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.
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… the collection consist of plans and maps of 1939-1945, including: 1. Plans of ghettos, e.g. Baranowicze, Białystok, Częstochowa, Kielce, Kowale, Kraków…
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… maps of 1939‐1945, including: 1. Plans of ghettos, e.g. Baranowicze, Białystok, Częstochowa, Kielce, Kowale, Kraków, Lodz, Sosnowiec, Warsaw. 2. Plans…
…The Aron Grynwald papers consists of a certificate confirming that Aron Grynwald was a prisoner at Mauthausen; photographs of the ghetto in Będzin…
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… guard overseeing work in Bedzin, Poland. Inscribed: “Der ‘Geler Lizer’ Benzine Poland…” 7. Photograph of woman doing laundry in Bedzin ghetto, Poland…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.351.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0236
Date:
interview: 1990 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1939 and losing her father’s factory and their family furniture; being forced to move into the Sosnowiec ghetto and to work in a factory there in 1941…
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…. I...I was told that the man who was chosen to be the head of our ghetto was a man by the name of [Moinyek Meren (ph)]. [Moinyek (ph)] is a probably…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.15 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0015
Date:
interview: 1991 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hanka Turner, born in 1928, describes being one of five children; living in Bendzin (Bedzin), Poland; spending a long time in the ghetto; her father…
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…RG-50.266 #15 HANKA TURNER Called Lask, 5 children, lived in Bendzin. Long time in ghetto. Father taken away first. Mother and children went to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.3 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0003
Date:
interview: 1992 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Russia and internment in various labor camps; her family’s placement in a ghetto; her family’s internment in Auschwitz; the hardships she experienced…
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…’s capture in Russia and internment in various labor camps; her family’s placement in a ghetto; her family’s internment in Auschwitz; the hardships she…
…, the Germans began an intensive deportation Aktion in Bedzin. In January 1943, the remaining Jews of the Bedzin ghetto were relocated to Srodula and…
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… Auschwitz concentration camp in August 1943. 6. Photographic postcard of Chava Bendetowicz, Będzin, Poland, circa 1935. Chava Bendetowicz died in the ghetto…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.314 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0314
Date:
interview: 1982 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… part of town for food; passing as Aryan; living in the Będzin Ghetto from 1941 to 1942; being deported to Peterswaldau concentration camp in September…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.47 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0047
Date:
interview: 1985 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… establishment of a ghetto in July 1940; the selection of Jews for deportation; his German foreman; the arrival of German settlers; the Jewish administration…
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… villages, the Jews had to leave and come into town, to the section. This was in Bedzin, was it? Yes. So this was the creation of a ghetto. Well, two walls…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.441.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0857
Date:
interview: 2015 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being forced to move into the Srodula ghetto circa 1943; losing the family store in Katowice; his parents and grandparents working at a shoe factory…
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… thereabouts, we were put into a ghetto. I want to go back. Excuse me [LAUGHS] before we get there. [LAUGHS] You piqued my curiosity. When you were playing in…
… between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document
mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the…
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… between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the…
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.80 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0080
Date:
interview: 1992 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… nearby Komyunki ghetto; being separated from his father in the ghetto and never seeing him again; hiding during the deportations in a wall with his mother…
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…. Nathan was put to work on various labor projects before being sent to the ghetto. While in the ghetto, he was separated from his father and never saw him…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.41 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0041
Date:
interview: 1984 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the textile business and died suddenly in 1942; being sent to the ghetto in 1939; her mother being taken to Auschwitz and killed in 1943; being forced…
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… months. After that, we have to go. We were shipped to the ghetto. OK. You were shipped where? To the ghetto. To the ghetto. Which was in a Polish section…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… marriage, in 1939, to Gitla Grynwald; numerous cases of antisemitism in Poland; hiding in 1939 on a farm in Poland; his time in the Kraków ghetto; prominent…
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… was a law in the universities-- 237 00:14:30,180 --> 00:14:33,930 the Jewish student has to sit on this bench, a ghetto 238 00:14:33,930 --> 00:14:35…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.87 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0087
Date:
interview: 1987 March 30 interview: 1987 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her recollections of the Częstochowa ghetto; her memories of the Częstochowa Judenrat; the liquidation of the Częstochowa ghetto in 1942; her time…
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…,870 --> 00:22:43,540 And soon after we had to get out of the apartment 369 00:22:43,540 --> 00:22:51,790 that we lived because they made a ghetto in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.32 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0032
Date:
interview: 2017 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… discovered and sent to the town’s ghetto; doing forced sweatshop labor, making Nazi soldier uniforms; the liquidation of the ghetto and being sent with her…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.649 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0649
Date:
interview: 1993 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto in Bedzin; his deportation to several labor camps, including Neukirch, Bunzlau, Nordhausen, and Klettendorf; the work he performed in some of these…
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…. Well, when the Germans came into your town, did they sort of make it a ghetto? Did they bring in-- Not in the beginning, it was not. This was later on…
… around 1940, she was forced to move to the Będzin ghetto, and for two years she worked in a factory making pocket books and chromed bicycles. In 1943…
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…, lost her job because she was Jewish. Sometime around 1940, Hanna was moved into the Będzin ghetto and for two years after that, she worked in a factory…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.155 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0155
Date:
interview: 1993 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Sosnovitz; the outbreak of war; going with his siblings to Radom; being sent to the large ghetto in Radom, Poland, in 1940 and working in a factory…
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… everyday life. 1.26 In 1940 they went to the 'big ghetto' in Radom and continued to work in their factory. Two brothers were sent to Russia. 1.29 After he…
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