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.1283.25 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0025
Date:
interview: 1995 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Womenprisoners.…
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… for details on establishment of ghetto. 2.12 Discusses family’s life in ghetto. 2.26 Describes period of time in Minsk prison after arrest for having…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.5 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0005
Date:
interview: 2010 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prisoners of war near Novopokrovskiy by German soldiers; the hanging of a Russian police commandant after the return of Soviet troops; and the imprisonment of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.456.69 | RG Number: RG-50.568.0069
Date:
interview: 2011 November 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews in 1941 in a park behind the prison; hearing machine gunfire; the mass burial pit; restrictions on Jewish citizens; the beating of a Jewish woman by…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.256 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0256
Date:
interview: 1995 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… despite torture; escaping with a group of prisoners; hiding with partisan contacts; returning to Vinnytsia; reuniting with her mother and brother; traveling…
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… gendarme post in Balta. 2.26 Interrogation took place. S was held in Balta from January 1944 until March '44. In March she and a group of other prisoners…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.6 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0006
Date:
interview: 1995 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust.…
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… evacuated from Moscow. Worked as doctor. In 1943 she was to go to Gorkiy to finish her medical training, but was arrested on the way and put in a prison in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.595.5 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0005
Date:
interview: 2005 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; Romanian soldiers driving Jews out of their homes; Romanian soldiers coming into homes during the night and sexually assaulting women; the relocation of the…
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… windows opened; tells about Romanians coming in houses and driving Jews out; tells about Romanians coming during the night and violating women. [00:] 30:16…
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.