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.
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… very serious, in spite of the fact that the women's lager(ph) was in a huge camp, if it comes to, to numbers of inmates. So_______________ as well, the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0418 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0376
Date:
interview: 1996 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesasguards.…
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…. Because, in general, the camp was governed by ..., the camp, I mean, as first [inmates] came to the camp one thousand German women from Rav..., 999 German…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.76 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0076
Date:
interview: 1993 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesasguards.…
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… trains to the various concentrationcamps. Everything was done so quickly and so efficiently. Kobo heard that she and her family were going to Krakow. The…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.204 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0204
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesasguards.…
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…): barter for food as well as help other inmates who worked elsewhere. This included bribing Ukranian guards who were thus their ‘captives’. Describes…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.7 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0007
Date:
interview: 1989 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesasguards.…
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… followed my steps to the concentrationcamp. But he kept low and he survived. What was the religious background of your family? We were a Catholic family in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.14 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0014
Date:
interview: 1992 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesas musicians.…
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… what kind of a camp Treblinka was, 236 00:11:23,430 --> 00:11:27,490 and how it differed from other concentrationcamps. 237 00:11:27,490 --> 00:11:30…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.7 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0007
Date:
interview: 1992 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesas musicians.…
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… I was marked as such, on the, on the jacket of my back, and every time, I, any, a Kapo would pass by me or an SS officer or an SS guard, either would…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.11 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0011
Date:
interview: 1985 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesas artists.…
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… concentrationcamp. I did not get the right traveling paper to come out because of having voted German in a count. In the year 1933, everybody had to fill in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.52 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0052
Date:
interview: 1986 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesas musicians.…
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…-built as a concentrationcamp, weren't they? I dare say they were built-- why they built that one in bricks, I never gave it a thought, Really but luckily…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.32 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0032
Date:
interview: 1989 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…' experiences in Gurs concentrationcamp in 1942; his mother becoming pregnant by a guard in Gurs; his mother receiving permission to leave the camp to give birth…
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… concentrationcamp 879 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:19,293 with Jews marching as prisoners the length and breadth 880 00:42:19,293 --> 00:42:19,960 of the country." 881…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.11 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0011
Date:
interview: 1992 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesas musicians.…
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… Lantshaullheim Kuput (sp?) near Berlin. Her father came from Austria and worked as a tailor and an agent for several films. Her mother’s family came from Lepzig…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.53 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0053
Date:
interview: 1991 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesas musicians.…
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… as the Russians advanced altogether, as Germany got smaller and smaller. And, as you know, there were thousands of camps. They were all concentrated…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.7 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0007
Date:
interview: 2000 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentrationcampinmatesas artists.…
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… in the guarding of the camp; talks about the gender of the inmates; discusses the visiting rights for family members of the inmates; describes the…
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