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

  1. Mordecai E. Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of armbands, a card, and drawings by Alfred Glück relating to the experiences of Mordecai E. Schwartz during his wartime service in the United States Army and after the war when he served as Area Director for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) from 1945 to 1948 and then as Area Director for the International Refugee Organization in Germany.

  2. Oral history interviews of the University of California, Los Angeles Holocaust Testimonies Project

    Contains interviews with 59 Holocaust survivors in the Los Angeles, California area recorded by the University of California, Los Angeles Holocaust Testimonies Project in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Christian Rescuers Project

    Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel

  4. Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo oral history collection

    Contains interviews with 96 Holocaust survivors, liberators, resistance fighters, and Righteous Gentiles in the Buffalo, N.Y. area

  6. Oral history interviews of the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies

    Contains interviews with 31 Holocaust survivors in the Dallas, TX area

  7. Jacqueline Pollen collection

    The collection consists of a Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip and a Westerbork transit camp voucher.

  8. Raoul Wallenberg Project Archive collection

    Consists of interviews and transcripts collected by the Raoul Wallenberg Project containing testimony of Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The interviews contain information about the diplomatic work of the Swedish government and its agents, among them Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, and Charles Lutz, in Hungary (primarily Budapest) during 1944 and 1945. Also contains records copied from Sweden's Foreign Office, the Hungarian Interior Ministry, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York, the Public Record Office in London, and the War Refugee Board in Hyde Park, N.Y.

  9. Oral history interviews of the National Council of Jewish Women Cleveland Section Holocaust Archive Project

    The interviews document the experiences of 136 Holocaust survivors, Righteous Gentiles, and former concentration camp liberators from the Cleveland, Ohio, area.

  10. Hadassah Rosensaft oral history collection

    Interviews with 15 Holocaust survivors documenting their experiences as children during the Holocaust.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Emmanuel Ringelblum collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust

    The interviews, conducted from 1977 to 1991, discuss the experiences of thirty-four Holocaust survivors from the Dayton area. While not all interviewees were imprisoned in concentration camps, each had his or her life greatly changed by the Holocaust, The videotape versions of the interviews were used to create the program, "Faces of the Holocaust."

  12. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history volunteer collection

    Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life before World War II, life in the ghettos, life in concentration camps, and life after the Holocaust.

  13. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection

    Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social and ethnic backgrounds who were targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators or witnessed the events of the Holocaust

  14. Oral history interviews of the Winnipeg Second Generation Group collection

    Interviews from the Winnipeg Second Generation Group oral history collection contain oral testimonies with 53 Holocaust survivors from the Winnipeg, Canada, area conducted from 1988 to 1989.

  15. Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection

    The collection consists of a souvenir dish, spoon and box, autograph book, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Dublon and her family before the Holocaust in Wittlich and Mertloch, Germany.

  16. Nelly Toll collection

    The collection consists of six watercolors created by Nelly Landau (later Toll) during the Holocaust while living as a hidden child in Lwow, Poland.

  17. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    The collection consists of an apron, greeting cards, tallit bag, wedding dress, veil, gloves, documents, correspondence and photographs relating to the experiences of Lili Lax Frydman and Ludwig Frydman after the Holocaust in Celle displaced persons camp in Germany and in the United States after their emigration in 1948. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Regina Laks Gelb collection

    Pin and report card given to Regina Laks in the Schlachtensee DP camp.

  19. Norbert Wollheim collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Norbert Wollheim in Berlin, Germany, before and during the Holocaust, as an inmate in several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and as a refugee in displaced persons camps in Germany after the Holocaust.