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: 1998.A.0221.129 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0129
Date:
interview: 2005 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… 00:29 – 05:28 She introduces herself as Janina Miglinienė (maiden name Paulavičiūtė), born in 1924 in Alytus; says that at the beginning of the war she…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.73 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0073
Date:
interview: 1987 June 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… were trying to save Jews-Hitler trying to eliminate them not by way of war but wherever they were. 01:00 The tasks of saving the Jews was even more…
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…. Feldman (NYC?), a Jew who survived the war years due to Janina's father's compassion. Janina herself remembers little, lacks flamboyance, and, with the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.18 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0018
Date:
interview: 1998 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… young Jewish boy, who his family rescued during the war; explains that there were many Jews in Panemunė (a neighborhood in Kaunas) as well as a synagogue…
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.