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.
… Auschwitz. Her sister Katalin was deported to Auschwitz, and then to Bergen-Belsen concentrationcamp where she was a forced-laborer. After liberation, she…
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… Bergen-Belsen concentrationcamp where she was a forced-laborer. After liberation, she was sent to a rehabilitation camp in Loka Brunn, Grythyttan, Sweden…
… concentrationcamp on October 31, 1942, and presumably killed. Berta's sister Melanie, with her young son, arrived in the US in 1946. Their brother, with his wife…
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… and Berta Victor papers consist of an autograph book, biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, restitution files, and writings…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.422.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0149
Date:
interview: 1990 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish refugees; helping to organize a parcel-sending program to former prisoners ofconcentrationcamps after their liberation; moving to Israel in 1953…
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… when the camps were...the...the...uh... concentrationcamps were being emptied out of the survivors. Germany was a big operation. Uh...And Joe had his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.783 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0783
Date:
interview: 1990 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… November 9, 1938; and his internment in Sachsenhausen concentrationcamp. Mr. Richards describes his release on the condition that he emigrate within three…
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… was not a concentrationcamp. What was liberation like? Well, first we couldn't believe. Naturally, the first question was we still alive, is my aunts…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.691 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0691
Date:
interview: 1993 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the events of Kristallnacht in 1938; and her father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald concentrationcamp. Ms. Gottheiner describes the family…
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… also, a card that my father sent us from Buchenwald. That's where he was taken, to Buchenwald concentrationcamp. It was-- he was there from the 10 of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.69 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0069
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09 interview: 1981 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, and Chinese in the Pao Chia as air-raid wardens and ghetto guards in the summer of 1945; leading a contented life between the American liberation on…
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… them in the concentrationcamp, but in these camps, where they rounded up on that day the people, they were not so harsh and rough with the people they…
… camp. He was transferred to the Gunskirchen concentrationcamp in September 1944 and liberated in May 1945.
Martha and John were briefly safe in one of…
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… Mauthausen concentrationcamp. He was transferred to the Gunskirchen concentrationcamp in September 1944 and liberated in May 1945. Martha and John were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.517 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0517
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive…
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… concentrationcamp. GS: This was after you had left? FS: Yes, we found out after the war, in China. My father found out what happened. Now one of the, to me I…
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.