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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Dr. Alfred Beck collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner and a Nazi armband bearing swastikas

  2. Artur Shmuel Zygielbaum collection

    Group of photographs, photograph album and 2 change purses relating to Artur Shmuel Zygielbaum and dated circa 1921-1984

  3. Erwin Bensdorf collection

    Brown leather-like pencil case with 3 graphite pencils, 2 fountain pens, 4 colored pencils and 1 eraser recieved by Erwin Bensdorf in Germany before he emigrated to England in 1939 and used in England. One photogragh album compiled by Max Haybrook, who assisted children from Nazi-occuped Europe through the Kindertransport (4 loose photos inside), 3 photographs (one framed), one document with compilation of notes written in gratitude from KT to Max Haybrook and one typed report compiled by Haybrook concerning events surrounding arrival and care of refugee children in England.

  4. Augusta F. Kaplan collection

    Consists of artifacts and documents relating to Augusta Feldhorn's childhood in Vienna, Austria; later as a hidden child in the convent Les Soeurs du St. Coeur de Marie, Malaise-La Hulpe, Belgium; and after emigrating to the United States in 1949.

  5. Blumenstein family collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the experiences of the Blumenstein family in Vienna, Austria, on board the MS St. Louis, in hiding in Holland, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. Includes a photograph of the donor's father in Sosua, Dominican Republic and a photograph taken in a Quaker camp for refugees in Havana, Cuba.

  6. Simon Jeruchim collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Simon Jeruchim and his family in France during and after World War II, when he lived as a hidden child in Normandy and then in foster homes near Paris.

  7. Samuel Flecker collection

    The collection consists of one German bank note and six pieces of scrip in 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Kronen denominations from Theresienstadt (Terezin), Czechoslovakia.

  8. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, children's drawings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Charles A. Weingarten and his family in prewar and wartime France where he lived as a hidden child, and after the war while he recuperated in Switzerland, and then returned to France. Charles Albert Weingarten is the son of Margarethe (Marguerite) Weingarten and Rudolph Gelb. He was born on Jan. 13, 1941, in Nice, France. In 1943 when the Germans invaded the area, Margarethe hid with Charles in the basement of a building in rue Verdi in Nice. In July 1943 Margarethe and Charl...

  9. Marvin Benn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to Jewish life in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  10. Jaša and Enica Frances Altarac families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Jaša Altarac and his family before and during the war in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (later Serbia,) and during the Holocaust in Skopje, Macedonia, Pristina, Kosovo, and Albania and two photographs relating to the experiences of Enica Frances and her family in Albania during the Holocaust.

  11. Steffa Horowitz Mairanz collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Steffa Horowitz Mairanz and Tadek Mairanz before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  12. Antal Pal collection

    The collection consists of a bracelet that was worn by Antal Pal from Tîrgu-Mureș, Romania, while he was imprisoned in Melk concentration camp and a piece of cloth from the pocket of a uniform that belonged to a friend of Antal Pal.

  13. Gerard Fields family collection

    The collection consists of a microscope and accessories, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences Gerard Blumenfeld (later Fields) and his family in France and Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  14. Esia Baran Friedman collection

    Collection of black and white photographs, letters, documents, pins and a book relating to Esia Baran Friedman's family before the war in Vilna and after the war in DP camps in Germany and Austria.

  15. Bob Geiger collection

    The collection conisists of a Nazi flag and a Nazi eagle flagpole ornament.

  16. Goldfarb family collection

    The collection consists of two metal and enamel pins and one wood and rubber stamp relating to the experiences of Elimelech, Roza, and William Goldfarb in the Ziegenhain and Kassel DP camps.

  17. Elisabet Goldstein collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform that includes a jacket with embroidered patch and pants and a teaspoon relating to the experiences of Isidor and Elisabet Farkas Goldstein in Romania, Poland, and Germany during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Edgar Gaerber collection

    The collection consists of one paper note and five coins from the Łódź ghetto, an antisemitic calendar, seventeen false identification documents, and a publication relating to the experiences of Edgar Gaerber and his parents, Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber, during the Holocaust in Lvov, Poland (L'viv Ukraine) and in hiding in nearby towns and after the Holocaust in Łódź, Poland.

  19. Anne and Robert Levitt collection

    The collection consists of cigarette cards, twenty-eight coins, currency, envelopes, maps, a medal, a pocket knife, postage stamps, posters, stickers, brochures, clippings, documents, journals, a bound volume of newsletters, postcards, scrapbooks and loose scrapbook pages, publications, 14 framed Szyk prints, 1 unframed Szyk print, 6 Szyk prints mounted on plaques.

  20. Isadore Hollander collection

    Consists of a newspaper, the "Deggendorf Center Review," issued by the Department of Culture of the Jewish Committee in DP Center 7, dated December 1945, Deggendorf, Germany, in Yiddish and English; a magazine clipping from an unknown source showing photographs of atrocities at various concentration camps and sites. not dated; and an article entitled, "Atrocities- Capture of the German Concentration Camps Piles Up Evidence of Barbarism That Reaches The Low Point of Human Degradation."