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.
… in 1904 in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of Belarusian and Polish furriers. She and her first husband, Karl Albert Foerst, left Germany for South…
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… family of Belarusian and Polish furriers. She and her first husband, activist Karl Albert Foerste, left Germany in January 1933 and spent some time in…
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.95 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0095
Date:
interview: 1992 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Munzer, born February 26, 1920 in Berlin, Germany; discusses living in a neighborhood of mixed population in the district of Schöneberg; his…
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…:36,410 your school background, those sorts of things? 11 00:00:36,410 --> 00:00:50,570 I was born in Berlin on February 26, 1920 in Berlin, Germany 12…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.21 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 January 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… detached from his unit and made a MP, guarding German prisoners and AWOL American prisoners near Nice, France; liberating French prisoners in Germany; seeing…
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… and were singing the Marseilles. When they saw the Americans they kissed the driver. This was in Germany. He said he hadn't been home in 4 years. He was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.53 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0528
Date:
interview: 2009 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Gallant, born on October 30, 1928, in Berlin, Germany, describes his family; how life was fairly normal until the 1936 Olympics, at which point…
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…. They were a very good family, very loving family, but they -- as was the case in Germany with the -- with Jewry, the -- they were German first, Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.40 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0040
Date:
interview: 1978 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…George Tobias, born in 1923 in Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland), describes his childhood in Germany; his education; experiencing antisemitism in his…
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… went there for another three years until I finished ober tertia which is five years of gymnasium and that was the end of my education in Germany. After…
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
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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.