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: 1996.A.0586.31 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0031
Date:
interview: 1996 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women concentration camp inmates.…
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… aside In Auschwitz for 6 months doing nothing Daily routine, only shoes could stay with them and glasses, hair cut off, had an ID A thousand women and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.9 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0009
Date:
interview: 1981 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; American troops behavior towards German POWs; the journey home; the reception by the Women’s Voluntary Service; the psychological impact on Germans of POWs…
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… has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. on arrival in Czechoslovakia. REEL 10 Continues: sympathy shown to POWs by German women; medical…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.760 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0760
Date:
interview: 1990 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women--Personal narratives.…
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…. Well, we thought that they were talking silly. How could a family with children and women leave and try to cross the lines? But my parents and the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.154 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0154
Date:
interview: 1992 August 11 interview: 1992 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and put into a women’s concentration camp (she had avoided the first roundups); living with about 65 other Jews, Roma, and Yugoslavian partisans…
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… were orthodox. 20 00:02:11,835 --> 00:02:15,090 When we went to the temple, for instance, the orthodox temple. 21 00:02:15,090 --> 00:02:20,310 The women…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.291 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0291
Date:
interview: 1996 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… women with his wife's sister; observing shootings of Jews; hiding in their rescuers' barn, basement, a bunker, and with another of his wife's sisters…
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… father); with a three other women, in the cowshed, attic, bunker, throughout the winter, with his other family members, through winter into spring…
…Jewish women in the Holocaust--Personal narratives.…
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… being led to be killed. The women and children were being walked, walked quietly, holding on to their children – some carrying them. They were surrounded…
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… __________ mountain and because the radio said that all women between the ages of 15 and 25 have to go to such and such a sports palace and then clean up Hungary. We…
… outhouse with two other women. Around the same time, her brother Ben-Zion escaped with seven others including Murray Berger and joined the Bielski partisans…
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… outhouse with two other women. Around the same time, her brother Ben-Zion escaped with seven others including Murray Berger and joined the Bielski partisans…
These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
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.