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: 2009.402.11 | RG Number: RG-50.654.0011
Date:
interview: 2011 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division in Silesia to fight the Soviets; witnessing the shooting of many German prisoners at the end of the war; his imprisonment as a…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Prisonersofwar.…
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… Soviet PoWs, and the situation of Polish Lithuanian and Jewish prisoners in “Zoyneberg” KL near Danzig. Arrangement is thematic. Language: Russian, German…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.448.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0709
Date:
interview: 2012 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.…
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… is over.” So I was a prisonerofwar. [DL] So when you were captured where were you sent? [RJ] We taken up to Tripoli and we were put in empty little…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.450.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0711
Date:
interview: 2012 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.…
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… has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. [DL] And you were then sent to an Italian PrisonerofWar camp, er briefly what were conditions like for…
… becoming a non-Jewish prisonerofwar after the German invasion; escaping with his cousin from a German prison and working with the underground movement in…
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… Warsaw surrendered, and I was taken as a prisonerofwar and taken out first, out of Warsaw on the 28 of September to the west, and near a small town of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.449.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0710
Date:
interview: 2012 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.…
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… you after that point? [AG] Well, I joined up with another column, and just marched [DL] And the other column, was that made up of other prisonersofwar…
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… Hungary or Romania. You know, they were taken there as not exactly prisoners or war, but they were isolated and kept. Eventually they let them go home, but…
…. In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, Herman was serving in the Polish army when he was captured as a prisonerofwar (POW). Herman…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.44 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0044
Date:
interview: 1988 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of the Jesuits; his education and his Jewish classmates; being a second lieutenant in the war; being taken as a prisonerofwar by the Soviets and…
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… three days of fighting with the Germans. On September 17 his unit was hit by the Soviets and they were taken as prisonersofwar. 1:42:00 He escaped from…
… -?), when he fought as an Austro-Hungarian soldier in World War I (1914-1918). He was captured, spent six years as a prisonerofwar, and was presumed dead…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.359.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0108
Date:
interview: 1990 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war escapes--Poland.…
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…: Could you tell me a little bit about your childhood memories before the war? A: I was a very happy child. I was the youngest from...from ten children and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.142 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0142
Date:
interview: 1992 August 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps.…
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… was but it was a prisonerofwar camp. And they unloaded us inn this place called Zamposten and this was how shall I say it was like a ghost camp…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.326 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0326
Date:
interview: 1997 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisonersofwar--Soviet Union.…
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… In 1942 they were allowed to write home but his letters never arrived. 6:18 Eldar explains the continuing effect of the war trauma on his life. 6:32 He…
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