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: 2006.70.53 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0053
Date:
interview: 1989 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… boycotting of Jewish shops; his father and himself being imprisoned and their business being taken on Kristallnacht; being released from prison after one week…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0214 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0393
Date:
interview: 1998 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his troop became classified as political prisoners; the camp's evacuation to Pelplin, Poland, where they were forced to clear the roads and dig anti…
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… happened that they locked us as a political prisoner, my friends, who are -- who were Jewish origin, you know, Matchie Shapinski is a Jewish, but -- he was a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.238.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0265
Date:
interview: 2017 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… certain area as they were filled with U.S. soldiers (Howard received the Bronze Star for this action); being close to Jewish IPW (Interrogators of Prisoners…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0197
Date:
interview: 1989 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… surrounded by Jewish people; her liberation by Russian forces; staying in a Jewish hospital for three years to recover from injuries and disease; immigrating…
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… been a very nice Jewish family. My father was director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. I had a brother and a sister. My mother, what I heard and would…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1470 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1470
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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… there about four month in in the hospital. Was Russian doctor Jewish doctor. Und he told us few woiuans was over there. One time Mrs. La but-ski died. He…
Court inquiries about executions and mass graves in districts, provinces, camps, and ghettos
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Occupation–History.…
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…-1945. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Occupation–History. World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons--Poland. War crimes--History--Poland—20th century…
…. Schwertfeger demonstrates how German nationalism became more lethal for all prisoners, especially after the summer of 1944 when thousands of Jewish woman died in…
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.