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.
…) was born in Paris 1948. He taught history and French in Warsaw and L’viv before World War II, survived the Holocaust teaching in Yerevan, Armenia, and…
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… includes a handful of records documenting his stepmother Helena Molenda’s survival in hiding during the Holocaust. Languages: Polish, Russian, German, French…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.5 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0005
Date:
interview: 2017 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1943 and carrying out forced labor behind the German lines at the Russian front (all three survived the war); the move of her two oldest sisters, Jolan…
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… and carried out forced labor behind the German lines at the Russian front. All three survived the war. Bela and Miklos returned to Hungary, but then…
… Monte Carlo where his cousin Hilda Lorant lived. He was arrested in 1944 and transported to Drancy and then Auschwitz. He did not survive. Henry…
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… internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.8 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0008
Date:
interview: 2017 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being involved when the refugees arrived; hosting two girls in their home; the children's homes where Jewish children who survived lived; living with…
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… remembers two girls who were at home and ate with them. There were children's homes where Jewish children who survived lived. He was living with survivors…
… survivors included in parentheticals. The files of a group of French women who worked for the Resistance and survived together are housed separately, as are…
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… female survivors included in parentheticals. The files of a group of French women who worked for the Resistance and survived together are housed separately…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.7 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0007
Date:
interview: 2017 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Holocaust; the effects of the war on the maturity levels of the youths who survived it; meeting his wife, Edit, when he was 20 years old; the life…
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… describes the 1970-1990 speech as particularly lively. He thinks that meeting with others who survived the Holocaust was important, but difficult to meet…
… experiences, including receiving supplies of Kosher food from his family. All of his family survived the Holocaust. After the war, Samuel married Esther Israel…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.84.25 | RG Number: RG-90.047.0025
Date:
interview: 2017 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… he survived; and his identity as a Swedish Atheist and not as a Jew.…
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… dangerous situations he was in; believing he survived because of the four pillars of not being afraid, being brazen, having good friends, and lots of luck…
…. Krzepicki was a native of Zduńska Wola and survived Auschwitz, Jaworzno, and Buchenwald. The couple married on February 28, 1950. In 1970 they immigrated to…
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.