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: 1998.A.0221.129 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0129
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interview: 2005 December 14
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… 00:29 – 05:28 She introduces herself as Janina Miglinienė (maiden name Paulavičiūtė), born in 1924 in Alytus; says that at the beginning of the war she…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.73 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0073
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interview: 1987 June 24
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… were trying to save Jews-Hitler trying to eliminate them not by way of war but wherever they were. 01:00 The tasks of saving the Jews was even more…
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…. Feldman (NYC?), a Jew who survived the war years due to Janina's father's compassion. Janina herself remembers little, lacks flamboyance, and, with the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.18 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0018
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interview: 1998 April 19
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… young Jewish boy, who his family rescued during the war; explains that there were many Jews in Panemunė (a neighborhood in Kaunas) as well as a synagogue…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.151 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0151
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interview: 2006 August 22
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… the 9th of October. Q: Tell me, when the WorldWar II started – where were you at that time? A: In Pavenčiai. Q: Where in Pavenčiai? A: Near Šiauliai…
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… diseases, and was in charge of the hospital, in the Jewish hospital of the contagious disease department. In 1940, approximately 6 weeks before the WorldWar…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.78 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0078
Date:
interview: 2001 May 08
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… Alfonsas. Primary school. Q: So before the war – what was he in Butrimonys? https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
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… that this is exact date of my birth because in the time of the 1st WorldWar, my little town was in fire and all the documents were burned, so I had to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.65 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0065
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interview: 1988 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… strength from instinct, not religion. -- She found it hard to live in Germany after the war. -- She feels Jews suffered all over the world. -- She is mad…
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… befelḳerung. WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania. Jewish refugees--Europe--History--20thy century--Registers. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.80 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0080
Date:
interview: 2001 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… the sister. They had arrived—these Jews were from Stakliškės—they had come to Stakliškės, and then the war started. And they could not return to…
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… the time before WorldWar II. The extraordinary experience of being educated in Hebrew about the world, not just about Judaism. I remember in my school…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.70 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0070
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interview: 2000 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… Karlonaitė), born on October 26, 1923, resident of Ylakiai, describes the events that occurred in Ylakiai in the first few weeks after the start of the war…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1134 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1134
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interview: 1991 August 26
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… Janutiene (Berkeley, CA), Don Greb (Oakland, CA) & M. Zingeras PART I WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST MEMORIES OF THE WAR? I was working in a store in Varniai. We did…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.156.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0916
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interview: 2017 February 24
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… came from nobility but they were not wealthy and his cousin got him through high school. Her father was in charge of a regiment in WorldWar I in the…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.52 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0052
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… said, I was born in 1941 in April Second WorldWar II already continued for two years. But it was two months before Soviet Union entered the war. War…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1503 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1503
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interview: 1991 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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…, were marched to the Telshiai Ghetto. --Tell us about your experiences before and at the beginning of the War. My father died when I was a year and a half…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.359 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0359
Date:
interview: 1995 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… born just prior to the war breaking out with Germany. This description that I'm giving you now is while we were still under Lithuanian occupa -- not…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.387 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0387
Date:
interview: 2011 October 17
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… organization, Betar, and very involved in its activities. He did not experience anti-Semitic incidents before the war. Lithuania was known as “Little America…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.349 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0349
Date:
interview: 1999 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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… where some of the Hungarian Jewish intellectuals managed to have a good life. At one point, Russian war prisoners and Yugoslavian partisans led by Tito…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.12.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0743
Date:
interview: 2014 February 20 interview: 2014 May 05
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
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…. And this was during the German phase, early German phase. So this was during German occupation of Lithuania in 19-- in the First WorldWar? I'm not sure…
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… collection https://collections.ushmm.org Jewish refugees--New York (State)--New York. Hasidim. WorldWar, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Japan. WorldWar, 1939-1945…
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