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: 2015.479.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0862
Date:
interview: 2015 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.…
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… us, we can put-- all of you belong in prison. But the only thing you can save yourself-- well, how can I say? What the Soviets used to do is before…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.595.103 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0103
Date:
interview: 2011 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… into a home and drag away a Jewish woman; his mother insistence that he run from returning Soviet soldiers whom she thought would harm him; fleeing to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.437.22 | RG Number: RG-50.674.0022
Date:
2011 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… result of communist paraphernalia in her family’s house; a mass killing of local villagers suspected of being communist or having relatives in the Soviet…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.297.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0770
Date:
interview: 2014 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and the atmosphere of fear; the arrival of the German and then Soviet armies; Soviet occupation of the city; her father’s experience in the Polish Army…
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…’s arrested by the Soviets then. A: Yes. Q: And what do they do to him? A: He was in prison in Stanislav – Stanislavov. That’s also a city south of Tarnopol. Is…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.150.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0759
Date:
interview: 2014 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.…
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… chicken coop and had some raw eggs. [LAUGHTER] How many Polish workers were there on that place? I'd say at least 15. But they were also French prisoners of…
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