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  1. John and Harriet Isaack collection

    The John and Harriet Isaack collection consists of John’s description of his wartime experiences, Chinese currency and scrip, an original drawing, and biographical, photographic, and printed materials documenting the Isaacks' escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States.

  2. Pilsen Liberation Photographs collection

    Pilsen liberation photographs consist of black-and-white photographs of the liberation of Pilsen (Plzeň), Czechoslovakia and the arrival of the United States Army to the city. Pilsen was liberated on May 6, 1945 by the 16th Armored Division of General Patton's 3rd Army as well as by elements of the 97th and 2nd Infantry Divisions supported by the Polish Holy Cross Mountains Brigade. Elements of the 3rd Army, as well as units from the 1st Army, remained in Plzeň until late November 1945. Images depict parades, memorials, Czech president Edvard Beneš, General George Patton, war damage, soldie...

  3. Shirley R. Hyman art collection

    Collection of artwork created by multiple artists including Karl Schwesig and other artists in various French internment camps including St. Cyprien and Les Milles; dated c. 1940-1941

  4. Dr. Henry Kupfer family collection

    The collection consists of a child's coat and matching hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer, for his daughter, during his service in the Soviet Army during World War II.

  5. Ullman family collection

    Documents, correspondence, poetry, photograph albums, loose photographs, ephemera, audiovisual materials, and other items related to Leo S. Ullman and his family's life in the Netherlands prior to World War II, and their experiences in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands after 1940. Also includes material about their post-war lives in the Netherlands and immigration to the United States. Also included is the memoir of Emily Ullman, titled "A Stormy Survival" (1976), "Stories by Emily Ullman," the memoir of Leo Ullman, titled "796 Days," family geneaological data, and book...

  6. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    The collection consists of document cases, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fred Loy (born Alfred Löwenstein), Lola Stern Loy, Julius Loewenstein, and their families in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and China before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  7. Hedwig Kudesch and Robert Briscoe collection

    The collection consists of two gold King Christian X commemorative pins produced in Denmark and worn as symbols of patriotism during the occupation by Nazi Germany from 1940-1945.

  8. Marion Phillips collection

    Papers and ephemera related to a trip to Europe by Miss Marion Phillips in the summer of 1936, including materials related to the Berlin Olympics; also includes a ribbon from Goethe's birthplace.

  9. Rosenbaum family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, a prayer book, papers, certificates, passports and identification cards, restitution paperwork and other materials which document the experiences of David and Rachel Rosenbaum (donor's paternal grandparents) and their son Leo (donor's father) who fled Berlin in 1939, immigrating to Bolivia and then the United States.

  10. Oral history interviews of the "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII" documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII"

  11. Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection, featuring testimonies from sisters Ilse Carlsen and Edith Lindner who discuss their family's flight from Upper Silesia to the Philippines and then New York.

  12. James H. Mahoney collection

    Consists of a collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after the liberation of the camp, as well as a Rolleiflex camera discovered at the camp. Dr. James Mahoney, a member of the 120th Evacuation Hospital, took the photographs of the liberation and brought the camera home with him.

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

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

  14. Renee Kann Silver family collection

    The collection consists of a camera with case, a medal, documents, oral testimony, and photographs related to the experiences of Renee Kann (later Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland, including their imprisonment in Gurs internment camp, during the war, and in Switzerland, France, and the United States after the war.

  15. Ita Rozenczwajg Dimant collection

    Diary: written by Ita Rozenczwajg (donor's mother) during her forced labor on a farm in Germany, 1943-1945 on parchment paper she stole from the German owners of the farm. Collection of photographs (40), pre- and post-war; false documents; wartime correspondence from Ita's rescuer's family, Brust, pre and post-war correspondence; transcript of the Polish language diary; English memoir written by Ita Dimant based on her diary; Hebrew translation of the memoir. Fake tooth that contained cyanide which was installed in the mouth of Ita Rozenczwajg by members of the Polish underground. Ita was a...

  16. Salomon and Jenny Blum collection

    Documents, photographs, purse and ring illustrating the experiences of Salomon Blum and Jadzia Chaba who married during the war in and around Poland and Germany, and in Bergen Belsen and Malmo, Sweden post-war, and their daughter Nata who was born following the war.

  17. Neu family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, books, and artifacts relating to the experiences of Richard and Hedwig Sanders Neu and their daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  18. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    The collection consists of an armband, ghetto scrip, Star of David badges, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Benjamin Marx and the Marx family in Germany before and during the Holocaust, in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  19. Henry Weil collection

    Documents issued for Heinz Weil (donor), born September 22, 1935 in Vienna, Austria and fled to the United States in 1939. Document portfolio in which documents were kept.

  20. Zehngut and Weiss families collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs concerning the Zehngut and Weiss families in Europe; papers concerning the emigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the 50 Children rescued from Vienna by Brith Sholom and Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus as well as the emigration of their parents Stella Zehngut Weiss and Leon Weiss; and related materials from their lives in the United States including school records, government documents, a draft of a memoir written by Inge, and a Camp Ray-Oot swimming medal.