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.
… Emmanuel and Esfira had likely perished, but that George had survived. He began corresponding with George and the Lequiens, and in March 1947 George…
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…’s hospitalization due to a severe illness, his parent’s deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz, and his survival as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage. Included are…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.9 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0009
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Salpêtrière Hospital for severe malnourishment; the reasons he survived the camps, including his will to survive, his desire to see his brother, and his robust…
… Monte Carlo where his cousin Hilda Lorant lived. He was arrested in 1944 and transported to Drancy and then Auschwitz. He did not survive. Henry…
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… internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.25 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0025
Date:
interview: 1996 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… helped one another survive and work making weapons; the August 24, 1944 Allied bombing; his liberation from Buchenwald in April 1945; returning to France…
… the French army by 1940 and would eventually be captured and survive as a prisoner-of-war. Jean Claude fled Paris and joined the Resistance, and also…
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…. André had joined the French army by 1940 and would eventually be captured and survive as a prisoner‐of‐war. Jean Claude fled Paris and joined the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.15 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0015
Date:
interview: 1989 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… detainment in 1940; falling sick during this period and having nowhere to go during the winter of 1941; her efforts to survive with her infant; wearing the…
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… 1940; Cypora fell sick during this period and had nowhere to go during the winter of 1941; she describes her efforts to survive with her infant; she wore…
… Marcel in Moriond. They all survived the war.
Marcel’s mother Lucie, sister Stephanie, her husband Ernest, and their children fled Paris to Nice in 1942…
These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.