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.
… Poland and Buchenwald concentration camp sub-camps Gelsenkirchen and Sömmerda. The diary was created by Livia Klein with whom Ilona and her daughter…
… survived; being transferred to the forced labor camp Gelsenkirchen and then to Sömmerda; being liberated near Brno, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) in 1945…
… Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Sali, born in 1930, was sent on Kindertransport to Glasgow, Scotland in 1939 with his older brother Leo. Their parents, Charlotte and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.46 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0046
Date:
interview: 1984 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Werner Sauer, born in 1918 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, describes the Jewish population of Gelsenkirchen; his family considering themselves German and…
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… you said, in Gelsenkirchen. It's in the Rhine-Ruhr, where I visited the schools until I got kicked out because it was mentioned, it was renamed the…
… and received the Iron Cross. The couple moved to Gelsenkirchen around 1930 so Bernhard could work in a shoe store owned by his uncle Isadore Goldblum…
…; transferring to Bergen-Belsen, where she contracted typhoid; her liberation from Bergen-Belsen and traveling to the Gelsenkirchen displaced persons camp…
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… us from Bergen-Belsen. Q: Where did you go from there? A: From Bergen-Belsen I went to Gelsenkirchen. I don't know if you heard about it. That's a rule…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.22 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0022
Date:
interview: 1992 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… several months; marching to another camp called Gelsenkirchen near Oberosterreich before liberation; being totally unaware of what was happening in the war…
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… another camp called Gelsenkirchen near Oberosterreich, a region in Austria. People were totally unaware of what was happening. On May 4th, the camp was…
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.