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: 1995.A.1272.148 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0148
Date:
interview: 1992 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Avraham Shpoongin (also Abraham Shpungin), born in 1921 in Yakovshtat (Jekabpils), Latvia, describes his village and the Jewish population; relations…
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… RG.50.120 #148 SHPOONGIN, AVRAHAM 1.01 He was born in Latvia in the village of Yakovshtat near the river Drina in 1921. Describes the village with…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.286 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0286
Date:
interview: 1996 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and liquidation of the Vilna ghetto; her work near Riga, Latvia in Strazde, Latvia, moving construction materials; being transferred to Kaiserwald and…
… confiscated by ERR in Riga, Latvia; and summary reports of ERR actions in Greece in 1941, with an estimate of the number of Jews in various Greek cities and…
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… still resident in Dubrovnik; a list of books confiscated by ERR in Riga, Latvia; and summary reports of ERR actions in Greece in 1941, with an estimate of…
…, Belgium for Chaim Levitan, dated 1924-1926; a legal document for Chaim Levitan with Latvian postage stamp and two stamps of the rabbis of Liepaja, Latvia…
…Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) was born on April 2, 1908, in Liepāja, Latvia, to a Jewish couple, Abram and Basia Brandt. He had one sister named…
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… Percy (Perec) Brand, a violinist originally from Liepāja, Latvia, who was imprisoned in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.60 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0060
Date:
interview: 1992 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Soviet Army, reaching Riga, Latvia and Smolensk, Russia; returning to Bucharest, Romania and working with youth groups assisting Jewish immigration to…
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… army in supply system and is sent to Vitepsk with advancing army, then to Latvia and Estonia. 4.13 Describes Riga Jews and the burnt synagogues. 4…
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