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: 1999.A.0122.503 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0503
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Dutch--Indonesia.…
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…Could you start by just talking a little bit about how you happened to be in Indonesia? Indonesia was a Dutch colony. And my father went as a young…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1260 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0321
Date:
interview: 1995 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Dutch.…
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… pour it out. That was difficult. The Jews the same way. They were arrested by large groups. Q: Do you think that the Dutch Nazis were more tolerant of…
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… stories that had been told by Germans that had left Germany, uh, but people still hoped for the best. They were DutchJews and they were...nothing would…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.382 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0382
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20 interview: 1990 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Dutch.…
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… HAVE TO STAND THE SAME ROLL CALLS... Yes. But were handled differently. The hate was against the Jews. And Im still talking about the Dutch concentration…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.302 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0302
Date:
interview: 1996 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Dutch.…
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… had many political connections. They were nonobservant Jews, and most of their friends were not Jewish. Because of this, Polly was rarely confronted…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.61.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0266
Date:
interview: 2018 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Dutch--Australia.…
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… Dutch East Indies. Indies, which is now Indonesia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when were you born? 1938, 28 of July. Let's talk a little bit about your family…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.58 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0058
Date:
interview: 1988 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pieter and Joyce Miedema were born in 1914 in the Netherlands; Pieter’s work as a teacher and adjusting to life in Canada; participation in the Dutch…
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… spelling or accuracy. 10:00 Pieter missed his mother a great deal when she died in 1948. 11:00 He a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. 12:00 Pieter had an…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.9 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0009
Date:
interview: 1988 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jan Brinker, born in 1915 in Utrecht, Netherlands, describes his family and childhood; his family hiding Jews at the beginning of the war; getting…
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… "Did you know Jews and what did you think of them?" is a question asked to all the Dutch in these interviews. He is the first person to admit the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.3 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0003
Date:
interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust" held at the U. S. Department of State, Washington, DC.…
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…--With Mrs. Blom, a rescuer from Holland who helped Jews by risking her life. I would like you to tell us in your own words about your rescue…
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