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: 1992.A.0123.1.5 | RG Number: RG-50.035.01.0005
Date:
interview: 1986
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, and Germany; going to the Deggendorf displaced persons camp; arriving in Boston, MA on October 14, 1949; going to a small town in Mississippi; and…
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… split of Poland between Germany and Russia, life for Ben would no longer be the same, thankfully however, his area went to Russia, and given to Lithuania…
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: 2012.17.10 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0010
Date:
interview: 2004 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… began; antisemitism in the army; being classified as Lithuanian (and Lithuania was not at war with Germany); being sent to a labor camp following Poland…
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… Indersdorf (Kibbuz Dror) near Dachau, Germany. Scope and content of collection The Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers consist of Allied Expeditionary Forces…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.4 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0004
Date:
interview: 1998 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… War II; fighting Germany while experiencing antisemitism in the Polish Army; being sent to a labor camp following Poland’s defeat, where he was captive…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.54 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0054
Date:
interview: 1992 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… returned to Vilna at the end of July 1944; being recruited to teach children Hebrew; going to Łódź, Germany, Prague, and Paris in order to care for Jewish…
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… homes where they had been placed. 5.48 She was sent, with groups of children (destined to immigrate to Palestine) to Germany and then Prague and back to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1456 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1456
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
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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… WHAT. WENT THREE TIMES TO GERMANY AS 16 WITNESS TO THE COURTS. 17 THE INTERVIEWER DID YOU 18 MR. SOFFER YES. AND THE ATTORNEY 19 FOR THE OTHER SIDE…
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… arranged chronologically. Indexing Terms Wajsman, Sender. Germany. -- Geheime Staatspolizei. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.351 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0608
Date:
interview: 2010 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Rügen off the coast of Germany; his move to East Prussia because of the inevitable takeover by Russian forces; being forced to work in the Luftwaffe; his…
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… Germany wanted to get back from Lithuania; mentions the relatively large Jewish population in the area. He describes his close-knit family and how they…
…. There was widespread anti-semitism in Vilna and it increased during the 1930s with the rise to power of the Nazi Party in Germany. There was a boycott on…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.441 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0514
Date:
interview: 2007 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Army to do research for the Office of Military Government (OMGUS); his work with the Joint Distribution Committee in Berlin, Germany until the…
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… c-country was an organized -- the Jewish kehilla -- the Jewish community was an organized, legal entity, like in Germany, for instance, the Gemeinde…
… Germany and then Stutthof, where he worked on roofs; being in Buchenwald for two weeks, where he felt like he was dying but people gave him a little more…
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… Stuthoff you were on a ship with a lot of people? 2:31:7 A: Then they put us on small boats, sloyzen(?) as they call this in Germany. Finally we came to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0026
Date:
interview: 1998 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her feelings of guilt; traveling to West Germany from Poland; becoming a nurse in Landsberg, Germany; immigrating to the United States; helping her…
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… liberation by Russian troops; finding family members in the United States through a Jewish newspaper; her feelings of guilt; traveling to West Germany from…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.82.2.5 | RG Number: RG-50.810.0005
Date:
interview: 2015
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent on a death march; going to Ostrach, Germany, where they were liberated by French troops; going to Balingen near Frommern and working for the…
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…-denazification distorted by Allies fear of another war with Soviets - all Germany supported Hitler- Catholics now ask forgiveness - Jacob Gens actions and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.42 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0042
Date:
interview: 1993 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…" camp in Auschwitz and their extermination; being in a transport arriving in Berlin, Germany during a bombing; marching to Oranienburg, Germany; his…
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… revenge. Talks again about the gypsy camp and the crematoria. He was ill and received treatment in Germany and then moved to Italy. Talks about his…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.411.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0216
Date:
interview: 1990 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… back to Vilnius with her sister but instead going to West Germany; separating from her sister while they both awaited permission to go to the United…
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… Germany and Poland. We we were at the time at our summer home in outskirts of Vilno, but we heard that Germany attacked Poland in September 1st, 1939. And…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.27 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0027
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… suicide; being transported after nine days to work in Bremen, Germany, where she had to clean up streets after air raids; having to walk to Bergen-Belsen…
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… happened after the war? You you stayed in Germany? I lost my husband. How did you know where your husband was? Because somebody came back and told me, from…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.34 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0034
Date:
interview: 1985 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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… started and it came closer to '38 and in Germany already went on the Holocaust, then it got real bad. Sylvia, you talked about the youths belonging-- Yeah…
… a labor camp in Stuttgart, Germany; going on a death march in late January or early February of 1945; going to sleep in a barn in eastern Prussia on…
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… this...this was called in Germany Revere. This...you know, it was a German doctor that had a daughter the same age and she looked like my sister. The…
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