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.
… against the German occupiers; his incarceration in PawiakPrison, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Flossenbürg; his experiences on a death march from Flossenbürg…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.126 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0126
Date:
interview: 1999 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Waclaw Długoborski, born in 1926 in Warsaw, Poland, describes the Warsaw ghetto; his imprisonment in the Pawiakprison; methods used in the prison to…
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… guard in Pawiakprison, Czortek (sp?) a boxer in Auschwitz, Borowski a goalie on the Auschwitz soccer team, Czarnobrody A Jewish owner of a…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.322 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0322
Date:
interview: 2010 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews in hiding in the underground movement; the Warsaw ghetto uprising; his arrest and transport from Pawiakprison to Stutthoff concentration camp in…
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…. His mother was released go from prison, since they had nothing on her. After three months in Pawiak, he, and his brother were sent to Stutthoff…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.21 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being interrogated and tortured in Pawiakprison; witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from prison; his uncle’s death from torture; being sent to…
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… Pawiakprison in Warsaw. He shares his observations of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and presents a detailed description of his 4 month stay in Auschwitz…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.6 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0006
Date:
interview: 1991 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Soviet front; walking to Poland with 14 others; spending five months in PawiakPrison before she was sent to Ravensbrück; and more details about working…
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… Pawiak, and we let our people outside know. . . He was arrested along with the other men and then released. They told the men in the prison he had been…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.495.21 | RG Number: RG-50.061.0021
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pawiak (Prison)…
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… side, but kept moving around each night. He was arrested in May 1943, because he had no papers and was held in PawiakPrison for 4 days, then put on a…
Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Warsaw
… suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; study on the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp; materials on the "Gęsiówka" and Pawiakprisons in Warsaw; questioning of…
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… więzienia na Pawiaku. Zeznania świadków, relacje Warszawa 1945 26 polski GK 182 Okregowa Komisja w Warszawie 157 Pawiak - protokoły przesłuchań świadków…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.68 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0068
Date:
interview: 1983 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ukrainian guards killing Jewish prisoners; being sent with 5000 non-Polish Jewish volunteers to Pawiakprison to build barracks and crematoria in what had…
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… volunteers they were sent to Pawiakprison to build barracks and crematoria in what had been the Warsaw Ghetto, as transports of Hungarian and Czech Jews…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.238.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0769
Date:
interview: 2014 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of 13; activities in the underground and his continued training; his arrest by the Gestapo; his time and torture at Pawiakprison; narrowly avoiding…
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… us in and took us to the PawiakPrison. What's the PawiakPrison? PawiakPrison was an old Russian prison in the center of Warsaw, huge, built to take…
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.