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: 1990.423.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0227
Date:
interview: 1990 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Strassmann on July 11, 1990. This interview is one of 51 oral histories included in the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of JewishResistance.…
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… business. They were very close partners. The business was downstairs and we lived upstairs and, uh, I went to a Jewish school. It was a Jewish elementary…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.114 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0114
Date:
interview: 1992 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Malopolskie)…
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…. Jewish kids were beaten. Strong anti-Semitism after Pilsuski’s death. 1.08 Zionism at home. He was member of ‘Hashomer Hadati’ [religious youth movement…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.42 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0042
Date:
interview: 1993 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland.…
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… tells about things he saw as well as things he heard about, such as incidents of resistance and attempted escapes and ensuing punishments. He describes…
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Germany.…
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… married with a -- not a Jewish man -- but we liked him. He was a very nice man. He was a dress manufacturer, special designed dresses. And so how far back…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.139 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0139
Date:
interview: 1992 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland--Kraków.…
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… months [he was classified as ‘farmer’] while returning home at night. 1.12 Describes three-day looting of Jewish homes in December ‘39; family continued to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.8 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0008
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland--Oswiecim.…
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… Jews who came to Germany in 1919. 2:00 His family was Orthodox; Fred discusses the strong Eastern Jewish community as distinct from the German Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.324 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0324
Date:
interview: 1997 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Lithuania.…
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…. Polish refugees arrived and they heard about the fate of the Jews under the Germans. The Russians closed Jewish schools and he then went to a regular…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.206 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0206
Date:
interview: 1994 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; enforcement of anti-Jewish laws; his father's work for a company called Monospol; his knowledge about the Warsaw uprising; being sent to Terezin in August 1943…
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… stayed with his father who was a factory owner. He went to the Jewish school in Ostrava, elementary and high school. Describes school. 1.10 He joined the…
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