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.
… priest who perished in the Dachau concentration camp on August 31, 1942. The letter was written on July 22, 1977 by Father Jan Żelaźnicki to Father Gerwel…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.540.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0996
Date:
interview: 2018 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to liberate Dachau.…
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…RG-50.030.0996 Summary Richard Marvin Connick was a Jewish American soldier who witnessed Dachau after it was liberated. He was born on May 31, 1926…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.378.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1043
Date:
interview: 2019 August 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… detained at Dachau; the letters her father sent from Dachau; going with her family to Cuba in early 1939; going to the United States in May 1940; and her…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.272.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0723
Date:
interview: 2013 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for architectural work and arriving at Dachau on May 1, 1945; his first experiences there; the presence of former SS guards and around 30,000 prisoners…
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… pretty fast there for a while. Near the end, til I got involved with it, we were stationed like – as I said, about 50 miles from Dachau. And then I saw in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.94 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0094
Date:
interview: 2011 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kisvarda, Hungary; their transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was separated from the rest of his family, who were murdered; his transfer to Dachau…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.82 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0082
Date:
interview: 2012 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… which passed through his village; local townspeople committing murders; the imprisonment of his uncle in Dachau concentration camp; and his life after the…
… Dachau at age 16. Also includes copies of official documents, an original wedding announcement, and testimony related to the experiences of Max Rosenbaum…
… or 8 and General Patton established his headquarters in the Adolf Hitler Kaserne, an armory in Bad Tölz, close to Munich and the Dachau concentration…
… series of concentration camps, including Flossenbürg and Dachau. After liberation, he contracted typhus, and then tuberculosis, and as a result was sent…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.1 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0001
Date:
interview: 2011 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Dachau; being moved to the camp Waldlager V due to overcrowding at Dachau; performing forced labor at Waldlager V (Mühldorf) on a secret airport for…
…, passports, identity cards, photographs concerning childhood and youth in Konstanz as well as imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and Gurs internment…
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… Synagoge am 9.11.1938 Festnahme und vier Monate Schutzhaft im KZ Dachau, Entlassung aus Dachau aufgrund von Einsprachen von Schweizer Verwandten, 1940…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.20 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0020
Date:
interview: 2013
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht; his father's arrest and deportation to Dachau concentration camp for three months; his father's release under the condition that he and his family…
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… Germany: Joe’s father was among the thousands of Jewish men arrested. He was sent to the concentration camp Dachau for 3 months. http://collections…
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.