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.
… attended Hebrew school.
In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship assumed power in Germany and enacted a series of anti-Jewish policies. Joachim’s brother, Ferdinand…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.106 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0106
Date:
interview: 1993 July 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… uprising; remaining in Praga; the German retreat in August 1944 and the Russians arrival; joining the Polish underground; being taken prisoner by the Nazis…
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… lived in a mixed Polish and Jewish neighborhood. 1.31 Describes the beginning of war. Bombardments, food shortages. German army enters Warsaw. Father and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.14 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0014
Date:
interview: 1999 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was conducted with Herbert…
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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… Jewish boys go in? A: The Lithuanian Army everybody at age of 17 or 18, I don't recall, had to go into the Army, but I didn't go into the Army. I went to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0051 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0455
Date:
interview: 1998 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experience preaching in a German prisoner of war camp in France and his pursuing a call to ministry in England; his time at theological college in Surrey…
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… in Germany. His parents had been Jewish and then converted to the Christian faith in the last century. But, under Nazi laws we’re regarded as Jews and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.140 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0140
Date:
interview: 1989 January 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.68 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0068
Date:
interview: 1988 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…); participating in underground JW activities and being arrested in 1937; serving two years in prison, one of them in solitary confinement; being asked in the summer…
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…, married to a non-Jehovah’s Witness. Waver participated in underground J.W. activities and was arrested for that in 1937. He served 2 years in prison, one of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.25 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0025
Date:
interview: 1975 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1941 and being sent to a German prison; his deportation to Auschwitz as a political prisoner and remaining there until 1945; working as a printer in the…
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… had false papers, so he could not be gassed. He lived with non-Jewishprisoners. He had leaned about Auschwitz in Dresden in 1943, in Koln, Berlin and…
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.