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.0441.304 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0304
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of selections, tattoos, guards, conditions, and outdoor labor; being transferred to Bergen-Belsen; returning to Czechoslovakia after the war; living in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.32 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0032
Date:
interview: 1989 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Holocaust memories through his art; his mother's death being an inspiration for his art; his artwork of Bergen-Belsen, Chelmno, Nordhausen, Majdanek, and…
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… it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 597 00:29:05,110 --> 00:29:07,933 Bergen-Belsen, this is the first camp 598 00:29:07,933 --> 00:29:09…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0562.3 | RG Number: RG-50.443.0003
Date:
interview: 1996 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation and arrival at Auschwitz; how after six months Rebecca and others were sent to BergenBelsen where they put to work in a factory; being liberated by…
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…, and after about six months she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen where she worked in a factory. Rebecca was liberated by the British and taken to a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0112.28 | RG Number: RG-50.045.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)…
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… few times, five, six times, when they came and they was doing that. And then they decided to take us from Auschwitz to bring us to Bergen-Belsen. So we…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… dead bodies; doing construction work in Dora; hearing of sabotage activities; witnessing execution of saboteurs; being sent to Bergen-Belsen in January…
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…, actually Bergen-Belsen, Bergen-Belsen, which is near Hamburg. And there, we were not put into that main camp, where they had women and children. But they put…
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Gertrude’s brother Alfred immigrated to the United States in 1937. Her sister Helene was sent to BergenBelsen, where she witnessed the killing of her…
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…) to Auschwitz, where they perished. Gertrude’s brother Alfred immigrated to the United States in 1937. Her sister Helene was sent to Bergen-Belsen…
… of Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. She had relocated to Belgium in 1946 and emigrated to the United States in 1951. The…
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… Cudyk Zygielman married Erna Bialer in 1951. Bialer had survived Majdanek, Auschwitz and Bergen‐Belsen, spent some time in a displaced persons camp in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.232.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1159
Date:
interview: 2022 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen in the British Army, for 24 years. He has taken trips to Poland with former soldiers to visit Bergen-Belsen, the only camp…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.25 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0025
Date:
interview: 1987 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen were built, which were mostly in Poland itself. When you were a boy then in Austria and Vienna then, you had already heard about…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.38 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0038
Date:
interview: 1988 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Frankfurt. Did you get to Dachau or to Bergen-Belsen, any of the-- Yeah, I did. I went with a girlfriend. We hitchhiked. We always hitchhiked. That was the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.76 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0076
Date:
interview: 1993 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Bergen-Belsen, and he died shortly after liberation. Kobo later saw the late Koretz’s wife on the beach in Salonika, not swimming because for women it was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.69.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0197
Date:
interview: 2012 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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…,540 So anyway, I went to the library, got books. 417 00:24:13,540 --> 00:24:17,340 I remember one specifically, Bergen-Belsen was the title, 418 00:24:17…
… concentration camp (prisoner number: 118 225) and later he was transferred to the BergenBelsen concentration camp, where he was liberated by the British Army on…
… concentration camp (prisoner number: 118 225) and later he was transferred to the BergenBelsen concentration camp, where he was liberated by the British Army on…
… concentration camp (prisoner number: 118 225) and later he was transferred to the BergenBelsen concentration camp, where he was liberated by the British Army on…
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