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.
Tajna Policja Państwowa. Oddział w Sieradzu Selected records of the Secret State Police. Branch in Sieradz
… territories, and to either send them to concentrationcamps or put them to death. At the end of 1940, when the Jews in Eastern Europe were interned in ghettos…
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… Jews, anti-German offences, the transport of detainees to concentrationcamps, hostile attitudes towards Germans, avoidance of work, refusals to sign…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.17 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0017
Date:
interview: 1987 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… restrictions on Jews; the execution of a friend by Germans in Otoczna concentrationcamp in 1940; rumors that Jewish civilians would be transferred to a labor…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0119 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0023
Date:
interview: 1996 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentrationcamp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… to a satellite camp of Auschwitz where he remained until December 1944. The satellite camps supplied the food for the concentrationcamp. They had…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.183 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0580
Date:
interview: 2010 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentrationcamp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… says that he want chocolate, and Eric Yakobovitch was raging. This was in the camp, in a concentrationcamp, for the privilege, raging, my son is hungry…
Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt. Aussendienststelle in Schieratz
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… territories, and to either send them to concentrationcamps or put them to death. At the end of 1940, when the Jews in Eastern Europe were interned in ghettos…
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…. Schutzstaffel. Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Sieradz. Concentrationcamps--Poland--Sieradz. Polish people--Crimes against…
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.