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: 1992.A.0125.84 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0084
Date:
interview: 1992 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Soły; being sent with her sister to the labor camp Dünawerke; her father’s deportation to the Kaiserwald concentration camp; surviving the labor camp…
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… the ghetto in Soły [Salos] was liquidated and she was sent with her sister to the labor camp Dünawerke and her father was sent to the Kaiserwald…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.408.2 | RG Number: RG-50.875.0001
Date:
interview: 1992 August 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being taken with her mother to camp Majdanek; the train journey to Auschwitz; being tattooed with the number 48914; her work building bombs and grenades…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.368 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0554
Date:
interview: 2008 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… extermination camp, in that – in that transport went my family; my – my – my parent – my – o-on both sides, for the exception of the – my – my mother’s brother…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.45 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0045
Date:
interview: 2011 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a women’s camp in Germany, where she and her sister worked in the kitchen of a factory; their camp being within the purview of Gross-Rosen; conditions…
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… interned there for 3 days in a kind of transition camp. Then, they were taken to trains. Mother had prepared for each child a little bag with the addresses…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.299 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0299
Date:
interview: 1996 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from Beriḥah; reaching the Judenberg displaced persons camp; traveling illegally to Milan; joining Hashomer Hatzair; assistance from UNRRA; selling…
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… women who served as prostitutes. 9:12 Describes his work station. His father made luxury items for the camp commander. 9:15 Describes the food in the camp…
… clippings, certificates, and photographs related to his post-war experiences. He survived several ghettos, concentration and forced labor camps, including…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.269.1 | RG Number: RG-50.874.0001
Date:
interview: 2011-2012
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for two years; working in a grenade factory for a year and a half; conditions in the camp; how they dealt with pestilence; surviving typhoid fever; her…
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…, clothes and ran towards Paviak. The plan was to take all prisoners to the station and then to a concentration camp. The fate of Genia’s brothers and father…
… Luftwaffe fighter pilot who was interned as a German prisoner-of-war from October 1941 to March 1947 in Camp Dhurringile, an Australian POW camp reserved for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0095 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0041
Date:
interview: 1999 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)…
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… Persons camps and families who were separated and -- did you run into any of these? A: Well, that was -- that was immediately after the war, you had refugee…
… celebrate her birthday while in hiding. On October 29, 1942, Max and Tema were denounced, deported to the Malines transit camp, and then sent to Auschwitz…
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… written by Regina Rotenberg (age 19) while in prison awaiting transport to Auschwitz concentration camp, dated May 19, 1944, two Poesie books kept by Regina…
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.