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.1272.178 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0178
Date:
interview: 1991 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Czech Republic--Mariánské Lázne.…
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… with German police. The Soviets did not mind Jews as such, but only the ‘bourgeoisie’ whom they sent to Russia, including some of her relatives who…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.21 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liquidation of the camp in March 1945; being sent on a march; going to Theresienstadt; liberation; going to Prague, Czech Republic; going to Rotterdam…
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… still had his will to live. They came to a place not far from the Czech border. The Nazis came and said all Jews were to be separated from the rest. They…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.56 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0056
Date:
interview: 1985 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… hostel for war orphans as an atheist; passing as a non-Jew to avoid discrimination; being deported to Theresienstadt in April 1942; being transferred to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.1 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Conversion to Christianity.…
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… started to become worried when Adolph Hitler’s nationalist party sent German Jews to Poland to work. Although the family had an iron scrapyard business…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.31 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0031
Date:
interview: 1990 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… responses of non-Jews to Jewish persecution; working in the stables with horses and becoming the private horse-hand to the SS chief; getting special treatment…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.347 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0347
Date:
interview: 1998 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… school even though his family was not very religious; how in 1940 the Jews of Bratislava were sent to a camp in Trnava, Slovakia, where Alexander worked…
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…. Alexander attended a Jewish orthodox school even though his family was not very religious. In 1940, the Jews of Bratislava were sent to a camp in Trnava…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.4 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0004
Date:
interview: 1994 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Warsaw.…
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… had been closed. After the establishing of the ghetto, Jakub and his family were relocated within its borders. Many new Jews were brought in to the…
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