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  1. Paul Hendel collection

    The collection consists of a pin, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Pinchas Hendel and his family before the Holocaust in Hrubieszow, Poland, and after the Holocaust in Germany.

  2. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman collection

    Documents and photographs related to Marsha G. Kreuzman (nee Grunberg) and Robert Kreuzman. Also includes Marsha's spoon from the Jewish Hospital in Krakow; and Robert Kreuzman's leather bracelet with metal prisoner number ID tag (#86778) from Mauthausen.

  3. Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe collection

    The collection consists of a booklet used as part diary, part autograph book, containing poetry and signatures written during and after the Holocaust by Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe. It also contains paper scraps re-used to write on in subcamps of Buchenwald by an unknown author (potentially Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe) and a cloth identification number patch.

  4. Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and Ignaz and Rosine Auerbach collection

    Collection of documents, correpondence, photographs and publications surrounding Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and their escape from Nazi occupied Vienna, Austria. Kurt, a lawyer, was arrested and held by the Gestapo before being released and able to flee to the United States.

  5. Anne Ranasinghe collection

    Photographs, documents, and memorabilia related to the donor’s mother, Anneliese Katz (later Anne Ranasinghe), her childhood in Essen, Germany and immigration alone to England at age13. Includes a small photograph album; loose photographs; a diary (approximately 100 pages, covering 1939-1947 [bulk 1939-1942], in German with some English poems and phrases); wartime letters and postcards from Annaliese’s parents in Germany; miscellaneous correspondence; family history material; Alte synagogue Exhibition document, nursing badges, and order of merit awarded by German government.

  6. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of military items of Orban Wales Peters, Jr. including uniform jacket, two hats, a helmet; “After Action Report” of the 914th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes; selected copies of “The Rolling.” Correspondence from Margarete Lang Schweidler, from Germany, to her daughter Gretel Schweidler Holzer in the U.S. Her daughter, Anna Margarete Holzer married Orban Wales Peters, Jr. They are the parents of the donor.

  7. Sophia Chatov collection

    Artwork: “In Memoriam” To the lost Jewish Community of Amsterdam – 1945; dated 1995, copper, oil and mixed media on canvas; created by the donor; Written testimony: “Our Lives In The Netherlands Before, During and After the Holocaust” given by the donor on May 3, 1995 at the Anne Frank In The World Exhibition in New York; in English

  8. Edward Lawrence Associates castings collection

    The collection consists of fiberglass castings of a ghetto and cemetery walls, a dissecting table, a cobbled road, a doorway surround, a gateway arch, a gas chamber door, and a crematorium oven, stretcher, and poker, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum relating to the experiences of Jewish victims in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow ghettos, Majdanek and Treblinka killing centers, and Mauthausen and Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland and Austria during the Holocaust.

  9. Pinchas Schuldenrein collection

    Two (2) DP posters made by artist Pinchas Schuldenrein titled "Amalek" and "Yizkor" for the Central Historical Commission, and other graphic material created for various Jewish organizations, especially HIAS.

  10. Heinemann family papers

    Contains naturalization certificates, birth certificates, correspondence, and oral history interviews and edited films related to the Heinemann family.

  11. Eva Rosenbaum Loewy collection

    Collection illustrating the postwar life of Eva Rosenbaum who survived concentration camps, was liberated and lived in Austria until her immigration to the United States in 1949. Also included is information for her two sisters Ilona and Ede who also survived. They were originally deported from Budapest, Hungary in 1944. The collection also includes a metal and plastic ID card holder.

  12. Suzanne Weiss collection

    Research materials consisting of copies of archival documents from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Suzanne Weiss, concerning the deportation hearings for Jonas Lewy, Weiss' uncle; transcripts of interviews conducted by Weiss with 11 survivors of the Piotr Trybunalski ghetto; various published articles by Weiss on this topic; an audio interview with Felix Lasky; and the written memoir of ghetto survivor Charles Kotkowsky.

  13. Goldstein and Thebner families collection

    The Goldstein and Thebner families collection consist of biographical material, correspondence, a diary, and photographs relating to Ruth Goldstein and Arthur Thebner’s families pre-war and wartime experiences. The collection includes a large amount of correspondence among family members relating to their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger, Arthur’s cousin, during her time in London from 1942-1958, and a prayer book.

  14. Hyman Kirsh collection

    The Hyman Kirsh papers includes photographs of the Kirszenewajg family taken in Poland prior to World War II, and a fragment of an engagement announcement for Golda Kirszenewajg and Chaim Berenzweig, circa 1912-1914. The collection also includes a prayerbook found in a Jewish home after liberation.

  15. Avram Kaminsky collection

    Consists of a 10 mark Łódź ghetto scrip note, a 20 mark note of allied military currency, and a photo album depicting scenes of the Łódź ghetto. The album was located in the streets of Łódź by Avram Kaminsky after the war when he returned to look for his family. Scenes depicted include events attended by Chaim Rumkowski and other leaders within the Łódź ghetto administration.

  16. Jiří Lauscher collection

    The Jiří Lauscher collection consist of reports, albums, artwork, writings, photocopies, photographs, copyprints, and diary entries documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde's work related to emigration and job training in Prague; the administration, history, and culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. The collection also includes a Star of David badge and postage stamps. Lauscher collected the materials during his internment in Theresienstadt from 1942-1945 and acquired many of them from friends and acquaintances as they were deported to killing centers.

  17. Susan Flusser Tausig collection

    The collection consists of photo albums, loose photos, documents, an autograph album, postcards, correspondence, an album of Chinese scrip, coins (Chines, Austria, etc.), a map of Shanghai, newspaper clippings related to Susan Flusser Tausig, her father Rudolf Flusser, her mother Blanka Rosenbaum (nee Lipiner), her stepfather Ludwig Rosenbaum, stepmother Dina Raave, and brother Peter Flusser. Also includes documents from Susan Flusser Tausig's father-in-law Peter Tausig and a Cafe Roy/Adieu going away card for Alexander Fried (a friend of the Tausig family).

  18. Vera Herz collection

    The Vera Herz papers include two ORT documents. The first, issued to Vera Spitz and dated April 15, 1947, is an ORT identification document that states she was working as a teacher at the ORT school in Eggenfelden, Germany. The second is an ORT certificate issued to “Jewish Displaced Person” Bela Spitz by the World ORT Union. Also included in the collection are sixteen black and white photographs of Vera Spitz with her father, Bela Spitz, and friends in Germany, likely at the displaced persons camp in Eggenfelden, circa 1948. The collection also includes a handbound dress pattern book with ...

  19. Paul Mayer collection

    The collection consists of diaries, artwork, books, documents, clippings, and correspondence pertaining to the experiences of Paul Mayer and his family, formerly of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and later of the United States.

  20. Stekler family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, receipts, report cards pertaining to the families of Walter Stekler and Gisela Schrott Stekler of Vienna, Austria and later of the United States. Also includes a mazchor, as well as tefillin (with protective bag and embroidered initials) and tallit belonging to Walter Stekler.