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: 1994.A.0447.9 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0009
Date:
interview: 1992 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Insurgency--Poland--Sobibór.…
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… and how you ended up getting-- how you ended up in Sobibor? Well, when the war broke out in Poland, I was a Polish soldier. And it was mandatory service…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.24 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0024
Date:
interview: 1992 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Sobibor the following year when her mother was sent to Poland; two of her brothers being sent to a work camp, while the third remained in hiding; how at the…
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… Sobibor the following year when her mother was sent to Poland. Selma said that her brothers, Maurits and Marthyn, were sent to a work camp, like “all the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.10 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0010
Date:
interview: 1992 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp escapes--Poland--Sobibór.…
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… thought every concentration camp was really like Sobibor. 71 00:03:33,630 --> 00:03:38,130 But we found more people alive in Chelm. Contact reference@ushmm…
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… the camp asked us to send out mail into the neutral countries, so that they would have an alibi that the Jewish people are living in Poland, I wrote to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.438.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0028
Date:
interview: 1990 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibór.…
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… September 6, 1990 01:00:26 Q: Would you tell me your full name please? A: My name is Tomasz Blatt, B-L-A-T-T. And I'm born in 1927 in Poland. Q: What's the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0060 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0014
Date:
interview: 1998 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Chaim Engel and Selma Engel discuss how they met while being forced to dance at the Sobibór camp in Poland; their arrivals at the camp; how they were…
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…02_0014 Summary Chaim Engel and Selma Engel discuss how they met while being forced to dance at Sobibór, Poland; their arrivals at the camp; how they…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0155 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0048
Date:
interview: 1999 June 23-1999 June 24 interview: 1999 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sobibór (Poland)…
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…Kurt Ticho Thomas discusses growing up in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia; how he helped sick prisoners in Sobibór; the death of his sister and parents at…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.3 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0003
Date:
interview: 1983 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibór.…
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… collection Time-coded notes of the Interview with Thomas Blatt June 19, 1983 01:01:19 Comes from Poland, a typical shtetl, about 4,000 Jews and 200 Christians…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.426.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0067
Date:
interview: 1990 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Forced labor--Poland--Sobibór.…
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… was in Poland, right away, and in Germany perhaps. But they did it very slowly on, and very often – very – they did it in a way that no – nobody felt…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.23 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0023
Date:
interview: 1992 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp escapes--Poland--Sobibór.…
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…:31,340 --> 00:00:36,290 to Sobibor and your arrival there, and what it was like, 7 00:00:36,290 --> 00:00:38,210 and what happened. 8 00:00:38…
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