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: 1999.A.0310.34 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0034
Date:
interview: 2004 May 25 interview: 2004 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Poland); being assigned to Auschwitz as a guard; serving on the ramp; working in the political department; his marriage in 1943; working in a factory after…
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…, zu Ausschwitz oder zum Ausschwitzprozess kommen. Klaus D.: jaja Interviewer: Das werden wir dann berühren. Das ist die eine Vorbemerkung. Die zweite…
… Auschwitz. Anatol and his brother-in-law survived selection, but his mother, wife, child, and sisters all perished at Auschwitz. In September 1944 he was…
… 1944 as the Soviet Army approached the vicinity of Radom, he was sent to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, he was deported to the Wittenberg labor camp near…
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… approached the vicinity of Radom, he was sent to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, he was deported to the Wittenberg labor camp near Stuttgart. In March 1945 he was…
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File 7: Najman family: Radom, Poland Circa 1910-Circa 1938
… subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at Sachsenhausen and…
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… were both subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at…
Film | Accession Number: 2008.40.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4667 | Film ID: 2851
Film Title:
Welt im Film no. 56
Date:
Event: 1946 Production: 1946 June 17
Duration:
00:07:14
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz. Crowds of people wait and wave on the dock. Cameramen film two women who display their tattooed arms. CU on the tattoos. A woman…
… the war.
Jerry was deported to several camps including Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Vaihingen, Hessental, and München-Allach. On a death…
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… Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Vaihingen, Hessental, and München-Allach. On a death march in 1945, he was shot in the leg and left for dead. He…
… heart attack and died on August 19, 1941 in Brussels. In 1942 Sophie and Gerda were deported from Mechelen (Malines) to Auschwitz, where they perished…
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…) to Auschwitz, where they perished. Gertrude’s brother Alfred immigrated to the United States in 1937. Her sister Helene was sent to Bergen-Belsen…
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