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  1. Sol Goldberg collection

    Consists of a post-war photograph of Sol and Fryda Kleinwachs Goldberg [donor]; photographs of Jews being humiliated in the town square of an unknown Polish town and found by the donor in the Ebensee concentration camp after liberation; one letter to Sol Goldberg from Roman Englander recounting Mr. Englander's remembrance of the death of Poldek Goldberg, the donor's brother; and one short article by Sol Goldberg about Poldek Goldberg.

  2. Josef Kliger collection

    Consists of the wedding contract marking the marriage of Yaakov Feldman to Sara Adler, Tomaszowska, 1939; photographs of the family of Chaim Klinger, who married Pajga Adler in 1938, and spent the war in Karasyara, Russia. His parents perished during the war. Also contains post-war photographs of survivors at Holocaust commemorations.

  3. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 13 photographs taken by Jay C. Christensen, a member of the Air Corps from Elk Horn, Iowa, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of survivors of the camp.

  4. Morris Rosen family photographs

    Consists of three photographs of students and teachers at the "Yavne" religious elementary school for boys in Be̜dzin, Poland; photograph of Maks Bilauer, the donor's future brother-in-law; photograph of Pola Frochcwajg Rozen, the donor's father's first wife.

  5. Edith Fogel Polon photographs

    Consists of a photograph of the Mermelstein family, consisting of Rivka (Rezsi) Fogel-Mermelstein, her two children, Pearl and Mayer, and her husband Bela (Baruch) Mermelstein, all of Suskovo in Carpathian Ruthenia; also includes a photograph of Shloimele, Moshe and Tova-Elka Fried, the children of Yehoshua and Jortse (Markovitz) Fried, all of Veliki Palad. All photographed perished in Auschwitz.

  6. Aron Raboy family photograph

    Consists of photograph of the Raboy family of Berezno, Soviet Union, consisting of Abraham and Feiga Raboy and their children Buncia, Shaindel, Beila, and Aron. Only Aron survived the war.

  7. Gorodecki family papers

    The papers consist of one manuscript written by Chana Gordorocka [donor's mother] immediately after liberation, one photograph of two Jewish salesman, and one photograph of two streets of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.

  8. Fania Finkelsztajn Rajber photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs of Markus and Fania Finkelsztajn Rajber of Rzeszowl, Poland and their immediate families. The Rajbers emigrated to the Soviet Union and spent the war there. Fania's immediate family were all deported and perished.

  9. Daniel Cohen papers

    The papers consist of four photographs of prisoners killed by the SS in a barn outside of Gardelegen, Germany, and a written testimony by an American soldier who interviewed prisoners in Kaufering concentration camp immediately following liberation.

  10. Klinger family collection

    The collection consists of two German stateless passports ("Fremdenpass") issued to Leon and Gisele Klinger [parents of Walter Klinger] in December 1939 in Vienna, Austria. Included in the passports are immigration visas issued by the American Consul in "Vienna, Germany."

  11. Holcman family photograph collection

    The collection consists of seven photographs documenting the Holcman family in Gąbin (Gombin), Poland, before and during the Holocaust, including depictions of forced labor in Gąbin.

  12. Mira Frenkel photograph collection

    The collection consists of 5 photographs depicting Jewish children, including Mira Frenkel (née Menzer), performing in a play while imprisoned in the Nováky forced labor camp in Slovakia in 1944.

  13. Barbara Rosenthal photographs

    Consists of photographs from the collection of Blima Lipnicka (now Barbara Rosenthal); includes photographs taken of Blima and her family in the late 1930s in Sosnowiec, Poland.

  14. John W. George photographs

    Consists of 26 photographs taken by and of PFC John W. George, a member of the 13th Field Artillery Observation Battalion of the United States Army; includes photographs of the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Also includes photographs of military destruction as well as civilian and prisoner casualties encountered by the Army as they crossed Germany in the spring of 1945.

  15. Robert Mendler photographs

    Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs from the collection of Romek Reibeisen (now Robert Mendler), originally of Nowy Targ, Poland; includes pre-war family photographs and post-war photographs taken at a commemoration at the site of the Pocking concentration camp. Notable is a photograph of an elderly Jew holding an infant on which the caption reads "Like the old one, so the young"; this photograph was in the possession of a member of the SS.

  16. Peretz Miransky photographs

    Consists of 29 mainly pre-war photographs from the collection of Peretz Miransky, a member of "Yung Vilno", a group of young artists and writers in Vilnius, Lithuania. Each of the photographs has been described by Anne Miransky [donor].

  17. Lee N. Sandridge photographs

    Consists of eight photographs from the collection of Lee N. Sandridge, who was a W.A.C. telephone radio operator for General Eisenhower in 1945; includes photographs taken upon the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp and liberation photographs of the Russian occupied areas of Berlin.

  18. Kohn family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war photographs of the Kohn family of Kosice, Czechoslovakia; includes photographs of Marishka Englander Kohn, her husband (name unknown) and children Dvora Bluma Kohn and Pinchas. Also includes only known photograph of Adolph Englander, Marishka's father. The family perished in Auschwitz.

  19. Lewitzky family photographs

    Consists of 25 mainly wartime photographs taken of the Lewitzky family: Sigi and Jetti Lewitzky and their children Inge and Gerhard. The family emigrated from Vienna, Austria to Degersheim, Switzerland in 1938 and remained there throughout the war. Sigi was sent to a labor camp from 1940-1945, but was reunited with his family after the war; collection includes photographs of the family in Switzerland as well as photographs of Sigi Lewitzky and his forced labor group.

  20. Berchtesgaden photograph

    Consists of a photograph of the ruins of a maintenance building in Berchtesgaden, Germany in 1945.