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  1. Francis Fife collection

    The collection consists of a bouquet of paper flowers hand made by unknown concentration camp prisoner out of German stationery/forms given to 1st Lt. Francis Fife, a member of the US Army 4th Infantry Division during their liberation of Haunstetten, a sub-camp of Dachau, in late April 1945; Copy prints and images of 1st Lt. Francis Fife during his military service during WWII.

  2. Pollatschek family collection

    The collection consists of a toy bus and correspondence relating to the Pollatschek family in Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  3. Isidor and Chava Braun collection

    The collection consists of artwork, a journal/memoir, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor and Chawa (Eva/Evelyn) Braun who survived in hiding during the Holocaust in German occupied Poland (now Ukraine) and then lived as displaced persons in Stuttgart, Germany, after the war.

  4. Anne Clark Schames collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Anne Clark Schames, her parents Max and Kaethe, and her brother Henry before World War II in Stuttgart, Germany, during the war in Germany and Netherlands, and after the war when they immigrated to the United States in the early 1940s.

  5. Sam Gasson collection

    The collection consists of seven straight razors and documents relating to the experiences of Sam Gasson during or after the Holocaust.

  6. Schulhof family collection

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, album, and printed material, related to the history of the families of Joseph and Charlotte (nee Poras) Schulhof, and their son, Peter, originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia, documenting their emigration in 1940, following the German occupation of their homeland, and their time living as refugees in Shanghai and Tianjin (Tientsin), China, from 1940-1948, prior to their immigration to the United States. Also includes photographs (8), from family album of Peter Schulhof, that were sent subsequent to the initial shipment, depicting Schulhof, his parents, ...

  7. Heinz Max and Jetty Werthamer Newbeck families collection

    The collection consists of two prayer book, documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the experiences of Heinz Max and Jetty Werthamer Neubeck (later Newback) and their families, the Neubacks in Dortmund, Germany, and the Werthamers, originally from Kolomea, Poland, as well as Heinz and Jetty's experiences during the Holocaust in Shanghai, China, and their postwar emigration, with their son Reginald, to the United States in 1947.

  8. Elsie A. Ragusin Azzinaro collection

    The collection consists of a patch, a pouch, three drawings, a prayer book, clippings, correspondence, notes, and photocopies relating to the experiences of Elsie Ragusin during World War II, when, in 1939, on a visit from the United States to Italy with her family, Elsie and her father were arrested as political spies, and Elsie was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps, and after the war when, after liberation, she was taken to Sweden to recover, and returned to the United States in December 1945.

  9. Andrew Nagorski collection

    Materials related to research conducted by Nagorski into topics related to the history of the Holocaust and World War II. Includes the extended draft of an article about Auschwitz written by Nagorski, 1995, and published version of same as it appeared in Newsweek, 16 January 1995, sound recordings of interviews of historical eyewitnesses, historians, and others interviewed by Nagorski during his career at Newsweek, and while writing his books “Hitlerland” and “The Nazi Hunters,” transcripts of interviews, and other related research (and other) materials.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Weiss family collection

    Oral history interviews with Sofie Doernberg and Gretel Weiss.

  11. Bespaloff family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial objects, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Nisson Bespaloff, his associates, and his extended family in Estonia, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  12. Teaching record set

    Teaching set of six records recorded and produced as part of the revival of Jewish education in Germany after the rise of the Nazi Party. Six records, six transcripts of the talks in Hebrew, six study booklets for each of the records with the talks in phonetic transcription in Latin characters and the meaning in German; index cards for study and repitition. Initiator of the project, Asher Plevner, was impressed by the popular teaching booklet "Ivrit LeOlim" by scholar and author Rabbi Emil Cohen and turned to the owner of a records manufacturing company, Otto Sperlin, who at the time produc...

  13. George Salton artwork collection

    The collection consists of artwork photoreproductions created by George Salton documenting his experiences during the Holocaust. The images were produced to illustrate his memoir "The 23rd Psalm."

  14. Sutin Family Collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, negative film, and moving images documenting the experiences of the Sutin family in displaced persons' camp Neu Freimann-Siedlung in Germany. The moving images and still photography were shot by Jack Sutin donor in his capacity as photo journalist for the Yiddish newspaper Jidisze Cajtung. The film footage features daily scenes and sporting events in Neu Freimann, Sutin family footage, and a meeting of the Third Congress of the Shearit Ha-Pletah in Munich

  15. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families collection

    The collection consists of a passport case, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Eugen Lilienthal during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and, after the Holocaust, from Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as documents related to the emigration of Max and Margo Fraenkel from Germany to the United States prior to the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Vera Hauser collection

    The collection consists of a toothbrush cup, newspaper clippings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Vera Hauser in Sweden after World War II.

  17. Ralph M. Kopansky collection

    The collection consists of a camera, camera accessories, tobacco pipes, silk maps, an armband, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ralph Kopansky in the United States Army before, during, and after World War II, including the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, where he carried his Leica camera.

  18. Eric Junker family collection

    The collection consists of a wimpel, documents, and photographs related to experiences of Erich (later Eric) Junker, his parents Fred and Betty, and brother Herbert, originally of Aschaffenburg, Germany, who immigrated to the United States in 1936-1937, as a result of anti-Semitism in Germany.

  19. Myron Halpern collection

    The collection consists of a captured German flag, correspondence, documents, and photographs and negatives relating to the experiences of Myron Halpern, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The flag was signed by his fellow soldiers of the 75th Infantry Division who captured the flag in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge.

  20. Annemarie Warschauer family collection

    The collection consists of a tefillin bag, 3 tefillin with straps, two leather wallets, an autograph book, a television interview, documents, photographs, and Trauer albums relating to the experiences of Annemarie Alexander Israelski (later Warschauer) and her family before and during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, in Shanghai, China, where they fled in 1940, and later in the United States.