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.1272.301 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0301
Date:
interview: 1996 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ya’akov Visgorditzki, born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania on October 19, 1931, describes being one of five children; attending a Jewish school; the…
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… went to an ORT school in the Ukraine. In 1950 he returned to Lithuania and was reunited with his sister, Mira, in Vilna. Ya’akov became a cab driver and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.67 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0067
Date:
interview: 1988 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; getting married in 1935; her father’s altruistic nature; going to Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) with her father to help inmates in a prison stage a…
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Shortly after the war began, Emanuel and his wife, Bronka (1902-?), escaped to Vilno (in modern-day Lithuania), and immigrated to Sweden with their son…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.384 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0384
Date:
interview: 2000 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kretinga (Lithuania)…
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… deported to Auschwitz and then Birkenau. They were taken to Kretinga, in Lithuania, to work in the Wehrmacht storage and workshop facilities. Sara was…
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.