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  1. Ungar, Hammerschlag and Breuer family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs of the Ungar, Hammerschlag and Breuer family of Vienna. Also drawings either by or collected by Dora Breuer.

  2. Dr. Arthur Kessler collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Arthur Kessler, originally of Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), including his imprisonment in the Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria and his efforts to treat and manage an outbreak of paralysis of fellow prisoners due to consumption of Lathyrus sativus. Included are artifacts, objects gifted to him, biographical materials, correspondence, research notes and samples related to Lathyrism, written testimony, writings, and a small amount of photographs. Also included is his unpublished memoir Ein Arzt im Lager (A Camp Physician).

  3. Joshua Heilman collection

    The collection consists of a camera used by Joshua Heilman and pre-war photographs he took of Lubaczow using this camera, which he assembled into an album which he took with him to British Mandate Palestine in 1939.

  4. Robert L. Tumler collection

    The collection consists of wartime and postwar photographs, postcards, a typed report on Ebensee (Mimeograph copy) and a German map on which Tumler drew the route his unit took ending in Ebensee. The photographs include some images of the Ebensee camp taken shortly after liberation. Robert L. Tumler (1911-1980) served as a medic in the US Army during WWII. His unit landed in Normandy six weeks after D-day and followed the Advancing Troops across Europe. As camps were liberated, they provided a basic level of medical care - the last camp was at Ebensee.

  5. Schwalbe family collection

    THe collection contains documents, correspondence (letters and postcards), journals, photographs, postwar writings, newspaper clippings, 2 metal disc recordings, ephemera and three dimensional artifacts to include a portfolio, eyeglass case and small notebook documenting the experiences of the Schwalbe family and their relatives in Berlin, Teheran, Palestine and their immigration and settlement in the United States.

  6. Walter Peiser artwork collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Walter Peiser-Preisser ("Prei"). One woodcut print that is part of a series of 12, created in the Neustadt/Holstein DP camp, circa 1946. Seven prints (one hexagon and six trapezoids) depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz-Monowitz, Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and general scenes of commemoration that include names of camps, prisoner numbers and markings, with small holes punched around the entire border of each page.

  7. Susie and Margarete Wiesner collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, cigarette case with pin, doll, cloth pouch and coins and currency used, carried by Susie Marie Wiesner Metzger and her mother Margarete Wiesner who survived the Holocaust; 3 videocassette tapes.

  8. Hans Marcuse collection

    The collection consists of etters, documents, a Hagadah, physics kit, tefillin, tzitzit (tallit katan), and bag documenting the experiences of Hans Marcuse and his family.

  9. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, a newspaper, and artifacts related to Anatol and Alexandra Gorko who both survived the Holocaust and married after the war in Łódź, Poland.

  10. Collin and Reis families collection

    The collection consists of material related to the Collin and Reis families including photographs, correspondence, documents, passports, identification papers, diary and transltion, pamphlets, notebooks, school book and magazines and medal.

  11. Stella and Chester Szczesny collection

    Photographs documentating memorialization of Polish Roman Catholic Stanislawa and Czeslaw Szczesny, both survivors of multiple concentration camps and attempts to drown victims (some who survived) Thielbeck and Deutschland ships. Postwar identity card for Czeslaw and wallet in which all were kept.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Brad Zarlin collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded by telephone.

  13. Goldmann family collection

    Correspondence, documents, and related materials concerning Kurt Goldmann pertaining to his life in Germany from his birth in 1921 through his emigration in 1939, his experiences as a newly arrived immigrant to the U.S. as a student at Penn State University and membership in the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity, his Army service during WWII, and post-war experiences as a naturalized American. Included as well are items pertaining to his parents Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann and their emigration from Germany to England and then to the U.S. and family records prior to and during the Nazi era incl...

  14. Nacht family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, drawings, photos, passports, notebook and additional materials relating to and documenting the experiences of Max Nacht, his wife Elfriede (nee Kamm), sons Edward and Felix, Elfriede's parents Alfred and Amalie Kamm and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany, Shanghai, and the Dominican Republic.

  15. Cohen family collection

    The collection consists of postcards sent to Morris Cohen (donor's paternal grandfather) primarily from his sister-in-law Esther Feyge (Fagel)regarding their family in Rutki Kossaki, Poland, 1939-1940; postcard sent to Morris Cohen from family friend in Rutki Kossaki regarding the murder of family members in 1942; Also included in the collection are two (2) leather wallets.

  16. Lore Anthes Schwarz family collection

    The collection consists of a jewelry box, a postcard, and several documents relating to the experiences of Regina Hess in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust and the family of Julius Bentheim in Germany during the Holocaust, which were kept hidden by Georg, Elise, and Lore Anthes in Germany during World War II.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Lieberman/Goldman family collection

    Oral history interviews with Daniel Goldsmith, Donald Greenbaum, and Ernest Gross

  18. Bäecher family collection

    THe collection consists of a letter from the Movement for the Care of Children From Germany in London to Mrs. A. Baecher in Bronham, England concerning her son Ivan and his disposition. Dated July 3, 1940, signed by Barbara Winton. Metal tag usd in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Josef Fleischer, Ivan’s grandfather, who died in the camp in 1943. Tag was kept by Ivan’s Grandmother, Jenny who did survive but passed away in June 1945, after her liberation; Photographs of Ivan’s extended family-Aunts, Uncles, cousins who did not survive the Holocaust or survived in hiding.

  19. Signed testimonies of the Ma'agalei Shema Association collection

    Video interviews with Deaf Holocaust survivors, produced by the Ma'agalei Shema Association

  20. Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and a pair of youth soccer cleats pertaining to the experiences of the Blogier, Wides, and Wechselman families. Abraham Blogier and his sister Edith Blogier Wechselman were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and h...