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

  1. Heller family collection

    Consists of material related to the Holocaust experiences of Rudolph Heller and Ilona Neumann Hellerova and their son, Ota Karel (now Charles Ota) Heller, originally of Kojetice u Prahy, Czechoslovakia. Includes images of family members and of the family company, Firma Gustav Neumann. Includes a handwritten family history written by Gustav Neumann prior to his deportation to Theresienstadt and death at Treblinka. The family history was continued by Ilona, who used the book as a diary of her experiences remaining in Czechoslovakia with Ota and posing as non-Jews. In 1944, Ilona was sent for ...

  2. Second World War ephemera collection

    The collection consists of one anti-Hitler pin, one ledger from the Chief of Police of Vienna, Austria, and one mimeographed page from an immigrant ship, SS Marine Shark relating to the history of World War II.

  3. Cypa Gorodecka Drozdowicz family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, Yiddish newspapers, and photographs relating to the experiences of Cypa Gorodecka and her family and the Drozdowicz family in prewar Janów Podolski and Warsaw, Poland, and after the war in Israel and Poland. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Ruth Haneman and Edna Eckstein family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Haneman and her family, who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai and, after the war, emigrated to the United States, and of artifacts, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edna Kwasznik and Samuel Eckstein in Russia and then the United States during the early 20th century.

  5. Fred Hillman family collection

    The collection consists of a portfolio of sketch reproductions, Le Struthof Natzwiller, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Manfred Hillmann (later Fred Hillman) and his family in Germany and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and of Manfred as a prisoner in Buchenwald and several other concentration camps during the Holocaust and then as a resident of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

  6. Jewish Community of Sarajevo collection

    The collection consists of five postwar grave markers from the Jewish Cemetery at the former Djakovo labor camp in Dakovo, Croatia.

  7. Venant Hanzelka collection

    The collection consists of a Korelle camera, a pouch, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Venant and Stepanka Hanzelka, and their daughter Hana, while living in hiding in German occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Mott Community College collection

    Oral history interviews of the Mott Community College collection.

  9. Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection

    The collection consists of postwar commemorative medals and posters, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Ursula Cohn, later Lichtenstein, and her family, who were deported from Germany to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp, and Herbert Lichtenstein, who was deported from Germany to multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt, during the Holocaust, and to their postwar experiences in displaced persons camps and the United States.

  10. Alfred Munzer collection

    The collection consists of a teething ring rattle and a barrel relating to the experiences of Alfred Munzer who, as an infant, survived in hiding in The Hague, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

  11. Esther Lurie collection

    The collection consists of pen and ink drawings, etchings, and watercolors created by Esther Lurie during the Holocaust about her experiences in the Kovno Ghetto in German occupied Lithuania in the years 1941, 1942, 1943.

  12. Jacek Nowakowski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the Holocaust in Krakow and to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

  13. Neue Synagoge Berlin-Centrum Judaicum collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the 1866 Neue Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Berlin before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  14. Mainzer Hauptsynagoge collection

    The collection consists of artifacts from the Main Synagogue of Mainz, Germany, which was desecrated during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938.

  15. Oral history interviews of the NAVO and NASA Stennis Space Center collection

    Oral history interviews from the Naval Oceanographic Office and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Stennis Space Center collection

  16. Margalit Lujten collection

    The collection consists of a miniature chocolate box and photographs relating to the experiences of Margalit Lujten in the Netherlands before and after the Holocaust, during which she and her family lived in hiding.

  17. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger family collection

    The collection consists of two medals and a report folder, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edmund and Helena Strassburger and their daughter, Elzbieta, in prewar Poland and during World War II when Edmund served in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army, and Helena and Elizabeth lived in hiding in Poland, and after the war when the family was reunited in Italy and emigrated to Great Britain in 1946.

  18. Abraham Levi family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a suitcase, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adolf and Mathilde de Beer and their extended family group, the de Levie, Levy, and Seligmann families, originally of Oldenburg, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  19. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

    The collection consists of two silver baby spoons relating to the experiences of Elzbieta Lusthaus and her maternal grandmother, Sophie Schiff, in the Tarnow ghetto and in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.

  20. Joseph A. Thacker collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner and a photograph relating to the experiences of Joseph A. Thacker during World War II, when he served as a solider in the 80th Infantry Division of the United States Army in Germany.