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: 2014.57.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0750
Date:
interview: 2014 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin, Battleof, Berlin, Germany, 1945.…
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… bit about the battle towards Berlin. Since you were there – I mean, somebody who sees this is an unusual witness. Can you tell me what kind of…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.28 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0028
Date:
interview: 2004 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin, Battleof, Berlin, Germany, 1945.…
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… Fliegeralarme; 22. April 1945: Er erwähnt, dass für Gerda und Gitta ein Platz in der letzten Maschine, reserviert ist, die Berlin verlassen soll; aber Gerda will…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.57 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0057
Date:
interview: 1982 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin, Battleof, Berlin, Germany, 1945.…
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… small resistance group composed of young men from mixed marriages. He describes life during the BattleofBerlin and postwar under Russian occupation. D…
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… course, I then ended up, when I was a mascot, in the battleofBerlin, and that was quite -- there was a really almost hand-to-hand combat and there it was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.4 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0004
Date:
interview: 1991 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s bunker in Berlin, Germany in June 1945; being a correspondent at the Nuremberg War Trials in Nuremberg, Germany from 1945 to 1946; the key role of Maxwell…
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… Europe, 1941‐1945; correspondent War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945‐1946 Content description REEL 1 Recollections of period as…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.83.3 | RG Number: RG-50.920.0003
Date:
interview: 2005 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ardennes, Battleof the, 1944-1945.…
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… describes in great detail the Battleof the Bulge; the weather was so cold they couldn't hold on to their mess kits. The infantry marched alongside tanks to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.441 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0514
Date:
interview: 2007 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Army to do research for the Office of Military Government (OMGUS); his work with the Joint Distribution Committee in Berlin, Germany until the…
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…. There was no Berlin wall at that time, and the Communist party of West Germany was swimming in reichsmarks. There were Bavarian villages that never in the…
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