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: 2007.504.1.45 | RG Number: RG-50.585.0045
Date:
interview: 2008 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nadežda Stanisavljević, born in 1927 in Reljane in the former Yugoslavia, describes Serbians, Jews, and communists who were hanged by German soldiers…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.65 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0065
Date:
interview: 1991 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… bombardment of Blechhammer; going to Flossenbürg and Mauthausen; being liberated at Mauthausen; the communist underground at Buchenwald; going to a hospital in…
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….40 Communist underground in Buchenwald. 4.44 Describes conditions and work in Floessberg. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.79 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0079
Date:
interview: 1992 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… work in an orphanage in Łódź; the liquidation of the orphanage; cultural activities in the ghetto and the organization of youth movement; communists in…
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… factory was the place where the heads of the communists worked. Radziner was the director. 51.37 Communist party lived in a state of euphoria in the ghetto…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.14 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0014
Date:
interview: 1989 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; conditions in the camp and the control by Communist trustees; the nature of resistance in the camps; the exploitation by the SS and the SS policy of divide and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0001
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… crisis (both economic and political) in Greece; his sister marrying in 1939 and Benadon working with her husband; becoming a communist at age 16; his…
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… Benadon began to worked with her husband; at age 16 he became a communist; his father died in October 1941; as the Germans advanced on Paris, Benadon fled…
… questioned by the Jewish Council in Bratislava, who did not believe at first what he said about Auschwitz; receiving help from the Communist group in Trnava…
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… help much, so he turned to the Communists in Trnava for help. “I felt that my having escaped did not help save Jews from being taken away.” http…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.15 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0015
Date:
interview: 1989 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on a kibbutz with 100 other people; her life in Palestine; being expelled from Palestine because of her communist activities; going to France to help…
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… was expelled from Palestine for her Communist activities and left for France to help provide aid for the Spanish Civil War; by the time she arrived in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.118 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0118
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish community in Cadca; his Orthodox father and progressive communist mother; experiencing antisemitism from schoolmates; the arrest of his mother by…
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….52 Describes Jewish community and institutions - father was leader of the community - and the fact that after the war everything was destroyed by the Communist…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.342.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0730
Date:
interview: 2013 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberated in May 1945; life in Poland after the war and his involvement in the anti-communist movement; moving in 1948 to Sweden, where he was granted…
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… committee against the Communists. In '48 he and another guy escaped to Sweden. There they applied for political asylum which was granted. Soon they decided…
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