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: 1991.264.30 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0030
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ohrdruf (Germany)…
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… entered Ohrdruf on April 25, 1945 as part of the Liberation. He was a soldier and went to take pictures of the camp. He found large stacks of bodies, 'skin…
… relate to the liberation of various concentration camps and the burial victims and also include the images of the corpses of victims at the Ohrdruf…
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… civilians of Ohrdruf, Germany. They are wrapped in sheets and are grave marked with a number.” 3. April 10, 1945; Signal Corps press reproduction photograph…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.402.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0253
Date:
interview: 1990 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… American forces further into Germany through the Siegfried Line; fighting near Cologne, Germany and encountering several concentration camps; helping to…
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…], in 1925. November 3rd. Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself, and your advent into the Army. And, uh, then we can talk about your career in Germany. A…
…, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration camps and atrocity sites. Also includes a oral history…
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
…GERMANY…
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… day in April 1945, the townspeople 5 00:01:03,410 --> 00:01:10,000 of Gardelegen in Germany carried 1,100 crosses to a local barn. 6 00:01:10,000 --> 00…
… transcripts include information about several concentration camps including Kossen, Ohrdruf, Mauthausen, and Dachau concentration camps. Also includes…
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