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  1. Johnson and Levi family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, correspondence, documents, and clippings relating to the experiences of the Jonassohn (later Johnson) and Levi families in Germany, Cuba, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  2. Mania Baghdadi collection

    The collection consists of one doll and a photograph relating to the experiences of Mania Kleinburd as a young child in a displaced persons camp after World War II.

  3. Max Krause collection

    The collection consists of two drawings and a woodcut created by Max Krause in Dresden, Germany, during the Holocaust.

  4. Museum für Deutsche Geschichte collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters related to the activities of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s.

  5. Rashel and Haim Eshaya collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David button and four photographs relating to the experiences of Rashel and Haim Eshaya before the Holocaust in Burgas, Bulgaria, during the Holocaust in Gradeshnitsa, where Haim was a forced laborer, and after the Holocaust in Burgas.

  6. Benjamin B. Ferencz collection

    The collection consists of the personal papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen at the Nuremberg Trials. Papers include biographical information pertaining to Ferencz and materials relevant to the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust-related restitution and indemnification issues, war crimes justice, his activities in the formation of the International Criminal Court in The Hague; his teaching, research, and speaking activities, in particular as director of the Pace Peace Center, but also more generally in the subject areas of world peace, crimes a...

  7. Handcrafted artifacts from prewar Poland collection

    The collection consists of artifacts handcrafted in Poland from 1920-1941.

  8. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    The collection consists of two change purses relating to the experiences of Johanna Hirsch following her deportation from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs internment camp in France during the Holocaust.

  9. Łódź ghetto hand tools collection

    The collection consists of a variety of shoe and garment-making tools of the type used in Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race exhibition collection

    Oral history interviews with twelve Holocaust survivors recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race."

  11. Dr. Carl W. Bordas Collection

    The collection consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence from former prisoners at Ebensee concentration camp, U.S. army documents, and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Dr. Carl W. Bordas in Austria and the United States during and after World War II.

  12. Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection

    Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection, which includes interviews with Israel Weinbaum (Izrael Wajnbaum); video footage of the Wine family trip to the village of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, which features conversations with Catholic Poles who hid the donor's father Albert Weinbaum (Adash Wajnbaum) and his parents Israel Weinbaum and Leah Weinbaum (Lola Orzech); and a report about the life of Leah Orzech Weinbaum produced by her great-granddaughter Jodie Cohen.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Paul Polansky collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by Paul Polansky with Roma and other subjects in Serbia/Vojvodina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Istanbul, featured in his three volume book series "One Blood, One Flame: The oral histories of the Yugoslav gypsies before, during, and after WWII."

  14. Arie Torner collection

    The collection consists of a belt, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Arie Torner in the Netherlands and Poland before World War II, in several forced labor camps and in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust, and in the Netherlands and the United States after the war.

  15. Ernst and Hildegard Israel Collection

    The collection contains a painting done by Ernst Israel, dated c. 1951, that depicts China where he was during the Holocaust, and an interview to Susan G. Decker.

  16. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: armbands, a badge, a leaflet, military insignia, a pennant, a ring, and scrip relating to the experiences of Harold Goldberg as a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

  17. Helen and Harry Berger collection

    Collection contains scrip and documents related to Helen Berger (nee Blum) and Harry Berger (aka Chaim David Berger); includes Helen's wartime documents under the name Helen Borciszewska. It also contains a cigarette case taken from the home of an SS soldier and family that Helen Blum worked as a nanny for.

  18. 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...

  19. 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.

  20. Erna Ketchie Collection

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