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.
Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Organization and Control Department
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Organization and Control Department…
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…Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Organizacji i Kontroli (Sygn. 303/II) Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Organization and…
… to leave the apartment and enter a shelter with other Poles. He was arrested, though not as a Jew, but as a Pole, and was taken to a slave labor camp…
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… of Jews from Sanok, and describes the situation in L’viv. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
… until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered for the mission, killing the Poles who had been sent with…
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… worked with the underground to defeat their common foes until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered…
Judenrat in Rzeszów Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty
…Jews--Poland--Rzeszów--History--20th century.…
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… Smith, 2018. Indexing terms Jews--Poland--Rzeszów--History--20th century. Jewish councils--Rzeszów--History--20th century. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Rzeszów…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.78 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0078
Date:
interview: 1992 May 21
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; selling documents to other Jews for money, which they used to buy weapons; being arrested and sent to Birkenau; life in the camp; being sent in November…
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… to Israel she knew her way around very well. She also knew Poland very well. 01-12.30.12 Relations between Jews and Poles – Sometimes the youth…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.81 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0081
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prominent Jews in the town and the transport of others in the town to Auschwitz concentration camp; her father's beard being shaved off during the invasion…
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… in Poland prior to the start of the war. When the Germans arrived in Sosnowiec, they murdered the most prominent Jews. Regina's father's beard was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0357 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0180
Date:
interview: 1989 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… months until the Soviet Army liberated them in 1944; meeting her future husband, a Soviet Jew, in Blażowa, Poland; marrying her husband and moving to…
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… a small town. It was in this town 3,000 Jews...about 300 families, but everybody had 8 children, 10 children, so it was like 3,000, I think, Jews when…
… Maurice and his brother Szymon (Simon, 1932-1982). Following the Battle of Przemyśl in September 1939, the Germans forced Polish Jews, including the…
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… brother Szymon (Simon, 1932-1982). Following the Battle of Przemyśl in September 1939, the Germans forced Polish Jews, including the Freidberg family…
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.