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: 1993.A.0088.14 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0014
Date:
interview: 1987 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… death of her mother when she was eight years old; her recollections of the importance of economic survival; her family not paying attention to the Nazis…
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… all, and particularly when it comes to survival, 317 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,290 it's really it's my life against what I am facing. 318 00:17:35…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.649 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0649
Date:
interview: 1993 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps; the methods he used to survive; the aid he received from other prisoners and from Polish people; his liberation from an unnamed camp by the British…
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…. Survived, we survived only four. I mean, one sister, she left for Israel in 1934. So she is living in Israel till now. And one brother, the older brother…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.366.1 | RG Number: RG-50.946.0001
Date:
interview: 2012 April
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… three younger brothers Mordka-Lajb, Wolf, and Szyja; the family’s wholesale fruit and vegetable business and general store; surviving five concentration…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.65 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0065
Date:
interview: 1996 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… made almost entirely on the basis of mutual support; never believing he would survive the war but wanting to survive to bear witness to events; the…
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… of mutual support; never believing he would survive the war but wanting to survive to bear witness to events; the approach of Russian forces in 1945…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.42 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0042
Date:
interview: 1989 May 17-1989 June 09 interview: 1989 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… solitary confinement in a Gestapo prison in Katowice, Poland; his time in the hospital after surviving solitary confinement and meeting Yanek; his acceptance…
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…'re Jewish and you 908 00:57:55,990 --> 00:58:02,420 survived this solitary confinement, 909 00:58:02,420 --> 00:58:06,916 then you will be a good man for us…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.363 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0363
Date:
interview: 2000 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father’s death; her family surviving by gradually selling their belongings; her oldest brother being sent to Buchenwald in 1940; the Judenrat sending her…
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… (?), where she worked in a chocolate factory. In Sweden, Sara received letters from France from surviving relatives. Sara chose to go to Israel and went to…
… subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at Sachsenhausen and…
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… were both subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.47 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0047
Date:
interview: 1985 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of different nationalities by Germans; his attitude towards survival; his attitude towards notion of revenge; and his belief that perpetrators should…
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… could never survive. They just got torn to pieces. And in Gleiwitz we, after a few hours, we got put onto these open coal carriers. And we could hear an…
… April 1940 in Lwów, Poland, and had two children: Ida (born 20 June 1943, Dobczyce, Poland) and Schulim (born 28 November 1946, Munich). After surviving…
…-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, and assigned the prisoner number 120510. He had two brothers, Ojzer and Mordke, who both survived the camps, but…
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