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: 1999.A.0122.1451 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1451
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sam Shatz discusses his childhood in Bilgoraj, Poland; the antisemitism he began to experience in 1939; a German action against the people of…
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… happen later. But then when late in September first then the Nazis start to go on full they came to Poland-- 20 What year A. ---and this was 1939. So then…
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