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.
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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… movement by German nationalists brought about the so-called electoral USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0325 2 victory confirming Hitler in the position of Chancellor…
inclusive: circa 1937-2001 undated: bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. During the Battle of the Bulge on 17 December 1944, Bernard was captured by German forces in Luxembourg and sent to Stalag IX B, a Germanprisoner-of-war…
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…nd Engineers. During the Battle of the Bulge on 17 December 1944, Bernard was captured by German forces in Luxembourg and sent to Stalag IX B, a Germanprisoner…
publication/distribution: 1942 use: 1943-1945 June
Title:
My Military Missal
…, Stalag IX-B, in Bad Orb, Germany. Tony was prisoner number 27016. He was interrogated for several hours by a German officer in English and Spanish, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.95 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0408
Date:
interview: 2000 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of the Nazi prisoners; his promotion to captain in January 1946; his participation in a project to get the “German viewpoint” of the Holocaust…
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… prisoners of war, and with German government officials, that we began to become aware of what Nazism is all about. And this is what made my own assignment…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.376.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1041
Date:
interview: 2019 August 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; taking a night train from Montreal to Penn Station in New York; his service in the U.S. Army; and his work at army camps for German POWs in Nebraska.…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s role as a lieutenant in the army and his capture by the Germans in June 1940; her husband’s escape; her parents and sister fleeing to North Africa via…
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… German, immediately they were picking up the hostages. In the prisons, this is where they were making their revenge. For any German who had been shot…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.23 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0179
Date:
interview: 2010 January 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germans came in 1941; being forced to live in the ghetto in Riga, Latvia with five people to a room and little food; getting hit in the eye when a German…
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…:17,010 But you know how a prison looks. 875 00:37:17,010 --> 00:37:17,790 Yes. 876 00:37:17,790 --> 00:37:23,370 But the Germans and the four horses…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.2 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her mother making a living as a singer in France during the war and escaping to Italy during the German occupation of France; her mother’s siblings…
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… were the only survivors. My mother spoke, French, Italian Yiddish and could understand German. This was a tool to survive. My mother was in prison in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.24 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0024
Date:
interview: 1988 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his time serving in the Polish Army from 1937 until 1939; being a prisoner of war in 1939; living in the Gwoździec ghetto; his time in the ghetto in…
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… whole war existed with Poland, 33 00:01:56,100 --> 00:01:58,220 I became a war prisoner. 34 00:01:58,220 --> 00:02:00,420 I was in a German war prison. 35…
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.