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.0088.64 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0064
Date:
interview: 1987 April 09 interview: 1987 April 27 interview: 1987 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a political prisoner and her time as a political prisoner in Békéscsaba, Hungary, prison in 1944; the horrors of life in the Békéscsaba prison; her…
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…:22:45,700 In Budapest with these women, other womenprisoners? 451 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.163 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0163
Date:
interview: 1990 December 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Czechoslovakia; being held in a Hungarian military prison in Uzhgorod, Ukraine accused of being a communist; working for a family in Budapest; living in a Swedish…
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… 16, Anna was sent to a Hungarian military prison in Uzhgorod. After she was freed her parents sent her to Budapest, Hungary to work as a maid for a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.293 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0293
Date:
interview: 1996 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… group; transfer to a prison in Budapest; an aunt securing her release; moving to Baja, posing as non-Jews; her aunt placing her in an orphanage; German…
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… manages to extract her from there. Life in prison with other women. 6:00:00 Earlier memories of life at home. The “appel” platz in ghetto Bochnia. More…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.18 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… where she and other female prisoners worked in a munitions factory; her time in Holleischen concentration camp in Czechoslovakia; the types of spiritual…
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… they were prisoners. 108 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,060 They're already here for years. 109 00:08:00,060 --> 00:08:03,510 But then my brother-in-law gave…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.161 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0161
Date:
interview: 1987 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Czechoslovakia; being held in a Hungarian military prison in Uzhgorod, Ukraine accused of being a communist; working for a family in Budapest; living in a Swedish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.178 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0178
Date:
interview: 1991 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; escaping with her husband to Budapest, Hungary; being placed in the Stanislawow (Ivano Frankivsk) prison; being transferred to the Lvov (L'viv) Jewish camp…
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… orphanage. Attempted to cross the border into Hungary; was caught and sent to prison in Stanislov. Concealed her Jewish identity. A prisoner in Majdanek…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0174 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0106
Date:
interview: 1998 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being caught and sent to a prison in Budapest and the Joint getting her out; going to Usod, Hungary in the fall of 1943 and staying there until April 1944…
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… later on, the men 40 00:02:38,580 --> 00:02:40,320 were separated from the women. 41 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,400 And at one time, you had to hide under…
… deportations of the Nazi-sympathetic Slovakian regime in 1942; her arrest in 1943 and being sent to a prison in Budapest; her deportation to Auschwitz in 1944…
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… few women who had this. I'm distinguished with this triangle pointing the I am political prisoner. But you didn't want to be called your number, you…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.20 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0020
Date:
interview: 2007 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was too weak to work; seeing inmates commit suicide by touching the electric fence surrounding the camp; joining a transport of Polish prisoners of war…
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… surrounding the camp. After three months at Birkenau, Sarah joined a transport of Polish prisoners of war. She was taken to Czechoslovakia, where she worked the…
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