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.1272.322 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0322
Date:
interview: 1997 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the early 1930s; marriage in 1938; Soviet occupation; German invasion; a round-up by Lithuanians, including her father and husband; her mother…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
… who moved to Palestine in 1937. During the war she worked to provide food for her parents. After her father died, she and her mother were sent to Guthof…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.67 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0067
Date:
interview: 1996 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mother, Frieda, who opened a restaurant; her brother and sister; being close to her grandparents, who owned a general goods shop; living in a close-knit…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
… father, Shmuel, a self-employed artist/painter, “a modern man . . . good-natured”; a family “full of love”; her father dying in 1937 and her mother, Frieda…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.451.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0986
Date:
interview: 2018 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Potulice labor camp; the internment of her family for two years; the death of her mother and baby brother from hunger and disease in the camp; her father…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.655 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0655
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… selections; her brother who was in the ghetto police; the beginning of ORT to help young people in the ghetto; being sent with her mother to several camps…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.204.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0933
Date:
interview: 2017 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Szálasi; hearing about the Warsaw Uprising and ghettos; her mother securing an extension so that the town’s Jews would not yet have to move to the…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
… Ferenc Szálasi; hearing about the Warsaw Uprising and ghettos; her mother securing an extension so that the town’s Jews would not yet have to move to the…
These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
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.