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: 2000.9 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0405
Date:
interview: 2000 January 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… participating in the religious community; her father’s mobilization into the Polish Army on September 1, 1939 and then being taken as a prisoner of war by the…
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… [indecipherable] and her daughter. And he -- these two women, they were teachers in sch -- in the school. I don’t remember how many classes, I think only five…
Film | Accession Number: 2002.546.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3716 | Film ID: 2576
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star]
Date:
Event: 1933 - 1945 Production: 1980
Duration:
01:24:15
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… corpses. Carts, wheeled to cemetery, put down chute into pit. Aktion, or at least rapid movement of Jews by Jewish police. Boys, women, out of prison and in…
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… I was in, so all of a sudden a women says, , I will and I will show you. You keep quiet children. She through the door, to the window, up the window…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.178 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0178
Date:
interview: 1991 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; escaping with her husband to Budapest, Hungary; being placed in the Stanislawow (Ivano Frankivsk) prison; being transferred to the Lvov (L'viv) Jewish camp…
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… orphanage. Attempted to cross the border into Hungary; was caught and sent to prison in Stanislov. Concealed her Jewish identity. A prisoner in Majdanek…
Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0117B | Film ID: 150
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star] (part 2)
Date:
Event: 1933 Production: 1980
Duration:
00:50:13
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… down chute into pit. 10:15:45 [01:15:13] Aktion, or at least rapid movement of Jews by Jewish police. Boys, women, out of prison and in streets (perhaps…
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