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.1272.214 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0214
Date:
interview: 1995 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps in 1942 and his father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; visiting him; the entrance of Germans and Jews being sent into the ghetto in…
Film | Accession Number: 2007.207.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4637 | Film ID: 2842
Film Title:
Dreharbeiten in Theresienstadt [Filming in Theresienstadt]
Date:
Event: 1942 Production: 1942
Duration:
00:12:36
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… band and people in the audience. The next scene shows a man leaving the coffeehouse. A sign on the door states that entrance cards must be presented…
…Drawing in ink and watercolor on paper of a group of men and women gathered around a wagon outside the entrance to a building. It is adhered to light…
… and Erika passage out of the Netherlands and then out of Italy, but those routes were quickly blocked by German invasion and Italy’s entrance into the…
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… were quickly blocked by German invasion and Italy’s entrance into the war. Lotte and Erika were deported to the Opole ghetto in March 1941 and were…
… Switzerland for Havana, Cuba. Cuba was a popular place for refugees as it was one of the few countries that issued entrance visas rather than visitor visas…
… cough. After Leo graduated from school, he worked at an insurance company and took some university courses. He passed the university entrance exams in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.654 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0654
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07 interview: 1990 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… would be lost. So didnt do it. What other choice The back entrance was locked and the front entrance the Gestapo was there. And also the lights was out…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.8 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0008
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… it was obvious, very obvious to see on the entrance window. So it was very simple for these hordes to go and just demolish and ransack those stores…
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… the ghetto and not to volunteer and not to provoke our entrance into an east transport." And we were puzzled about this because we thought we had it…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.4 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0004
Date:
interview: 1980 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… three brothers and sisters and it was a comfortable life. My father had his practice and we lived in an apartment of which one entrance was the office and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.207 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0207
Date:
interview: 1995 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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….00 M's father was arrested by the gestapo 2 days after their entrance to the city. He was presumably arrested for having been active in the Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.365 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0365
Date:
interview: 2000 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… 1945. Shoshana discusses entrance to the camp and her encounter with Jews who had come from Auschwitz. 2:06:00 Shoshana provides a description of…
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…, August 10, 1929; in Polish. 3. Photographic postcard of Konrad and Helena Hudes Bodzanowski standing at the entrance to their ladies apparel store, Berlin…
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… Warsaw ghetto, n.d. Black and white copy print of the entrance to the Warsaw ghetto, n.d. Black and white copy print of the Jewish ghetto police, Warsaw, n…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.170.1 | RG Number: RG-90.142.0001
Date:
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… front of the entrance to the farm where I worked and he always used to call, "The Jew should go to see the Bügermeister," you see. And he had very funny…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1281 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1281
Date:
interview: 1986 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… and 25 on the floor where she lives and in the entrance and checked any JOHN WAHL person who came into the hotel. The heaviset man was the infamous Dr…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.328 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0328
Date:
interview: 1998 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…. When the entire village witnessed the entrance of the Germans, the family thought otherwise. They decided to stay put, but to put their farms…
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