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.1272.186 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0186
Date:
interview: 1994 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… microfilm to the Maquis in Paris, France; having to register as a HitlerYouth; being arrested and sent to Westerbork and then to Auschwitz in July 1942; life…
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… that, Ya’akov had to register as a HitlerYouth and he was given the appropriate uniform. The microfilms to be smuggled were put in a condom, which then…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.73 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0073
Date:
interview: 1986 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… comfortable life; how life changed after 1933; the roundups of Jewish men; how the children in the HitlerYouth would gang up on Jewish children; his father and…
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… right of way because of their war records. 0:08 Life went on somewhat normally. Gentile children join HitlerYouth groups and gang up on Jewish children…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1031 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1031
Date:
interview: 1991 April 18 interview: 1991 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Werner Weinstein, born on 1927 in Schmiedeberg, Germany, discusses his childhood; his family life; the changes he experienced after Hitler's rise to…
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… there. Our mother took us there by car to religious to Sunday school and so to learn little bit about Judaism and Hebrew and so on. Now when Hitler came…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.24 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0024
Date:
interview: 1981 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; continuing her education and being trained as a laboratory technician at age 14; becoming part of a Zionist youth group, which heightened her Jewish identity…
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…, rather, was in the textile business. They were the manufacturers. Then in '32, with the Depression, my father's family lost everything, and with Hitler…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.141 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0141
Date:
interview: 1992 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Netherlands in 1936; how at the beginning of 1939 the political situation became tense and he joined the Zionist youth organization; Kristallnacht, after which…
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… in 1930. 3 children in family, Shaul and 2 younger sisters. 1.10 Describes confrontation between communists and Nazis in early 30s. 1.16 When Hitler…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.554 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0554
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18 interview: 1990 November 15 interview: 1991 February 21 interview: 1991 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… intial arrests of Jewish youth in 1941. He discusses the deportations and the fear that accompanied round-ups of members of the Jewish community, and in…
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… Landsberg was and said Pat thats Landsberg. Of course thats where Hitler also sat in his cell where he wrote Mein Kap. And then became later on very infamous…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.52 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0052
Date:
interview: 1986 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hitler; his marriage to Esther van Dam and their decision to settle in Rotterdam in 1935; anticipating the war; the German bombing of Rotterdam May 14…
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… to prove that I was British. Yes. Still going back, before the war, you were living in Britain then at the time of Hitler's rise in Germany. What did…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.291 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0291
Date:
interview: 1994 December 08 interview: 1995 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… was that all foreigners had to move away from the coast. We were foreigners we were never Dutch 10 citizens. According to Hitler we were stateless. We…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.585 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0004
Date:
interview: 2004 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… lives in Eindhoven and Dordrecht and later in The Hague. She was a member of a Jewish Youth organization but she got in trouble because she criticized the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1258 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0012
Date:
interview: 1995 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… accuracy. 00:03:10,950 --> 00:03:15,930 Hitler was already in power, and there was definitely 73 00:03:15,930 --> 00:03:18,530 a cessation of playing with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0352 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0246
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… so that made things a little easier. (laughs) And he came also from Frankfurt. So we got married after Hitler took power, which was in January 30…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.28 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 April 08 interview: 1992 April 23 interview: 1992 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… school when you came in the uniform of the Scout Girls. But the German children had to come in the uniform of the HitlerYouth BDM Bundes Madchen Deutche…
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…) "Nationale Jeugd Storm" (Nazi youth organization) blank form. 5) Paper flag of the Dutch "Hitler Jugend," found after the liberation of 10/44 in the synagogue…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.382 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0382
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20 interview: 1990 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… not without the German population Hitler could never have succeeded. So. When the Germans invaded my country and they fought for four days until May 14…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1458 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1458
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… thoughts. But as said out of the vectorside unintelligible dont let this get you down because youth be one of them. If you just try to make believe it is not…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.582 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0001
Date:
interview: 2004 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Good. JvP And I now live in South Africa. IV Good. First I want to ask you something about your youth, in the pre-war period. You were born in 1921. Did…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.181 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0477
Date:
interview: 2003 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… weeker pants, which were rolled up at the bottom a little bit, leaving, coming and going. But they were kind of active in youth organizations. So it wasn…
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