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: 1997.A.0441.69 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0069
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09 interview: 1981 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, German--China--Shanghai.…
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… German law, or Jewish decision? WS: They couldn't become law. And the reason is not, or at least not alone, is that they didn't want the Jews. They just…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.74 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0074
Date:
interview: 1987 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews from Germany between the years of 1938 and 1939; volunteers who were given the opportunity during the Russian occupation to leave for German…
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… number of GermanJews. But they didn't feel that we were in immediate danger. So therefore, he had no-- he didn't have a chance to get us in. Did one need…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.24 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0024
Date:
interview: 1981 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, German--Netherlands.…
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…. These were Dutch people? These were GermanJews. German also? Yeah, Resi Blumenthal and her husband, Reinhardt. And my brother and I stayed with our…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1809 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1809
Date:
interview: 1977 October 11-1977 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her impressions of the transports of Hungarian Jews coming to Auschwitz; being transferred to Ravensbrück concentration camp; being sent to another…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.126 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0126
Date:
interview: 1992 August 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine.…
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… advancing and the Germans were surrounding Moscow. So you know there was there was -- even though they confiscated radios from the Jews at that time because…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.25 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0025
Date:
interview: 1995 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… by the Germans; life in the Minsk ghetto: pogroms, the deaths of GermanJews brought there in the summer of 1942, and deaths from disease and hunger…
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…. Found her sister and sister’s child dead. Mother and brother managed to survive. 1.28 In summer of 1942, GermanJews brought into ghetto. Many killed…
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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.