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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… Beld lived near the Dutch-German border. In 1930’s and in 1940 he spent time in Germany. He witnessed Kristallnacht. He became a policeman and was…
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… concentration camp, and then he experienced that the Dutch NSB were even more cruel than the Germans. He also mentions that in the Amersfoort camp the prisoners…
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…. Jansje related that she and her father were arrested in connection with posession of illegal rationing coupons and were held in a Dutchprison for seven…
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… arrested and transported. One of the things that attracted Aart to the Witnesses was that they were different from the people involved in the war. The whole…
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… couple stayed in their house for a year and a half before being taken away by the Dutch underground. Their bodies were found the next day. Rinze and…
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… result, but it had been so quiet for centuries never been attacked. Nor being in the first worldwarand so on that's all. 8:63 I2: Just to back up just a…
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… imprisoned. At the time of the Dutch capitulation he was taken from military prison to a police station, and the police set him free. Later during the war the…
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… was asked to take over a government department. Then came the warand his father was picked up and put in the "orange house," a name given to a prison…
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… prisoners. He was even able to start a Bible study with some Dutchand Belgian political prisoners. He had found a Bible while working in the laundry, and…
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… said, “You first learn something which you can do anywhere in the world.” I mean this was '38. The war in Munich had happened and peace was just a matter…
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… winning the war, never. And one day, I will stand there, and you will be prisoner, and I will say, what does it matter, a few of them, more or less? He said…
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…, the elementary school; and then I went to high school. And the war broke out when I was not even eighteen years old. So I finished high school, and then…
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… was produced in partnership with The World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is not a primary source assigned to Dordrecht and began preaching…
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…--Prisonersandprisons, Dutch--Registers. WorldWar, 1939-1945--Netherlands--Personal narratives. WorldWar, 1939-1945--Deportations from Netherlands…
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…--(Voivodeship)--Registers. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Lublin (Voivodeship) Polish property--Poland--Lublin (Voivodeship) WorldWar, 1939-1945--Prisonersandprisons…
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.