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  1. David Frohman collection

    Correspondence written by David S. Frohman (donor's father), a member of the 89th Infantry Division, Third United States Army ["Patton's Own"]. Included in the correspondence are two sets of letters from David in Camp Roberts, California and Fort Benning, Georgia, and from Germany and post-war Austria. Letters describe David's experiences in the military and overseas as an American Jewish soldier. First set of letters written to David's parents in Chicago area. Second set of letters written to family friend Leandro Pastorelli in Chicago area. The collection also includes an 89th Infantry Di...

  2. Rottenberg family collection

    Documents and photographs related to Robert Rogers (originally Robert Rottenberg) and his parents Elias David (Eddy) Rottenberg and Bertha (Berkelhammer) Rottenberg, all of who jumped from Transport XX en route to Auschwitz. Also includes the shirt that Robert was wearing when he jumped from the train and was shot.

  3. Vladimir Lewin collection

    The collection consists of a mortgage book (Ksiega Hilpofeczna) cover, photo, documents, letters, medals and a Hanukkah lamp.

  4. Bronislaw Zbigniew Bulkowski collection

    Collection and memoirs illustrating the experiences of Bronislaw Bulkowski, born Roman Catholic on July 11, 1920 in Ostrowiec, Poland, surrounding the Holocaust. Bronislaw was a forced laborer for the Nazi occupying authorities and was conscripted to the German Rail Authorities in Altena, Germany. Between 1942 and 1945, he slave labored alongside other forced laborers. Included is a diary ("Wartime Log") he kept in which he references other slave laborers as well as abuse they, endured, the group digging a tunnel, working all night, lack of food, overpriced bread and accidents that hurt and...

  5. Lisbeth Modley Kornreich collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, papers, magazine clippings and photographs related to William and Augusta (Lipiner) Modley and their daughter Lisbeth (Modley) Kornreich [donor's mother]. Also includes Augusta's recipe book and fashion sketches, and Lisbeth's leather travel documents pouch. Additional materials from other relatives includes letters (with English translations) from Karl Linder and letters and a selection of wartime diary entries from Hans Zehetner, who survived the war in Vienna. Also includes the donor's audio recorded interview w/her mother Lisbeth (Mo...

  6. Schloss family collection

    Original family photographs, documentation for visa and immigration from Germany, France, Cuba, United States, and 2 small books.

  7. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, scrip, publications, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland.

  8. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    The collection consists of diaries, planners, publications, correspondence, statistical charts, seven unused Star of David badges, a Waffen SS addressed envelope, and a US Army's Chaplain tallit relating to the experiences of Rabbi Judah Nadich as a chaplain in the United States Army in Paris, France, following the liberation of the city by US forces in August 1944, as the first advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Eisenhower, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces, and his post-war work with WWII and Holocaust commemoration.

  9. Eugene and Irene Wojcik Wojtas family collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eugeniusz Wojtas and Irena Wojcik Wojtas, Roman Catholics who were persecuted in German occupied Poland during World War II when both Eugeniusz, a prisoner of war, and Irena, were assigned to forced labor in Germany, and, after the war, when they met and married as displaced persons.

  10. Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher collection

    The collection consists of a set of porcelain soup and dinner plates with drinking glasses relating to the experiences of Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher and her family in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, before and after the Holocaust, during which she and her family were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp.

  11. Alfred and Elsa Dukes collection

    The collection consists of a man’s nightshirt and a woman’s nightgown relating to the experiences of Alfred and Elsa Dukes and their daughter, Gertrude, in Austria before and during the Holocaust and in the United States following their emigration in 1939.

  12. Stephen Mize collection

    Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer issued to Polish youth (Wasyl Nowodejki?)in 1944; Antisemetic Notgeld coupon from Brakel, Germany; dated March 1, 1922

  13. Hersz Berlinski collection

    Collection of documents, certificates, correspondence, wallet, tag, receipt and other papers documenting the experiences of Hersh (Herz) Berlinski, b. March 20, 1921 in Łódź, Poland who survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz (prisoner # 95325) and Kaufering where he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. After the war he recuperated in Bad Wörishofen hospital. He immigrated to the United States in January 1951 with the assistance of the International Refugee Organization under the US Displaced Persons Act.

  14. Walter Fried collection

    The collection consists of brass knuckles and a Nazi state criminal police warrant disc relating to the experiences of Walter Fried, a Jewish Austrian refugee, while serving in the United States Third Army, War Crimes Investigating Team #6824, Judge Advocate Section during World War II.

  15. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick collection

    Photographs, documents, books, and audio visual materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Luba Tryszynska-Frederick who rescued 54 children left for dead by the Nazis while she was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  16. The Jewish Community of Cluj collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book stand from the Neologist Synagogue of Horea Street, and a wooden cabinet from the Chancellery of the former local Jewish High School.

  17. Rose and Ben Gross collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, photographs and identification cards for Rose and Ben Gross who survived the Holocaust in Europe, met in Reichenbach and married.

  18. Ray D'Addario collection

    The collection consists of a United States Army issue uniform jacket, three shirts, and a tie relating to the experiences of Ray D'Addario, a Signal Corps photographer during and after World War II when he was assigned to cover the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Avery Rosh collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, American servicemen, and European and American witnesses to World War II

  20. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Albanian Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Albanian Witnesses Documentation Project