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: 1999.A.0122.599 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0599
Date:
interview: 2003 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; their return to Leipzig; their family's escape to London, England; her parents' insecurity because of their illegal status in England; being sent with her…
… to live with family in London, England, where a third child, Eve (1936-) was born. Hans, who was not allowed to work in England, immigrated to Holland…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.12 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0012
Date:
interview: 2005 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… march died; being liberated from Theresienstadt by the Russians in May 1945; being sent to London, England as an orphan child; learning to speak English…
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… England as an orphan; then immigrated to the U.S. in 1949 • Was drafted for the Korean War one year after arriving in U.S. • Married for over 50 years…
…Vera Nussenbaum was born Vera Ribetzki in 1925 in Leipzig to Leo Ribetzki and Yetta Schmulewitz Ribetzki. She left Germany for England on a…
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…’s travel to England on a Kindertransport, her family’s efforts to emigrate, her uncle’s death in Sachsenhausen, and her mother, aunt, and grandmother…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.796 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0796
Date:
interview: 1996 January 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… troops (Operation Todt); being captured and imprisoned in several prisoners-of-war camps in England; continuing his medical studies in England; returning…
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… came close to the wire, just shortly after the invasion, a buddy of mine and I, we escaped anyway. Because I wanted to get to England because my mother…
… getting in trouble in school for refusing to sing Nazi songs, Fritz and Käte made plans to emigrate from Cologne to England. They sent Lotte to Leipzig to…
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… Nazi songs, Fritz and Käte made plans to emigrate from Cologne to England. They sent Lotte to Leipzig to live with Käte’s parents and attend a Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.55 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0055
Date:
interview: 1992 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… received medical care in the hospital; being liberated by the Russians; going to Prague, Czech Republic then Windermere, England; being sent by the British…
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… country sent a trainload to take its people home. Except us. After they left, a committee from England arrived to Theresienstadt and had a meeting with us…
… Kindertransport to London, England. Her cousin Vera had already arrived in England, her sister Edith joined her in July, and her cousins Harold, Siegmar, and Zilla…
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… sister and cousins in England, where she had arrived via a Kindertransport, and her move to Detroit; her parents’ journey from Leipzig to Budapest and…
…; joining the Airborne in June 1943 and being shipped to Bristol, England in April 1944 as a member of the 101st Airborne Division; landing on Omaha Beach on…
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… over there. So in the end of March or early April, 1944, I found myself in Bristol, England, earmarked for the 101st Airborne Division. Well, actually, I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.30 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0030
Date:
interview: 1984 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… permanently closed; going to England in May 1946 through an orphan-refugee program; immigrating to the United States three years later; his surviving siblings…
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