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.1272.31 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0031
Date:
interview: 1991 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… leaders of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Moshe we mobilized into the Polish army. One other brother, Zeev, emigrated to Israel in 1935, at the time of the…
… published 11 books in Yiddish and Russian, as well as articles and essays. In 1996, Lev immigrated to Israel and died there on May 23, 2013.…
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… 11 books in Yiddish and Russian, as well as articles and essays. In 1996, Lev immigrated to Israel and died there on May 23, 2013. Scope and content of…
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… Archives Finding Aid RG-68.118 Israel February 28, 2011 RG-68.118 Acc. 2011.12 Title: Literary Archive of the Soviet Yiddish Writer and Journalist Mikhail…
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
… Americans on May 5, 1945; going to Israel illegally; being intercepted by the British and spending 21 months in Cyprus; being able to go to Israel, where he…
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…'m living in Cleveland. And-- Are you married now? I married. I married in Israel. And do you have a family. I have a family. I have two daughters with one…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.160 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0160
Date:
interview: 1992 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… survived. Also, the Germans gave the order to burn the collective grave. 39.35 Sara and her husband decided to go to Eretz Israel. It was the end of 1945. 41…
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
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… he emigrated illegally to Eretz, Israel was caught by the British and imprisoned in Cyprus. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.388 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0388
Date:
interview: 2011 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… phone her up. She has been here about four or five times, I'm not sure, in Israel for a month holiday each time. The last time she came with her son and…
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
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… many of his past and current activities for war veterans in Palestine/Israel. Explains why his 2-3 years as a partisan is the leading experience of his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.142 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0142
Date:
interview: 1992 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… previous tape. 13:35 Describes getting information about relatives. 13:39 Describes adjustment to Israel, meeting a man whom she wed, and getting married. 13…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.116 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0116
Date:
interview: 1993 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… a bureaucrat in city government. Mother worked in textile factory. Had older sister [died in Israel], a younger sister and an older brother. 1.05 Even…
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
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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…, such as poetry , stories and paper editing, sometimes encountering censorship. His interest in Israel developed especially following the 1967 war…
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
… eight months; moving to Israel in 1948; immigrating to the United States in 1960; and his life on Staten Island, NY. Also contains a photograph of Jack…
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…,730 --> 00:38:32,750 And I went to Israel. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken…
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
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… teacher. 13.30 Considers going to Israel in 1990. Begins process. 13.33 Mother died in 1985. Receives permission to emigrate. 13.36 Emigrates to Israel…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.295 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0295
Date:
interview: 1996 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… son in May 1948. 17:19 They went to Israel in 1949 through Italy. 17:25 Her husband died in 1995. He has written a book about their experiences. http…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.244 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0244
Date:
interview: 1995 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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…s. His daughter and her husband decide to go to Israel. V and his wife also decide to emigrate - late 1980s. 11.38 Describes arrival in Israel. V 12.00 In…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.41 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0041
Date:
interview: 1988 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… chemistry; following part of his family to Israel; being unable to find employment in Israel; and immigrating to the United States in 1956.…
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… the University of Berlin and obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry and followed part of his family to Israel. Unable to find employment there, he emigrated to…
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
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project…
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… intelligent. 13:16:20 Moshe arrived in Israel in January 1949, via Cyprus, after a two year internment in a camp there. He left Russia in December 1946, through…
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