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: 1992.A.0125.114 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0114
Date:
interview: 1992 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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… place, Chicho___, it’s in northern Transylvania. We were constructing a railroad. As ____ for the second lane. It was very important for the war because…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.12 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0012
Date:
interview: 1983 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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… collection sent directly to the gas chamber. Another soon contracted pleurisy and died. 27:00 In Birkenau, she worked on building a new railroad. Her head was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1988.H.0179 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0185
Date:
interview: 1988 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers--Poland--Pruszków (Województwo Mazowieckie)…
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… ghetto, but the area was not closed. We could go around and move around freely. Three times a week we were have to taken to the railroad labor camp, and we…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.27 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0027
Date:
interview: 1996 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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… railroad tracks. Sam then worked in factories in Meislovitz(ph), and Bamburg, Germany before being sent on foot march to Theresienstadt (Terezin, Czech…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.22 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0022
Date:
interview: 1995 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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… 1941 he was sent to a labor camp in Zboncien(ph). When Sam arrived, the camp was used for forced labor on the German railroads under supervision of the…
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…, we went to another camp. My leg started swelling up. And we went to a camp in Hamburg. There, we were supposed to be laying railroad tracks. And there…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0317 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0168
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers--Ukraine.…
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…, and then we see the German soldiers walking, and make us march. So, our city was divided by a railroad. It was like a new city and an old city. So we…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.228 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0228
Date:
interview: 1995 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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… Sept 3, a9a42. On Sept. 2, Reuven was working on the railroad in the town of Luninets - with 100 other prisoners. Returned to ghetto at about 2:00 am…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.217 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0217
Date:
interview: 1993 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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… and say Theres Jew. Heres Jew. Go take them. They used to take us out beat us then we used to work. The ones that brought us to the railroad station put…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.286 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0286
Date:
interview: 1996 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers--Lithuania.…
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… and her younger brother from the camp by including them as members of the family of a second cousin. The second cousin was a skilled worker who was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.7 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0007
Date:
interview: 1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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….org for further information about this collection USHMM Archives RG-50.005*0007 32 12:00 He was assigned to work on a railroad. This was very hard work, no…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.144 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0144
Date:
interview: 1993 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Railroadconstructionworkers.…
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… labor camp. I was in charge of a group of 25 women. We had to build a railroad. One day our manager, a Polish man, told us to run away because the Germans…
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