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.1283.3 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0003
Date:
interview: 1995 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Leuchtenburg, Germany for forced labor; her liberation by American forces; her return to the Soviet Union via an internment camp in Switzerland; and her life in…
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… liberated by Americans. 1.14 After liberation went to camp in Switzerland, which was just across the border. Stayed there 4 months, along with liberated…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.27 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0027
Date:
interview: 1993 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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… pocket, that. 195 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,700 When we come to the camp in Bobruisk, 196 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:47,470 there was then, the Germans, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.12 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0012
Date:
interview: 1999 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz; his encounter with a group of Jews in Auschwitz after officers abandoned the camp; being present in Auschwitz during the camp’s liberation by the…
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… the day of liberation for the Auschwitz camp. We were then pulled back then because we lost contact to the right and left of us and didn’t think any…
… by the Germans, and survived for a year in a prisoner of war camp before escaping. After his escape, he joined the partisans in Belarus where he served…
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… to research about the Holocaust, heroism of the Jewish people during WWII and to the history of Sobibór deathcamp and uprising. The most important…
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… people during WWII and to the history of Sobibór deathcamp and uprising. The most important part of this collection is Mikhail Lev’s correspondence with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.92 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0092
Date:
interview: 1992 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… exile to Siberia; being cleared of all charges and his passport was returned; being caught by Germans in Minsk, Belarus; being sent to a military camp…
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… to decide whether to send them to their deaths or to a nearby prison camp. 26.20 They were taken to the prison camp where close to 100,000 Soviet…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.261 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0261
Date:
interview: 1995 November 17-1995 December 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; liberation; hospitalization in Linz, Austria; traveling east, in search of news about his family, to such places as Munkacz (Mukacheve), Ukraine, Minsk…
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…, one day before the campliberation. At point of exhaustion, they encountered British soldiers and were sent to Weltz. Describes their wondering through…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.111 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0111
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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… store to the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen in ’38. Q: Did they both finish school before they took these jobs? A: No. Q: They were also thrown out…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.42 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0062
Date:
interview: 2000 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Italy; working as an administrator in displaced persons camps; working on a kibbutz in Italy; immigrating to the United States; starting a family and…
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… Italy; working as an administrator in displaced persons camps; Zionism; working on a Kibbutz in Italy; immigrating to the United States; starting a family…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.43 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0043
Date:
interview: 1984 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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…. How long did you stay in the camp after liberation? No, after the liberation, I didn't stay in the camp. Where did you go then? After liberation, they…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.31 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0031
Date:
interview: 1991 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… drop of weapons and supplies; blowing up German trains; his unit's dissolution; many casualties from German attacks; liberation by Soviet troops…
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… death of other Jews. 17.00 Life in the commune. 7.50 The IJF had 500 members. They managed to carry out sabotage actions against a mighty army. 12.00 More…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.255.8 | RG Number: RG-90.143.0008
Date:
interview: 2010 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with survivors of Sobibor extermination camp; second generation survivors; and co-defendants at the John Demjanjuk trial…
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…,930 --> 01:01:28,080 Er, and did he participate in the liberation of Jews and Jewish camps? 648 01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:37,510 But did you somehow participate…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.881 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0881
Date:
interview: 1991 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… the husband of her other aunt were in prison and then released in 1926. After the death of Lenin Members of the Bund group were persecuted. Her aunt…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.209 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0209
Date:
interview: 1995 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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…. Father was sentenced to 10 years in a camp in Magadan. [V.M. does not give charges against father.] In October 1937 V's mother arrested and also sent to a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.22 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0022
Date:
interview: 1993 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Derahychin – an exciting and important event. Books have been written about Dr. Atlas. 4.30 Partisan family camps – describes these camps in the woods where…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0419 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0377
Date:
interview: 1996 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… and accounts of those who survived the prisoner-of-war camp, he apparently broke through the encirclement of Germans and buried the flag in a forest. Of…
Film | Accession Number: 1981.1.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0580 | Film ID: 215
Film Title:
Sud Narodov [Judgment of the People - The Nuremberg Trials]
Date:
Event: 1945-1946 Production: 1946
Duration:
00:30:36
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, and the liberation of the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin. Karmen made the film "The Judgment of the Peoples" about the Nuremberg trials. Karmen…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.146 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0146
Date:
interview: 1993 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… deaths, so he tried to hide. After they threatened to take his sister instead, he relented. 2:52:00 Work at the Duksht lumber yard was hard: 12 hours of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.774 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0774
Date:
interview: 1991 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… as family of average means. My childhood was like the childhood of all Soviet children. went to school During the summer went to camp for pioneers We…
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