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.
…Fritz Wissbrun of Amsterdam, theNetherlands was deported to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Vught) in 1943. After liberation he married Edith…
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… history: Adam Fielding, April 2018 Biographical note Fritz Wissbrun of Amsterdam, theNetherlands was deported to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp…
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…; fleeing with her family to theNetherlands in January 1939; being assisted by a Jewish refugee organization upon their arrival and soon settling in…
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…Well, you could just speak. Yeah, very good. So my name is Edith Mayer, and my maiden name was Hartog. I was born June 17, 1923, in Aachen, in the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.388.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0836
Date:
interview: 2015 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Netherlands with the help of an uncle; their immigration to the United States in November 1939 aboard the SS Rotterdam; Susi receiving a rose from Danny Apple…
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… Jewish children to be rescued by the Dutch, by theNetherlands. And so the committee came up with a counter suggestion, which the queen found a possibility…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.34 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0142
Date:
interview: 2001 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… taken out of his classes by the Gestapo; his parents’ search for a way out of Germany and eventual escape to theNetherlands in the summer of 1938; his…
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… prison. The children were frantic. Father persuaded authorities to release them by saying he was getting war materials for Germany Lived in apartment in…
… preparations to emigrate. Edith was initially sent by her parents to theNetherlands, where she was placed in a children’s home until April 1939, when her…
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… on 8 December 1938. Upon his return to Cologne, the family made preparations to emigrate. Edith was initially sent by her parents to theNetherlands…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.70 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0070
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… European campaigns; landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944; being part of the invasion at Nijmegen, Netherlands; his group occupying Berlin, Germany in 1945…
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… also in the invasion at Nijmegen (Netherlands). I was with order (unsure of word) battle team No. 16. We were attached to the 82nd Airborne until we…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.381 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0381
Date:
interview: 2001 June 06
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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… THE VIDEO TAPING AS WELL AS THE INTERVIEW. COULD BEGIN BY ASKING YOU WHERE AND WHEN YOU WERE BORN was born in Meiern Germany. Its small town close to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.28 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 April 08 interview: 1992 April 23 interview: 1992 December 02
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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… Tape of But he was disappointed he was also very often not feeling well. And when he sat down at the curb on the street because he couldnt breathe…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1273 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1273
Date:
interview: 1988 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Amsterdam, Netherlands, where with the assistance of the Dutch underground, they were able to take a ship from Rotterdam to the United States; her experiences…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.141 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0141
Date:
interview: 1992 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Netherlands in 1936; how at the beginning of 1939 the political situation became tense and he joined the Zionist youth organization; Kristallnacht, after which…
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…. He joined Zionist youth organization. 1.57 Social life in Youth movement. 2.01 After Kristallnacht, father moved business to Arnheim and the whole…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.351 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0351
Date:
interview: 1991 April 16
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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…. And again we looked through book and we found -- and this was from theNetherlands and they had already listed him. So when my aunt died my cousin died…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.54 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0516
Date:
interview: 2007 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust--Netherlands.…
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…: And did you want to stay in theNetherlands, in Amsterdam? A: No, didn’t want to. Q: You didn’t want to stay? A: No. I had nobody an-any more, no. Q…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.27 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0027
Date:
interview: 1984 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the National Council of Jewish Women Cleveland Section…
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…. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
…The Museum has made reasonable efforts but is not able to determine the copyright status of some or all of the material(s) in this collection, or…
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… Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: English Abstract: The collection primarily consists of copyprints depicting concentration camps…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.39 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0039
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 96 Holocaust survivors, liberators, resistance fighters, and Righteous Gentiles in the Buffalo, N.Y. area…
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…My name is Mark Goldman. This is Marianne Leibovic, and we're in Buffalo in the middle of winter, 1988. And you want to tell us a little bit about…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.56 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0056
Date:
interview: 1987 January 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center…
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… reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not…
…Dr. Theodore Belsky of American International College for the Holocaust Project of the Springfield Federation conducted the interview with Mrs. Harry…
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…This is an interview between Mrs. Harry Rosenberg of Claremont, New Hampshire now residing in Florida by Ted Belsky of the Oral History Center at AIC…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.193 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0193
Date:
interview: 1994 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… in Cologne. October 1938. 30,000 Polish Jews were transported to the Polish border among them his mother, brother and 3 sisters. Father and he were not…
…Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program…
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… right away. I have a feeling that a lot of the Jews that came up through Spain and upward went to TheNetherlands. >> Bill Benson: Ok. >> Jill Pauly: And…
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