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: 1999.A.0122.143 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0143
Date:
interview: 2000 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht in 1938; his life with his father in England; his decision to immigrate to the United States in 1943; his service in the US Army with the medical…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1245 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1245
Date:
interview: 1984 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of a transport of Jewish children to England organized by Gertrude Wijsmuller; the places she lived in the United Kingdom, including Liverpool…
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… brother who lives now in England and an older sister who lives in Stockton. Our early life was what would be considered middle class Jewish German-Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.15 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0015
Date:
interview: 2006 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; returning home and finding their home had been vandalized; staying with relatives in Hamburg, Germany; being sent on a Kindertransport to England with his…
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… grandfather’s pocket watch, a family heirloom, out of Germany • Sister was mistreated by her foster family in England • Parents were sent to Theresienstadt and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.694 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0694
Date:
interview: 1991 September 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and working as a domestic, and emigrating to England in 1938. Ms. Hankin describes her experiences there, her attempts to rescue her stepmother and…
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… would have been in trouble. It would have been his fault. So I stayed there until 19-- well, in 1936 a girlfriend of mine was in England and she got a job…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.9 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0009
Date:
interview: 1991 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Jewish Brigade over his desire to go to Israel via England; being taken to England by the Canadian Air Force in October 1945; being housed with a…
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… Kinderheim begin. I wanted to go to England but the unit of the Jewish Brigade opposed the children to be sent to England. [He is interrupted by the camera-and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.9 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0009
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; leaving for England in June 1939 with her husband and son; living in England for nine months and working as an air warden; going to the US in March 1940 and…
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
… city hall in Neuwied, Germany; visiting her uncles in England; the religious practices within her family; getting married; her social life in Frankfurt…
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…, owing to that, as I said before, all the brothers of my grandfather were in England, in London. And so constantly we were in connection with London. They…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0016 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0091
Date:
interview: 1998 January 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… advised by the principal to leave the country; going to London, England the summer after his Bar Mitzvah (1932); attending Ewell School and going back to…
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…:19:22,340 --> 00:19:25,820 But later, when I was going to school in England-- and I'm 359 00:19:25,820 --> 00:19:28,710 getting ahead of myself now…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.28 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0028
Date:
interview: 1988 November 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and synagogue; the confiscation of Jewish possessions and homes; his mother having to leave her home; going to England in March 1939; his sisters in…
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… money. She then sent her husband to England; she fled to Switzerland, and joined him in England three months later. 22:00 After Mr. Heiman left school in…
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