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: 2013.294.63 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0063
Date:
interview: 2012 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; deaths by Zyklon B; being in the camp for 13 months; being liberated by the Canadians from Ludwigslust concentrationcamp ; speaking English with the…
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… not going to an extermination camp. Ravensbruck was indeed an extermination camp for women (where 100,000 of them perished), but not for men. The men…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.20 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0020
Date:
interview: 2001 July 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… body weight; his order to open a safe in a concentrationcamp where he worked quickly and did not notice anything about the circumstances of the camp…
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… [indecipherable] marschiert sind und Jungzugführer und alles was da- und die Mädchen hatten ihr Dings, alle die Uniform, zogen immer alle die Uniform dazugehabt…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.276.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0229
Date:
interview: 2013 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentrationcamp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… one who was taken into camp, sent into concentrationcamp. Q: Okay. A: And that was 1940, I think. Q: 1940? A: '41. Q: '41. Okay. A: And I was sent…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.373.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0832
Date:
interview: 2015 October 28-2015 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentrationcamp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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…, we never got back, also photos, nothing, never got back. And there in Cyprus I was for 18 months, it was a concentrationcamp. With English soldiers up…
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.