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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Varda Cohen collection

    These collections contain materials related to the Kleinhandler family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Lili Susser collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Lili Susser. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Jan Emil Karpiński collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Jan Emil Karpiński. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Susan Weiss collection

    These collections contain materials related to the family of Susan Weiss during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Chaim Kozienicki collection

    These collections contain materials related to the Holocaust experiences of the Kozienicki family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Israel Ellen collection

    Contains materials donated by Israel Ellen. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Vera Kende collection

    The collection consists of a certificate and a certificate holder.

  8. Ernest D. Kaufman collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Ernest Kaufman and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Halina Diller Gartenberg collection

    Contains memoirs, photographs, and other documents regarding the Holocaust experiences of Halina Diller Gartenberg and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Szlama Kleiner collection

    These collections contain materials related to the experiences of the Kleiner and Wajsfus families. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Thomas Blatt collection

    Oral history interviews recorded with and by Sobibor extermination camp survivor Thomas Blatt

  12. Jack Nusan Porter collection

    Contains materials donated by Jack N. Porter. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. John L. Steffens collection

    Contains photographs taken by Roman Vishniac. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Walter Benson collection

    Contains photographs related to the liberation of various concentration camps. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Hausner family collection

    The collection consists of a film projector, textiles made in Hausner factory, documents, photographs and identification cards.

  16. Kovary and Neuhaus families collection

    The Kovary and Neuhaus families collection includes medals, ribbons, pins, a leather wallet, a leather portfolio, a set of silver ice cream spoons, and family papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Kovary family from Bratislava and the Neuhaus family from Hamburg.

  17. Donald Norton Pitts collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Donald Norton Pitts, who served as a foreign service officer with the State Department in Warsaw, Poland in 1950. Included are notes, reports, and writings, primarily about the political climate in Poland; diary; correspondence; identification card; clipping; metal dish; and negatives taken while Donald was stationed there. Also included are copy negatives and prints documenting atrocities against Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.

  18. Bela and Gisa Pless collection

    Documents and photographs related to Bela and Gisa Pless [donors' parents], Czechoslovakian Jews who survived Sered and Theresienstadt; also includes Bela Pless's memoir and a yellow star, as well as letters.

  19. Anker family collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, postcards, documents, and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Georg and Gertrud Anker, their children, Eva and Hilde Anker (later Fogelson), Bertha Gottschalk, and Ursula and Paul Elgart in Germany and England before and during the Holocaust.

  20. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska collection

    The Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and writings documenting Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as well as her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski’s experiences in Nazi-annexed Poznań and as a displaced person in Germany. The collection also includes a wallet, several buttons and publications.