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: 1995.A.1272.95 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0095
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ordered to go to the ghetto in Czilastnocho; the liquidation of the ghetto after two months and being sent with the other inmates to Auschwitz; being…
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….41 Describes ghetto: food, conditions, Hungarian administration. Mother was in ghetto Koloswar [?]. 2.58 After 2 months they were transported to Auschwitz…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.19 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0019
Date:
interview: 1991 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in 1943; joining a Zionist group; being captured at the Romanian border and being sent to Auschwitz; liberation by the Soviets; becoming head of the…
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… Auschwitz, they tried to move people across the Poland- Slovakia border. Leon hit a Judenrat guard in the head with an iron pipe to help save a man from being…
… to Auschwitz in 1943, and he was told by a witness that his wife died of typhoid at Auschwitz in October 1943.…
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… were deported from Krakow to Auschwitz in 1943, and he was told by a witness that his wife died of typhoid at Auschwitz in October 1943. Scope and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.337 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0337
Date:
interview: 1998 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… October 1944; having to support his family by working for a Wehrmacht officer; he and the rest of his family being rounded up and taken to Auschwitz; being…
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… Wehrmacht officer. Later, he and the rest of his family were rounded up and taken to Auschwitz. He was able to meet up with his mother and father there, but…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.271 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0271
Date:
interview: 1996 January 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… student in the city of Uzhhorod, Ukraine; returning to Sighet; details about his parents and his siblings; the deportation of his family to Auschwitz; his…
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… the community until they were all deported to Auschwitz. 1:18:44 Talks about his home 1:21:24 Chanan’s mother was Rivka bat (daughter of ) Liba and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.32 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0032
Date:
interview: 1993 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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… Hungary, at the time a free country. Continued his activities in Hungary with his friends under cover during the deportations to Auschwitz, and was later…
… Sosnowiec ghetto in Srodula, Sura and Daniel were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there.
Gerszon was able to survive in the ghetto until December 1943, at…
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… were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. Gerszon was able to survive in the ghetto until December 1943, at which time he was smuggled out of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.102 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0102
Date:
interview: 1991 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… for the transport. Max Bjesky said: “I don’t sell Jews”, and left his position as the head of the workers department. When Max arrived to Auschwitz, he…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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…, Yiddish, Polish, l., p/pp. 400. Keren ha-Jesod. Opole, Oświęcim. Files of regional branch offices. Protocols/minutes, outgoing and incoming correspondence…
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… imienne płatników. 1948-1949, rkps, mps, j. jid., j. pol., l., s. 400. Keren ha-Jesod. Opole, Oświęcim. Akta placówek terenowych. Protokoły, korespondencja…
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