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.
… Army. In his testimony, written in 1989, Butensky described his experiences liberating a labor camp near Wels, Austria, the Straubing concentrationcamp…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.76 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0076
Date:
interview: 1992 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentrationcamp liberators.…
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… in a concentrationcamp in 1944. My mother-- my father's name's Aaron. My mother's name was Yehudis, and she was born in 1903, and died in 1944 in the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.31 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0031
Date:
interview: 1988 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentrationcamp liberators.…
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…,864 --> 00:28:57,300 either the labor camps or concentrationcamps? 511 00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:59,010 Yeah. 512 00:28:59,010 --> 00:29:05,230 Well, my first…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.19 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0019
Date:
interview: 1990 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentrationcamp liberators.…
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… 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,000 Even concentrationcamp, I was eating kosher, 34 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,380 or I didn't eat any treif food. 35 00:02…
… Austria, Fried reached Mauthausen where he was reunited with his father, Jozef Fried. Together, they were marched to Gunskirchen concentrationcamp where…
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… concentrationcamps. Many of the documents are http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection http…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.282 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0282
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentrationcamp)…
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… direction of Germany. They were told they were being taken to work camps. They were happy not to be going to the 9th Fort. http://collections…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.366 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0366
Date:
interview: 2000 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentrationcamp)…
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…. He and other survivors were taken to Wels, an empty German camp. There, members of the Jewish Brigade convinced the survivors to emigrate to Israel…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.314 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0314
Date:
interview: 1996 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Althammer (Concentrationcamp)…
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… remembers the camp was bombed and the dead were cannibalized by some of the inmates. 7:28 On April 1945, they were marched out to camp Gunskirchen which was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.118 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0118
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentrationcamp)…
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… valuable stamp collection. First concentrationcamp [labor camp - brick factory] - Yakov is 'adopted' by a group of young Jewish women who see him as a child…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.3 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0003
Date:
interview: 2017 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gunskirchen (Concentrationcamp)…
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… live under Communism. He then worked as interpreter at the DP camp in Eibense, and with UNRRA at Ansbach. He moved to Paris and got help from HIAS while…
… imprisoned at Auschwitz concentrationcamp in German-occupied Poland and Dachau concentrationcamp in Germany. Judith and Barry lived in New York and had two…
… imprisoned at Auschwitz concentrationcamp in German-occupied Poland and Dachau concentrationcamp in Germany. Judith and Barry lived in New York and had two…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.4 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0004
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains oral history interviews with 25 Holocaust survivors and concentrationcamp liberators recorded in preparation for the United States…
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…-- 167 00:12:35,420 --> 00:12:39,600 to a camp past Mauthausen concentrationcamp, 168 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,855 which was Wels in Austria. 169 00:12…
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.