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: 2015.373.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0832
Date:
interview: 2015 October 28-2015 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation to the Szebnie concentration camp and from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau; his Zionist activities and friendships in the camps; his transfer to Buna…
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… this school when I was six years old, six or seven, to the end of primary school, until 1939. In additions, I belonged to a Zionist youth organization…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.79 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0079
Date:
interview: 1992 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shalom Kooper, born in March 1918 in Poland, describes his upbringing in an ardently Zionist family; his family’s move to Łódź, Poland; his…
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… grandfather’s town. There, Shalom’s father taught Hebrew to adults. He was an ardent Zionist, and spread the Zionist gospel. 5.13 When Shalom immigrated to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0466 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0443
Date:
interview: 1996 September 10 interview: 1996 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Zionist movement; antisemitism that he experienced in Vienna; participating in a Jewish student fraternity as a law student at the University of Vienna…
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… to focus in on the years before, of course, you began with emigration to Palestine and all that. How did you get involved, first of all, in the Zionist…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…. Dr. Carl Ludwig, Jacob Zucker et al.) and Jewish as well as Zionist organizations, a letter (together with archival documentation) from Sagalowitz…
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… Sagalowitz P-13 im AfZ. Weitere Unterlagen befinden im Bestand Benjamin Sagalowitz A 310 in den Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, Israel…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; war crime trials of Ion Antonescu and others; and the surveillance of Zionists and other illegal Jewish organizations. Also contains information on Jews…
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… others; and the surveillance of Zionists and other illegal Jewish organizations. Also contains information on Jews, includes card files, registration…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.60 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0060
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kurt Klappholz, born in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, describes growing up in the 1930s; his family; antisemitism; the 1937 pogrom; Zionists organizations…
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… could not have been a Zionist, I mean it just would not have hung together with his general view, did say to me sometime between '36 and '38, you go, you…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.94 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0094
Date:
interview: 1991 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zionists--Belarus--Lakhva.…
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… the modest old-fashioned town, a typical ‘shtetl’, its mostly observant Jewish population of 2000, his upbringing in religious schools and Zionist youth…
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