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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Finnish
Language of Description: Hebrew
Country: United States
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Oral history interviews of the Greece Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Greece Documentation Project.

  2. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees.

  3. Izak and Marthe Weber collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and an oral history illustrating the experiences, primarily of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents surrounding Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris, his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942 near Paris from which he escaped, marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte, as well as documentation to practice medicine in Argentina after the war and correspondence from fami...

  4. Oral history interviews of the Latvia Documentation Project

    Contains testimonies of individuals in Latvia whom were not direct victims of the Holocaust, including perpetrators, witnesses, and collaborators.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Moldova Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Moldova Documentation Project

  6. Oral history interviews of the Romania Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Romania Documentation Project

  7. Oral history interviews of the Ukrainian Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Ukrainian Witnesses Documentation Project

  8. Alice and Peter Masters collection

    The collection consists of pajamas, an autograph book, correspondence, documents, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alice Ebserstark and her family during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Great Britain and after the war in Great Britain and the United States. It also contains documents on the German Army collected by Peter Masters when he served in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the UK and 3rd Troop 10th Commando in France and Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    This collection consists of materials originally donated to the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in Springfield, MA.

  10. Antoni Czerniewski collection

    Documents: relating to Antoni Czerniewski (donor's late father) a graduate of the Wilno (Vilnius) University and Warsaw Academy of Arts; Lieutenant in the Polish Army taken POW and imprisoned in Oflag XI B in Germany; his older brother, Dr. Aleksander Czerniewski was executed by the Soviets in April 1941 in Katyn. The collection includes a notebook Antoni Czerniewski kept during his imprisonment; sketches of the altar in Wilno, documents and photographs from before the war and after the war; documents relating to his immigration to the US in December 1946 and a letter from Czeslaw Milosz, c...

  11. Harry C. Abeles collection

    Correspondence: received by Harry C. Abeles (Heinz Abeles) [donor's father] born in Munich, Germany on December 6, 1922. The letters were written by his parents Margarete Grete Lewy Abeles and Eugenie Abeles in Munich after their son's emigration to the USA in 1937. Prayer book: received by Harry Abeles on the occassion of his Bar Mitzvah on December 14, 1935, presented to him by the Jewish Community of Munich.

  12. Marianne Trompetter Dazzo collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts related to the Holocaust experiences of Maurits and Femma Trompetter and their children, Marianne and Sylvia, originally of the Netherlands. Includes identity cards for Femma Trompetter (including an identity card under her alias as a member of the underground resistance movement, Else Jansen), post-war documents authorizing Femma Trompetter to travel with her children, photographs of Auschwitz survivor Maurits Trompetter, photographs of Marianne and Sylvia Trompetter in hiding in the Netherlands, a Dutch Magen David, an armband owned issued...

  13. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a trunk, typewriter with lid, and child's skirt, bonnet, ribbon, and dress. The collection also includes documents, photographs, and correspondence, as well as drawings created by the donor as a child.

  14. Phonograph player with accessories and phonograph records

    Phonograph player with accessories (crank and needles) and 24 post-war phonograph records. Nechama Zelikovna Shulman (nee Figlin) [donor's aunt] took the phonograph player and some of these records with her when she was evacuated from Gomel (Belarus) to Chkalovsk district in summer 1941.

  15. Seth Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of a program for a Nazi propaganda film and three periodicals relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  16. Bruno Einstein family collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Einstein and their son Dieter when they fled Germany for the United States in 1939.

  17. Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, documents, oral testimonies, and photographs relating to the experiences of Beate Ada Oppenheimer in Lauenforde, Germany, and the United States and Ernest Oppenheimer in Mannheim, Germany, and the United States and of members of their extended families who escaped Germany or were imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  18. David Steiner family collection

    The collection consists of two prewar photographs and a 1948-1949 Hebrew calendar book relating to the experiences of David Steiner and his family in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), where he survived in hiding during the Holocaust.

  19. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    The collection consists of audio recordings, artifacts, documents, and photographs collected by Dr. Dorit Whiteman for her work as an author and clinical psychologist researching and writing books about the Holocaust.

  20. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of two Russian ruble coins and a HIAS pin relating to the experiences of Shanke (Sonia) Minuskin, her husband Shlamke, and their two children, Henikel and Kalmanke, while living in hiding in Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus during the Holocaust and in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.