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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Stanley Robbin collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, identification documents, writings, and newsclippings illustrating the experiences of Stanley Robbin (Samuel Rubinstein) as a physician during the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland, ghetto in Krakow, Płaszów concentration camp and Mauthausen concentration camp.

  2. Hirsch family collection

    The collection consists of a doll carried by Eva Hirsch when her family fled Germany via Switzerland and Portugal, arriving in the United States in 1939.

  3. Joseph Polzer collection

    The collection consists of notebooks, written by Joseph Polzer, in 1940 and 1941 in Chateau du Chaumont, France in a children’s home, and sketchbook also used in France with detached and additional drawings. Photographs of pre-war Austria, where Joseph was born in 1929. Along with his mother Mirrha, Jewish and originally Russian and father Karl Polzer, non-Jewish and Austrian, the family fled to France in 1938. By 1940, Joseph was placed at Chateau du Chaumont, a chateau used by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants that housed thousands of Jewish children. The Polzer family was able to leave b...

  4. Gerda Happ and Josef Stern collection

    Documents, photographs, manuscript of a family tree, and a prayer book illustrating Gerda Happ and her extended family and Josef Stern and his extended family. Gerda and Josef met and married in South Africa after they both fled there to escape Nazi persecution.

  5. Beno Helmer collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner patch, currency, scrip and ration cards, and documents related to the experiences of Beno Helmer in the Łódź ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust.

  6. Thermos and pot found in the territory of the former Brest Ghetto

    Traditional copper thermos used for Shabbat by Jewish families, and copper pot used by a Jewish family before WWII and most likely during internment in the Brest Ghetto.

  7. Wolf and Zofia Paszko collection

    The collection consists of photographs, medals, and oral history tapes documenting the experiences of Wolf and Zofia Paszko before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Ruth Olesker Geary collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, passports and tea set illustrating the experiences Osias and Seril Olesker in Vienna, Austria, and their children, Ruth and Martha, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria. The collection shows efforts to secure visas for all family members. Ruth and Martha were able to flee May 31, 1939, with the support of Henry Turkel, a cousin, and documents show he then tried to secure visas for Osias and Seril, who never left. They were deported to Opole, Poland in February 1941, where they were likely killed. Letters within collection indicate e...

  9. John Honig collection

    The collection consists of an accordion and case, music book, patches, issues of Boy Scout journals, commemorative Boy Scout stamps, Boy Scout diaries and pamphlets, and writings related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  10. Eli Pfefferkorn collection

    Files containing the writings and research of Eli Pfefferkorn.

  11. Fritz Weinschenk collection

    The Fritz Weinschenk collection consists of case files and recordings documenting his assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany.

  12. Hans and Hertha Steinberg collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Hertha and Hans Steinberg and their children Ernst Dieter [donor] and Martin in Hamburg, Germany, Italy and the United States. Hertha and sons left Germany in 1936 for Palestine, stopping in Italy for more than two years And eventually emigrating from Italy to the United States in 1939. Hans never joined, passing away in Germany in 1936. Included are birth and death records, family tree, letters of recommendation, Ketubah, marriage certificates, books, including Talmud and correspondence and report cards.

  13. Mark Talisman collection

    The collection consists of documents, framed art, wood and cloth model, identification cards, correspondence, ration cards, stamps issued or used in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Compilation of multiple victims interned in Theresienstadt illustrated within documents. Documents also include “Tagesbefehl” or Daily Bulletin from the Theresienstadt Council of Elders which details daily happenings in the ghetto and includes transports, postal service, regulations, “ghetto-court” judgements. Also included are three pieces of artwork created in Theresienstadt, one a ...

  14. Bruno and Jessie Korn collection

    The collection consists of baby shoes, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Bruno Korn and his wife Jetka (Jessie) before the Holocaust in Hindenburg and Breslau, Germany, and after the Holocaust in New York.

  15. Laura Scheer Lille collection

    The collection consists of school insignia, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Laura Scheer before and during the Holocaust in Podhajce and Rohatyn, Poland.

  16. Maljean and Totman family collection

    The collection consists of documents and artifacts documenting the experiences of Emile-Georges Maljean, Prefect of Police in Toulon and Marseille, and his family prior to and during World War II in France and Austria.

  17. Edith Steinberg collection

    THe collection consists of a letter, two page, from Werner Samuel [and others unidentified] to Edith Steinberg, donor’s aunt. The letter, dated October 18, 1945, explains the fate of Edith’s husband, Siegfried, who was liberated in April 1945, transferred to Sweden to recuperate and died and buried in Sweden on June 6, 1945. Edith and Siegfried Steiberg were deported from Hannover, Germany to Riga, Latvia. From Riga, Edith was deported to Stutthof concentration camp in Poland and was liberated in April, 1945. Wallet, tan, in which letter has been housed [unknown origin].

  18. Walter Gumpert family collection

    The collection consists of an attache case, prayer book, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Walter and Erna Gumpert and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.

  19. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  20. Henry Rosenthal collection

    Documents, letters, photographs and prayer book documenting the experiences of Henry Rosenthal's family.