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  1. Eva and Otto Pfister collection

    The Eva and Otto Pfister papers consist of diaries, immigration files, and other materials documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee husband Otto Pfister and their socialist colleagues, and the anti-Nazi work of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). Eva’s four diaries document her teenage years in Goldap, her life as a refugee in France separated from Otto, interned in Gurs, waiting in Montauban for her opportunity to emigrate, her escape over the Pyrénées to Lisbon, and her immig...

  2. Michael Kutz collection

    Collection includes photographs, documents, negatives and scrip as well as a memoir. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Institute of National Remembrance collection

    The collection consists of a rail car used to deport victims to concentration camps, railroad tracks and components that led to Treblinka killing center, and a chain.

  4. Robert Levitt collection

    The collection consists of seven prints of Arthur Syzk paintings that relate to his experiences in Poland and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  5. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    The collection consists of four paintings relating to the experiences of Judith Evan Goldstein in Poland, Latvia, and Germany during the Holocaust.

  6. Gelb and Heiser family collection

    Consists of identity papers, correspondence, photographs, genealogical material related to the pre-war lives, emigration, and families of Charlotte Kuhlfas (also Hochheiser, Heiser) and Martin Gelb. Charlotte emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1937 and Martin in 1940; they married soon after his arrival. Includes letters he wrote to her in March 1940 as he was preparing to emigrate; family photographs, the machzor Martin purchased and inscribed after arriving in the United States; their identity cards and naturalization papers; family tree information for the Gelb and Heiser families; Charlot...

  7. Schatz and Bonder families collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and documents pertaining to the Schatz and Bonder families previously of Berlin and Warsaw. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through the marriage of Henry Schatz and Rischa Bonder when the couple were married in the United States. The collection also includes teffilin and embroidered teffilin bag belonging to Jacob Schatz prior to the Holocaust. The teffilin was given to Henry Schatz by his father Jacob and kept through interment at Ferramonti.

  8. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    The collection consists of Judaica, scrip, correspondence, ephemera, papers, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mariette Gruenbaum and Milton Emont in Czechoslovakia, England, the United States, and France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  9. Erna Weyl and Walter Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of American Army uniforms, correspondence, copies of documents, and a photograph relating to Erna and Walter Rothschild.

  10. Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection

    The collection consists of documents, books, a camera and a kippah.

  11. Drechsler and Kramer families collection

    Consists of correspondence, photographs, prayer book with inlaid cover, buckle, compact and 2 figures pertaining to the experiences of Clarisa (née Drechsler) Kramer, formerly of Trnava, Czechoslovakia and later of the United States. Clarisa immigrated to the United States in 1939 and remained in touch with her parents, Isidore and Anna, and siblings Andor, Bela, and Rose who remained in Europe throughout the Holocaust.

  12. Margit and Fred Sarne collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Margit Zippert, Siegfried Sarne, and their families in Germany and Shanghai, China, before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  13. Sylvia and Abram Kolski collection

    The Sylvia and Abram Kolski photographs document Sylvia and Abram Kolski and their families in Poland before and during the Holocaust and in France and the United States after World War II. Photographs depict Sylvia and Abram Kolski; Sylvia’s parents parents, brothers, and cousins; Frymet’s brother Abram Borenstein, her sister Laia Karpman, and their families; the individuals who hid with Sylvia and her father in a bunker in Krushev during the Holocaust; the Polish woman Bronislawa Witosinska who hid them; the Pogorzelski family who hid Abram Kolski following the Treblinka uprising; and two...

  14. Fritz Grünberg collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Fritz Grünberg, originally of Rheine, Germany, including his involvement with the Jewish Council and the Contact Afdeling (Contact Division) of the Westerbork transit camp. The collection consists of biographical materials, including identification papers, correspondence, and immigration documents; photographs; and material related to Westerbork including prisoner and deportation lists, administrative papers, post-war investigation papers regarding the Contact Afdeling, and a testimonial narrative about the Contact Afdeling and Weste...

  15. Sally and David Tauber collection

    Contains a camera, photographs and documents illustrating the experiences of Sala Kleinberg, who was born in 1922 in Otynia and lived in Kolomea before the war, and David Tauber, born in 1908 in Stanislau. They met before the war, survived (Sala in hiding on a farm with her sisters and David in Russia), then reunited after the war in a displaced persons camp. Includes photographs and documents as well as a camera used in or issued in a displaced persons camp in Germany, as well as numerous photographs of the couple's first child, Clara, who was born in Germany.

  16. Rubin and Huntly families collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative pin-back button, commemorative materials, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Rubin and Huntly families in Hungary, Poland, and the United States before during, and after the Holocaust.

  17. Wayne Perrin collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Wayne Vester Perrin, an American who traveled from Detroit, Michigan to Nuremberg, Germany in June 1946 as a civilian working for the Office of the Secretary of War as a court reporter during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. Includes a copy of the book "Nuremberg" by Charles Alexander (Nurnberg: Karl Ulrich and Co., 1946) with annotations on some pages.

  18. Hugo Ostreich collection

    Collection belonging to Hugo Ostreich including wooden box purchased in Shanghai, China, Jewish prayer books, textbook for citizenship, tallis and tallis bag, photographs and documents that illustrates donor's [Paula Berg] great uncle's experiences fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany in 1939 with his younger brother Alfred, leaving behind Hugo's wife, Erna Baer and extended relatives. Hugo and Alfred survived WWII in Shanghai, immigrating to the United States in the late 1940s.

  19. Signed testimonies of the Simon Carmel collection

    Interviews and recordings featuring Deaf survivors of the Holocaust

  20. Maria de Kornfeld collection

    Oral history interview with Maria de Kornfeld