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: 1998.A.0221.113 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0113
Date:
interview: 2005 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of Jews being taken to be executed by Lithuanian collaborators and German soldiers; corpses in the river; details of the mass shootings; anti-Jewish…
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…. She mentions the fate of the Jew’s belongings, how most items were put on trains and taken abroad. She discusses in great detail witnessing an execution…
… upon the Jews of Kovno after the German occupation, including deportation to forced-labor camps in Latvia, the execution of doctors and patients in the…
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… listening to light music from the radio. Professional executioners! The Lithuanian soil has been watered with our blood by the Lithuanians themselves with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.21 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in the mass executions; the sexual assault of Jewish women; fighting on the Eastern Front, including different imprisonments and releases; the…
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… go. This is disobeying an order—so I, I cannot justify it. And me, as an officer, to carry out the actual shootings! I am not an executioner. So there…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.48 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0048
Date:
interview: 1998 September 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1941 because of being Romani; the mass murder of Jews in Vilkija, Lithuania, including details of the execution; sleeping outside of the Romani camp…
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… third day after the execution they went with other Roma to take a look at the grave; says they saw moving ground and on top of the earth there was blood…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.55 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0055
Date:
interview: 1993 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… life in Kaunas in the 1930s; his life in the Kaunas ghetto, how they lived, what they ate, and the tasks they were assigned; executions in the ghetto…
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… while. 1.54 Executions of Jews begin. 1.57 28 Oct. 1941. 9 [7?] thousand Jews killed. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.104 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0104
Date:
interview: 2004 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Fort to be executed; deceptions used to cover the noise of shooting; knowing some of the local Lithuanian collaborators (Baltaraiščiai or White Stripers…
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… passed: no executions of Jews could take place in a public space, Jews had to be shot elsewhere out of public view. [00:] 10:23:23 – [00:] 20:15:20 He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.604.9 | RG Number: RG-50.641.0003
Date:
interview: approximately 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… protected by the non aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler; how her husband was sent to work in a factory and eventually executed along with 500…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.23 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0023
Date:
interview: 1998 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shooting (Execution)--Belarus--Minsk.…
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… executed in each batch; when asked about the interaction with the executioners after they returned to the barracks, he describes the relationship between the…
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