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: 2016.82.1 | RG Number: RG-50.926.0001
Date:
interview: 2013 January 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… killing site in the Vilna suburb called Ponary; the end of the war and continuing to paint at the displaced persons camp in Landsberg, Germany (1945-1948…
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… Hitler came to power in Germany and this certainly was shaking up the world, very much the world in which I lived. I was born in Vilnius. Today Vilnius…
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: 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…
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: 2009.214.14 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0014
Date:
interview: 1980 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Australia; returning to Germany in 1965 to be a witness in a trial of an SS man named Krutt; visiting Israel in 1973; and his involvement in the Jewish…
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: 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…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1276 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1276
Date:
interview: 1986 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… displaced persons camp in Germany, where she met her second husband; and their immigration to the United States in 1951.…
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… want to go to 35 Germany this one so this will be my husband. man Hes my husband. There is man. This one will be your wife.. So they made papers and they…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.7 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0007
Date:
interview: 1995 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… years after the war; being taken to St. Ottilien, a church in Eresing, Germany; going to Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany and staying there for two years…
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…,360 --> 00:16:23,785 to form in Bavaria, in Germany. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.524 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0524
Date:
interview: 1994 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bergen (Celle, Germany)…
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…. Mr. Shnaper and his wife Luba eventually left Poland for the American Zone in Germany and lived in the Displaced Persons camp at Bergen-Belsen. He…
… 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: 1995.A.1272.235 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0235
Date:
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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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… was liquidated, the Germans killed 50,000 prisoners. After liberation, Arie returned to his hometown. He then went to Germany and emigrated to Israel in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.219 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0219
Date:
interview: 1995 September 14
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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….00 Many groups from other Polish cities joined the'hachshara' in Kalish. And then war broke out. 16.00 Kalish was 30 km from the border with Germany. People…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.151 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0151
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
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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…. Reestablishes contact with Leslie Hartman, who published the book 'Survivors'. 13.25 Her views about faith, Germany, forgiving. 13.38 She is a witness in the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.128 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0128
Date:
interview: 1993 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the partisans; several missions his unit went on before going to Berlin, Germany in April 1945; liberation; spending three to four months in a camp near…
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…
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