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: 1997.A.0416 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0065
Date:
interview: 1997 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… Battle of the Bulge, then into Germany again. April 1945 - As a liberator, went into Ohrdruf Camp in first group - saw bodies outside the ovens and a pit…
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
… the Yiddish theater group; the Romanian government restrictions in the inter-war period and the effects of the Russian occupation of Bessarabia in 1940…
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… she joined until she turned professional at age 15. She gives a thorough and highly descriptive account of the Yiddish stage. She details Romanian…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.220 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0509
Date:
interview: 2006 July 25
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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…. My parents were caught. How, when and where, I don’t know, but this friend I had who was Romanian, he did not have to wear a star, so he had more entry…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.16 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0016
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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… source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 301 00:15:29,050 --> 00:15:35,583 Kolomea This is not far from the Romanian border. 302 00:15:35…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.32 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0032
Date:
interview: 1989 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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…,600 --> 00:03:28,160 to camp Gurs, which is in the mountains, 71 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,450 in the Pyrenees, which was set up originally for all of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.303.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0977
Date:
interview: 2018 June 29-2018 July 01
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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… sometimes if they come, you know, past the evening time, they used to set up their camps next to our house. And we had to, on every Monday if our parents went…
…Marcel Hodak, born August 25, 1937, in Paris, France, discusses his mother Feiga, and father Jules, who were Romanian Jews who had emigrated to…
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… he was Jewish. >> Bill Benson: In a prisoner of war camp. Your parents and siblings, your sister and two brothers, were stripped of their French…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.2 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0001
Date:
interview: 1974 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the concentration or labor camps and whose mothers were Hungarian, Romanian, or Polish to be taken in by foster parents in the United States; escorting…
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… intended to liquidate everybody." She only knew that it would be terrible to be in a camp somewhere in Poland, https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
…Marcel Hodak, born August 25, 1937, in Paris, France, discusses his mother Feiga, and father Jules, who were Romanian Jews who had emigrated to…
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… Benson: I think you had told me that your father or your parents had heard there were rumors about camps being set up, detention and concentration camps…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0173 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0026
Date:
interview: 1996 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… to me 115 00:07:58,820 --> 00:08:07,880 and say a Romanian slang, which is "jidan" and pointed to me. 116 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:09,960 I don…
…Marcel Hodak, born August 25, 1937, in Paris, France, discusses his mother Feiga, and father Jules, who were Romanian Jews who had emigrated to…
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… [Speaking Non-English Language]. Childless couples and unmarried adults were taken to existing internment camps in France. But others included 1,129 men, 2…
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… sent to Europe because of his ability to speak Yiddish. He served as UNRRA director and field supervisor of displaced persons camps in the United States…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.236.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0674
Date:
interview: 2012 October 03
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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… school. In 1944 his father was sent to a forced labor camp but broke his collar bone getting on the train to the camp so got a 6-week reprieve. He called…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0456.4 | RG Number: RG-50.429.0004
Date:
interview: 1996 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marty Glickman (né Martin Irvin Glickman), born in 1917 in Bronx, NY, discusses his childhood and growing up in Brooklyn, NY; his Romanian parents…
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… with Hungarian athletes, 479 00:26:02,730 --> 00:26:06,330 and Romanian athletes, and British athletes, 480 00:26:06,330 --> 00:26:08,370 French…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0313 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0033
Date:
interview: 1995 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… Jewish young men were drafted to work camps 73 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:20,040 and later sent to the Russian front, where most of them 74 00:04:20,040 --> 00…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.319 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0319
Date:
interview: 1998 August 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Transylvania was ceded to Hungary in 1940; one of her brothers being deported to a labor camp; living in Budapest, Hungary while the city was under German…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.102 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0102
Date:
interview: 1996 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family's release; their eventual internment in a ghetto camp in Transnistria until 1944; the conditions, difficulties, and disease that were prevalent…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.264 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0174
Date:
interview: 2009 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… train station. Her uncle bribed a Romanian soldier, so the family could go to a labor camp. The train crossed the Dniester River and many children drowned…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.233.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0230
Date:
interview: 2014 August 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… the liberation essentially the first sign of liberation was a lot of shooting. The fighting. And then when that quieted down a squad of Romanian…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0067 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0113
Date:
interview: 1994 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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…. Younger brother Stefan got scarlet fever. August 1940 - Arrived near Yakutsk and Aldan to labor camp -14 family members in a hut Slept on one bunk, very…
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.