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

  1. Isidor Muschel collection

    The collection consists of a fur sewing machine, furrier’s tools, and a set of scale weights relating to the experiences of Isidor Muschel and his wife, Ida, and daughter, Dorit, in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Anschluss, and in the United States before World War II.

  2. German bunker envelope collection

    The collection consists of envelopes found in a German bunker by an American soldier while serving in Europe.

  3. Oral testimonies of the Voces del Holocausto en México collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in México

  4. Nile H. Heermans collection

    Nazi propaganda filmstrips and roll of film that Nile H. Heermans (donor's father) brought home from his military service as a member of the 71st Division of the US Third Army during WWII.

  5. Ellen Kaidanow collection

    Documents, photographs, and letter, related to Ellen Kaidanow (born Shifra Leviatin) and her family, and their experiences in the Dubno ghetto, in Poland, during the German occupation in World War II. In addition to documents, the collection includes a spoon.

  6. Jerold F. Majerus collection

    The collection consists of military scrip, documents, autobiographical text, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Jerold F. Majerus, during his service with the U.S. Army, in the 6827th Military Detachment, as part of the stenographic support staff of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946.

  7. Arthur Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of photographs, a watercolor painting, and a shadowbox display relating to the experiences of Arthur Jacobs in the United States and Germany during and after World

  8. Bamivchan advertisement poster collection

    The collection consist of four advertisement posters for Bamivchan bulletin, HaNo'ar HaLomed beEretz Israel Movement - Hamachanot HaOlim, issues 24-27.

  9. Rosenwald and Stahl families collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, postcards, photographs, and a book related to the experiences of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, who emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1936, as well as papers relating to members of their extended family.

  10. Joan Ringelheim collection

    The Joan Ringelheim collection consists of materials related to Dr. Ringelheim's scholarly work on the subject of women and the Holocaust and includes oral history interviews; writings, recorded lectures, subject files, printed materials, and correspondence documenting her research; and planning materials, correspondence, and photographs from Ringelheim's conference “Women Surviving: The Holocaust" which was held at Stern College in 1983.

  11. Brest Gravestones

    Four gravestones from Brest

  12. Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe collection

    Three pins painted by Felix d'Ancona. Photographs of the D'Ancona family before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Baby announcement of Hetty, two letters written postwar, "rapportboekje" or report card booklet.

  13. Gustav Rauner collection

    The collection consists of a sewing machine and accessories relating to the experiences of Gustav Rauner and his family, originally from Germany, during the Holocaust when they lived under assumed identities in France, and after the Holocaust when they emigrated to the United States in 1946.

  14. Richard Carl Stein collection

    The collection consists of a metal box, three belt buckles, a plaque, a Nazi flag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Richard Stein, a soldier, US Army, and commander of Internee Camp 77 in Ludwigsburg, Germany, 1945-1946.

  15. Haas family collection

    Photographs and letter illustrating the experiences of the Haas family surrounding the Holocaust: pre-war images of Semi Haas and his wife Frieda Steinberger Haas and their children Walter, Ilse and Ernst (donor) in Neumarkt, Germany and after 1938 in Fürth. Also included are pre-war photographs of extended family members and post-war photographs of Ernst in Germany after his liberation from Riga and Stutthof concentration camps. Letter to Walter in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 from Semi, Frieda, Ernst and Ilse and Fürth, Germany. Frieda, Semi and Ilse did not survive. Post-war documents issu...

  16. Akou family collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts illustrating the Akou family in Athens, Greece before and after the Holocaust.

  17. Kessler family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and film illustrating the experiences of Alice and Jakob Kessler and their son, Hans Otto, who was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Baden, Austria. Their experiences fleeing to the United Kingdom in 1939 and then immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s, as well as the experiences of the extended family is also documented in the collection.

  18. Alfred Linhard family collection

    The collection consists of a cup and saucer, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Alfred Linhard and his family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Anschluss, and in England and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  19. Kirschenbaum and Mosak family collection

    Concentration camp uniform jacket. Accretion: Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Leah (Lonia) Kirschenbaum and Uscher Mossak (Mosak) and surrounding their internment in concentration camps and displaced persons camps in Poland, Austria

  20. Kőszeg brick factory collection

    The collection consists of two broken tiles and four bricks from a local brick factory relating to events in the area of Kőszeg, Hungary, during the Holocaust