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: 1998.A.0300.183 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0183
Date:
interview: 2003 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sobibór (Poland)…
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… the interviewee’s story due to a lack of chronology and details.] Stefan Ostapiuk was born on January 17, 1925 in Osowa near the future sight of Sobibór…
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… the camp asked us to send out mail into the neutral countries, so that they would have an alibi that the Jewish people are living in Poland, I wrote to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.3 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0003
Date:
interview: 1983 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibór.…
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… collection Time-coded notes of the Interview with Thomas Blatt June 19, 1983 01:01:19 Comes from Poland, a typical shtetl, about 4,000 Jews and 200 Christians…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.425.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0066
Date:
interview: 1990 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp escapes--Poland--Sobibór.…
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… of war still has some more privileges than a Jew in Poland and they wanted to get rid of the Jews. That's the reason they send us back. And I came and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.378.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0184
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Siedliszcze; her transport to the labor camp at Staw Noakowski, Poland for a short time before she and her brother were sent to Sobibór in December 1942…
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…...Terner Raab. Terner is my maiden name. Q:Where were you born? A:In Che_m, Poland. Q:And when? A:1922, June 11th. Q:Tell me about your parents and your…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.110 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0110
Date:
interview: 1999 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Edward Domański, born in 1923 in Siedliszcze, Poland, describes the prewar community of Siedliszcze; his forced labor in Dusseldorf; returning to…
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… town of Siedliszcze near Chełm in Eastern Poland. Before the war there were about 1,000 Jews and about one dozen Polish families. With the exception of a…
…. At Sobibór she met her future husband, Chaim Engel (1916-2003), who was born in Brudzew, Poland, and raised in Łódź. He was captured by the Germans…
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… (1943-1944), written while in hiding in German occupied Poland, describes Selma’s arrival at the Sobibór concentration camp, the Sobibór uprising and her…
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Series 1: Selma Engel papers Circa 1926-Circa 1946
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.130 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0130
Date:
interview: 2002 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jadwiga Wojciechowska, born in Legionowo, Poland in 1921, discusses living near Chelm, Poland during the war; the execution of a Jewish family; and…
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… she followed a group of Jews who were being escorted from the Sawin ghetto to the Sobibór extermination camp. Ms. Wojciechowska did not witness the…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, Łódź, Sosnowiec, Warsaw. 2. Plans of concentration camps and labor camps, e.g. Bełżec, Chełmno, Sobibór, Treblinka, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Krakow…
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… camp)‐‐Maps. Sobibór (Concentration camp)‐‐Maps. Concentration camps‐‐Poland‐‐Maps. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Concentration camps‐‐Poland‐‐Maps…
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