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: 2007.504.3.28 | RG Number: RG-50.587.0028
Date:
interview: 2008 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… tortured; his transfer to Dachau and then Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943; conditions in the concentration camps, including the deaths of the prisoners…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.43 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0043
Date:
interview: 1988 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.…
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… the children?).... It's instinct. (Were your brothers and sisters the same way as you?) Perhaps. In 1941 came the first sovietprisoners as they arrived…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.16 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0016
Date:
interview: 1989 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… nearby nooses; giving the inmates cigarettes and chocolate; details about Block 36, where prisoners underwent medical experimentation; the Commandant of…
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… bogged down 1:10:30 Buchenwald, outside of Weimar, 130 miles SW of Berlin, was thought, at that time, to be a prisoner of war camp. Jack La Pietra, and…
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
…POWS (SOVIET)…
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… use 84 00:06:19,580 --> 00:06:21,500 was admirably organized. 85 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:25,580 Prisoners were told to prepare themselves for a shower…
… the results of allied bombing raids and allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped) and German police operations against allied…
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… allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped) and German police operations against allied agents and partisans. Also included are…
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… Front. The series also contains details of the results of allied bombing raids and allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.235 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0235
Date:
undated:
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; joining Polish non-Jewish prisoners upon emerging; liberation by United States troops; working as a translator for the Soviets; participating in arrests of…
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… was liquidated, the Germans killed 50,000 prisoners. After liberation, Arie returned to his hometown. He then went to Germany and emigrated to Israel in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.273 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0273
Date:
interview: 1996 January 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.…
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… worked in an underground facility from which missiles were sent to England. German airplanes were stationed there. Some Russian prisoners tried to steal a…
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