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: 1999.A.0122.311 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0311
Date:
interview: 1991 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nazi regime; the Anschluss in 1938 and beginning to fear for his life; witnessing more open antisemitism in Vienna; Nazi troops ransacking their home…
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…,600 massing at the border of Austria. 131 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,200 What happened was that the illegal Nazis in Vienna 132 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,650 had…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0027 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0449
Date:
interview: 1997 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and ethnic backgrounds who were targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators or witnessed the events of the Holocaust…
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… of others. And the worry was that these enterprises would contribute to the Nazi war effort in at least two ways. One was by contributing of funds to a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.12 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0012
Date:
interview: 1986 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mentality; the active Nazi organization in Chicago, IL; attending youth groups and summer camps that were semi-militaristic; the use of antisemitic songs and…
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….S. Army. 05:30 In Chicago, Nazi organizations were very active, he says. He remembers the tavern and the hall in which the meetings were held. He attended…
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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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