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: 1997.A.0441.83 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0083
Date:
interview: 1992 April 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… resistance to Japanese occupation; how in 1938 his father’s passport was not renewed and the family became stateless; the influx of German refugees, including…
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… foreigners, or whites, had extra terri--eh, extrality. And the Japanese had the same rights. So the only ones who could vote for the council were a very small…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.660 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0660
Date:
interview: 1995 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Signal Corps; participating in the round up and internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese-American citizens and his service in Africa guarding German…
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… affidavits. And therefore, the Japanese could understand that because the Japanese people are family-loving people. They could understand they need family. OK…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0419 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0068
Date:
interview: 1997 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family immigrating to the Philippines; attending a Hebrew school in Manila before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese invasion of the Philippines…
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… mitzvah during the Second World 1360 01:07:49,610 --> 01:07:50,450 War. 1361 01:07:50,450 --> 01:07:52,610 The Japanese occupied Philippines. 1362 01:07:52…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.753 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0753
Date:
interview: 1991 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Willy Rudolf Foerster; being detained by Japanese police because they believed she was a spy; being imprisoned in the central prison and beaten daily…
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… went over to the NYK, which was the Japanese shipping line. It was booked from Berlin by a Japanese-- Japanese shipping line. https://collections…
…, establishing the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.
Seated from left to right are: the Japanese Ambassador Kurusu, Galeazzo Ciano (Italy), and German Chancellor Adolf…
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.
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