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.
inclusive: circa 1920-2006 undated: bulk: 1932-1948
…Manfred Weidhorn was born on 10 October 1931 in Vienna, Austria to Aron and Anne Weidhorn. His father, Aron Weidhorn (1900-1948), was born in Rava…
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… Anne and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German- annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.340 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0340
Date:
interview: 1998 March 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Karl Kosidois, born in Vienna, Austria in 1916, describes growing up in an assimilated family that spoke German at home and only visited the…
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… was asked to leave the army. After Kristalnacht, Karl was sent to Dachau until June 6th, when he was freed under the condition that he leave Austria. He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.39 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0039
Date:
interview: 1992 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… going into hiding; her liberation by the Soviets; traveling through Łódź, Austria, and Italy; her illegal immigration to Haifa; her immigration to Israel…
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… trip through Lodz and Austria to Italy and in January 1946 with an illegal boat ‘Sereni’ to Haifa. 6.39 Her absorption in Palestine. Party politics. She…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0353 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0085
Date:
interview: 1997 November 09
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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… generations? 24 00:01:10,030 --> 00:01:15,190 Well, my father was in Austria all the time, Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.116 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0116
Date:
interview: 1982 February 18 interview: 1982 March 17 interview: 1982 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; serving in the Czech Army from 1924 to 1926; being a cantor in Vienna, Austria in 1928 and then in Novisad, Yugoslavia (now in Serbia) from 1928 to 1934…
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… just a side line. I remember exactly the spot where I read the first announcement of Franz Josef [emperor of Austria/Hungary], who said, "I have thought…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.822 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0822
Date:
interview: 2003 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Gelnay, born on December 8, 1910 in Vienna, Austria, discusses his childhood and life in Vienna; the family's move to Bratislava…
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…, Austria on December the 8th, 1910. And how many people were in your family? We were five-- the parents and three children. Do you want to give me the names…
… Beruh Chain (1928-), born in Vienna, Austria. Nechama, a skilled seamstress, and Yaakov, an accountant, owned their own business in Vienna making threads…
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… (1896‐1956) and Yaakov Beruh and their daughters, Gerda Beruh Ilan (1927‐) and Sonja Beruh Chain (1928‐), both of whom were born in Vienna, Austria and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.30 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0030
Date:
interview: 1981 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Russia; how in 1948 she went with her husband and her mother to Vienna, Austria; being placed in a displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria, where Chayale…
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.