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: 1999.A.0122.1439 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1439
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences in November 1938 during Kristallnacht; her time in a police station with her other schoolmates; her father's arrest; her deportation to a labor camp…
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… go into the city by ourselves. We were taken 21 by other older people you know to protect us from all the 22 miseries. 23 But in 1938 the Kristallnacht…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1438 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1438
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kristallnacht, 1938.…
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… go into the city by ourselves. We were taken 21 by other older people you know to protect us from all the 22 miseries. 23 But in 1938 the Kristallnacht…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.9 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0009
Date:
interview: 1983 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland); two of her sisters going to Israel before the war; her father being arrested during Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald…
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…. One sister went to Israel in 1937 and another went to Israel on a Youth Aliyah program in 1939. 3:00 Her father was arrested during Kristallnacht and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.61 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0061
Date:
interview: 1992 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… 1938, after Kristallnacht in Germany, 1621 01:15:22,260 --> 01:15:24,740 nothing happened in your town? 1622 01:15:24,740 --> 01:15:26,870 After 1938, we…
Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
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… and death in Dachau. Among the many topics are references to a "Jewish Aktion" in 1938 (Kristallnacht), and the remaining 3,800 Jews were sent to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.92 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0182
Date:
interview: 2010 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Cross first-aid book. He heard about Kristallnacht from newspapers and the radio. Anti-Semitism increased. He was walking with a Polish girl, the building…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.325 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0325
Date:
interview: 1997 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… to fight it. 5:00:00 In 1938, during Kazia’s second year at the University, Hitler annexed the Sudetenland, and Kristallnacht occurred. 5:20:26 Kazia…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.32 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0032
Date:
interview: 1989 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…. 493 00:23:49,090 --> 00:23:52,000 That, I think, was one of the backgrounds 494 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,820 for the Kristallnacht, the same year. 495…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.125 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0125
Date:
interview: 1992 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Communists were being persecuted and German Jews. Kristallnacht. All this was already known. So we at that point knew what to expect, and I was on breadlines…
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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.