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.1272.70 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0070
Date:
interview: 1992 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… survivors from the camps and the stories emerging; returning to Sokoly; a pogrom in Sokoly by Poles the spring of 1945; joining Dror and being sent to a…
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… taken to the point ofconcentration where other Jews were already taken. 24.21 Attempt of the family to flee. They found a place on the other side of the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.264 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0264
Date:
interview: 1995 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentrationcamp)…
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… in the camp. 38.00 Y wants to live; his brother exchanges his food for cigarettes. 44.07 Y is sent to work as a 'tailor' [in the ghetto, one of his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1159 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1159
Date:
interview: 1989 December 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentrationcamps--Liberation.…
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… of misery and lots of. Now that live in America 43 years its something not Becker 32 speakable. What it really was in those concentrationcamps. The…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0417 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0066
Date:
interview: 1997 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentrationcamp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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… the video interview-- 16 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:52,530 your experiences from your liberation 17 00:00:52,530 --> 00:00:54,000 up to the end of the war…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.154 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0154
Date:
interview: 1983 August 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentrationcamp)…
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… concentrationcamps, were you in contact with any resistance group at all? HB: No. ES: There was no way for any kind of contact? HB: No. ES: Did you feel…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.192 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0192
Date:
interview: 1994 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentrationcamps--Liberation.…
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…. He was moved from camp to camp, spending time in Sosnowiec and Mauthausen, before arriving at Gunskirchen, where he was at the time ofliberation…
…, and her mother, Gitl, perished in Auschwitz three months before the liberationof the camp. Madzia's sister Brandla, and brothers, Mosze and Szmulek…
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.