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: 1998.A.0300.265 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0265
Date:
interview: 2005 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from their work, carrying the dead; the murder by local policemen of a Jewish family who had been in hiding; raids by Jewishresistance forces on peasant…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.404.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0119
Date:
interview: 1990 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… is one of 51 oral histories included in the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of JewishResistance.…
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…. There was a synagogue in this city of Vsetín, this town of Vsetín. There were about seventy families, Jewish families. They had a synagogue, a hazzan; and…
… Heilman on August 10, 1994. This interview is one of 51 oral histories included in the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of JewishResistance.…
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… of us, and were also a product of the parallel Jewish culture that celebrated the holidays. My parents were rather assimilated, but that does not mean…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.401.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0115
Date:
interview: 1990 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… is one of 51 oral histories included in the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of JewishResistance.…
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… landmarks and beautiful churches. Jewish synagogues. We used to go there. We had a...in, in, in uh, uh...I had to, I had to attend also the classes, you know…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.125 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0125
Date:
interview: 1992 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland--Bialystok.…
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… town on the Vistula River before it goes into the Gdansk Bay. The name is Gludjan. However that time there were no, very few Jewish people, perhaps, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.29 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0029
Date:
interview: 1975 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland.…
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…. Kodjinski lived there and he was sick with other sicknesses, such as typhoid, kidneys. He worked with a Polish group, then others. He also worked with Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.26 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0026
Date:
interview: 1975 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland.…
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….481*0009 Interview with HERR & FRAU SUSSMAN Escaped with a French girl from the underground resistance. In the dark and in snow, stayed out in field when all…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0304 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0060
Date:
interview: 1999 August 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland.…
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…; the death of her mother in Ravensbrück; being liberated through the intervention of the Swedish section of the World Jewish Congress; her religious…
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance--Poland--Warsaw.…
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…, as they called me. My Jewish name in Poland they call me Yankal Svibaum, Yankal in Jewish. I had a very large family in Warsaw. Q. But your name today…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.25 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0025
Date:
interview: 1992 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewishresistance.…
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… out. 389 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,300 The Poles out there, they're bloodthirsty for Jews, 390 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:36,080 for Jewish blood. 391 00:21…
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