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…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.583 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0583
Date:
interview: 1990 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Belgium.…
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… WELL-OFF 12 suppose we were welloff. We had our own 13 apartment and ny mother was home taking care of me. 14 suppose that would mean that we were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.169 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0169
Date:
interview: 1999 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--England.…
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… the first time he realized that because he was Jewish he could not do certain things. In 1938 his parents realized that they would be unable to run…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.278 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0278
Date:
interview: 1995 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Belgium.…
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… other Jewish children there. She does not remember seeing her mother after she was in the orphanage, but her brother says that their mother visited once…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.732 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0732
Date:
interview: 1990 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Belgium.…
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… were some Jewish adults who came, and they took care of us. And at the same time, there were some American-Jewish that were there too to supply us and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.804 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0804
Date:
interview: 1995 August 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Poland.…
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… little shops and bakeries, and a tailor and shoemaker and little shops. And that's what the Jewish people did. My father was a merchant. He was a wheat…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.588 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0588
Date:
interview: 1990 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--France.…
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… remember we had math test and the kids were telling me now this is in high school arid in my class think at that time was the only Jewish student. And the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.618 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0618
Date:
interview: 1990 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Belgium.…
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… MOTHER HAD PREVIOUSLY HAD HAD SERIOUS SURGERY. 18 AND OF COURSE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE NOT ABLE TO GO TO DOCTORS 19 BUT THERE WAS BELGIUM DOCTOR THAT TOOK CARE…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.93 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0093
Date:
interview: 1996 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Belgium.…
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… if you could tell me, 6 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,640 what was it like to be Jewish in a convent? 7 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,410 Well, first of all it…
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…Page 1 Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Sygn.158) Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office RG-15.342 United States…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.304.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0978
Date:
interview: 2018 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare.…
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…-Jewish? 37 00:01:14,580 --> 00:01:15,530 Of course. 38 00:01:15,530 --> 00:01:16,800 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1274 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1274
Date:
interview: 1985 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--England.…
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… THIRD FLOOR. AND SHE WAS ABLE TO HAVE ONE ROOM FOR HERSELF. IT WAS KOSHER PLACE. IT ALSO HAD LATER ON TOOK CARE OF THE MENSA FOR THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--France.…
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… he refused because they were Jewish. Fink then found a double agent who called the camp commandant and husband released. Fink took Jewish children and…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.386.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0834
Date:
interview: 2015 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Netherlands.…
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… off the train, a Jewish/Dutch couple liked Claire and took her into their care but all the boys had to go to a Jewish camp in Vaykonzee (?) in Northern…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.586 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0586
Date:
interview: 1996 September 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--France.…
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… films and 14 very rapidly became very uncomfortable. And as so 15 many other children had to be careful how walked home 16 because every once in while…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.494 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0494
Date:
interview: 1989 April 02 interview: 1989 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Netherlands.…
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…- 21 MRS. SKOPF Holland it was like an orphanage home. 22 It was opened up for Jewish children coming in from Germany 23 and just to take care of them…
Selected records of the Worker's Society of Children's Friends. Main Board in Warsaw
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Poland.…
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….ushmm.org 4 Topical Term: Orphans--Care--Poland--History--Registers. Jewishchildren--Institutionalcare--Poland. Polish children--Institutionalcare--Poland…
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…th century. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Refugees‐‐Jewish‐‐Switzerland. Refugees‐‐Legal status, laws, etc.‐‐Switzerland. Children‐‐Institutionalcare‐‐Switzerland…
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