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: 1998.A.0300.126 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0126
Date:
interview: 1999 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Waclaw Długoborski, born in 1926 in Warsaw, Poland, describes the Warsaw ghetto; his imprisonment in the Pawiakprison; methods used in the prison to…
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… guard in Pawiakprison, Czortek (sp?) a boxer in Auschwitz, Borowski a goalie on the Auschwitz soccer team, Czarnobrody A Jewish owner of a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.21 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being interrogated and tortured in Pawiakprison; witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from prison; his uncle’s death from torture; being sent to…
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… Pawiakprison in Warsaw. He shares his observations of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and presents a detailed description of his 4 month stay in Auschwitz…
Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Warsaw
… suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; study on the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp; materials on the "Gęsiówka" and Pawiakprisons in Warsaw; questioning of…
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… więzienia na Pawiaku. Zeznania świadków, relacje Warszawa 1945 26 polski GK 182 Okregowa Komisja w Warszawie 157 Pawiak - protokoły przesłuchań świadków…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.68 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0068
Date:
interview: 1983 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ukrainian guards killing Jewish prisoners; being sent with 5000 non-Polish Jewish volunteers to Pawiakprison to build barracks and crematoria in what had…
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… volunteers they were sent to Pawiakprison to build barracks and crematoria in what had been the Warsaw Ghetto, as transports of Hungarian and Czech Jews…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.311 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0311
Date:
interview: 2010 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pawiak (Prison)…
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… arrested on the tram]. Later we were together in Pawiak [prison]—he with different charges and I with different. I was arrested without anything, without any…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.35 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0035
Date:
interview: 1987 February 19 interview: 1987 March 19 interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… burned corpses of the victims who were shot in Paviak (PawiakPrison); how as Russians approached in July 1944 the prisoners began a three-day forced march…
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… was their function to, every guard was assigned a certain amount of prisoners. We called it [unclear]. NL: So they got cold. HF: They were cold. That…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.16 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0016
Date:
interview: 1989 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pawiak (Prison)…
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… France in June 1940; he decided to go back to Paris to evade becoming a prisoner of war; upon his return to Paris, he could not find his wife and son who…
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