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.
Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2214 | Film ID: 858
Film Title:
Death Mills [Die Todesmuehlen]
Date:
Event: 1945 Production: 1945
Duration:
00:21:24
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… from unedited USArmySignalCorps reels.…
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…,330 --> 00:01:48,840 Death mills that ground out there dead until the very day 17 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,715 Allied armies broke through their gates. 18 00…
Film | Accession Number: 1998.191.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2418 | Film ID: 68
Film Title:
The Death Mills [Die Todesmuehlen]
Date:
Event: 1945 Production: 1945
Duration:
00:21:26
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… indicates time codes on Betacam SP.
See Story 2214, Film ID 858 for duplicate footage. Most sequences are taken from unedited USArmySignalCorps reels.…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.554 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0554
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18 interview: 1990 November 15 interview: 1991 February 21 interview: 1991 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… American troops in May 1945. He relates his work as interpreter for the America Army, and his work in the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). Mr. Garcia…
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… the State Department. We had the top attorney for the 0.1.0. with us. They explained things to the State Department. He told us to go to the local army…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0418 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0376
Date:
interview: 1996 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anders' Army (Polish 2nd Corps)…
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… number twenty four is where I was. First one had to carry out the corpse that was lying on this, this, this bed assigned to us, so we would drag this, this…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.303 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0486
Date:
interview: 2004 June 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… treatment in hospitals after liberation and moving to the American zone of Germany to be an interpreter for the American Army; going back to Greece and living…
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…. Signed Theodore Bridick, captain, SignalCorps, Commanding.” Q2: And what’s this photo? A: This from my wedding. Q: And you’re hiding behind a veil, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.442 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0442
Date:
interview: 1993 April 01 interview: 1993 April 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… old, Mr. Blane began an apprenticeship as a baker and pastry chef, and later worked as cook in Kijon. In 1942, Mr. Blane joined the French army, but was…
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… force, Jewish. And he tried to keep us mentally and physically alert because of his background in the army. And so we had a guide, so to speak, on how…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.382 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0382
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20 interview: 1990 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation by the 104th Infantry Division of the United States Army in April 1945; the responses of the guards to the liberation; his interactions with…
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… CAMP AT NORDHAUSEN WHERE HUNDREDS OF SLAVE LABORERS WERE FOUND IN CONDITIONS AS THE UNITED STATES SIGNALCORPS RECORDED ALMOST UNRECOGMZABLE AS HUMAN…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0420 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0378
Date:
interview: 1996 August 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Canada. Q: Could we look at the photos now? A: Okay. Q: Off the top. A: That's one of the photos, which the American SignalCorp. photographers took in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1258 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0012
Date:
interview: 1995 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…, a very good friend, was in the American Army in the SignalCorps, and he was stationed in Paris. And when his family told-- when they wired him that…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1255 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1255
Date:
interview: 1986 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… that time. So got my visa. met cousin of mine. He was in the signalcorps my brother-inlaw. He liberated Buchenwald and got actually from all the…
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