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: 2021.59.1 | RG Number: RG-90.186.0001
Date:
interview: 2001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Poland--Bialystok.…
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… War started. 0:00:32.2 Sherman: I was born in Poland, May 5th, 1921. It was a pretty good sized city, I would say, about 100,000 people. 0:00:45…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1223 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1223
Date:
interview: 1987 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bialystock (Poland)…
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…. We had to load up the stuff they used to take away from Poland and ship it to Germany. We lived with an uncle. His wife was killed. My mother was dead…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.217 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0217
Date:
interview: 1993 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bialystok (Poland)…
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… Marsha G. Shaw WHERE WERE YOU BORN Yes was born in Poland in small town northeast of Warsaw named was born September 1923. AND WAS THIS SMALL TOWN WHERE…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.125 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0125
Date:
interview: 1992 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Bialystok.…
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… Bialystok, and that was an entirely different part of Poland. It was the formerly Russian part. Poland was under occupation for 150 years, and that part of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.35 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0035
Date:
interview: 1996 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…" movement; the Soviet occupation of Kovno and her father fleeing with her to Bialystok, Poland days before the German invasion; the occupation of Bialystok on…
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… Bialystok, Poland just days before the German invasion. Bialystok was occupied on July 3, 1941 and three days later Luba's father was among 6,000 Jewish men…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Białystok--Maps.…
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…‐‐Poland‐‐Częstochowa‐‐Maps. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Białystok‐‐Maps. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Baranowicze‐‐Maps. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Otwock‐‐Maps…
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.