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: 2022.4.3 | RG Number: RG-90.218.0003
Date:
Recorded: 1981 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Riga (Latvia).…
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… manufacturing?" And the weak Nathan says, "Well, that is easy for you to say, NATHAN A. ZEPELL, Santa Barbara, california, was born in Riga, Latvia and spent four…
…Sonja Gottlieb Ludsin, born in Riga, Latvia on October 20, 1923, describes growing up in a well-off family; the Russian invasion in June 1940, during…
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… Riga, Latvia in 1923, the twentieth of October, 1923. I lived in Latvia, with my family. And the War broke out. Q: Tell me a little bit about what your…
… Ashmiany commandant’s house; escaping to the Vilnius ghetto in 1942; her deportation to the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia and sorting…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.69 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0069
Date:
interview: 1987 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… "Peter the Terrible" and other Ukrainians; his transport to Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia; a plane that crashed into Kaiserwald on a…
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…,575 --> 00:31:00,900 We went to Kaiserwald, Riga. 674 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:01,740 In Latvia? 675 00:31:01,740 --> 00:31:02,760 Latvia, right. 676 00:31:02…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Rīga (Latvia)…
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… imprisonment in 1979. Country where crime was committed: Latvia [Former Soviet Union]. Crime Location: Riga. Crime Date: 1941. Victims: Civilians, Jews…
…, 1941.
On January 27, 1942, Frieda and Hermann were deported to the ghetto in Riga in German occupied Latvia. People were beaten as the train unloaded…
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… 1941, the family received an urn from the Gestapo containing the ashes of Simon. In 1942, Frieda and Herman were deported to Riga, Latvia, where they…
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