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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… Jewish Childcare Association. Manny remained, though Sylvia soon went on to a foster home owned by Mrs. Schumacher. After two years, Manny went to a foster…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1361 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1361
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--France.…
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… GLOGOWER RUN BY THE JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION FROM NEWARK. THEY WERE VERY -- NICE GOOD AGENCY ALSO -- AND THEN THEY -- MY SISTER -- WAS IN CAMP IN…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.289.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0822
Date:
interview: 2015 July 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Israel.…
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… had a cousin who wrote a book. And in that book, he's counting us back to Rashi, who was one of the biggest commentators in the Jewish area of the Bible…
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… sure about the time. And we were told to go to another family that lived few blocks from where we did another Jewish family who also had been awakened…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.415.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1058
Date:
interview: 2019 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Belgium.…
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…'m not talking about-- most people are not Jewish here. And they all appreciate it a lot. And I don't care about my own-- for my own satisfaction. I think…
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… things. But in the village, I can't remember, but there was a shop where they had ready-made things. My mother embroidered our underwear very carefully…
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… was Ruth Elizabeth Weiss. would 19 like to say something about that. 20 In Germany Jewish families or maybe 21 the-- not the very Orthodox but the ones…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.116 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0624
Date:
interview: 2011 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Ukraine.…
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… daughter, so Gennady had a half sister Gennady’s aunts were communists; Gennady didn’t feel Jewish in 1930s [In the idealistic 1920s and 1930s, ethnicity was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.768 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0768
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--England.…
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… was about four or five years old, which was almost when Hitler came. But no, I grew up in a family that was conservative Jewish. In fact, in Karlsruhe…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.805 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0805
Date:
interview: 1989 September 12 interview: 1989 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Netherlands.…
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… immediately was Jewish. He never asked question. He 15 said Ill take care of you. Ill get you medicine. 16 And so they nursed me back to health. 17 And then the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1324 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1324
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--France.…
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… RUTH think that the OUSEE which is the organiza 19 tion that brought us from France were affiliated with the 20 Jewish Family Service and we came over as…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1245 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1245
Date:
interview: 1984 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Netherlands.…
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… what they had done. But guess the committee watched these people quite carefully. This was Jewish family. have their name. But thats all. dont know who…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.131 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0131
Date:
interview: 1999 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--England.…
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…:10,990 And that people are mixing more in general 173 00:09:10,990 --> 00:09:15,970 and making real efforts, I know, in the Jewish community 174 00:09…
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…Holocaust-era records of the Jewish Labor Committee Child adoption case files RG-67.002M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.99 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0099
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--France.…
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… Jewish community to take care of its own. This is something we need to remember. And that's why I'm alive with those who were Jews and even those who were…
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…:26,140 the Jewish men to send them to a concentration camp. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…
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.