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.0122.138 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0138
Date:
interview: 1999 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, German--Palestine.…
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…. After the death of his father Herman was assigned a male “guardian,” which was a German requirement for children whose fathers had died. The “guardian…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.12.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0743
Date:
interview: 2014 February 20 interview: 2014 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Among the Nations because of her efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust; an unsuccessful attempt by the Gestapo to get information from her about her…
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… adopted father's book just recently, I read that there was an order put out by the German authorities that anybody caught being nice to the Jews would be…
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
…Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands.…
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… brought by the Germans or by the Dutch police cant tell that But 10 there were some Dutch people who cooperated in arresting 11 the Jews which only lately…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.571 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0571
Date:
interview: 1992 December 29 interview: 1993 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nazi German troops; learning of the fate of Jews in shtetls across Poland; and being in Dresden in May 1945 as the war ended; deserting the Soviet Army…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.56 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0056
Date:
interview: 1996 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… labor camps; the German occupation; being forced to build airports and dig tank trenches; living in stables with other Jews as well as Jehovah Witnesses…
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