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  1. Bier family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, identification in wallet, papers and photographs illustrating the Bier family who resided in Berlin and family that fled from Nazi Germany. Particularly documented is Siegfried Bier (donor's husband's uncle) who fled to France and then the UK where he was interned as an enemy alien, and eventually then to the US.

  2. Sigall family collection

    Correspondence, identification documents, photographs, and related materials, concerning the emigration of Emmy (née Sigall) Loeb, from her home in Darmstadt, Germany, on a “Kindertransport” to Britain in 1939; her settlement in Britain; and the efforts of her parents, Hermann and Natalie Sigall, and brother, Alex, to leave Germany in the years that followed.

  3. Reicher family collection

    Two rabbincal tractates hidden in Polish town of Jelesnia near Krakow in 1939 by non-Jewish neighbors. Prayerbooks belonged to Rabbi Mordechai Reicher and were entrusted to a neighbor by his wife Chaja. Iin 2004, Esther retreived the books (by chance). Both of her parents perished during the Holocaust.

  4. Eliyahu and Ninette Cohen collection

    Collection of photographs, identity photos, and photo torn from identity card that document Eliyahu Cohen, his wife Ninette (nee Arish), their family and friends in Tunis, Marseille, and Israel primarily after the Holocaust; dated circa 1948-1950s. Cobbler’s last used by Eliyahu Cohen in Tunis, Tunisia when he began as an apprentice shoemaker after liberation.

  5. Felice Zimmern Stokes collection

    Consists of copies of correspondence and post-war documents related to the experiences of Felice Zimmern Stokes. Includes copies of correspondence (with English translations) written by members of the Zimmern family in 1939-1942, including letters written in the Gurs internment camp. Also includes documents related to Felice Zimmern Stokes' membership in hidden children organizations, information related to the fate of her parents, David and Lydia Zimmern, both of whom perished, and correspondence with memorial associations. Suitcase carried by Felice Stokes when she immigrated to the Unite...

  6. Juan Jorge and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts relating to the experiences of Juan Jorge Schäffer (b. Vienna) and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer (b. Mannheim), both of whom fled Nazi occupation and immgrated to Uruguay. The collection includes photographs of the extended Schäffer family, school documents, restitution papers as well as a clock brought to Uruguay by a German Jewish refugee and a pre-war Viennese dance card.

  7. Wartime board game and Atlit/Latrun detention camp photographs collection

    The collection consists of a World War II board game, The Road to Victory, and photographs of Atlit and Latrun detainee camps in Israel (Palestine).

  8. Isle of Man collection

    Illustration of one of the detention camps in Douglas., Isle of Man. Stenciled leaf, hand colored. dated in print "Douglas, 1940" at the bottom of the leaf is a handwritten dedication by two brothers whose surname is Gartner - former detainees at the Central Camp in Douglas; in English; dated 1940 Postcard, printed and hand colored for Chanukah, printed at the Mooragh detention camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 1940. On recto is an illustration of an eight branched menorah (not a hanukkiah) surrounded with rays of light, in a light blue frame with Stars of David on the corners and the caption "Lig...

  9. Oral history interviews of the Mária Tóth collection

    Oral history interviews with non-Jewish eyewitnesses on the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in the town of Csákvár, Hungary.

  10. Martin and Hertha Hirsch family collection

    The collection consists of artwork reproductions, documents, photographs, and publications related to the experiences of Martin and Hertha Hirsch and their daughters, Dorothea and Stephanie, during the Holocaust when they left Germany for the United States in 1938-1939 and a memoir by Dorothea Hirsch Bartha, written circa 1995.

  11. Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia collection

    Doors and windows from the Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia

  12. Susanne Berglind collection

    Six works of art created by artist Susanne Berglind (donor's mother) illustrating her experiences during the Holocaust. Susanne Zimmerman was born in Miskolic, Hungary and was interned in the ghetto there. Susanne was deported to a series of concentration camps with her sister and mother, including Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen Belsen. Her mother died at liberation in Bergen-Belsen. The six works of art, which are watercolor on tissue or pastel on paper, document these experiences. Susanne was taken to Sweden after liberation on June 28, 1945 on the Kastleholm, where she recuperated.

  13. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    The collection consists of patches, scrip, stamps, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry and Irene Silberstein Frank and their relatives in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany and the United States after World War II.

  14. Oral history interviews of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Legacy Project

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who are asked to consider broad, philosophical questions such the meaning of their Holocaust experiences; their reflections on how being a survivor has shaped their worldview, and what they wish their legacies to be.

  15. Tom Schaumberg collection

    Documents, photographs, artifacts and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Ernst Schaumberg born 1906 in Kircheim, Germany, his wife Gertrude “Pollo” Schaumberg, [neé Leda] born 1911 in Oldenburg, Germany and their son, Tom, born 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1943, family was deported to Westerbork transit camp in Netherlands and then in February 1944, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. From there, in April 1945, they were transported towards the east, and, almost two weeks in to the journey, were liberated in Troebitz, Germany. Includes a photograph album.

  16. Lilienthal family collection

    The Lilienthal family collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, and business records documenting the Lilienthal family from Mönchengladbach, the aryanization of their fabric business, their immigration to the United States, and the printing company and magazine Ernest Lilienthal established in New York.The collection also includes an original pencil sketch by architect Bruno Paul.

  17. Hendel and Weissman families collection

    The collection consists of a Girl Scout pin and sash, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Hendel and Weissman families in Yugoslavia before the Holocaust and as refugees in Croatia, Italy, and Fort Ontario, New York during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Avi Dobrysh collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in Estonia.

  19. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, a passport with case, books, an album, a set of tefillin, and tallit relating to the experiences of Ruth Abraham, her parents, Ilse and Horst Abraham, her grandparents, Hedwig and Isidor Brilling, and her aunt, Hildegard Brilling, in Germany and Ecuador before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Professor David Bloch collection

    Archive of Professor David Bloch, musicologist, founder and director of the Terezin Music Memorial Project, and Israeli institute devoted to the documentation and study of music and music making at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia and at other localities under German occupation during the Second World War.