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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Nelly Toll collection

    The collection consists of six watercolors created by Nelly Landau (later Toll) during the Holocaust while living as a hidden child in Lwow, Poland.

  2. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    The collection consists of an apron, greeting cards, tallit bag, wedding dress, veil, gloves, documents, correspondence and photographs relating to the experiences of Lili Lax Frydman and Ludwig Frydman after the Holocaust in Celle displaced persons camp in Germany and in the United States after their emigration in 1948. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Regina Laks Gelb collection

    Pin and report card given to Regina Laks in the Schlachtensee DP camp.

  4. Norbert Wollheim collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Norbert Wollheim in Berlin, Germany, before and during the Holocaust, as an inmate in several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and as a refugee in displaced persons camps in Germany after the Holocaust.

  7. Helen Dore collection

    Photographic print: black and white image of Germans serving in Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliate a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; dated 1942; Lukow, Poland. Photographic postcard: black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi. The father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 – 1940; Sieradz, Poland

  8. Manfred and Sylvia Wildmann family collection

    The collection consists of drawings relating to the experiences of Manfred Wildmann and his family in two internment camps in France during the Holocaust.

  9. Denise Kopecky collection

    The collection consists of three Theresienstadt notes and two Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Denise Elbertova while living in hiding in the Slovak Republic and, after 1944, in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust.

  10. Masha Wolpe Baras collection

    The collection consists of an identification badge and pouch that held seven personal hygiene and sewing items relating to the experiences of Masha Wolpe (later Baras), her mother Sonia, and her sister Pearl while prisoners in Stutthof concentration camp in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

  15. Harvey Shreibman collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform cap, coat, jacket, trousers, and a mug relating to the experiences of Erich Hershel Sakofski (later Harvey Shreibman) as a prisoner in several concentration camps in German-occupied Poland and Germany during the Holocaust.

  17. Edith and George Lauer collection

    The collection consists of scrip from Theresienstadt relating to the experiences of George Lauer as a prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. The collection also includes three postcards from Liselotte Schulz (cousin of Edith Lauer) and Alfred and Anette Kornfeld (parents of Edith Lauer) while they were imprisoned at Theresienstadt.

  19. Hana Berger Moran collection

    Infant's cap and shirt relating to the experiences of Hanna Berger (later Hana Berger Moran) during the Holocaust when she was born while her mother Priska was a prisoner in a German concentration camp.