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: 1995.A.1272.12 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0012
Date:
interview: 1993 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s child to Kraków; obtaining papers as Polish guest workers through the underground; traveling to Vienna, Austria then Semmering, Austria; working in…
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… accuracy. 3.50 Describes British entry into Austria. She and the girl’s aunt made contact with British officers. 4.04 Returns to describing events while in…
… baker; his deportation in 1939 to Austria to do farm labor after he was caught hiding a rifle; meeting the farm owner’s daughter, Frieda, who would become…
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… Germany. Happened by good luck we landed in Austria, which was much better. We go through Czechoslovakia. We stay overnight in Vienna. We come to Austria…
…, Austria, and on 4 December 1938 the family fled Vienna for Shanghai, China. They immigrated to the United States in 1940 via the Asama Maru. Both of Lazar…
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…, Poland and Vienna, Austria. The first album depicts the families of Lazar Mann and Helene Schwarz from 1817-1918 and the second from 1927-1937. Included…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.369 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0066
Date:
interview: 2000 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… World War I; growing up in Poland; life in Tarnów, Poland; life after the German invasion of Poland; being taken by the Germans to Linz, Austria to work…
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…; life in Tarnow, Poland; life after the German invasion of Poland; being taken by the Germans to Linz, Austria to work on a farm; meeting and falling in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.29 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0029
Date:
interview: 1996 January 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where her fiancé was living; traveling through Vienna, Austria to Switzerland; going by ship to Australia; arriving in Melbourne on May 10, 1940; getting…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.22 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0022
Date:
interview: 1985 January 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; spending June through November after liberation in an abandoned lake house in Austria; going to Germany, where he lived on a kibbutz in Landsburg; the…
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.