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.
… incuding Heart Mountain, Minidoka, and Grenada (Amache). In 1944 he was appointed director of the FortOntario Emergency Shelter established in Oswego, New…
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… Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Joseph H. Smart papers consist of a typed manuscript of his 1991 book Don’t Fence Me In!: FortOntario…
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… August 1944 the Hendels were able to get on a refugee ship, the USNS Henry Gibbins, and sail to the United States. They were relocated to the FortOntario…
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… Rome, Italy, and their experiences as refugees at the FortOntario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. There are also pre-war photographs of…
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…, Richard met and married his wife, Olly. Soon after, the Lehmann family was sent to Oswego, New York as part of the FortOntario Emergency Relief Shelter…
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… son, Richard, through their imprisonment at the Ferramonti concentration camp in southern Italy, and later as refugees in FortOntario. Included in…
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Series 1: Lehmann family papers 1941-1994, 1941-1946 Bulk
… Italy having met her fiancée, an Italian Jew from Florence names Marcello Campagnano. Upon arrival, Efraim and Beile were sent to the FortOntario…
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… include a photograph of Beile at FortOntario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York; a photograph of Edmund Deutscher wearing his United States…
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These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.
Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.