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.
… Regina’s sister Fanni, moved to Brussels, Belgium. With the invasion of Belgium by Germany in 1940, Heinrich was sent to Gurs internment camp. The rest…
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… assured that there are many people that are jealous of you, and this also satisfies me. Post card from Chrzanow to Brussels, dated August 9, 1939 My beloved…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.928 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0928
Date:
interview: 2004 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his family's decision to immigrate after Kristallnacht; leaving Vienna for Brussels, Belgium in March 1939; his reunion with his parents in 1940; his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1752 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1752
Date:
interview: 1981 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Czechoslovakia, where they had citizenship; his mother securing passage to Britain while temporarily leaving Peter and his sister with an aunt in Brussels, Belgium…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.6 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0006
Date:
interview: 1990 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… start of the German occupation of southern France; returning to Brussels, Belgium after the end of the war; joining his mother and sister in Australia…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.65 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0065
Date:
interview: 1991 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Austria 1938; trying to escape to Czechoslovaka; escaping to Luxembourg; going to Brussels, Belgium with his parents; being sent to a work camp near…
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… Czechoslovakia, but was sent back from the border. 1.11 Escaped to Luxemburg and then together with his parents to Brussels. 1.24 Bought visas and tickets to go to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.217 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0217
Date:
interview: 1995 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Belgium in 1938; his internment in a refugee camp in between Brussels and Antwerp, in Mechelen, Belgium, for fifteen months; learning agriculture in…
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… to find passage to Belgium - where he had friends. He got an 'escort' of Belgian soldiers, and arrived in Brussels. 17.20 When V left his house, he…
… moving to Prague, Czech Republic, where they stayed for one year before moving to Vienna, Austria in 1937; fleeing to Brussels, Belgium after the 1938…
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… to live with us, that is in the same city when we were in Belgium and Brussels, I guess that's the time when I remember her most vividly. I remember…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0423 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0072
Date:
interview: 1997 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… at age 14 and finally getting to Brussels, Belgium with his mother; the Germans attack on Belgium; how enrolling in art school after the invasion was…
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… Belgium was more pleasant than life in Austria. While awaiting a visa for the US, Hermann enters trade school. When Brussels was occupied by the Germans, he…
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.