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: 1997.A.0441.1 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0001
Date:
interview: 1986 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism in Hungary during that time; the Legation’s response to Jewish pleas for help when Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944 as well as Raoul Wallenberg…
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… Vashem, was assigned to the Swedish Legation in Budapest as Secretary for Trade in late 1942. He briefly refers to growing antisemitism in Hungary. He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.1 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0001
Date:
interview: 1990 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; antisemitism in Eastern European countries, especially in the lower classes in the cities; restrictions on Jews; the German occupation and the emergence of…
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… antisemitism was inborn in all East European countries but was most virulent in the lower classes in the cities. There were restrictions on Jews mainly limiting…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.5 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s religious practices; his education; experiencing overt and subtle antisemitism; being imprisoned temporarily on Kristallnacht; his father’s death in 1939; his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.3 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0003
Date:
interview: 2017 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; not experiencing antisemitism in school; being aware of the beginning of the war; family members in Latvia and Berlin arriving in Stockholm and living…
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… hon utsattes för antisemitism i skolan. Så länge hon gick i skolan och vid tiden för studenten lät hon sig inte beröras mycket av krigsutbrottet eller…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.4 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0004
Date:
interview: 2017 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… tree; not experiencing antisemitism; hosting a German Jewish girl during the war, which Inger did not appreciate as a teenager; feeling guilty later…
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… undervisning i hebreiska. Hon växte upp i en mycket skyddad borgerlig miljö, och upplevde aldrig någon som helst antisemitism i skolan eller med klasskamraterna…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0969
Date:
interview: 2018 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Poland in September 1939; the bombs and fires in Warsaw during the invasion; her aunt’s flight to the Soviet Union after the invasion; German antisemitism…
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…’s flight to the Soviet Union after the invasion; German antisemitism; the ghettoization of Warsaw and her family’s apartment falling within the Warsaw Ghetto…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.84.25 | RG Number: RG-90.047.0025
Date:
interview: 2017 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… public school until 1936 until he was expelled by the antisemitic principal; attending a Jewish school in Berlin, Germany while living in the Jewish…
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… an air gun by the shoemaker's son, injuring a disk; attending public school until 1936 until he was expelled by the antisemitic principal; attending…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.74 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0074
Date:
interview: 1986 December 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… any antisemitism before the war? LW: Very little, very little, I was very young and I didn’t even -- I was not aware of it. The only time I was a little…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.198.46 | RG Number: RG-50.944.0048
Date:
interview: 2018 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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… in school were of mixed backgrounds, Hungarians, Saxons and Jews and she doesn’t remember any antisemitism from her childhood. • Her father had a…
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