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: 2013.306.134 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0134
Date:
interview: 1997 February 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, PA, includes oral histories of three generations of Holocaustsurvivorfamilies, focusing on how survivors coped following the war, the impact of their…
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… to? INT: He felt that he had a mission because he was the only survivor. VERA: Yes. So he felt he had a mission. Why I brought up the family is because…
…Vera Markbreit donated the Pollak family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.…
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… POLLAK FAMILY PAPERS, 1909-1951 2000.555.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.652 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0652
Date:
interview: 1990 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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…Interviewing Emmie Vida at the Holocaust Library and Research Center, 639 14th Avenue, San Francisco. Mrs. Vida, is it? That's fine. Would you say…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.49 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0049
Date:
interview: 1996 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaustsurvivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the…
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… on January 7, 1927 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), discusses her family, including her parents and four siblings (Raile (s), Fritzie (s…
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.