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  1. Norman K. Holloway collection

    The collection consists of a Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal and a photograph relating to the experiences of Norman K. Holloway as a soldier in the United States Army 6th Armored Division in Germany during World War II and an oral history compact disc recorded in 2004.

  2. Polish Railroad Authority collection

    The collection consists of railroad signal lanterns, a switch lamp, a station telephone, and station signs used in the daily operations of the railroads in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  3. Anna Sved Blum collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences Anna Sved Blum and her parents Dezső and Ernesztina (Segő) Sved of Budapest, Hungary. Included are birth, death and wedding certificates, photographs, report card, identification cards, immigration papers, family history documents, a personal narrative by Anna describing her Holocaust experiences, and a narrative/claim in German regarding the confiscation of belongings. Additionally, there are digital audio recordings of interviews of Anna conducted by her son.

  4. Honig family collection

    Honig family papers to include documents, correspondence, diary, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, translations, writings, small photo album, and military medals.

  5. Zajaczkowska family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to Sweden notifying Basia that her brother, Leon Zajaczkowski, in a Polish Army camp, and that her husband is in Italy. It also includes pre and post war photographs, vaccination cards, baggage claim...

  6. Lucien and Marthe Dreyfus portraits

    Portraits of Lucien and Marthe Dreyfus.

  7. Sanford Vandifer Rogers, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of American Ku Klux Klan pamphlets, medal and hood relating to the experiences of Sanford Vandifer Rogers Jr. in South Carolina during the 1920s.

  8. Ansbacher family collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album from Sweden, photographs, documents, correspondence, two Star of David badges, scrip, and a flake of mica from Theresienstadt, relating to the experiences of Sigrid Ansbacher and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  9. Anthony and Valeria Steiner collection

    Documents, photographs, artifacts illustrating the experiences of Valeria Gemeiner Lowi Steiner who was in hiding in Slovakia with her husband Alexander and children Vierka and Pavel who were killed in the forest in Zwollen, Slovakia. Documents also illustrate Josef who fled and returned to Slovakia and married Valeria in 1947 in Slovakia.

  10. Freddy Rotenberg collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Freddy Rotenberg in in Germany before the Holocaust.

  11. Meyer family collection

    Correspondence, photograph and prayer book illustrating the experiences of Tana and her parents Gerda and Heinz Meyer and her grandmother Charlotte Abelt. Correspondence from Charlotte and Gerda to Charlotte's sister and brother-in-law in Sweden. Charlotte and Tana survived in Theresienstadt. Gerda and Heinz separately deported to Auschwitz where Gerda was killed.

  12. Julian Feingold collection

    Collection includes photographs of Feingold’s artwork documenting the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp and of a theatre production at Zeilsheim; clippings about Feingold, his wife, and the Holocaust; and a reproduction of a drawing by Feingold of a military photographer with Holocaust survivors in the background. It also includes a watercolor depicting the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

  13. The Kálmán Clarence and Anna Farkas Gutlohn Grant collection

    The collection consists of medals, a plaque, a sketch, documents, and photographs relating to the varied experiences of Kálmán Clarence and Anna Farkas Gutlohn Grant in Hungary before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  14. Lessing family collection

    Documents, photographs, correspondence, family history albums, and miscellaneous papers related to the Lessing family (Edward, his parents Nardus and Engeline, and his brothers Arthur and Alfred) in the Netherlands, in the U.S. (1929-1932), while in hiding during WWII, and in the postwar period. Also includes Edward's drawings and sculpture made while hidden, his short memoir, materials related to Engeline's arrest by the Germans and her time interned at Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen as well as in the UNRAA camp Jeanne D'Arc in Philippeville, Algeria. In addition, the collection includes int...

  15. Bienonida Ezoory collection

    The collection consists of a doll and two dresses relating to the experiences of Bienonida Ezoory in Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia) before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Helen Fagin collection

    Manuscript drafts of writings, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, and related materials, concerning the activities of Holocaust survivor and educator Helen Fagin. Includes manuscript drafts of Fagin's memoirs, "My European Journey, 1939-1946" and "My American Journey, 1946-2008," a manuscript draft of "Hell Translated: A Survivor's Approach to Teaching the Holocaust as a Moral Lesson;" a manuscript draft of her translation (from Polish) of interviews published in the book "Dzieci Żydowskie oskarżają" ("The Children Accuse"); a copy of typed testimonies about Fagin's work as an e...

  17. Alfred and Emma Heumann Pisko family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Alfred Rudolph Pisko and his wife, Emma Heumann Pisko, and their families in Austria and Germany before the Holocaust, and the United Kingdom and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Lustig and Levy family collection

    The Lustig and Levy family collection includes: multiple photo albums and photo scrapbook, loose photographs, portfolio of studio photographs, framed photos, documents about the family including educational, financial, emigration/immigation records, naturalization papers, etc.; documents about the Rivoli hat company; ledger books; correspondence including letters, postcards and feldposts; restitution paperwork; newspaper clippings; calling cards; blank stationary; drivers license from the United Kingdom; handwritten pamphlet titled "Mutti"; drawing of the Cologne Cathedral; children's artwo...

  19. Cinema Judaica collection

    The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina.

  20. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    The collection consists of prayer books, a cup, a bowl, an identification card, and photographs relating to the experiences of Szapse (Charles) and Malka Bilfeld and their son Mozes (Marvin) in Poland and the Soviet Union before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany, where their daughter Chana (Anna) was born, and the United States after the Holocaust.