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: 2013.306.182 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0182
Date:
interview: 1994 March-1994 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Buchenwald, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt; faith in God; liberation and immigration; marriage and children; impacts of the Holocaust.…
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… camp I ever went to. The name of Theresienstadt. Terezin, they call it. And I was with my parents for about a year and a half, then they took me to all…
… confiscated by the Nazi regime in June 1943, and four days later she was deported to Theresienstadt, where she remained until its liberation in 1945. She spent…
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… from Dorothea Baumgart in Theresienstadt to Frieda Boldes in Auschwitz; several sheets of toilet paper used as writing paper to describe her Holocaust…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht in 1938; her family's failed attempts to immigrate to Argentina; her father being able to buy his way into Theresienstadt and Lory was allowed to…
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… buy his way into Theresienstadt and Lory was allowed to stay with her parents when the family was deported in the spring of 1941. Lory reports in detail…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.19 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0019
Date:
interview: 1991 August 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… parents' imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Jan. 1939; his release from Sachsenhausen; his work and life in the camp; his wife sending him…
… and the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland. He was deported to Theresienstadt and murdered at Treblinka in 1942.…
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… the Naumann family in Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt…
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
… Ebensee on May 6, 1945; returning to Kraków after liberation; his wife's time in Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp; the communist leadership of…
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…,420 --> 00:49:31,470 But a friend keep her. 806 00:49:31,470 --> 00:49:36,150 And they come over there to Theresienstadt. 807 00:49:36,150 --> 00:49:41…
…, Switzerland, and Sweden, culminating in the revelations that Georg and Sophie Cohn were deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, that they are believed to have been…
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… revelations that Georg and Sophie Cohn were deported to Theresienstadt in 1942, that they are believed to have been killed immediately, that additional family…
… to Buenos Aires.
Philipp Hartmann was deported to Theresienstadt in July 1942 and died there in April 1943, and Regine Hartmann is believed to have…
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… Theresienstadt in July 1942 and died there in April 1943, and Regine Hartmann is believed to have died there as well. Martin and Jette Beil are believed to have…
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