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.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… right wing political parties in Austria; being in the Socialist Highschool Boys' movement; the German take over and the treatment of Jews; being forced to…
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… other political prisoners were taken. But mass murder as such we were not told about. We heard rumors that people, that Jews were killed. But the Germans…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.17 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0017
Date:
interview: 1994 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism during his childhood; living in poverty; the influx of German refugees in France; his work in a leather shop; adhering to socialist goals…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0001
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father dying in October 1941; the German advance on Paris and fleeing to Côté d’Azur (Nice) with his mother and little sister; his brother, who was in Lyon…
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… Benadon began to worked with her husband; at age 16 he became a communist; his father died in October 1941; as the Germans advanced on Paris, Benadon fled…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.32 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0032
Date:
interview: 1997 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and threatened by the German soldiers; her mother revealing their Jewish identity; being sent with her mother to a small town prison in Rochefoucauld…
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… Zone; they were interrogated and threatened by the German soldiers; her mother gave up their Jewish identity; they were then sent to a small town prison…
… young recruits to join the Resistance. With 2 other comrades, he organized the sabotage of glove production destined for the German army. At the beginning…
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… sabotage of glove production destined for the German army. At the beginning of the insurrection in August 1944, he joined the Communist Yiddish-language…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.237.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0765
Date:
interview: 2014 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Fresnes prison; visiting his father in prison; being arrested and sent to Drancy; being in Drancy for about a month and a half and being released…
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…. Michel was sent to the Fresnes prison and Simon remembers visiting him there. Mr. Coencas explains how he was arrested – at his brother’s dance class…
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