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: 1994.A.0447.31 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0031
Date:
interview: 1992 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Theresienstadt in 1942; his marriage while in Theresienstadt; his escape from a death march on the way to Dachau concentration camp; his experiences with Kapos…
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…. 53 00:04:12,545 --> 00:04:15,200 54 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,359 And we had to march to Dachau. 55 00:04:19,359 --> 00:04:24,600 56 00:04:24…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0318 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0248
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… farming nearby fields; remaining in Kaufering until the spring of 1945, when he had to evacuate toward Dachau; being liberated during the march to Dachau by…
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… was, next to Dachau. It was Kaufering.2 Kaufering was the city, you know. And there was a uh labor camp, and that is where they took us. So we didn…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.207 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0207
Date:
interview: 1995 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; travel to Kaufering camp number four; creating a model of Kaufering's sleeping quarters, now kept at Yad Vashem; being marched to Dachau; being liberated…
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… against him. The uncle was sent to Dachau after great tortures, and before the large masses of Jews were sent to camps. He died there in 1941. No one knows…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.185 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0185
Date:
interview: 1994 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in July 1943; the four day march to Kutno, Poland; travel by cattle train to Dachau; marching to Allach; being liberated by Americans in Allach…
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… train to Dachau. Conditions there were better. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.19 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0019
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… subsequently to Dachau, Flossenbürg, and Leitmeritz (Litomerice) concentration camps; how he and his father participated in forced labor in a mine in Leitmeritz…
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…,560 After being in Stutthof and being separated from my mother, 93 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:16,370 they moved us also with cattle cars to Dachau. 94 00:05:16…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.385.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0145
Date:
interview: 1990 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Lithuanians intensifying their battle against the Jews after the loss of the battle at Stalingrad; being on the last transport from the ghetto to Dachau, where…
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… and....uh...we looked and we smelled all of us....maybe they had over there, maybe 500 or so. We're last transport they sent to Dachau. After us, they…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1281 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1281
Date:
interview: 1986 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with war criminals at Dachau; interrogating Ilse Koch; and his return to the United States in 1949.…
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… 24 called Dachau that needed military escort to transport him. 25 The next morning came and the jail door was open 23 JOHN WAHL and there he was laying…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.227 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0227
Date:
interview: 1995 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… life in Terezin; preparations for the Red Cross visit in spring 1944; transport to Auschwitz; being taken in a cattle train to Dachau and Kaufering IV…
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…, and the arrival, selection and his first impressions. Describes life in Auschwitz. 4.46 After four days, he was taken in cattle train to Dachau and then…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.278 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0278
Date:
interview: 1996 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and how it affected the prisoners; getting typhoid; being marched to Dachau; being liberated by the Americans, who took them into SS and Munich…
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… many. 8:30 to 8:45 To Dachau and Liberation April.’45: after ongoing bombardments and widespread dying they were marched to Dachau. Then met Red Cross…
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.