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: 1991.A.0117.3 | RG Number: RG-50.044.0003
Date:
interview: 1989 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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… Berlin. My father was born in Poland. My grandparents came from Poland. They settled in Berlin before World War I. They left Poland to try to get a better…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.280 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0280
Date:
interview: 1995 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… woman who had been on their deportation train that her father had died on the train; testifying at a war crimes trial in Germany; and writing a book.…
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… brothers and a sister were born in Belgium). 1:30 to 2:00 Initial War Year Towards the end of the l930s she and her Bund friends knew about developing…
…World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Belgium.…
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… one thing, as of today. >> Bill Benson: Before the war began in Europe in 1939, you finished college, you went to work, you got married and you gave…
…World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Belgium.…
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… that. Before the war -- let's talk about your life a little bit before the war. Before war broke out in Europe in https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.43 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0465
Date:
interview: 2002 April 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… news of her older sister's arrest and her mother's illness; her mother's last days; her brothers' return from Auschwitz after World War II and her…
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… errors in spelling or accuracy. 49 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:24,820 Yeah. 50 00:02:24,820 --> 00:02:27,880 So tell me your memories before the war 51 00:02:27…
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… memories are…? A: Is Antwerp. Q: Is Antwerp. A: Yeah. Q: So tell me your, your memories before the war of your father and you mother. Your father’s name was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.732 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0732
Date:
interview: 1990 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium.…
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… pieces. I still remembers them sitting on the mantelpiece in Belgium after the war. They all cut up-- cut up. Now, what year did your parents make it…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.20 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0020
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Belgium.…
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…, before the war, 298 00:16:34,830 --> 00:16:42,690 was a caserne, which is from horses, an army-- 299 00:16:42,690 --> 00:16:44,340 an armory. 300 00:16:44…
… saved. Beatrice had always felt that her parents abandoned her, and she had kept a diary during the war, but now she could understand her history more…
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… the war. Beatrice and her parents fled to Brussels in March 1939 along with her grandmother, Johanna, aunt Margot, and Margot’s husband and son, Werner…
…World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Belgium.…
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…. Let's begin with you telling us a little bit about that childhood, about your years before the war, your family. >> Fanny Aizenberg: Another thing which…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.217 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0217
Date:
interview: 1995 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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… times between the 2 world wars. They considered themselves 'bourgeois'. The mother did not work. 8.12 V completed his elementary and high school studies…
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