She was their age when the Nazis took over Paris in 1940. She told students how there was an 8 p.m. curfew, how she had to wear a yellow star marking her as Jewish and how her ID card was stamped ...

Irene Weiss is a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor. She and her family were sent to Auschwitz when she was 13 years old. Most of her family died in the camp. She is one of the few who survived.

Finally, a Holocaust survivor who came to the U.S. after World War II and went on to become an NMAH curator is represented by a device she donated to the collections. The objects included are arranged ...