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.0310.34 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0034
Date:
interview: 2004 May 25 interview: 2004 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Klaus D, born in 1916 in Silesia, Poland, describes his family background and education; moving to Danzig in 1935 to study engineering science…
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… worden? Klaus D.: 15 ja. Interviewer: -als 15 Jähriger konfirmiert worden in einer Ecke im Spreewald, die ja von Schlesien noch ein bisschen entfernt war…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.11 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0011
Date:
interview: 1991 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… burgled and her father being interrogated; her family’s decision to leave Berlin; going to Upper Silesia, Poland; attending a Jewish school; Jewish refugees…
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…, after which he decided that they had to flee. They went to Poland, upper Silesia, to the town of Chortkiv [?], where she went to a Jewish school. In 1938…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.20 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0020
Date:
interview: 1991 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship)…
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… children alone with their mother. His mother had many siblings, the majority of whom left Poland for the U.S. or England. The tow was a major resort in the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.14 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0014
Date:
interview: 1993 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship)…
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… He was forced to extract golden teeth to make rings for the S.S. 2:22 Was taken to labor camp (Ottmuth) near Gogolin in Silesia to build Berlin- Moscow…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.6 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0006
Date:
interview: 2005 March 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland--Silesia (Voivodeship)…
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… concentration camps, the Silesia labor camp, and a death march to the Flossenbürg concentration camp • Liberated from the camp and survived with the help of two…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0064 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0387
Date:
interview: 1998 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship)…
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… name is Stefan Czyzewski. I was born in 1922, in a little town of Lesnogóra, Poland. Lesnogóra is in central Poland, about 45 kilometers east of Warsaw…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.104 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0104
Date:
interview: 1992 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship)…
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…RG-50.120*104 MELER MOSHE TAPE 1 OF 6 01:00:30 My name is Moshe Meler. I was born in Poland, in Warsaw in 4 Pavia Valova st., in 1922. My father…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.117 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0117
Date:
interview: 1999 October 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship)…
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… Silesia; there he hoped to avoid further German prosecution. Mr. Bokus briefly recalls the Jewish population from the town of Wąsosz, where his sister and…
…Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served…
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… Biographical note Siegfried Halbreich (1909‐2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he…
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