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.
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…-Cyprien (Concentration camp) Topical Subject: Refugee camps--Netherlands--Rotterdam. Refugees, Jewish--England. Jews--Germany--Berlin. World War, 1939-1945…
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… emigration. Jews rescue (1939-1945) Tuberculosis. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives. Geography: Amsterdam…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.585 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0025
Date:
interview: 2005 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews and Christians; the German invasion; the German occupation; witnessing the rape of a girl by a German soldier in May 1940; and witnessing the arrest…
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… unemployment. 13 Break 15 Also poor Jews in the neighborhood. They had some contact with one Jewish family. It was a very poor family. The daughter worked as a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.238.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0887
Date:
interview: 2016 August 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and Jews before that time; becoming enamored with mathematics; moving with his family in 1938 to Schiedam; spending two years at carpentry school…
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…-- that was more in the city part where they were. But I mean, at that time when I grew up, there was no difference between Jews and the Christians. They…
… Jews living on the coast, including Rotterdam, had to move inland. In the fall, they had to turn over radios, jewelry, gold, and other valuables. On…
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… after it hit a German mine, the German occupation of the Netherlands and the persecution of Jews, liberation, the Van Beeks and their relatives, and the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.642 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0642
Date:
interview: 1990 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Rotterdam; seeing Jews arrested; the reaction of the Dutch people in Rotterdam; her mother's activities with the Resistance; her mother hiding Jews and Allied…
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… situation, at this point, as being regular or normal. 1-11:20 Lakshmi remembers when the Germans came to take the Jews. She had some close Jewish friends and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.586 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0026
Date:
interview: 2005 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… removed from transport lists; issues involving Portuguese Jews who claimed not to be Jewish; meeting the camp commandant Gemmeker; liberation; and the…
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… are very nice to him. First anti-Jewish rules in 1941-2. He remembers the signs: Jews not allowed. 20 After these first measures against Jews, he became…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640
Date:
interview: 1998 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany.…
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… classes of the same grade and there was one teacher who asked take all the Jewish kids. So we were out of 48 kids we were 32 Jews in the class even 10 if it…
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