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: 1996.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0028
Date:
interview: 1996 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and pressed into labor after Kristallnacht; being sent to Amsterdam, Netherlands by her father; living with other Jewish teenagers in The Hague…
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… until the Kristallnacht. 413 00:17:07,180 --> 00:17:12,240 OK, but what did your father do when he couldn't work? 414 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0312 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0032
Date:
interview: 1996 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ludwig Jacob discusses his early life in Schmalkalden, Germany; being arrested with his parents on Kristallnacht; being imprisoned in Buchenwald for…
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…,960 --> 00:12:45,810 And I was there only four weeks. 276 00:12:45,810 --> 00:12:48,054 And then came Kristallnacht. 277 00:12:48,054 --> 00:12:49,402 OK. 278…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.1 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0001
Date:
interview: 1991 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany during Kristallnacht in November 1938; the burning of the synagogue; being arrested with two of his co-workers; being sent to Dachau concentration…
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… days before November 9, 1938; the looting and destruction of his store on November 9, 1938 (Kristallnacht), the synagogue burning; being arrested by the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.43 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0043
Date:
interview: 1992 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and studying carpentry; Kristallnacht; trying to leave Germany; his sister being sent to England; being sent to a Jewish organization in Wieringen…
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…. Eichmann knew about their activities. 1.16 1938, studied carpentry in preparation for immigration to Palestine. 1.18 Describes Kristallnacht. Later parents…
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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…, Holland. Describes. 1.32 In 1936 family moved to Arden. Nurenberg laws and impressions from family visits to relatives in Germany. 1.39 Kristallnacht…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.381 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0381
Date:
interview: 2001 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; their move to Kalkar, Germany; the antisemitism she experienced while traveling to and from school and her experiences during Kristallnacht in November…
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
… Danner; life in Würzburg; fleeing with his family to Holland after Kristallnacht; his brother escaping to the United States in 1938 with the support of his…
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… persecuted. 10 And Kristallnacht came and my father as 11 well as two no sound they were would not be safe 12 staying in Germany so my fathers partner his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.817 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0817
Date:
interview: 1995 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Voitsburg, Germany. After Kristallnacht, the family fled to Holland; Mr. Franklin's brother Danner escaped to the United States in 1938 with the support of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.34 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0142
Date:
interview: 2001 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family’s return to Germany in November 1938 to retrieve belongings; witnessing Kristallnacht from an upper-floor window of the Dome Hotel; his family being…
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… on November 8, 1938 Witnessed Kristallnacht from their hotel window - first time he saw true violence Went by train to border - Germans put them in…
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