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.
… fall, until the final harvest in November. The family was deported again and arrived at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, on December 4, 1944…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0351 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0218
Date:
interview: 1989 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… apartment in 1940; hiding in an attic when the first massacre of Jews occurred; having to finally register as a Jew in May 1943 and go to Bergen-Belsen, where…
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… they took the prisoners of war for the work for building the barracks. We found out we were in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It seems like we are the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.292 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0292
Date:
interview: 1996 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944; working in a munitions factory for 10 days; being transferred with her sister to Bergen-Belsen; being sent to another…
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… Worked in an ammunition factory for ten days. 5:07:54 Sent to work for ten days in Bergen-Belsen. 5:10:20 They were sent to another ammunition factory in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.399.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0847
Date:
interview: 2015 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… an interpreter at an aluminum plant and salt mine after fighting near Magdeburg; coming across abandoned trains of teenage Jews shipped from Bergen…
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… gunsight in Fastaben (?) near Marg Oberg (?) and they smelled a horrible odor and discovered abandoned trains of teenage Jews shipped from Bergen-Belsen with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.59 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0059
Date:
interview: 1991 March 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… forget these things? BF: So then we came with this train. Where did we go? [pause] Oh, we, we got to Bergen-Belsen. SB: You got to Bergen-Belsen... BF: Yes…
These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
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.