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.
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…. Russians offered free transportation to Russia Went in cattle car for 3 weeks to the Ural Mountains, near the Tartar River, then to Sverloskoya-Oblosj Worked…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.30 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0513
Date:
interview: 2007 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Bund; her family attempting to escape from Warsaw to Bialystok, Poland; moving to Ufa, Russia to work in factories; hiding with her brother but catching…
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… Dafna in Israel. He is older than me. And they run to Russia during the war, but the mother died in Russia and my Uncle Yukel died in Poland coming back…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0128.13 | RG Number: RG-50.165.0013
Date:
interview: 1989 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Polish--Russia (Federation)--Siberia.…
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… came to New York in ’51…on the General Eltinge… WH: During the war, you fled across the border into Russia… MC: Yes…into Siberia…a lot of them didn…
…Benjamin Taubmann (1902-1971) was born in Kiev, Russia (now Kyïv, Ukraine) to Jewish parents, David and Sara Taubmann. Helene Schneidmann (1907-1996…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.449.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0128
Date:
interview: 1990 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joseph Levine, born in Molodezhnyi, Russia on July 20, 1907, describes the difficulties his family faced in World War I; his family’s immigration to…
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… the small town of Malodezna in Russia. Q: And will you now give us a little background of your childhood, growing up. A: Well, I...in 1914, when I was 7…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.30 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0030
Date:
interview: 1981 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Russia) then to Tashkent, Uzbekistan to pick cotton in another cooperative; the difficulties of adapting to the Russian way of getting along; relations…
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… refugees used to leave Russia. In 1948 Chayale, her husband and her mother, walked to Vienna. Israelis met their group and placed them in a Displaced Persons…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.59 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0059
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Weinrieb, born 1917 in Zagorza, Russia (possibly Zagorsk, Russia), describes his parents fleeing illegally to Germany to avoid service in the Red…
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… in Russia. Yes. In 1919 my parents left Russia because they deserted the Red Army, and they entered illegally into Germany. My father took a job there…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1468 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1468
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Russia (Federation)--Komi.…
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… words are spelled phonetically in all caps. 10 This tape begins in Lhe middle of sentence. 11 A. Betty Wiss. 12 Q. What ghetto were you in 13 was Russia…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.349.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0737
Date:
interview: 2014 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rubtsovsk (Russia)…
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… grandfather built the trans-Siberian railroad in Russia. And my father traveled a locomotive. So my father went, and he was running the train to Poland. Because…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.92 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0182
Date:
interview: 2010 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Uzbekistan; working in a malaria clinic; leaving the clinic after reporting that people were stealing food from the hospital; going to Seratov, Russia to the…
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… first young woman, Susan Strauss, wanted to leave, to go back to her home and not to Russia. Herman gave the commander his watch to get his permission for…
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.