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.
… Gurs concentration camp in France in October 1940, transferred to Les Milles and Marseilles in late 1941, and transferred via Drancy to Auschwitz in…
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… Heilbronn and Wertheim family members in Germany, England, Belgium, and Rhodesia and French concentration camps at Gurs and Les Milles; correspondence…
…, which was under the protection of the Swiss Red Cross. Alfred was deported to the Gurs internment camp. While in Gurs he reunited with Trude's father…
…, internment, and deportation of Jews. Herbert was arrested and held in Gurs internment camp in southwestern France. He decided to immigrate to Switzerland…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.207.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0936
Date:
interview: 2017 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… to camps, to a camp by the name of Gurs. I guess Gurs was a city maybe. In France. In France. Yeah. Now, the Grunbaums do you remember saying goodbye…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0316 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0252
Date:
interview: 1989 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… internment camps - not concentration camps but internment camps in southern France - St. Cyprien, Gurs, Rivesaltes and there were several others. Now at the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.22 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0022
Date:
interview: 1981 September 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… that the people in Frankfurt had better things to do than rounding up Jews and deporting them. She was supposed to go to Gurs, [A concentration camp in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.38 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0038
Date:
interview: 1977 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… France, to Gurs, and then the letters came, help, help, help. We tried. We tried in vain. Too late. Too late, too late. I never forget this. Because I was…
…, and her mother had to raise the children on her own. The family remained in Mannheim until October 1940 when they were deported to the Gurs internment…
… protection of the Swiss Red Cross. However, Alfred was sent as an enemy alien to the Gurs internment camp in southern France. There he actually managed to…
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.