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  1. Charlotte Zagorska Pogel collection

    The collection consists of prisoner badges, a Star of David patch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Charlotte (Lotte) Zagorska during the Holocaust in German occupied Poland when she was imprisoned in Wolta-Gabersdorf forced labor camp, and after the war.

  2. Isidor Muschel collection

    The collection consists of a fur sewing machine, furrier’s tools, and a set of scale weights relating to the experiences of Isidor Muschel and his wife, Ida, and daughter, Dorit, in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Anschluss, and in the United States before World War II.

  3. German bunker envelope collection

    The collection consists of envelopes found in a German bunker by an American soldier while serving in Europe.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Grünfeld/Heimann Family collection

    Oral history interviews with members of the Grünfeld/Heimann family who discuss their escape from Nazi Germany and experiences as refugees in Shanghai, China.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

  6. Schwarz and Rosenwald families collection

    The collection consists of a bank note, a framed poem, correspondence, documents, a photograph album, and video tapes related to the experiences of extended family members of Richard Schwarz and Bertha Rosenwald Schwarz and their emigration from Nazi Germany to the United States, made possible by the financial assistance of Julius Rosenwald.

  7. Ratza Solomonskaya collection

    The collection consists of a Singer sewing machine with table and sewing scissors used by Ratza Solomonskaya in Pepeni, Romania (now Pepeny, Moldova), before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Eisenberg and Birnbaum families collection

    The collection consists of a metal tag, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Helena (Nelly) Eisenberg (later Birnbaum), and her parents, Ilya and Sonia Eisenberg, before, during, and after the Holocaust, who immigrated from Danzig to the United States between 1936-1939, as well as the immigration of Joseph Birnbaum, from Kosice, Czechoslovakia, to Baltimore, in 1939.

  9. Otto Feuer collection

    THe collection consists of a striped concentration camp uniform jacket and pants, and brown corduroy jacket marked "KLB" with a prisoner number patch, worn by Otto Feuer while a prisoner in multiple concentration camps including Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Buchenwald where he was liberated on April 11, 1945 and a white reading "Jnformation" [sic] originally worn by Otto Feuer on the sleeve of the brown corduroy jacket.

  10. Abinew Dubensky Collection

    Material pertaining to the service of the donor's father, Lt. Abinew Dubensky, in the 80th Infantry Division. Includes photographs of concentration camps taken by Lt. Dubensky, as well as photographs acquired from German soldiers showing public humiliation of rabbis by German soldiers in Poland. Documents include a pamphlet entitled, "Pocket Guide to Germany," and a flyer entitled "Retreat on All Fronts." Small leather cases with photos of a dog and a young woman. Postage stamps with Hitler's image.

  11. Heinz and Mira Wallerstein collection

    Collection documenting Mira Wallerstein in Russia and Czechoslovakia and Heinz Wallerstein in Kassel, Germany until their separate immigration to the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

  12. Harry Froehlich and Isaak Judas families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a Boy Scout banner, belt, twenty drawings, two albums, papers, and photographs related to the experiences of Harry Froehlich, in a refugee camp in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, circa 1939-1945, and then in Palestine, as well as documents and photographs related to the experiences of Isaak Judas, originally of Ihringen, Germany, before and after World War II.

  13. Oral history interviews of the documentary film "Desperate Hours" collection

    Oral history interviews compiled for the documentary film "Desperate Hours," which details Turkish diplomats' efforts to rescue Jews from France and Rhodes during WWII.

  14. Ursula Levy collection

    The collection consists of a medal, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of George and Ursula Levy, and their parents Max and Lucia, of Lippstadt, Germany, before and during the Holocaust in Germany and the Netherlands where George and Ursula were sent in 1939, and later deported to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, and after the war when George and Ursula returned to the Netherlands and then immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1947.

  15. Wachs family collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry Wachs and his family before the Holocaust in Mrotschen (today Mrocza, Poland) and 1916 in Berlin, Germany. and during the Holocaust in Belgium, Great Britain, Australia, Palestine, and the United States.

  16. Ernest Michel collection

    Correspondence from Ernest Michel, originally of Mannheim, Germany, that he sent to an American pen-pal (Robert Lindsay, of Wilmington, Delaware) from 1937-1939, as well as selected postwar documents, and a DVD titled "Ernest Michel: Memories of a Lifetime" (undated). Also includes a file of materials related to an Auschwitz-Buna Memorial Dinner in New York, and to survivors of that camp, 1964.

  18. Hess, Spier and Steinberg family collection

    The collection consists of two typescript memoirs, photographs, and Hanukiah relating to the experiences of Walter Hess and Hannah Spier Hess and her family in Germany, Ecuador and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  19. Fried and Faktor families collection

    The collection consist of an apron, documents, photographs, and other materials related to the experiences of Ann Fried Buchsbaum, her parents, Judka (Bernard) and Laura Dickmann Fried Faktor, and her stepfather, Alois (Lou) Faktor and his family in prewar Vienna, Austria, and their efforts to emigrate to the U.S. Also included are photographs of Ann’s husband, Walter Buchsbaum, a refugee from Vienna, rescued by Ben Buchsbaum, who served in the U.S. Army.

  20. Bielski family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs chiefly relating to the experiences of Dr. Johannes Bielski, his wife Dr. Hildegard Bielski, and their daughter Marion before and during the Holocaust when they escaped to the United States in November 1939 and als to the experiences of Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents for America in 1940.