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

  1. Oral history interviews of the Exodus 1947 collection

    Oral history interviews gathered for the documentary film "Exodus 1947"

  3. Yakov Gincherman collection

    Contains an oral history interview with Yakov Gincherman, ten black and white photographs, and a newspaper article pertaining to the memorial at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Nafartav to the thousand Jews shot by German fascists, 1941 September 14.

  4. Ralph Harpuder family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, newspapers, and photographs relating to the experience of Ralph (Ralf) Harpuder and his family in Berlin, Germany, before the Holocaust, in Shanghai, China, during and after World War II, and in the United States following their emigration in 1947, and of Ralph's stepfather, Viktor Stummer, in Vienna, Austria, before the Holocaust and in Shanghai during and after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Linda Hunt collection

    Oral testimonies gathered by Linda Hunt for her study of the U.S. government's post World War II program for the utilization of German scientists and technicians, of which many had been members of the Nazi Party, in Operation Paperclip.

  6. Martin Shallow III collection

    The collection consists of Nazi Party cigarette cards, Theresienstadt scrip, and German passbooks relating to life under the Nazi led governments in Germany and occupied Czechoslovakia.

  7. Paul Zilczer family collection

    The collection consists of a briefcase, pouch, wallets, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Paul Zilczer, his wife Margit Gelyi Zilczer, and their families in Hungary before and during the Holocaust and of Paul Zilczer's experiences after his immigration to the United States in 1939.

  8. Grodno Survivors Association collection

    The collection consists of artifacts discovered after the end of World War II on the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno, Poland, now Hrodna, Belarus.

  9. Oral history interviews of the "Ich Bin Jude! Ich Bin Jude!" film collection

    Oral history interviews gathered for the documentary film "Ich Bin Jude! Ich Bin Jude!"

  10. Oral history interviews of the Edith Ruina collection

    Oral history interviews gathered by Edith Ruina for her manuscript "The Grupa," which tells the story of Jewish youth from 1939-1945, who fled as a group from Poland through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and finally to Palestine.

  11. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    The collection consists of an unused Star of David patch, three Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp parcel stamps, and a letter relating to the history of the Holocaust in German occupied Czechoslovakia and Netherlands.

  12. Nathan Baruch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Rabbi Nathan Baruch as director of the Vaad Hatzala Rescue Organization in Germany from 1946-1949.

  13. Edith Ruina collection

    Contains research materials pertaining to Edith Ruina's research for her manuscript entitled, "The Grupa." "The Grupa" tells the story of a group of Jewish youth from 1939-1945, who fled as a group from Poland through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and finally to Palestine. The manuscript is based on the writings of Rutka Judenherc Bayuk, one of the youths, and the collection includes oral history interviews, and transcripts, of members of the group.

  14. Herbert Fierst collection

    The Herbert A. Fierst collection consists of biographical materials, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and interviews primarily documenting Fierst’s work on displaced persons issues at the Pentagon and State Department in the 1940s; a diary Herbert kept while traveling in Germany in 1935 and 1936; writings and speeches about Nazi Germany and postwar displaced persons issues; McCarthy-era investigations into Fierst and his colleagues; materials relating to Herbert’s family; and an oral history interview with Sam Perlman and Sophy Perlman about Herbert F...

  15. Edwin Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of a child’s hairbrush, handkerchiefs, and two small boxes with toys relating to the experiences of Edwin (Edik) Goldberg who, with his parents, Emil and Elze, fled Poland for the Soviet Union and were then imprisoned in a labor camp in Siberia during World War II.

  16. Emanuel Arbel family collection

    The collection consists of a pendant, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Raphael and Anna Chekerdjiev and their children Emanuel and Sima (Sophie) in Bulgaria, their home, France, and Israel where the family eventually immigrated.

  17. Natan Caron collection

    The collection consists of a beret, concentration camp uniform, patches, an armband, wallet, and documents relating to the experiences of Natan Chorowicz (later Caron) during the Holocaust, when he was interned in multiple concentration and labor camps, including Dannes-Camiers, Auschwitz, Jawischowitz, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Crawinkel, and Espenfeld, and after the Holocaust in Belgium and the United States.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Italy (South Tyrol) Documentation Project

    In Dec. 2009, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch produced its first set of interviews in Northern Italy for the Italy (South Tyrol) Documentation Project. Nathan Beyrak served as the Project Director. In May 2011, the Museum acquired a second set of interviews for the project, coordinated and conducted by Gerald Steinacher, with Franz Haller as the camera operator.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Hungarian Witnesses Documentation Project

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