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: 2019.42.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1012
Date:
interview: 2019 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-occupied countries to the west where they ended up in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany; keeping in touch with members of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.103.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0255
Date:
interview: 2016 May 26
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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… didn’t change our names. And we – Q: So you were in that first DP camp. This was in Germany. A: Yes, this was in Germany in the American zone. This was…
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…. Jewish refugees--Poland. Jewish refugees--Germany. Holocaust survivors--Germany. Refugee camps--Germany--Bavaria. Waldram (Germany) Photographs. CONTAINER…
… Amsterdam and her mother was English. She was a student at the Amsterdam School for Social Work when Germany invaded and occupied the Netherlands in May 1940…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.190 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0190
Date:
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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.…
… students and principal. He attended Hebrew school three days a week.
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and that day, a bomb fell on Shmuel’s…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.47 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0068
Date:
interview: 2003 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; traveling to her hometown in eastern Poland; antisemitism in Poland; traveling to Germany; her experiences in the displaced persons camp Föhrenwald…
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… to her hometown in eastern Poland; anti- Semitism in Poland; traveling to Germany; her experiences in the displaced persons camp, Fernwald; immigrating…
…, the family was taken to the Föhrenwald Displaced Persons camp. Frances resumed school at a Gymnasium in Munich, Germany. Her parents both enrolled in…
… wedding day and in the DP camp, Föhrenwald, Germany; dated 1945-1946; inscriptions in graphite in English on the backs of photographs.
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… a table, they were all married under the same chupa in Foehrenwald, Germany, January 1946. The couples include Eva and Martin Libitzky; Regina and Sam…
…The David and Nina Fox collection consists of two photographs taken Foehrenwald, Germany, likely at the Foehrenwald DP camp; a newspaper clipping…
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… numbers painted down the right side of the shirt and the right pant leg, a sign hanging around the neck reads: “Ich bin wieder da!” Foehrenwald, Germany…
… 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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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…
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…
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