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.
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…. Propaganda, German‐‐1930‐‐1950. Brittany (France)‐‐History. Berchtesgaden (Germany). CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Papers, 1931‐1946 and undated Folder…
… posts in England, Brittany (France), Luxembourg, and Germany (Nuremberg, Bamberg, Passau). There are six photographs taken at Buchenwald the day after…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.101 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0101
Date:
interview: 1990 November 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Brittany (France)…
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… Normandy, Brittany, the Battle of the Bulge, and Germany. He mentions atrocities committed by Germans against French resistance fighters. He arrived in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.15 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0015
Date:
interview: 1992 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was Orthodox; the German occupation of France; going with his Jewish mother to Brittany for a while before returning to the suburbs of Paris; his mother…
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… Holland and so on? A: We were on vacation in 1939, in Brittany, and my father was in the army. My mother decided http://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Oppert; her two daughters (born in 1935 and 1939); her husband’s chain of five and dime stores; living in Brittany, France when WWII began; her husband…
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… include us in the line, because this is France. Okay, the line was here. It was cutting France from east to west, putting Normandy, Brittany, the whole…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.23.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0221
Date:
interview: 2014 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transmitter trailer in Colombières, France; going to Brittany, France and enabling Charles de Gaulle to broadcast from Rennes by hooking up a transmitter to…
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… then from Saint—Lo, where did you go? A: Then we went, my section, were ordered in to a place beyond —— in Brittany. Q: Okay. A: We drove past Rennes…
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… YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH, 15 WEST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011 GUIDE TO THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTION ON FRANCE, HOLOCAUST PERIOD GUIDE TO…
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