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: 2019.376.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1041
Date:
interview: 2019 August 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (Alice Nordlinger Naegele); being sent to England on April 2, 1938, under the auspices of Bloomsbury House/The Inter-Aid Committee, London; attending a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.470 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0470
Date:
interview: 1989 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; sending them to England on a Kindertransport in February 1939; the separation from her children; arriving in London with a work permit in August 1939…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.354 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0593
Date:
interview: 2010 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Dachau; her father’s rescue by the police chief of Stuttgart; how her father left Germany through Switzerland to go to England; being sent to England on…
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… caused by his stay in Dachau, where they ruined his sinuses. He left through Switzerland and then went to England. And he came to England in September of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.82.4 | RG Number: RG-50.926.0004
Date:
interview: 2012 February 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his stepmother’s support of the Nazis; learning English from a family retainer from England; being encouraged to draw; living at the entrance of the…
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… household — we had Mim, who was a family retainer from England. Her name really was Miss Wilkins, you know, but we all called her Mim. She was very lovely…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.176 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0176
Date:
interview: 1996 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… aftermath of Kristallnacht; the ORT school transporting students from Germany to England via Holland when war looked inevitable; his departure from Germany on…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.509.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0258
Date:
interview: 2016 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… going to the University of Minnesota; moving with her sister to England in 1939; going to boarding school in Worcestershire; having to learn English and…
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… brother moved to America and became well known here, fairly well known. My sister stayed in England with me. She’s no longer alive now but she’s – Q: Let…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0456.5 | RG Number: RG-50.429.0005
Date:
interview: 1996 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her memories of antisemitism after the Nazis took power in 1933; her relationships with non-Jewish friends and athletes; moving to England in October…
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…:02,040 And I decided to go to England. 428 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,380 And my parents agreed to it that I 429 00:22:04,380 --> 00:22:07,050 would go…
… (1895-1942), whom also had a daughter, Margrit (1932-1942). Ann immigrated to England in 1939, and lived in London while trying to obtain a visa to…
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…-Salfield (née Schloss), originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Ann, who fled to England in 1939, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.68 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0068
Date:
interview: 1991 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the suicide attempts; escaping the camp with a friend to the mountain; seeing a tank; meeting up with American troops; spending three years in England…
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… you came to America in 1951. And then you went back in 1969. Oh, I went from-- after the war, I went to England. I stayed for four or five years. In…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.21 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0021
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Glasgow, Scotland in 1943; going to Clevedon, England for intelligence work; being trained in psychological warfare in broadcasting; going to…
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… to go to England but she couldn’t make it anymore and she was sent to a camp in Riga. She lived in Riga all through the war and in the last couple of…
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