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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Magazines

    THe collection consists of copies of "Life" magazine, dated between 1937-1941, and issues of the Pathfinder newsletter, dated 1941.

  2. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The collection consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany. It also contains additional documents, a wallet and a badge.

  3. Fred Levinson collection

    The Levinson and Stern family papers primarily contain biographical materials and photographs related to the Levinson family of Homburg, Saarland, Germany and the Stern family of Kassel, Germany in the 1920s and 1930s prior to immigrating to the United States in 1935. Biographical materials include birth and death records, identification papers, a diary of Ann Stern Levinson, genealogy notes, marriage certificates and two ketubahs. Photographs include numerous identified family members in Germany as well as three photograph albums. The collection also includes a prayerbook, a WWI Iron Cross...

  4. Arundel Antiques collection

    The collection consists of issues of Life magazine, Liberty magazine, Scribner's Commentator, St, Nicholas for Boys and Girls, and True Story magazine, dated 1937-1942, all containing issues related to the United States during World War II and regarding atrocities against Jews.

  6. Otto Pankok collection

    The collection consists of five Sinti woodcut portaits created by Otto Pankok in postwar Germany.

  9. Eastern European sewing equipment collection

    The collection consists of six sewing machines, treadle tables, and a scale used in Poland before, during, and after World War II.

  10. Edmund Graf collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform, soap, a sweater, and a shirt relating to the experiences of Edmund Graf after he was deported from Poland to Flossenburg and Altenhammer concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  11. Paul Weber Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of two wooden candelabra made for Paul Weber Jacobs by a displaced person.

  12. Gerda Ehrenberg family collection

    The collection consists of a print of the Breslau synagogue and a report card relating to the experiences of Gerda Ehrenberg and her family in Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust.

  14. Kurt Weiler collection

    The collection consists of two Waffen SS fezzes and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Kurt Weiler, a refugee from Nazi Germany before World War II, who served in the US Army in Europe during the war.

  15. Alexander Kuechel collection

    The collection consists of tefillin, a tefillin bag, and a tallit katan relating to the experiences of Alexander Keuchel in Belgium and several concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  16. Ruth Rappaport collection

    The collection consists of a shoulder patch, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ruth Rappaport before the war in Leipzig, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, during the war in Seattle, Washington, and after the war in the United States, Palestine, Israel, and Japan.

  17. Hedwig E. Stern family collection

    Photos, documents, letters, table linens, baby bibs and other original materials related to Hedwig (Hedi) Eichengrün Stern.

  18. Stanislaw Kozler family collection

    The collection consists of a fork, spoon, and a commemorative photograph relating to the experiences of Stanislaw Kozler and his family, originally of Kryłów, Poland, after World War II when they were liberated by the United States military from a forced labor camp in Schwarzburg, Germany.

  19. Leo Melamed collection

    The collection consists of a crayon box, documents, and a publication relating to the experiences of Lejb Melamdowicz (Leo Melamed) and his family before and during the Holocaust when they fled Bialystok, Poland, to Vilna, and then Kobe, Japan, until reaching the United States in 1941.

  20. E. Jeff Baron collection

    The collection consists of documents, historical information, and correspondence related to E. Jeff Baron's work with the American Merchant Marine Museum on a project commemorating the story of the President Warfield / Exodus voyage in 1947. Includes information related to plans to raise the Exodus and to honor William Bernstein, an American who was killed in the incident. Also includes Dr. Baron's film treatment and unfinished historical novel related to the Exodus, as well as oral history interviews with Exodus crew members William (Bill) Millman, Bernard Marks, and Nathan Nadler.