was a very strange unit of all segregated Japanese people? What was your feelings about that? Well, I really actually frankly felt good about it. I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.402 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0065
Date:
interview: 2000 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… restitution from Germany for slave labor; his views on contemporary Germans and antisemitism; segregation in the United States; being stationed in Japan; his…
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… Blacks, and they talked about ni . And our swimming pool here was segregated. I didn’t know that, but when I want apply for membership, I found out that my…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.58 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0058
Date:
interview: 2010 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was a high number of Jewish refugees; meeting Eastern European Jews; experiencing segregation; her German friend becoming a Nazi; the events during…
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… segregation unknown to them until then. Ruth’s best and most intimate friend was German. One day, a maid brought her greetings from her, and explained to the…
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.