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: 2013.294.32 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0032
Date:
interview: 2009 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp, including performances of Brecht’s Three Penny Opera and Verdi’s Requiem; their diet; a volley ball team; being prevented from going to Auschwitz…
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…, when her turn came, she was in the hospital suffering from a contagious infection. That prevented the Nazis from taking her to Auschwitz! Mother was 51…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.87 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0087
Date:
interview: 2010 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… practices; moving to a Jewish ghetto; being sent to Auschwitz; her memories of working in an arms factory; going to Prague, Czech Republic after being…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.17 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0017
Date:
interview: 2011 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… at a Jewish school in Budapest, Hungary from 1941 to 1944; the antisemitism he experienced from his teachers; being deported to Auschwitz in 1944; the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.163 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0163
Date:
interview: 1991 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of the Łódź ghetto; discussion of Chaim Rumkovsky; the liquidation of the ghetto; arriving in Auschwitz and life there; her arrival and life in…
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… she was transported to Auschwitz, and later to Stutthof. There she stayed during the last months of the war, and before the liberation of the camp by…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.6 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0006
Date:
interview: 2017 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish star; two soldiers taking her family from home; spending five days in a train; arriving at Auschwitz in May 1944 and having her head shaved; wearing…
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… in the train; arrive at Auschwitz in May 1944; upon arrival: their heads are shaved, put on uniform; receive tattooed numbers on arms; describing life…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.19 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0019
Date:
interview: 2010 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1941; how his family was sent to Auschwitz; how his mother corresponded with him until she, his father, and their three children were killed in the gas…
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… intact, David was the first to leave for Katowice. In 1941, David was forced to clean the streets. He was 16. Family was sent to Auschwitz. Mother…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.88 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0088
Date:
interview: 2010 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ammunitions factory; being sent to Birkenau in 1943 then transferred to Auschwitz; going to work in a factory; marching to Buchenwald in 1944; being liberated…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.47 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0047
Date:
interview: 2010 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… down an invitation by the rabbi to move to Israel in 1939; being sent to Auschwitz on a cattle train in 1944; arriving in the camp and the guards…
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…. The brother was taken to the army at age 18, but it was really to work. The sister murdered in Auschwitz was her best friend. She was killed 2 weeks…
… Theresienstadt. She was sent to Auschwitz on 28 October 1944, and then to Bergen-Belsen around early November 1944. She was liberated from the Raguhn bei Dessau…
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… families’ deportations to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, post-war immigration to Venezuela and the United States, and Walter Ornstein’s emigration from Prague…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.46 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0046
Date:
interview: 2010 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… loaded on a train and taken to Auschwitz Birkenau at a month and a half; going through selection and the conditions in the camp; going to Buchenwald and…
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… Auschwitz Birkenau. The jeering of the local population as the train was passing. Mengele’s selections. Processing into the camp and living conditions. Going…
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