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: 1995.A.1286.45 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0045
Date:
interview: 1990 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… very good profession, in the Soviet Union, drafter or engineers are a very low paid profession. That's why they let us go into this profession. (You were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.20 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0020
Date:
interview: 1990 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… with the Soviet Union. (What are your dreams for everyone's future?) I want you [to Anna] to have good kids, a big house, a doctor or a lawyer. Then I…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.13 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0013
Date:
interview: 1991 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… size. (By the time your father had been born, there was no longer any religion allowed in the Soviet Union. Did you see any traces left of the religion…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.19 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0019
Date:
interview: 1990 November 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… because they felt things were getting worse for Jews in the Soviet Union. At first, she kept her plans secret, because one usually lost her job once it was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.49 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0049
Date:
interview: 1990 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… celebrated was Pass- over because I never saw in the Soviet Union a Jewish wed- ding, Jewish funeral, nothing, never, because it was so difficult to see…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.12 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0012
Date:
interview: 1991 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… Second World War we had Jewish schools. Then they were closed. In Baku they were closed. In the Soviet Union there are Jewish schools, in the far East, in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.29 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0029
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… Soviet Union changes every day so we were very afraid that something might happen and, who knows? Four years ago Gorbachev opened the gate but he can also…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.10 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0010
Date:
interview: 1990 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… that was a little harder, but I studied very well. We read in the newspapers what was happening in Europe but we were not worried. The Soviet Union was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.26 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0026
Date:
interview: 1990 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… Jewish traditions due to suppression in the Soviet Union, the grandchildren living in the US and Israel are practicing Jews. https://collections…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.50 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0050
Date:
interview: 1991 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… Union, I wonder what the point of a person's life is. I see that maybe in America I could have followed my pursuits, etc., but there I couldn't reach the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.28 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0028
Date:
interview: 1990 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… maybe this was just one event in seventy years in the Soviet Union. And I didn't want to leave. I think that when he was a high level officer, he believed…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.11 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0011
Date:
interview: 1990 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… technician to repair roads. My work was not physically hard. Since Bessarabia became a part of the Soviet Union, I was sent into the Red Army to the western…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.8 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0008
Date:
interview: 1990 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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…, Talinn, Krasnoyarsk - anywhere. (Were you learning things from travelling? Were you getting a better idea of life in the Soviet Union because of your…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.48 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0048
Date:
interview: 1991 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… then exiled with their infant son to Karaganda, in the Eastern Soviet Union. • Family and acquaintances also included: Moses Levitov and his wife, Liza…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.16 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0016
Date:
interview: 1991 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… kitchen. (Just you, your mother and your father? For the Soviet Union this was pretty good to have that privacy?) Yes. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.32 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0032
Date:
interview: 1990 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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…) that we would like to leave the Soviet Union. My relatives left Russia, my cousin left first. Some other friends began leaving in the 70's. But, after…
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