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  1. Edmund Graf collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform, soap, a sweater, and a shirt relating to the experiences of Edmund Graf after he was deported from Poland to Flossenburg and Altenhammer concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  2. Paul Weber Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of two wooden candelabra made for Paul Weber Jacobs by a displaced person.

  3. Gerda Ehrenberg family collection

    The collection consists of a print of the Breslau synagogue and a report card relating to the experiences of Gerda Ehrenberg and her family in Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust.

  5. Kurt Weiler collection

    The collection consists of two Waffen SS fezzes and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Kurt Weiler, a refugee from Nazi Germany before World War II, who served in the US Army in Europe during the war.

  6. Alexander Kuechel collection

    The collection consists of tefillin, a tefillin bag, and a tallit katan relating to the experiences of Alexander Keuchel in Belgium and several concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  7. Ruth Rappaport collection

    The collection consists of a shoulder patch, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ruth Rappaport before the war in Leipzig, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, during the war in Seattle, Washington, and after the war in the United States, Palestine, Israel, and Japan.

  8. Leo Melamed collection

    The collection consists of a crayon box, documents, and a publication relating to the experiences of Lejb Melamdowicz (Leo Melamed) and his family before and during the Holocaust when they fled Bialystok, Poland, to Vilna, and then Kobe, Japan, until reaching the United States in 1941.

  9. E. Jeff Baron collection

    The collection consists of documents, historical information, and correspondence related to E. Jeff Baron's work with the American Merchant Marine Museum on a project commemorating the story of the President Warfield / Exodus voyage in 1947. Includes information related to plans to raise the Exodus and to honor William Bernstein, an American who was killed in the incident. Also includes Dr. Baron's film treatment and unfinished historical novel related to the Exodus, as well as oral history interviews with Exodus crew members William (Bill) Millman, Bernard Marks, and Nathan Nadler.

  10. Egon Feldmann collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, correspondence, documents, identity cards, and photographs related to the experiences of Egon Feldmann and his mother, Sofie, before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and Egon's immigration to Basel, Switzerland with his first wife, Else, in 1939, and later in the United States.

  11. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland collection

    The collection consists of a handmade card, correspondence, photographs, reports, and drafts relating to the experiences of Roswell and Marjorie McClelland and their work for the American Friends Service Committee in Europe from 1940-1945, and Roswell McClelland’s work as a War Refugee Board representative in Switzerland, 1944-1945.

  12. Sara Ginaite-Rubinson collection

    The Sara Ginaite-Rubinson papers contain photographs and documents relating to her family and the time she served as a partisan fighter in Lithuania during World War II. The photographs consist mainly of her family members, with some depicting Sara during her time fighting in the “Death to Occupiers” partisan group. Also included are documents concerning her relative Zlata Ginaite, photocopies of primary documents she discovered while researching the Lithuanian resistance movement, and correspondence with museums regarding her research. Additionally, in an oversized folder is a copy of the ...

  13. Henri Pieck collection

    The collection consists of a published folio inscribed by the artist, Henri Pieck: 7 Origineele Kleurenlitho's Van Beelden Uit Het Concentratiekamp Buchenwald, seven reproductions of sketches of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp based on his experiences as an inmate.

  14. Erica Goldstein Mansfield collection

    Consists of one DVD containing a talk entitled "Erica Mansfield: Kindertransport to U.S.A", given by Erica Goldstein Mansfield on February 3, 2004. In the talk, Mrs. Mansfield, originally of Vienna, Austria, describes her memories and experiences as a five-year-old child on a transport to the United States in May 1939, as part of a group of children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus and Brith Sholom. Erica's parents and younger brother were able to emigrate to the United States later that year. Also includes a short memoir written by Erica in 1997 as well as copies of her personal pape...

  15. Danielle [Fernande] Halerie Snegg and David Snegg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a drawing and correspondence relating to the experiences of Avram, Marguerite, Danielle [Fernande], and David Halerie in France during and after the Holocaust.

  16. Erna Ketchie Collection

    Collection of documents, letters, photographs, and scrip (24 items total)

  17. Don and Ada Timmer collection

    Consists of copies of photographs and written testimonies related to the experiences of Don Timmer and his sister, Ada Timmer, both of whom were members of the United States military during World War II. Ada Timmer was an army nurse and worked in the Ebensee concentration camp after it was liberated, while Don Timmer participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the 89th Infantry. Includes two DVDs of oral history interviews with Don Timmer about his experiences; one was conducted by the Madison High School History Club in Mansfield, OH, and the other by Mr...

  18. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    The collection consists of a camera, a prayer book, documents, photographs, and two memoirs relating to the experiences of Heinz Stephan Lewy before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in France, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  19. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Swedish Witnesses project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Swedish Witnesses project