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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Signed testimonies of the Deaf Austrians and National Socialism collection

    Videotaped interviews with Deaf eyewitnesses to WWII and the Holocaust

  2. Oral history interviews of the Life After the Holocaust collection

    The Life After the Holocaust collection reveals the complexity of starting over for six Holocaust survivors whose journeys brought them to the United States following WWII.

  3. Gluck family collection

    Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, two mezuzot, a US Army jacket, an army mess cup (with personal inscriptions), an army duffel bag, medals and insignias, and pieces of Irving's broken eyeglasses from the Battle of Anzio; Irving'...

  4. Albert and Angela Feldstein collection

    The collection conisists of World War II era buttons: "Halt Hitler" and "Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. Wings for Victory"

  5. Pauline and Joseph Charatan collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Pauline Charatan (née Margulies), originally of Busk, Poland (Busk, Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust living in Gleisdorf, Austria under a false-identity, and Joseph Charatan, originally of Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), who escaped the Janowska concentration camp and survived hidden in a bunker until his liberation in 1944. The collection includes birth certificates, naturalization certificates, Pauline and Joseph’s marriage certificate, Pauline’s vaccination certificate, restitution paperwork, a commemorative booklet from the USS Gene...

  6. Abram Bork collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, passport, identification card, photographs, translations, document holder documenting the immigration of Abram Bork to the United States from Lublin, Poland. Abram immigrated to his maternal grandparents in New York.

  7. Leon Hilersberg collection

    The collection consists of a letter received by Leon Hilersberg from the American Consulate in Vienna concerning his status on the US visa waiting list, his and his wife Henryka's German passports and a collection of German handbills.

  8. Soviet Jewish Veterans Video Interviews and Memory Project

    Interviews with Jewish Red Army veterans who fought with the Soviet Armed Forces against the Nazis in WWII, as well as partisans and Leningrad blockade survivors

  9. Oral history interviews of The Last Witnesses of Time collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded throughout the United Kingdom and South America

  10. Leon Shear collection

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

  11. Bill Leftwich collection

    Contains the Sgt. Bill Leftwich story and one drawing relating to the liberation of the Landsberg camp. The story describes how the American Army broke the camp, Hurlach #4, near Landsberg on 28 April, 1945, and had liberated 2800 allied prisoners. The graphic, singed by Bill Leftwich and dated June, 1945, shows two camp prisoners with an American tank; and on the other site: one prisoner in a dark room.

  12. Jewish American ephemera and archival collection

    The collection consists of pins, poster stamps, illustrations, currency, photographs, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the American response and humanitarian campaigns in the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  13. David Farin collection

    The collection consists of five Allach porcelain figurines manufactured at Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  14. Auschwitz bunk bed collection

    The collection consists of two bunk beds from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.

  15. Walt Rudy Horenstein collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Rudy Horenstein, born in 1923 in Grajewo, Poland, and who survived on false papers under the name Rudolf Budkis, of Russian descent. Includes false identification documents; postwar passports and identity papers; immigration paperwork compiled to support his coming to the United States after the war; restitution paperwork; correspondence and photographs. It also includes a metal prisoner tag.

  16. Susan Darvas collection

    The collection consists of prewar documents, a medallion and a silver make up case which belonged to Mano Herskovits.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Forum Institute, Samorin, Slovakia/Zoltán Kőrös collection

    Oral history interviews, photos, and documents related to the experiences of ethnic Hungarians and former soldiers (WWII combatants) in Slovakia who witnessed events that impacted Jews during the Holocaust and/or have memories of prewar Jewish life in Slovakia. The collection also includes testimonies about the lives of ethnic Hungarians under the Czechoslovakian regime.

  18. Sobibor perpetrator collection

    The collection consists of 361 photographs (two albums and loose photographs) and dozens of paper documents that depict Johann Niemann’s social background, his family, and his SS career, including his advancement through the concentration camp system (Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen) and the T4 euthanasia program (Grafeneck, Brandenburg and Bernburg) to the Operation Reinhard death camps (Belzec and Sobibor). There are an additional 15 photographs, three publications, and one wallet.

  19. Tarjan family collection

    The collection primarily consists of wartime family correspondence between sisters Erzsébeth Steiner and Ágnes Steiner Takács in Budapest, Hungary and their parents Margit and Simon Steiner in Pécs, Hungary from 1941-1944. Some letters include transcriptions and translations provided by Erzsébeth and Tibor’s son Peter Tarjan. Also included in the collection are a personal narrative by Peter regarding his family’s Holocaust experiences, prewar family photographs, and a small amount of documents related to Ágnes. Included in the documents are a prewar address book related to Ágnes’s salon cli...

  20. Jacob Yessenow collection

    The collection consists of photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (donor's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division. The collection also includes two cameras used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen conce...