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.
… to stay together, Zbigniew pretended to be Gosha’s son, and they were deported by cattle car to Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). They were then…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.371 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0371
Date:
interview: 2000 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his uncle being instrumental in obtaining a position for Itamar’s father in Wroclaw, Poland; his father’s death in 1949; his uncle helping Itamar and…
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… Wroclaw, but his father died in 1949. In 1952 his uncle helped Itamar and his mother return to Warsaw. Itamar studied engineering in Warsaw. In 1956, he and…
… to stay together, Zbigniew pretended to be Gosha’s son, and they were deported by cattle car to Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). They were then…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.211 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0211
Date:
interview: 1993 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Wroclaw (Poland)…
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… Well as you had said after the war there were very few Jews in Poland period NELLIE Yes and the Jews who lived in that town most of them were survivors…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.222 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0222
Date:
interview: 1994 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Wroclaw (Poland)…
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… Helena four sisters and brother Heinich. My aunt Ganielle was very wealthy. They were millionaires and owners of factory in Poland nails and screws and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.16 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0016
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… hospital; going to Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) then Sweden in 1947 with his wife and daughter; being trained as a machinist; moving to Buffalo, NY…
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… like young people have in the States, maybe a little bit less comfortable as we got in Poland. But on the whole, picture is that we got a very pleasant…
Cooperative Bank with limited shares for the Productivity of Jews in Warsaw
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Wroclaw (Poland)…
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… and government--1945-1980. Szczecin (Poland) Wroclaw (Poland) Topical Term: Banks and banking--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century. Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Aron Grynwald, born on June 21, 1904 in Bedzin, Poland, discusses his pre-war life in Bedzin; attending a technical school in Wroclaw, Poland; his…
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… (Wroclaw, Poland). After Aron completed his education, his father employed him in his factory. 01:10:00 Aron's sisters attended high school and universities…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.27 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0027
Date:
interview: 1989 November 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on a train; getting a job in a bakery; learning about the fate of his family in 1946; going to Breslau (Wroclaw , Poland) after the war to find Jewish…
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… smacked him in the face. 00:10:00 Jewish life was tolerable in Poland until Hitler. There had been limited anti-Semitism. The Poles were sensitive to the…
… and organizing a secret Polish school; moving to Wroclaw, Poland to study; encountering more antisemitism among his students than he did before the war…
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… a little bit about your childhood and background before the war. Go ahead. A: I was born in Lublin, Poland on August 8, 1920, son of a middle class…
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