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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Oral history interviews of the Belarusian Witnesses Documentation Project

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

  2. Testimony oral history collection

    Contains oral histories interviews with 32 Holocaust survivors from the United States

  3. Jasenovac oral history project

    Oral history interviews with ten Jasenovac concentration camp survivors recorded as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jasenovac oral history project.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto collection

    Contains oral history interviews with sixteen Holocaust survivors recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, "Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto," which opened in Nov. 1997. Collection includes interviews with: Brigitte Altman, Miriam Gershwin, Eta Hecht, Henry Kellen, Tamar Lazerson, David Levine, Jacob Lewin, Esther Lurie, Ted Pais, Avraham Pnina, Abraham Rodstein, Ivar Segalowitz, Avraham Tory, Helen Yermus, Celia Yewlow, and Berel Zisman. The interviewees discuss their experiences of living in the ghetto in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, during the...

  5. American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history collection

    Contains oral history interviews with 157 Holocaust survivors recorded during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Washington, D.C., in Apr. 1983. The interviews contain information about persecution, life in the ghettos and concentration camps, and concentration camp liberation during World War II.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

    Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors and liberators in the greater Chicago, IL area

  7. Bozenna M. Urbanowicz-Gilbride oral history collection

    Contains interviews with 16 Polish Holocaust survivors, witnesses, rescuers, and liberators living in Poland

  9. Oral history interviews of the Slovak Witnesses Documentation Project

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

  10. Laurie Zell collection

    The collection consists of two phonograph record sets featuring works created by American artists to protest the actions of Adolf Hitler and the threat of Nazi Germany.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Czech Witnesses Documentation Project

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

  12. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 where he and his family were held after the ship on which they sailed from Romania to Palestine was captured by the British Navy.

  13. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal, some relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 and others on biblical themes or Jewish culture and his life in Israel.

  14. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket, a pin, a pouch, a towel, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Franka Rosenblum and Julian Hirshfeld and their families in Poland and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and in a displaced persons camp in Paris, France, where they married after the end of World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Post-Holocaust oral history collection

    This is a supplemental interviewing project to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history project, RG-50.030, containing interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, war crimes prosecutors, and other witnesses to the events of the Holocaust. The focus of this collection, RG-50.549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre (Melbourne, Vic.)

    Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the Melbourne, Victoria, Australia area.

  17. Faces of the Holocaust oral history collection

    Contains oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, a child of Holocaust survivors and a German exchange student from the Dayton, Ohio, area

  18. Oral history interviews of the Flight and Rescue collection

    Contains oral history interviews with twenty Holocaust survivors and witnesses recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, "Flight and Rescue," which opened May 3, 2000. The interviewees discuss their experiences of their journey from Lithuania to Shanghai, China, via Japan

  19. Samuel Zisman collection

    The collection consists of an UNRRA patch, a leather notebook case, and archival papers including biographical materials, team records, drawings and maps, memoranda and reports, personal correspondence, photographs, and printed materials, relating to the experiences of Samuel Zisman as a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director of District 5 in Bavaria from 1945-1947.

  20. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains records captured by the Red Army around the end of World War II currently housed at the Russian State Military Archive, formerly the Osobyi archives. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections (CPHDC) and in 1999 The Russian Archives Committee merged the CPHDC into the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA) located next door. The RGVA contains prewar Soviet military documents. While the Osobyi is now a part of RGVA, the old Osobyi fond numbers for the various collections remain unchanged. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the...