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.
… leaving the nation. Following the invasion, German and Austrian refugees were treated as enemy aliens. In July 1941, all American consulates in German…
… persecution targeting Polish Jews within the Reich as well those who lived in Poland following German occupation in 1939. From the late 1930s through the early…
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… Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the efforts of American Jacob Kriegel, originally of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.208 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0208
Date:
interview: 1995 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… entrance into Kovno in 1940-1941; Russian departure and German entrance into Kovno; the liquidation of Seta, Lithuania; moving into the Kovno ghetto…
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… both sides in and around Kovno. Father and uncles ran big fabric shop. A sister seven year younger. Parents part of Yiddish/Bond culture -- not Zionist…
Records of Jewish communities and institutions of Peru
… the Germans, Poles, Russians, Turks, etc. The majority of Ashkenazic origin, with roots in Central and Eastern Europe, although also exist other ethnic…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… after the Holocaust. Includes testimonies, correspondence, documents of ghetto councils, German and Judenrat edicts, memoirs, biographies, documents of…
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… South American Yiddish newspapers; 1942-1944 File 3341. Testimony about the fate of Ukrainian Jewry during the German occupation File 3343. Welfare…
… meeting with Hitler and other German officials in 1933 in Germany and quickly became aware of Nazi plans to persecute European Jews. McDonald resigned in…
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… Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.329 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0329
Date:
interview: 1998 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; attending public school; his family’s evacuation from Alsace when the Germans invaded; going with his family to their vacation home in Vosges and then…
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… Nice. The members of the Resistance received arms from the Americans. 4:00:57 There was an exchange of fire with the Germans, but there were no injuries…
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… book dated July 1943; and a file containing general information about Dreyfus and his deportation to Auschwitz. Languages: French, German, Hebrew…
… Russian) contains files from a particular German government, Nazi party, or other governments’ agencies and non-governmental organizations. For many years…
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… refugees; postcards addressed to and from the passengers (in German, Hebrew/Yiddish). Page 4 p.8 Letter, undated, typewritten in French from Elias Cohen…
… studio was commissioned to create messages to help increase support for national bond purchases, compulsory education, and the war on the black market…
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.