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.1272.382 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0382
Date:
interview: 2000 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Samarqand, then an agricultural area; working as a nurse; returning to Samarqand in 1944, then to Warsaw after the war; learning no one from her family had…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.164 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0164
Date:
interview: 1992 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the pogroms in Poland against the Jews in 1917; moving to Warsaw, Poland, and working for Janusz Korczak at his Jewish orphanage as a nurse for children…
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… Warsaw, goes to work for Janusz Korczak at his Jewish orphanage, as a male nurse for children. Misha knew only that Korczak wrote children’s books, nothing…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.12 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0012
Date:
interview: 1991 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father arriving in 1946; the War of Independence; attending nursing school and working in a hospital; her father testifying in Germany; getting married to…
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… '48 War of Independence broke out. Became part of the Palmach who were positioned there. After the wa. She and friend went to nursing school. Describes…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.211 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0211
Date:
interview: 1993 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nurses--Israel.…
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… programs should be going to school and we didnt know what to do. Then he heard about nursing school opening up in hospital nearby called Bellinson Hospital…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.222 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0222
Date:
interview: 1994 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nurses--Israel.…
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…. BERLIN WALL BEFORE AND AFTER Part III NELLI CESANA Jewish Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto. Born 1935 in Warsaw Poland. Former nurse and currently…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.3 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0002
Date:
interview: 1984 March 16-1984 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… within Warsaw because of the high rates of pregnancy; graduating from nursing school in 1940 and working in a Jewish hospital; meeting her future husband…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.199 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0199
Date:
interview: 2003 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Izabella Horodeczka, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1908, discusses her work as a nurse during the war; her work for the resistance; her training; working…
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… interview, Izabella Horodecka (née Malkiewicz), born on May 1, 1908, in Moscow, talks about her wartime experiences as a nurse and a member of the Polish…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Nurses--Poland--Registers.…
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… physicians--Poland--Warsaw--History--Registers. Medical personnel--Poland--Warsaw--History--Registers. Dentists--Poland--Registers. Nurses--Poland--Registers…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.58 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0058
Date:
interview: 1993 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… could go and sing in courtyards for money and food which they smuggled back to the ghetto; his older sister’s role as a nurse in the ghetto hospital; how…
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… nurse in the ghetto hospital. She took him to stay at the hospital to save him. The following day, the whole street, including the family, was transported…
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