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: 1992.A.0125.83 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0083
Date:
interview: 1992 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Judith Kalman Mandel describes growing up in Hatvan, Hungary, where her family identified as Hungarians who happened to be Jewish; the German…
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… people who were not Jewish also in camps. American prisoners and Russian prisoners and Polish prisoners-of-war; they had it a little easier, a little…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.26 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0026
Date:
interview: 1975 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prisoners; fears of going to the showers because no one knew whether gas or water would come out; Frau Sussman’s transfer to Camp Kraków and working with…
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… sent to a refugee camp in Basel. Had food and were sent to Montreux. Jewish delegates came with offers from Germany: exchange of prisoners. She refused…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.225 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0225
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… majority of prisoners died; conditions at the camp and work on the underground missile factory; the camp population and being with the children group; a…
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…. German antisemitic songs. 1.35 Anti-Jewish laws and orders. Order for 60,000 to leave the ghetto. Family escaped to village near Krakow. 1.42 End of 1940…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0051.14 | RG Number: RG-50.308.0014
Date:
interview: 1987 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kanaw, Chella, and Regina in prison; being badly beaten after trying to escape the transport to the prison; being interrogated and asked about Dolek…
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… Jewish manager of the Ortnusdis (??) ordered her to wear a big yellow badge to indicate that she was in Montelupich prison. She would take the badge off…
… attended Hebrew school.
In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship assumed power in Germany and enacted a series of anti-Jewish policies. Joachim’s brother, Ferdinand…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.67 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0067
Date:
interview: 1984 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish Archives at Western Reserve Historical Society Library…
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… city, where I drink the water. I want to go see over there. So I go over there. I go to Poland. I come in a city, Radom, was a couple of Jewish people…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1284.3 | RG Number: RG-50.147.0003
Date:
interview: 1983 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… labor, taking Jewish wealth, and inflicting violence; being in the Płaszów camp in 1942 and the desecration of a Jewish cemetery; his first encounter with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.87 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0087
Date:
interview: 1994 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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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.