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: 1995.A.1281.12 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0012
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… instructions to the resistance groups; joining a combat group; hiding children in the countryside and securing escape routes for Jews to unoccupied France…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0312 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0032
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interview: 1996 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Escapes.…
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… it called. 1414 01:00:07,412 --> 01:00:13,370 1415 01:00:13,370 --> 01:00:16,200 Right now, the name escapes me. 1416 01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:18…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1809 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1809
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interview: 1977 October 11-1977 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… memories of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in July 1942, from which she escaped; her work for the resistance with the National Front; hiding her infant son, and her…
…; activities undertaken by the Union gééale des Israéites de France; conditions inside the camps of Drancy and Rivesaltes; and his escape to Switzerland. The…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
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interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Orleans jail; his internment as an enemy alien in camp near Spanish border; the cholera outbreak and escaping; living with relatives in Limoges, France…
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… in other camps. But I knew that there were many others who have escaped before. It was not terribly, terribly difficult. They weren't very security…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.377 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0560
Date:
interview: 2008 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… factory operations; being sent to Auschwitz on July 26, 1944; working in a concrete factory; his forced evacuation from Auschwitz via train; escaping the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0316 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0252
Date:
interview: 1989 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… train on which he was being transported to Buchenwald, escaping, and being liberated by American troops; staying in the Frankfurt displaced persons camp…
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… father never did. And therefore escaped arrest and was not arrested during Kristallnacht or the day after. Q: Let's back up a little bit to talk about…
… escaped in December 1942, returned to Belgium, and alerted the Judenrat and the Belgian resistance about the deportations and labor camps. He survived the…
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… Herskovic’s report of his escape from the Peiskretscham labor camp, Suzanne Herskovic Ponder’s account of her father’s escape from Peiskretscham, and a…
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Series 1: William Herskovic papers 1942-Approximate 1995
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0332 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0038
Date:
interview: 1989 July 31 interview: 1989 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… detention camp, where he stayed for a short time before he and other prisoners were loaded onto cattle cars for transport; escaping deportation by bending the…
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…, describing them as the ashes of the deceased who was caught trying to escape and shot because shooting was a justification for, for catching someone who tried…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.18 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… convoy from Bobigny, which included Armand Kohn, Director of the Rothschild Hospital; escaping August 22, 1944 from the last train car with several friends…
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