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.0124.67 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0067
Date:
interview: 1988 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisons--Soviet Union.…
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… Soviet Union. Edward and Ruth stayed lived under Soviet rule as J.W., but after Stalin banned the J. W. In 1951, Edward was arrested and sentenced to 10…
… by the Red Army, corpses of Sovietprisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the…
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… of Sovietprisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the German criminals. System…
…Contains information about Sovietprisoners of war in Romanian camps; atrocities against Soviet citizens; liberation of Auschwitz and its various…
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… Sovietprisoners of war in Romanian camps; atrocities against Soviet citizens; the liberation of Auschwitz and its various sub-camps; the inspection of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.235 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0235
Date:
undated:
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; joining Polish non-Jewish prisoners upon emerging; liberation by United States troops; working as a translator for the Soviets; participating in arrests of…
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… was liquidated, the Germans killed 50,000 prisoners. After liberation, Arie returned to his hometown. He then went to Germany and emigrated to Israel in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.43 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0043
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; hiding with a Lithuanian in the countryside; being found and arrested in early 1944; her imprisonment; going to the Scholai prison; interrogations and her…
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… to America. And then we became part of Soviet Union. And they created the 16th Soviet Republic of Lithuania. And also, they selected Lithuanians who…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.333 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0333
Date:
interview: 1998 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)…
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…, Sara was sent to work at the airport. Russian prisoners also worked there and under tough conditions, mainly hunger, they died like flies. 2:12:00 Sara…
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
… mitzvah; the Soviet occupation; transfer to a public school; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his parents and brothers (one sister fled to Russia…
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… camp in Sachsenhausen. For survival he took a Christian political prisoner’s name. After the war he was able to find his mother, father, sister and his…
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.