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: 1993.A.0088.26 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0026
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany, by her cousin, the camp's director; going to the displaced persons camp in Ebensee, Austria; going to Föhrenwald…
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… 00:20:05,522 --> 00:20:06,980 They had to go to Germany to study. 367 00:20:06,980 --> 00:20:09,530 368 00:20:09,530 --> 00:20:10,430 Isn't that-- 369…
… Soviet military; Simon's work in a brewery; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation in Germany; the displaced persons camp at Föhrenwald, Germany…
… persons camp in Germany in January of 1946. Henry headed the camp until July 1946, at which point he returned to the United States to teach at the City…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.23 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0023
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; registering as a Czech citizen; going to Prague in an attempt to leave the country after the communists took over; going to the American Zone of Germany…
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… we can crawl under the fence and get to the other side 128 00:07:20,140 --> 00:07:26,440 to Germany, and that was the American zone of Germany. 129 00…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.137 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0137
Date:
interview: 1991 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… initial encounter with Soviet soldiers; going to Warsaw and seeing the destruction; life in the Föhrenwald refugee camp in Germany, where he learned…
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… that time were detoured by the British to Cyprus, so they waited in Germany. He describes the full life in the camp, the new exchange-rate economy and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.234 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0234
Date:
interview: 1995 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…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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… happening in Germany. 1.18 Describes the arrival of German army. Father and older sister hid in basement. Anti Jewish orders were issued. She was sent to work…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.264 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0264
Date:
interview: 1995 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…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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…, when war broke out between Germany and Russia, the latter left town. 45.39 Entrance of the Germans into the town. Men are rounded up 'for work', among…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.318 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0318
Date:
interview: 1996 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… movement; joining the underground military movement, the Etzel, and taking an active part in obtaining weapons in Germany; and undergoing military training…
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… weapons in Germany. Moshe underwent military training to prepare for his ultimate immigration to Israel in June of 1948. 1:00:29 Moshe was born in 1931 in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.69 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0069
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09 interview: 1981 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Silberstein, born November 9, 1902 in Stargard, Germany (Poland), describes being the son of the only rabbi serving around Stargard; studying…
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… Stettin. Today it is Polish. JF: At that time it was Germany? WS: Yes. JF: Can you tell me a little bit about your family? WS: My father was a rabbi in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.86 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0086
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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… with the radio I could hear. It was in Polish, so I could hear. And we heard about Nazis being in Germany, about Hitler being--we were hearing that the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.172 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0172
Date:
interview: 1982 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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… had survived Auschwitz. Hyman married in 1946. After their planned emigration was delayed because of the Exodus, they stayed in Germany, had a son…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0094 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0116
Date:
interview: 1999 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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… the – to the whole camp, so to speak. Q: Okay. A: They put us on these cattle trains and we were traveling. And in Germany, all of a sudden we had to…
… Poland in 1939 to the Soviet Union. All four were killed in 1941 after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, as was Etel's infant child. Lewek's father, Zelig…
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…, Germany. The collection also documents the prewar and postwar lives of Lewis’s wife, Lifcia Najman, and her family, originally from Radom, Poland, and her…
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