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: 2006.70.45 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0045
Date:
interview: 1990 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… basement of Stabsgebaude and working in the Politische Abteilung as one of 60 womenprisoners on staff; how the gassing stopped during November 1944; the SS…
… Marie were sent to Theresienstadt. On August 10, 1942, Rudolf and Hana received transport notices. At the train station, they were assigned prisoner…
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… narratives. Political prisoners--Germany--Rottenburg am Neckar. World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish. Women psychologists. Prague (Czech Republic…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.283 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0283
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… friends; her father's death in December; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau a year later; separation from her brother; a Greek prisoner helping her and her…
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…. The stubenetest was cruel. 5:03 Women and men were separated. Women were more resilient. She was in this special camp for half a year. Only Czechs from…
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… visiting him in prison, but I don't remember. R: I don't know. I: No? R: We didn't see him then. I: I don't remember seeing him. R: I remember going to what…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.4 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0004
Date:
interview: 1980 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s Requiem and observing religious activities and humor; being transported to Auschwitz in May 1944 and six weeks later to Christianstadt, a women's labor camp…
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…; how were you treated? EB: We lived men and women separately in families. I lived with my mother and other women; and my father lived with men, other men…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.36 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0036
Date:
interview: 1991 September 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… while she was in Theresienstadt; being sent to Auschwitz then Birkenau B-2 “Familienlager”; conditions in the camp and the mistreatment of women in the…
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… detailed items (now in Israel). Men and women were housed separately. Her boyfriend acted as a liaison. Eight-hour work shifts. Tells the town’s history…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.26 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0026
Date:
interview: 1988 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to help the Jews; Erna trying to escape to Switzerland and getting arrested and then transported to a prison in Prague, where she remained from 1942 to…
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… generally survived the prison better than the men. He was bald. So were the women. 13:36 While you are telling me this story, I get the feeling that he…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.20 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0020
Date:
interview: 2007 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was too weak to work; seeing inmates commit suicide by touching the electric fence surrounding the camp; joining a transport of Polish prisoners of war…
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… surrounding the camp. After three months at Birkenau, Sarah joined a transport of Polish prisoners of war. She was taken to Czechoslovakia, where she worked the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.19 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0019
Date:
interview: 1990 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust.…
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…:13,590 and I can remember one. 506 00:35:13,590 --> 00:35:16,630 This was tragic. 507 00:35:16,630 --> 00:35:24,490 A boy from one of the women who…
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