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  1. Kurt Maier family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial artifacts, photographs, and a letter relating to the experiences of Kurt Maier and his extended family before and during the Holocaust.

  2. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    The collection consists of documents, a cookbook, and prayer books documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  3. Henry Rosenthal collection

    The collection consists of six linens relating to the experiences of Henry Rosenthal and his mother, Hedwig Rosenthal, in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  4. Zdenka Steiner Novak family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a photo album, a cookbook, documents, sketches, correspondence, photographs, Zdenka's memoir, "Story of My Life," and her school records. The papers are part of a collection documenting Zdenka Steiner Novak and the Steiner family's experiences in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia) before, during, and after World War II.

  5. Lieselotte Bohm collection

    The Collection consists of documents, photographs, document holders, and armband, prayer books, and Stars of David illustrating the experiences of Lieselotte Bohm and her extended family in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war.

  6. Shraga Weil family collection

    The collection consists of a diary, postcards, correspondence, poems, documents, permits, identification papers, receipts, photographs, a book of printed drawings, and an embroidered keepsake relating to the experiences of Shraga (Frantisek) Weil and the extended Weil family.

  7. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket and pants.

  8. Aron family collection

    The collection consists of documents, linens, a wooden box, and pieces of a US Army uniform relating to the experiences of Selma Aron and Fred Siegfried Aron in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust and World War II.

  9. Schulmuseum Berlin collection

    The collection consists of a leather schoolbag, a blackboard, three slate pencils, a wood pencil case, and school–related documents used in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  10. Signed testimonies of the Deaf Austrians and National Socialism collection

    Videotaped interviews with Deaf eyewitnesses to WWII and the Holocaust

  11. Oral history interviews of the Life After the Holocaust collection

    The Life After the Holocaust collection reveals the complexity of starting over for six Holocaust survivors whose journeys brought them to the United States following WWII.

  12. Gluck family collection

    Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, two mezuzot, a US Army jacket, an army mess cup (with personal inscriptions), an army duffel bag, medals and insignias, and pieces of Irving's broken eyeglasses from the Battle of Anzio; Irving'...

  13. Albert and Angela Feldstein collection

    The collection conisists of World War II era buttons: "Halt Hitler" and "Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. Wings for Victory"

  14. Pauline and Joseph Charatan collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Pauline Charatan (née Margulies), originally of Busk, Poland (Busk, Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust living in Gleisdorf, Austria under a false-identity, and Joseph Charatan, originally of Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), who escaped the Janowska concentration camp and survived hidden in a bunker until his liberation in 1944. The collection includes birth certificates, naturalization certificates, Pauline and Joseph’s marriage certificate, Pauline’s vaccination certificate, restitution paperwork, a commemorative booklet from the USS Gene...

  15. Abram Bork collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, passport, identification card, photographs, translations, document holder documenting the immigration of Abram Bork to the United States from Lublin, Poland. Abram immigrated to his maternal grandparents in New York.

  16. Leon Hilersberg collection

    The collection consists of a letter received by Leon Hilersberg from the American Consulate in Vienna concerning his status on the US visa waiting list, his and his wife Henryka's German passports and a collection of German handbills.

  17. Soviet Jewish Veterans Video Interviews and Memory Project

    Interviews with Jewish Red Army veterans who fought with the Soviet Armed Forces against the Nazis in WWII, as well as partisans and Leningrad blockade survivors

  18. Oral history interviews of The Last Witnesses of Time collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded throughout the United Kingdom and South America

  19. Leon Shear collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Leon Shear, his family, and his friends. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Bill Leftwich collection

    Contains the Sgt. Bill Leftwich story and one drawing relating to the liberation of the Landsberg camp. The story describes how the American Army broke the camp, Hurlach #4, near Landsberg on 28 April, 1945, and had liberated 2800 allied prisoners. The graphic, singed by Bill Leftwich and dated June, 1945, shows two camp prisoners with an American tank; and on the other site: one prisoner in a dark room.