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  1. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska collection

    The Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and writings documenting Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as well as her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski’s experiences in Nazi-annexed Poznań and as a displaced person in Germany. The collection also includes a wallet, several buttons and publications.

  2. Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets

    Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets: - Der Fuhrer und der Arbeiter - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 3 - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 4 - Der Fuhrer 1938 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1934 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1935 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer und Mussolini - Des Fuhrers kampf in Norwegen - Des Fuhrers kampf in Frenkreich

  3. Nisha Holton collection

    Nisha Holton's audio recorded memoir of her experiences in Austria prior to the Holocaust and a hand-painted map of locations near her childhood home in Baden, Austria that she mentions in the memoir

  4. Hausner family collection

    The collection consists of a film projector, textiles made in Hausner factory, documents, photographs and identification cards.

  5. Gerda Happ and Josef Stern collection

    Documents, photographs, manuscript of a family tree, and a prayer book illustrating Gerda Happ and her extended family and Josef Stern and his extended family. Gerda and Josef met and married in South Africa after they both fled there to escape Nazi persecution.

  6. Siedner family collection

    The collection consists of documents, citizenship certificates (and holders), photos, passport, family book, a Kennkarte (passport), and a phototopy of a personal testimony that documents the experiences of Kurt and Regina Siedner (donor's grandparents) and their daughters Rosemarie (donor's mother) and Ursula, from Flensburg, Germany, and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  7. Walter Gumpert family collection

    The collection consists of an attache case, prayer book, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Walter and Erna Gumpert and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.

  8. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  9. Henry Rosenthal collection

    Documents, letters, photographs and prayer book documenting the experiences of Henry Rosenthal's family.

  10. Hungarian and Polish poster collection

    The collection consists of three Hungarian posters and one Polish poster.

  11. Singer family collection

    The collection consists of a brick from the wall around the synagogue in Celldömölk, Hungary which was bombed down by the Germans and a curtain embroidered by Ilona Waldhauser which she took to the ghetto in Csorna and was taken from her there by locals. Ilona's daughter saw it in a window in Csorna after the war and it was returned to her.

  12. Sprung and Braksmajer families collection

    Documents, photographs, an oral testimony, and correspondence illustrating the Sprung and Braksmajer families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Sisters Frieda and Blanche Sprung, born in Poland, lived in Rawa Ruska before the war, managed to secure false documents in the names of Tatiana Osemek and Katharina Lazar/Antonia Osymak respectively, and survived in several slave labor camps. Also documented is Schol Braksmajer whom married Frieda Sprung in 1947 after they met in Eschwege displaced persons camp in Germany.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas oral history Project

  14. Kahn and Neuhaus families collection

    The collection consists of some correspondence and identification information related ot the Kahn and Neuhaus families, with objects such as a sketchbook and textiles, primarily relating to the donor's aunt, Ilse Neuhaus (1924-1942), in Hadamar and Hochspeyer, Germany, and in Amsterdam.

  15. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    The collection consists of books, documents, correspondence, photographs, and tefillin documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner Teich and her husband Maurice Teich during the Holocaust.

  16. Victoria J. Barnett collection

    Victoria J. Barnett's oral history interviews with Germans who were associated with the Confessing Church. Excerpts from these interviews were published in Barnett's book "For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler."

  17. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Digital copies of the audio, film, and paper components of the Archives of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg. The original materials include: 1,942 cut gramophone discs of audio recordings of the hearings of the IMT; 37 rolls of 35mm nitrate films used as evidence during the trial; and 269,093 pages of documents (exhibits submitted to the Tribunal; trial briefs; minutes; lists).

  18. Fleischmann family collection

    Trunk brought from Czech Republic with Sonia Fleischmann, who fled Prague to the United Kingdom in 1940. Eva and her sister, Milena Fleischmann, were sent ahead of their parents from Czechoslovakia on Kindertransport, or, a children’s transport to the United Kingdom, in 1939. Backpack used and worn by Eva Fleischmann. Tag worn by Eva while traveling to the UK., photographs of Eva, Milena and the Radcliffe Family who cared for the girls once They arrived in the UK., Identification for “Seina Fleischmannova” and luggage tag, documenting Sonja’s voyage through Oslo, Norway to Liverpool, UK and...

  19. Cacilie and Stefanie Klarfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a plaque, correspondence, documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Cacilie Klarfeld and Stefanie Klarfeld, originally from Vienna, Austria, including during the Holocaust when Cäcilie was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  20. Marcel Janco artwork collection

    The collection consists of four original drawings depicting the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust by Romanian artist Marcel Janco. Janco immigrated to Israel in 1941, shortly after his brother's murder during the Bucharest Pogrom. The drawings were created during the 1940s.