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.1286.29 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0029
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… Soviet Union changes every day so we were very afraid that something might happen and, who knows? Four years ago Gorbachev opened the gate but he can also…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.16 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0016
Date:
interview: 1991 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… kitchen. (Just you, your mother and your father? For the Soviet Union this was pretty good to have that privacy?) Yes. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.28 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0028
Date:
interview: 1990 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… maybe this was just one event in seventy years in the Soviet Union. And I didn't want to leave. I think that when he was a high level officer, he believed…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.3 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0003
Date:
interview: 1990 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… of them don't enter the institute after that. There were two organizations we could have joined, the professional union and Komsomol, the communist…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.11 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0011
Date:
interview: 1990 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… technician to repair roads. My work was not physically hard. Since Bessarabia became a part of the Soviet Union, I was sent into the Red Army to the western…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.19 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0019
Date:
interview: 1990 November 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… because they felt things were getting worse for Jews in the Soviet Union. At first, she kept her plans secret, because one usually lost her job once it was…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.27 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0027
Date:
interview: 1990 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… their jobs and moved to Tashkent where Betya worked as a gynecologist from 1986 to 1988. Betya was determined to leave the Soviet Union and in Nov 1988…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1286.17 | RG Number: RG-50.405.0017
Date:
interview: 1991 April 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaustsurvivors--SovietUnion.…
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… Holocaust.) https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection
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