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.1269.20 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0020
Date:
interview: 1995 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… displaced persons; contracting hepatitis; rejoining the regiment in April 1945 in Wetzlar, Germany; going to Buchenwald; seeing barracks with two-story bunks…
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… had to dig trenches, bring water, etc. He got hepatitis and rejoined regiment in April 1945 in Wetzlar, Germany. From there they went to Buchenwald. He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.91 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0091
Date:
interview: 1981 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Wetzlar, Germany; her husband teaching mechanics at the ORT school; going to the United States in October 1949; and her work at a dental company.…
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… home of a German-Christian family. Luba and her family went to a Displaced persons camp in Wetzlar, near Stuttgart, Germany. She came to the United…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.98 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0098
Date:
interview: 1985 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Wetzlar (Germany)…
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… Germany though? Oh, yes. Yes, I'm in Wetzlar, actually Homemark, I beg your pardon, Homemark. And I was in there for two weeks. And they came and took me…
… calisthenics in the Wetzlar Displaced persons camp, the 4th Armored division's area at Regensburg, Germany, and views of the Jagerskasserne in Wuerzburger Str…
… displaced persons camp in Wetzlar, Germany, where he met Chaya Markman. Their son Elchanan (named for his maternal grandfather), was born on November 7, 1947…
…, she and her cousin Dora ended up in Wetzlar, a remote town in Germany where a displaced persons camp had been set up by the American army. There, she…
New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Wetzlar (Germany)…
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