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.1272.302 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0302
Date:
interview: 1996 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent to Majdanek and separated from her mother, who was sent to Auschwitz; an SS guard taking a liking to her and giving her extra food; being…
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… sent to camp Budzyn and then Majdanek. At some point Sara was separated from her mother who was sent to Auschwitz. While being transported by bus with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.296 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0296
Date:
interview: 1996 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s office for extra food; evacuation on foot (her brother being taken by bus) to Krasnik; seeing her father briefly; being sent to Auschwitz; the march out of…
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… were no longer working. Exit from Majdanek on the way to Auschwitz. 3:18:44 On the way, they spotted their father who was being transported by train…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.308 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0308
Date:
interview: 1996 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… schools and the start of deportations in 1942; most children going to Auschwitz and being killed; how she was sick and was allowed to stay in Presov for a…
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… and older were sent to Auschwitz and killed. Shoshana was sick and allowed to stay for a month but then she was sent on a cattle train to the Deblin…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.298 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0298
Date:
interview: 1996 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Majdanek and being forced to march for a week to Tshmelev, Poland; going by train to Auschwitz and moving to Birkenau; her work splitting rocks and the…
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… forced to march for a week to Tshmelev, Poland. She was taken by train to Auschwitz. After the State of Israel was declared, she went by train to Italy and…
… Sosnowiec ghetto in Srodula, Sura and Daniel were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there.
Gerszon was able to survive in the ghetto until December 1943, at…
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… were deported to Auschwitz and murdered there. Gerszon was able to survive in the ghetto until December 1943, at which time he was smuggled out of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.284 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0284
Date:
interview: 1996 July 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… tours to Auschwitz) and describes her reactions to it. Recently, she has written up her memories in a book and some articles possibly influenced her…
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
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… women from Auschwitz. 07:25 Describes what happened during the medical experiments in special building. 07:30 Describes what happened to Brigitta and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.339 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0339
Date:
interview: 1998 March 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… from Majdanek to Auschwitz when she was liberated by the Russians. Only one of her uncles survived. They returned to Krasnik for a short time, but…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.70 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0070
Date:
interview: 1992 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… sanitarium. Auschwitz survivors begin arriving, among them former classmates of Rachel's. One of them, Tushke, severely affected by TB died a few days later…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.264 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0264
Date:
interview: 1995 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… given. His philosophy on the matter. 33.14 They were transferred to Auschwitz. [Previous to that story, Y recalls the punishments at Blizyn.] 42.17 Y left…
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