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.
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Franz Suchomel
Date:
Event: March 1976 Production: 1985
Duration:
04:36:00
…PRISONERS (JEWISH)…
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… three, four, five thousand people, all from Warsaw. But in between trains came from 2 Re. Kielce and from other areas too. And three trains of Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.61 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0061
Date:
interview: 1992 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of Poland shortly after his return; the formation of a Judenrat (Jewish council), which his father was part of; living in an open ghetto; being on the…
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… course, Jewish education. 100 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:54,840 My father only had a Jewish education. 101 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:57,550 102 00:05:57…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.292 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0292
Date:
interview: 2009 August 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.267 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0267
Date:
interview: 2005 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; witnessing an attempted armed resistance of Jewishprisoners prior to the liquidation of the camp; her release from Treblinka; and the execution of her sister.…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.126 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0126
Date:
interview: 1999 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by…
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… guard in Pawiak prison, Czortek (sp?) a boxer in Auschwitz, Borowski a goalie on the Auschwitz soccer team, Czarnobrody A Jewish owner of a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.21 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0021
Date:
interview: 1992 April 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… anti-Jewish measures; the formation of a clandestine school in the ghetto; his father's work as a tanner; his clandestine bar mitzvah in the ghetto; the…
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… off. They knew the risk was arrest and several years in prison. 0:07:48 Q: What was life like in the Jewish Community before the war? A: Radom had a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.71 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0071
Date:
interview: 1993 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… capture and torture by the Gestapo; his imprisonment in Jerozolimska camp and Montelupich prison in Kraków; his experiences in Auschwitz concentration camp…
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… number on my hand, that I'm a prisoner-- a prisoner. So he said, you wait here. There was a Jewish lieutenant. I wish I would know his name. He was from…
Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
… Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and other records of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp: lists of prisoners including Jewish names, reports on changes in the…
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… concentration camp: lists of prisoners including Jewish names, reports on changes in the prisoner population, and list of personal items left in the camp…
… by the Red Army, corpses of Soviet prisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the…
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… of Soviet prisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the German criminals. System…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0299 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0046
Date:
interview: 1999 June 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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… criminal in Warsaw ghetto was in prison. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, you know, business people, but all Jewish people were in prison. Now, my father met a…
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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.