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.
… in Leipzig. During Kristallnacht Herbert was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentrationcamp. After his release, the Alexanders fled…
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… her husband Herbert Alexander, and consists of a postcard written by Herbert to Charlotte during his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentrationcamp…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.25 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0025
Date:
interview: 1981 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… husband and his imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentrationcamp; getting a passport and buying tickets for her family to Shanghai, China; experiencing many…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.29 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… taken by cattle car to Dachau concentrationcamp; the work and various prisoners in the camp; being sent to Weimar before being transferred to Buchenwald…
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… all our clothes off, we had to get the clothes which they use in the concentrationcamp, the striped clothes. It was not built up completely. It didn…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.767 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0767
Date:
interview: 2003 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the family's move to Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in search of safety; his father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald concentrationcamp; his…
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… leave. Otherwise they would keep him at the Buchenwald camp. So you actually found out through friends, not officially. No, not officially-- from friends…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.5 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0005
Date:
interview: 1991 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; being arrested, beaten, and taken to Dachau concentrationcamp while in his uncle's town on November 10, 1938; the conditions and work in Dachau; how his…
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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… your father or mother ever talk about this to you? Never. My father was in concentrationcamp. And I have never heard anything about it either. Even-- 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.