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: 1989.67.16 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0016
Date:
interview: 1988 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… was another world for them. Because the persecution of Jews in Germany was only a matter of discussion, perhaps, at the time of the Kristallnacht in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.529 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0020
Date:
interview: 2005 January 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… meteen dat gaat niet goed. Dat gaat niet goed met die mensen, dat ze al Jodenvervolging hadden gehad, dat er mensen werden gedood, de Kristallnacht, de…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.527 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0018
Date:
interview: 2005 January 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… AWV (General Housing Cooperation, Algemene Woningbouwvereniging) had 3315 houses in 1935 and 7000 members. 18 Kristallnacht 19 May 10, 1940. It was so…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.589 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0029
Date:
interview: 2005 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Kristallnacht en dergelijke... en dat was dokter Arendt. En die zei: ‘Wegwezen, wegwezen, want als ze[de Nazi's] hier z’n ware aard toont dan, dan gaan 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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…. Dus... TvR Nou ja, we wisten wel wat er gebeuren ging. We wisten wat er in Duitsland gebeurd was, we wisten wat de Kristallnacht betekende, we hebben…
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… interest to Jews in post-war Holland, 1949. Dutch. Among the issues discussed are: Kristallnacht, Nazi concentration camps, memorials to victims of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.583 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0002
Date:
interview: 2004 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Kristallnacht reaching him. [01:] 13:03:00 – [01:] 16:47:59 He explains the political situation in his family while growing up; discusses the norms and values of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.887 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0887
Date:
interview: 1990 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… About being one of the fortunate ones to have gotten out before Kristallnacht and everything else. So- WHAT DID YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET OVER ThESE GUILT…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0289 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0370
Date:
interview: 1996 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… year, but she certainly came--either in ‘30--after the Kristallnacht, so after November 1938. Maybe a year earlier but I don't remember that. But she was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.373 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0559
Date:
interview: 2008 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… United States Holocaust Me-Memorial Museum interview with Leonard Vis, on November 9th, 2008. Thanks very much. A: You’re welcome. Kristallnacht. Q: Yeah…
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