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.
… family had been deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and perished. Among them were his mother Golda, his brothers Béla and Géza, and his sisters…
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… Bleier, who met and married in Baia Mare after the war. Languages: Hungarian, English, Romanian Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.888 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0888
Date:
interview: 1996 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the anti-Jewish restrictions imposed by Romanian fascists; the brief Soviet occupation of his town, followed by its occupation by Nazi troops in 1939…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0290 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0441
Date:
interview: 1995 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… contact with the Romanians, I didn’t know anything about anti-Semitism. Say around the age of ten or 12, there was a Congress of, Congress of Romanian…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.30 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0030
Date:
interview: 1981 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Yiddish theater group; the Romanian government restrictions in the inter-war period and the effects of the Russian occupation of Bessarabia in 1940…
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… she joined until she turned professional at age 15. She gives a thorough and highly descriptive account of the Yiddish stage. She details Romanian…
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… back from the concentration camp, somebody called me and told me the story and by chance, I met shortly after I was told the story and _____ little…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.167 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0167
Date:
interview: 1993 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Stutthof; the work camp in Krottingen (Kretinga), Lithuania; working in a Wehrmacht factory shipping uniforms; work, hygiene, and religion in the…
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… became Romanian but they felt Hungarian. Had 6 sisters and one brother. Talks about family life. 1.09 Childhood memories. School and signs of antisemitism…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.62 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0062
Date:
interview: 1981 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… movements and the cultural life of Jews in Czernowitz; being apprenticed as a dental mechanic in 1938; Germany invading Czernowitz together with the Romanian…
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… together with the Romanian army after a brief Russian occupation. Massacres of Jews began and a ghetto was established until most Jews had been deported. Ari…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.2 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0001
Date:
interview: 1974 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the concentration or labor camps and whose mothers were Hungarian, Romanian, or Polish to be taken in by foster parents in the United States; escorting…
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… intended to liquidate everybody." She only knew that it would be terrible to be in a camp somewhere in Poland, https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.35 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0035
Date:
interview: 1989 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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… all the young men, 54 00:02:53,712 --> 00:02:55,420 and they took us to a concentration camp. 55 00:02:55,420 --> 00:03:01,190 There was a camp in…
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… incident in which a Jew was killed by a Romanian. After he finished school, he lived in a town in which the population was half German and he had German…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.102 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0102
Date:
interview: 1996 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family's release; their eventual internment in a ghetto camp in Transnistria until 1944; the conditions, difficulties, and disease that were prevalent…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.165 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0165
Date:
interview: 1999 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family's release; their eventual internment in a ghetto camp in Transnistria until 1944; the conditions, difficulties, and disease that were prevalent…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0067 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0113
Date:
interview: 1994 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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…. Younger brother Stefan got scarlet fever. August 1940 - Arrived near Yakutsk and Aldan to labor camp -14 family members in a hut Slept on one bunk, very…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.22.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0744
Date:
interview: 2014 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… exceptional destiny, that they survived, because many Romanian Jews did not. They were in labor camps. They were transported. They were in military-- they got…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0413 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0060
Date:
interview: 1997 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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…,320 --> 00:24:42,820 We were among these three cities. 500 00:24:42,820 --> 00:24:53,110 But the goal-- the goal was to cross the Romanian border. Contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.108.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0877
Date:
interview: 2016 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… had died in some concentration camp, either Buchenwald or Dachau, and whose mother had a quota, which didn't come up, Hungarian or Romanian or Polish…
… camp. The family was also forced out of their apartment and went to live briefly with Helene’s sister Mina. Markus was transferred to the Buchenwald…
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… Dachau concentration camp. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.62 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0525
Date:
interview: 2008 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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…. And during the second World War, be Tito taking power. And the Romanians falling to communism. My father knew that we’d lose everything and we lost…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0466 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0443
Date:
interview: 1996 September 10 interview: 1996 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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…, "We have the remains of Dr. Yachov Ehrlich, who died in the concentration camp at Dachau. If you want to have the remains, will you please send, tell us…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.387.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0835
Date:
interview: 2015 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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… happened one way or the other. Don't feel guilty. What happened to her? Well, first, they took them to a concentration camp, Dachau. And then were 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.