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: 1995.A.1272.217 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0217
Date:
interview: 1995 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Belgium in 1938; his internment in a refugee camp in between Brussels and Antwerp, in Mechelen, Belgium, for fifteen months; learning agriculture in…
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… Brussels and Antwerp, in Mechelen. He stayed there 15 months, in a building which used to house the homeless. The residents could also learn a trade. Since V…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.20 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0020
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her and her aunt and uncle to the Germans; her family's arrest and their time in the Malines detention camp in Mechelen, Belgium; her family's transport…
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… they gathered all the Jews that they caught 276 00:15:17,410 --> 00:15:21,280 from Belgium, and they brought them to Malines, 277 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.444 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0521
Date:
interview: 2007 December 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his March 3, 1943 transfer by truck along with other Jews to a transit camp in Malines (Mechelen), Belgium; recollections of the camp, where he was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0117.3 | RG Number: RG-50.044.0003
Date:
interview: 1989 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to Brussels, Belgium then Malines; the journey to Auschwitz and arriving in the camp; the Kapos; taking classes on bricklaying and building a…
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… did go to Belgium. But when the train arrived in Brussels, it went into Malines. Malines is a armory, a huge armory from World War I, which the Germans…
…; spending time in multiple hiding places with her mother until they were discovered and arrested; being taken to the Mechelen (Malines) transit camp; being…
…; spending time in multiple hiding places with her mother until they were discovered and arrested; being taken to the Mechelen (Malines) transit camp; being…
…; spending time in multiple hiding places with her mother until they were discovered and arrested; being taken to the Mechelen (Malines) transit camp; being…
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.