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.0122.858 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0858
Date:
interview: 1996 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Frankfurt; the greater freedom she remembers there; Kristallnacht; her flight with her mother and other family members to Rotterdam, Netherlands; their…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1102 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1102
Date:
interview: 2005 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Ms. Miller's childhood in Nuremberg, Germany; her memories of Kristallnacht; and her proximity to Julius Streicher, who lived…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.28 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0028
Date:
interview: 1988 November 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… shoe trade in 1935 twenty minutes from downtown Hanover; the Nuremburg laws; the events on Kristallnacht, including the destruction of the Jewish stores…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0558 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0053
Date:
interview: 1996 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; having one brother and one sister; living in a friendly and peaceful community until Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938 when antisemitism became so violent…
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… go to your own class? 90 00:05:03,490 --> 00:05:14,740 Well, up until, really, just before Kristallnacht, fine. 91 00:05:14,740 --> 00:05:17,590 We…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.61.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0693
Date:
interview: 2013 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nuremberg and not being affected by them; his memories of Kristallnacht when the Nazis destroyed their apartment; moving to another home; the arrest of his…
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… Kristallnacht – Q: Okay. A: – you know. Q: So tell us about that – A: Okay. Q: – how that – yeah. A: There was a lot of – very early in the mornings, a lot – or…
… from a relative in the US and were put on a waiting list of would-be immigrants.
After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 and Gerald…
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… disks, CDs, and DVDs documenting interviews, exhibits, commemorative events, related to Herschel Grynszpan, Kristallnacht, the Holocaust, the Nuremberg…
Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0098 | Film ID: 144
Date:
Event: May 10, 1933
Duration:
00:04:08
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… 1938: Funeral procession for Ernst vom Rath (German diplomat assassinated by Grynspan, whose death was used to justify Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938…
… her daughters’ families immigrated: Bertha’s to the United States and Dina’s to England. On November 9, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German…
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… the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, when the family’s home was ransacked, the Müllers were forced to relocate to another apartment, and began…
commemoration: 1934 received: after 1945 November 26-before 1946 October 15 issue: 1934
… June 2, 1938, Göring’s daughter Edda was born. Göring was integral in removing Jews from the German economy. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom on…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0355 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0040
Date:
interview: 1996 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… Kristallnacht, 461 00:27:49,330 --> 00:27:55,420 so I don't have that memory pattern at all. 462 00:27:55,420 --> 00:27:57,410 Did you have a bar mitzvah? 463 00…
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
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… to figure out how old you were. In 1938, when Kristallnacht happens in Germany and there’s all these riots and 30,000 pe -- Jews are put into…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0121 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0428
Date:
interview: 1996 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… knew of course, about Kristallnacht, we knew about Hitler. In fact I remember as a child, listening to Hitler, I remember that they broadcast here, in…
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… Poland, and the famous [indecipherable] Kristallnacht, and of course that was supposed to be in retaliation for the assassination of a German diplomat, and…
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