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: 2005.585 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0025
Date:
interview: 2005 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Margretha Ingekamp-Swart, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1921, discusses the political identification of her parents; prewar relations between…
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… her youth. Living in Rotterdam at the river Maas, overlooking the harbor. Feyenoord neighborhood. She was only child. Her father came from Friesland…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.531 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0022
Date:
interview: 2005 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Johanna van de Velden, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1921, discusses the beginning of the war; witnessing the roundup of patients at the Jewish…
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…Netherlands Documentation Project Interview Summary RG-50.570*0022 Interviewee Mrs. Johanna van de Velden Date 28 January 2005 Location Amsterdam…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.532 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0023
Date:
interview: 2005 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abraham Bruin, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1926, discusses his training in plumbing; the German invasion; increasing anti-Jewish regulations…
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…Netherlands Documentation Project Interview Summary RG-50.570*0023 Interviewee Mr. Abraham J. Bruin Date 28 January 2005 Place Ridderkerk Mr. Bruin…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.858 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0858
Date:
interview: 1996 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Frankfurt; the greater freedom she remembers there; Kristallnacht; her flight with her mother and other family members to Rotterdam, Netherlands; their…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.397.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0126
Date:
interview: 1990 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Carla Heijmans Lessing, born in 1929 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, describes her family and childhood; the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940…
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… LESSING May 29, 1990 Q: Would you tell me your name please? A: Carla Lessing. Q: Where and when were you born? A: I was born in Rotterdam, Holland uh on…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.26 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0026
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Truus Heindyk Kamp, born September 29, 1917, discusses growing up in Rotterdam, Netherlands; her parents, two sisters, and brother; her brother dying…
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… 29, 1917, grew up with parents, two sisters and one brother in Rotterdam. Her brother died in the bombardment of Rotterdam [May 14, 1940.] :02 She…
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