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: 2010.445.3 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0003
Date:
interview: 2010 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the beginning of the Germanoccupation in 1942; the transport of women and children to a camp which was operated by policemen; contracting typhus; her…
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… young age—well in the first year they [the partisans] hadn’t been offering any resistance yet, so to speak, because the Germans also—we—our http…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.206 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0206
Date:
interview: 1978
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ukraine--History--Germanoccupation, 1941-1944.…
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…’s eviction from Jaroslaw during the Russian Occupation because they were Jews. He went to Lvov to study and work. Henry describes the German invasion of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.128 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0128
Date:
interview: 2002 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Poland--History--Germanoccupation, 1941-1944.…
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… not clear which houses belonged to Jews and which to Catholics; says those caught by the Germans were brought to Germany for work; remembers that her…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.433.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0188
Date:
interview: 1990 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ukraine--History--Germanoccupation, 1941-1944.…
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… because the Germans came in, and this is when my tragedy started. We were put in a ghetto where life was pretty pretty horrible and soon after they divided…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.32 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0032
Date:
interview: 1975 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Belarus--History--Germanoccupation, 1941-1944.…
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… RG-50.569*0032 Peter Wortsman Collection ESTHER SCHKURMAN Interview with ESTHER SCHKURMAN RG-50.569*0032 Tape 1, Side A GERMAN In this interview…
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…th century. Forced labor‐‐Poland‐‐Registers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Europe. Geographic Name Europe‐‐History‐‐Germanoccupation, 1939‐1945…
Collection of memoirs, testimonies and questionnaires of the former prisoners
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Poland--History--Germanoccupation,1939-1945.…
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… Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: Polish German Russian English French Yiddish Slovak Scope and…
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