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.1285.29 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0029
Date:
interview: 1986 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz in 1944; the Romani inmates’ fear of other inmates; the electrocution of Romanies on the perimeter wire; the food rations; being an inmate in Babitz…
… to Auschwitz, where she had to carry heavy stones and bricks; helping a Romani girl clean herself and, in return, being warned that the people in her…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.5 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0005
Date:
interview: 1992 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… selections by Josef Mengele and other doctors in the camp; the mistreatment of rabbis and priests in Auschwitz; the gassing of Romanies infected with typhus…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.44 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0044
Date:
interview: 1985 December 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the destruction of the synagogue; being sent to Birkenau in 1944; being separated from this parents; Kapos; the treatment of Romanies; the atrocities…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.12 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0012
Date:
interview: 1946 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Romanies in the camp to make room in the camp for the Jews from Łódź; and his life after liberation studying to be a dental technician at an OSE school.
At…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.8 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0008
Date:
interview: 1994 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto in 1942 that consisted of the old, young, and sick; the Romani camp in the ghetto and the typhoid epidemic; the Roma being deported to the Chełmno…
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…--Poznań Region. Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Warsaw. Polish orphans--Poland--Łódź. Police--Poland-- Śrem Prisoners of war--Poland--History. Romanies -- Nazi…
The Archive of Admonishment: The Hans-Jürgen Hässler Collection
…Romani Genocide, 1939-1945…
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… employees Nazi propaganda Neo-Nazism Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) Romani Genocide, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945-- War work--Red Cross…
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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.