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.
… a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and…
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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…. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Forced labor--Latvia--Rīga. Jews--Germany--Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia). Minden…
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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…. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei. Einsatzgruppe A. Germany. Geheime Staatspoliz World War…
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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… collect and remove to Germany cultural material, and to conduct propaganda against Jews and Freemasons. Included are lists of confiscated Jewish property…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.50 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0050
Date:
interview: 1989 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gertrude Sonnenberg, born on February 1, 1919 in Hausberge (Hausberge an der Porta), Germany, begins the interview by showing a photograph of herself…
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… bit of Germany, where I was born, 48 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,310 and I tell you about-- 49 00:03:08,310 --> 00:03:12,200 Contact reference@ushmm…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.28 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0028
Date:
interview: 1993 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Susan Taube, born in Vacha, Germany, on January 9, 1926, discusses her family life; pre-war antisemitism; going to Frankfurt, Germany to attend a…
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… Taube, Susan RG-50.029*0028 1 Videocassette March 7, 1993 Abstract: Susan Taube was born in Vacha, Germany on January 9, 1926. She moved to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0321 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0147
Date:
interview: 1989 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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… when Hitler came to power? A:Well, "Hitler came to power" needs to be addressed in terms of when - whether when he came to power in Germany, or as his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.370.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0220
Date:
interview: 1990 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her; moving to Berlin, Germany with his wife and brother; and applying for a visa and immigrating to the United States on March 10, 1947.…
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… capitalists. They had large business and all that. And that took all of 1940 until 1941. we had heard, we had heard already about things transpiring in Germany…
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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… ethnic Germans back to Germany, the so called Volksdeutsche, people whose families had http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0399
Date:
interview: 1999 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stayed from August 1944 to March 1945; going on a death march; her liberation in Lauenburg, Germany on March 10, 1945 by the Russian Army; and her…
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… unhappy with it. And fer -- we had books at home, books of -- books which described the situation in Germany after Hitler come -- came to power. It was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0182 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0400
Date:
interview: 1999 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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…, it’s a very bi -- it was a very big fluence from Germany. Q: ’37 and ’38? A: And -- yes, yes. Q: Mm-hm. A: And then in ’39, Poland was divided, and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.46 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0046
Date:
interview: 1984 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Werner Sauer, born in 1918 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, describes the Jewish population of Gelsenkirchen; his family considering themselves German and…
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… Germany. He was born in the western part of Germany, in the Rhine-Ruhr area, was brought up as a child in very high status. And from Germany, he was taken…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.29 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0029
Date:
interview: 1977 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vera Oppenheim, born in 1924, discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; attending public schools until her expulsion; leaving for Switzerland with…
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… in the Jewish school, do you remember any conversations about the problems of the Nazis? A: You see we were too young. Nothing was discussed in Germany…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.64 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0064
Date:
interview: 1992 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Lachman (b. Wolfgang Louis Lachman), born May 26, 1928, discusses his family background and comfortable childhood in Berlin, Germany; his…
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… when Germany agitated for the return of the Saar provinces back to Germany and we had to sing a special song for the return of the Saar -- the coal…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.860 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0860
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva Wollenberger (née Stein), born on June 1, 1931 in Dresden, Germany, discusses her well-to-do merchant family; being deported to Riga, Lativa with…
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