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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Oral history interview with Isaac Kraicer

  2. Meinhardi, Strahl, and Stolze families papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs associated with the experiences of the extended Meinhardi family (families Strahl and Stolze) under National Socialism and in postwar Germany. Also includes material related to the Meinhardi family, formerly of Germany, who immigrated to the United States at the end of the 19th century. The Meinhardis continued to correspond to their relatives in Engish throughout the period and received first hand accounts of life in Nazi Germany into the immediate postwar years.

  5. Morris Kopels papers

    Contains two copies of a songbook from the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp which were part of the publication, "zamlung fun katset un geto lider," issued in 1946 by the Central Jewish Committee, Bergen Belsen and the same collection also appeared as an edition of the DP periodical "Undzer Sztyme." The papers also include a photocopy of a note to Morris Kopels' aunt, Sonya Kusevitsky, written when Pte A. Dean Brust entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The materials date from 1945 to 1946.

  10. Oral history interview with Oscar K. Reiss

  11. Oral history interview with Doris Kumar

  13. Oral history interview with Henny Aronson

  14. Oral history interview with Marianne Oelsner

  18. Chronology

    1. Herbert H. Gould collection

    The two-page chronology details events in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, from June 22, 1941, to July 17, 1944, written by "Markowski..accountant," "Nabriski..physician," and "Blumenthal..engineer" at the Landsberg am Lech DP camp in Germany.

  19. John Kaufmann album "Deutschland, England, Australien"

    Album entitled "Deutschland, England, Australien" created by John Kaufmann (born Hans Werner Kaufmann), originally of Heidelberg, Germany. The album includes writings, drawings, and photographs chronicling his family and his Holocaust experiences as a German refugee who fled to England in August 1939, was sent to Australia in July 1940 aboard the HMT Dunera as an enemy alien, and interned in the Hay internment camp in New South Wales.

  20. Henry Cohn postcards

    Five postcards (containing the contents of three letters), sent by Henry Cohn, of Paris, from September - November 1944, to his uncle, Albert Cohn (the donor’s grandfather), in London. In the postcards, Henry Cohn describes some of his experiences during the German occupation of France, as well as what happened to his mother, Meta Johanna Cohn (1896-1942) who was deported to Auschwitz in July 1942. The contents of the first letter, dated 23 September 1944, are written on three separate postcards that were mailed in succession, and numbered accordingly.