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: 1989.A.0357 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0180
Date:
interview: 1989 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Mina Perlberger, born on December 25, 1918 in Tyczyn, Poland, describes growing up in a strict Hasidic Jewish family; the German invasion of Poland…
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… the war started. And I...I and my...my parents were very Hasidic Jews. We built a house. We had a house from Great Grandfather. My...my father had the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.390.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0199
Date:
interview: 1990 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Norman Salsitz, born in 1920 in Kolbuszowa, Poland, describes growing up in a Zionist Hasidic family; making a failed attempt to immigrate to…
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… family. We were nine children, five sisters and four brothers. I was the youngest from the nine. My father was a Hasidic Jew, very religious, my mother…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.93 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0093
Date:
interview: 1992 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Betty Migdol, born December 19, 1927, describes her childhood in Ruscova, Romania; her large family’s Hasidic orthodox life; her memories of the…
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…: The army labor -- A: Army labor. Q: Now what kind of home did you grow up in? A: Well, we were a very, very orthodox home. It was called Hasidic. The…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.7 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0007
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Arie Halpern, born in 1918, discusses his life in Chorostkow (Khorostkiv, Ukraine); recollections of Polish occupation of the area in 1920; Hasidism…
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… Chorostkow, a small town in Galicia, Poland. His father was a Hasidic Jew. At age 9, Arie started attending public school for general studies in the mornings…
…Harold Zissman, born on May 10, 1922 in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland, describes growing up in a Hasidic household; attending a private Zionist school…
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… from Warsaw. My parents and grandparents and many generations before them were of the Hasidic belief. However, they were involved in business from…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.129 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0129
Date:
interview: 1984 December 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hasidism--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)…
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… Lask, Poland, oldest of seven children, age five moved to Lodz, where Hasidic father led a torah school; she remembers a happy childhood with extended…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0128.21 | RG Number: RG-50.165.0021
Date:
interview: 1990 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hasidism.…
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… were moving there. The Lower East Side was becoming a bad neighborhood. WH: When you came on the boat were you dressed like a Hasid (ultra-Orthodox)? DF…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.29 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0029
Date:
interview: 2016 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Schneerson saved; the challenges of being born an unregistered Hasidic Jew in antisemitic pre-war Russia; her mother, Sara, and brother; her father moving the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0969
Date:
interview: 2018 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s Hasidic background; the history of Hasidism; the importance of music within her family and having a strong Jewish identity from an early age; her family…
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…’s birth name traditions; her parents, Chaim and Golda; her family’s Hasidic background; the history of Hasidism; the importance of music within her family…
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