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.
…Natan Gierowitz, born in 1907 in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland, describes his experiences with non-violent antisemitism before the war; attending the…
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… you experienced antisemitism. A: My grandfather was an assimilated Jew. He was Russian culture, spoke Russian, spoke English too. He was a native of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0128.7 | RG Number: RG-50.165.0007
Date:
interview: 1990 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Brooklyn College in 1961; experiencing antisemitism; her Jewish identity; her views on the relations between black and Hispanic Americans and Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.178 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0476
Date:
interview: 2003 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gisela Zamora, born in 1928 in Battenberg, Germany, discusses her family and childhood; the intense antisemitism in Battenberg after Hitler's rise to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0032
Date:
interview: 1999 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Auschwitz; taking his family to Germany and Poland; speaking about the Holocaust to school children in Germany; traveling to Israel; antisemitism…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.63 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0063
Date:
interview: 1987 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… persons camps in Germany in 1945; his father's imprisonment in Skarzysko-Kamienna concentration camp in Poland; antisemitism in Miechów after German…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.167 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0167
Date:
interview: 1993 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rita Yamberger Weiss, born in 1926 in Domokos, Romania, discusses her family life; antisemitism; men being taken to Ukraine to clear mine fields…
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… became Romanian but they felt Hungarian. Had 6 sisters and one brother. Talks about family life. 1.09 Childhood memories. School and signs of antisemitism…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.402.1 | RG Number: RG-90.103.0001
Date:
interview: 1980 November-1981 February
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family; growing up Orthodox; his father, who was a shoemaker; living in France for a brief time after school; his work before the war; antisemitism in…
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… against the Italians, and discusses his life during this time. He says antisemitism started in Greece in the 1930s. The German took Greece in 1940 but the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.7 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0007
Date:
interview: 1984 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a three month journey, during which she experienced both antisemitism and help from non-Jews; going on to Łódź, Poland; their failed attempt to go to…
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… to Pruzany after a three month journey where Dora experienced both antisemitism and help from non-Jews. They went on to Lodz. Their attempt to go to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.15 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0015
Date:
interview: 1983 March 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism in Poland; the boycotts of his father’s business; having seven uncles (all perished in 1942); the beginning of the war; attempting to escape to…
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…. Poles very antisemitic and many boycotted father’s business. Had 7 uncles—all perished in 1942. When war started, Gersch and brother tried to escape to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.17 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0017
Date:
interview: 1995 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Antisemitism.…
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…:02:09,970 had a little bit of antisemitism, which 29 00:02:09,970 --> 00:02:15,480 was to have been expected because members of the American 30 00:02…
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
Jomkipur vagyis az engesztelő ünnep napjára Yom Kippur, that is, the Day of Atonement
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
… immediately, the city’s approximately 17,000 Jews were subjected to Hungary’s existing antisemitic race laws, modeled after Germany’s Nuremburg Laws. These laws…
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
Kol-nidre vagyis az engesztelő nap előző való estéjére Kol-nidre, that is, the previous evening of the Day of Atonement
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
… immediately, the city’s approximately 17,000 Jews were subjected to Hungary’s existing antisemitic race laws, modeled after Germany’s Nuremburg Laws. These laws…
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
ros-hasono ünnep második napjára Second day of the Rosh-Hashanah holiday
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
… immediately, the city’s approximately 17,000 Jews were subjected to Hungary’s existing antisemitic race laws, modeled after Germany’s Nuremburg Laws. These laws…
… immediately, the city’s approximately 17,000 Jews were subjected to Hungary’s existing antisemitic race laws, modeled after Germany’s Nuremburg Laws. These laws…
… immediately, the city’s approximately 17,000 Jews were subjected to Hungary’s existing antisemitic race laws, modeled after Germany’s Nuremburg Laws. These laws…
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… was occupied by the Nazis. Antisemitic laws were put into effect almost immediately, including that all members of the Jewish community wear a yellow…
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