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.
… walked home to Sasów, which was then occupied by the Germans. He spent time in the concentrationcamps at Sasów, Zloczow, Lackie Wielkie, and Lemberg…
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… concentrationcamps at Sasów, Zloczow, Lackie Wielkie, and Lemberg‐Janowskastrasse before escaping again and hiding in the woods near Jasionów, Poland. He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.611 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0611
Date:
interview: 2003 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… increased antisemitism; his escape to Yugoslavia after the war began in 1939; his deportation to a concentrationcamp after the German invasion of Yugoslavia…
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… who got caught on a ship going to Palestine. He got caught in Yugoslavia and killed. He was also sent to a concentrationcamp and killed. So he didn…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.381 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0498
Date:
interview: 2005 September 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentrationcamp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… that there were people in concentrationcamps, but we never thought, you know, that they would be treated that way. And we still didn’t know what…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0356 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0442
Date:
interview: 1996 August 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentrationcamp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… I know, they got in a concentrationcamp, I don't know which one, but I don't think they came out. Q: Who brought you to Summabar(ph)? http…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.82.22 | RG Number: RG-90.053.0022
Date:
interview: 2020 April 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ebensee concentrationcamp for a few weeks; the Jews in the camp; going on a long train journey from Innsbruck, Austria through the Brenner Pass to Bologna…
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… to do and who they wanted to continue fighting. Nobody wanted to fight and they became military internees who were used in the labor camps. He avoided…
… Chana Knaster. Brucha Knaster and the children perished in the Holocaust. Baruch Knaster was deported to three forced labor camps. He was imprisoned in…
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…MIRKA KNASTER COLLECTION, 1945-1948 2000.472.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.27.2 | RG Number: RG-90.127.0001
Date:
interview: approximately 1970
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jancsi or Van) born in 1925 and 1930 respectively; Germany’s invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941; the family’s deportation to an Italian concentrationcamp on…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0334 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0097
Date:
interview: 1989 September 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentrationcamp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… movement was born--the city of Gospi_--in a desolate part of the country with curfews, patrols, and a concentrationcamp for Jews just outside of Gospi_. We…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.266 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0266
Date:
interview: 1995 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dondangen (Concentrationcamp)…
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… She recalls the German way of lying to people. They were taken by train to Riga and then to the Mežaparks concentrationcamp. 00:10:13 She describes…
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentrationcamp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Interview with Erika Kinel March 8, 1995 RG-50.030*0309 http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.