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.
… Germany, his family's move to Holland following Kristallnacht, their relocation to the Amsterdam ghetto, and deportation to Westerbork It relates his and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.819 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0819
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht; life in Amsterdam; her father working as a pharmacist; her family’s deportation to Westerbork for six months in 1943; the kindness of their Dutch…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.388.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0836
Date:
interview: 2015 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… being forbidden to work in a Jewish household in 1937; the family being forced to sell their business after Kristallnacht; the family’s attempts to get…
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… so was it sold before Kristallnacht? It was sold after Kristallnacht. Nothing was sold before Kristallnacht. But it had been plundered. Is that the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1213 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1213
Date:
interview: 1988 January 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1938; Kristallnacht; her family's daily life in Holland before the Nazi invasion; the difficult living conditions her family faced in Amsterdam; her…
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… Yes that was the reason they all left. 22 That was the reason. And my parents also oame in 38 23 in Nov after the Kristallnacht they came to Holland 24…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.87 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0087
Date:
interview: 1988 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht; joining the resistance in 1940 and having Germans come after her; making false identity cards in her publishing house; beginning to take Jews into…
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…'t believe what was happening. K: But I had seen the Kristallnacht...I was not there, but I saw the newsreel. There it was, I felt it so horrible. And my…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.448.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0163
Date:
interview: 1990 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… worked as a sculptor; returning to Germany after Kristallnacht to help her mother emigrate; helping her mother sneak into the Netherlands with the help of…
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… was very much better and then came 38. That was Kristallnacht. Wasn't it. And my mother was still in Beareth because she didn't want to leave. She was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.533 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0024
Date:
interview: 2005 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the family with whom he lived; witnessing Kristallnacht; returning to the Netherlands; joining the police; his orders to arrest Jews in Amsterdam…
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… Beld lived near the Dutch-German border. In 1930’s and in 1940 he spent time in Germany. He witnessed Kristallnacht. He became a policeman and was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.3 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0003
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… September; his memories of Kristallnacht in Hamburg, Germany in 1938; his flight to the Netherlands with his family shortly after Kristallnacht and their…
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… want to be sure I'm still all right, that I wasn't sick, you know, they wanted to take good care of me. Kristallnacht happened on November 9th. November…
…, Kristallnacht, book burnings, firing squads, and hangings in the forest near the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Biographical materials include Lisette and Benno…
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… photographs stamped "International News Photos” taken in Nazi Germany depicting Hitler and senior members of his staff, Kristallnacht, book burnings, firing…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640
Date:
interview: 1998 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht in November 1938, and his father arrest and imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Mr. Philippi describes being smuggled to Holland and…
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…. -- after the Kristallnacht was working there. 18 And then was called to the management which has been 19 changed -- it was Jewish management and they put…
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: 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.1272.141 | 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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