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.1271.1 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0001
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners and prisons.…
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… Soviet oppression in Lithuania and the difficulties in her attempts, now pregnant, to travel to Japan; obtaining her exit permit and departing for Moscow…
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
… treatment of Sovietprisoners; and his attempt to obtain official papers in Soviet Lithuania in 1945.…
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… there were those who defiled Russian prisoners, they would poke out their eyes and fill them with cement; he insists that he did not participate in this…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.68 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0068
Date:
interview: 1983 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ukrainian guards killing Jewish prisoners; being sent with 5000 non-Polish Jewish volunteers to Pawiak prison to build barracks and crematoria in what had…
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… Germans came in. NL: And then your father became an employee? SS: He became an employee of the, of one of these--for the Soviet Union. NL: For the Soviet…
… by the Red Army, corpses of Sovietprisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the…
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… of Sovietprisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the German criminals. System…
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
…Leonas Stonkus, born in 1921 in Darbėnai, Lithuania, describes his family; the arrival of the Soviet Army in Darbėnai, including how soldiers robbed…
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… look for work, but were intercepted at the border and sent to prison in Kaunas; talks about the head of Komsomol (youth wing of the Soviet Communist…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.333 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0333
Date:
interview: 1998 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)…
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…, Sara was sent to work at the airport. Russian prisoners also worked there and under tough conditions, mainly hunger, they died like flies. 2:12:00 Sara…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.324 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0324
Date:
interview: 1997 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mitzvah; the Soviet occupation; transfer to a public school; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his parents and brothers (one sister fled to Russia…
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… camp in Sachsenhausen. For survival he took a Christian political prisoner’s name. After the war he was able to find his mother, father, sister and his…
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