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.
… letters sent to Les in Shanghai from his parents Hugo and Theresa in Vienna and later the Opole ghetto. Photographs include depictions of Les and his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.185 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0185
Date:
interview: 1991 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… travelling via boat from Genoa, Italy to Shanghai; his father opening a business; the Japanese occupation; living in the Hongkew Ghetto; his father being…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.438 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0438
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… extended family; her childhood impressions of Hongkew ghetto; life, conditions, and medical facilities in Shanghai; her education at Kadoorie School; wartime…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.396 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0396
Date:
interview: 2002 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… they had in Vienna; living in a ghetto in Shanghai and being part of an underground boy scouts group; the arrival of the Americans; getting a job at a…
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… would go to Shanghai, because he wanted there "to be an ocean between Hitler and our family." Before they left, Kristallnacht occurred. When the Germans…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.624 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0624
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14 interview: 1898 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. Mr. Buchler describes his experiences in the Jewish ghetto in Shanghai, his feelings of community within his school, and deprivations caused by the war…
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… worked out. They were finally able to get visas to go to Shanghai; this kept the family from being deported in 1940 when the Germans started rounding up…
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…) Wildflecken (Displaced persons camp) Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish ghettos--Shanghai--China. Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai. Displaced…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.29 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for the trash dumps; working for the Shanghai Bus Company; having to live in the ghetto; working for Citroën Motors; getting a job in the Toyota Company…
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… letter in the hall and it says on that letter, the only way out is through the free port of Shanghai. That’s the only way you can go. So, O.K., so there…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.147 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0147
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Awin, born in 1919 in Vienna, Austria, discusses life in Vienna before the war; the Anschluss; fleeing to Shanghai, China via Italy in May 1939…
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… Kultusgemeinde in Vienna, processing emigration papers for Jews. The family emigrated to Shanghai, going to Genoa, Italy by train then to Shanghai via the Suez…
… Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was…
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.