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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Josef Pistiner family collection

    The collection consists of badges, wallets, watercolors, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials related to the experiences of Josef Pistiner and his family, including his parents, Aron and Taube, and brother, Max, before the Holocaust in Galicia, Bukovina, and Berlin and during the Holocaust in Berlin, their 1939 emigration via China to the United States, as well as documents from Josef Pistiner’s service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and restitution files from the 1960s-1970s.

  2. Szamek family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents and a drawing.

  3. Lányi family collection

    The collection consists of a bottle and cup, mess kit, pot, ribbon, spool of thread, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Lanyi family of Budapest, Hungary.

  6. Lester and Esther Suna Dulberg family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leiser Dulberg and Esther Suna (later) Dulberg before and during the Holocaust when they emigrated in 1939 from Łódź, Poland, to the United States.

  7. Pick family collection

    The collection consists of four watercolors created by Jo Spier while imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia and a brooch with charms representing aspects of daily life at Theresienstadt.

  8. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of over 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, toys and everyday household items decorated with depiction...

  9. Frederick Weinstein collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, diary, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fryderyk Winnykamien (later Frederick Weinstein) during and after the Holocaust when he escaped the Warsaw ghetto and survived in hiding, lived with his parents and wife in Duppel displaced persons camp before emigrating to the United States.

  10. Hans Landesberg collection

    The collection consists of a lapel pin, a cufflink, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg, a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

  11. Milton E. Dowse collection

    The collection consists of a Deutsche Arbeitsfront flag, copied documents, and two copies of a transcript and recorded interview relating to the experiences of Major Milton Evans Dowse, United States Army, after his liberation from a German prisoner-of-war camp, Oflag 64, during World War II and a 1984 interview of his wartime experiences.

  12. Four Freedoms poster collection

    The collection consist of four United States World War II war bonds posters featuring paintings by Norman Rockwell inspired by Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

  13. Liebschütz and Rozsa family collection

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, diaries, and other writings, related to the families of Elise (Lisa) Rozsa, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia, and her husband, Imre Rozsa, originally of Hungary, both of whom fled Europe during the Holocaust, living in exile in Iraq, Palestine, Uganda, and Kenya. The collection includes written memoirs from Lisa Rozsa and her mother, Selma Liebschütz, detailing their experiences during the war years, including Liebschütz's account of being deported to Auschwitz, her experiences in several subsequent camps as a forced laborer, escape from a death mar...

  14. Oral history interviews of the Transcending Trauma Project collection

    The Juliet Spitzer and Phil Wachs Archive of the Transcending Trauma Project collection, produced by the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia, PA, includes oral histories of three generations of Holocaust survivor families, focusing on how survivors coped following the war, the impact of their experiences on their children, and the varied legacies that they have passed on to their grandchildren.

  15. Marie Naples collection

    Collection consists of a portrait of Adolf Hitler and a signet ring.

  16. Michael J. Kraus collection

    The collection consists of two pieces of Theresienstadt scrip, correspondence, documents, memoirs, and three handwritten notebooks created from 1945-1947 relating to the experiences of Michal J. Kraus, (later Michael) who was interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Melk, and Gunskirchen concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  17. Fritzi Klein Natko collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book, correspondence, a passport, identity papers, photographs, and an autograph book relating ot the experiences of Fritzi Klein and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust, who, as a child, emigrated from Vienna, Austria, to the United States in June 1939 as part of the 50 Children group organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus.

  18. Arthur Szyk and the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, Inc. collection

    The collection consists of a set of four lithograph reproductions of Arthur Szyk drawings created and distributed by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, Inc., in 1944.

  19. Juanita Carmi collection

    Photographs of the exended family of Juanita Carmi (nee Chmielnicki), including pre-World War II photos from Poland, post-war photographs of her step-father, Markus Kavior, and the latter's naturalization (United States) certificate. Also include is material related to a historical research project conducted by Carmi in the 1992, for a university class, in which she interviewed four Holocaust survivors about their experiences as displaced persons in the immediate aftermath of World War II. This material includes four audiocassette recordings of the interviews, a typed list of questions, and...

  20. Levai and Balint families collection

    The collection consist of two hats, a muff, and a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Ilona Lévai and a tea kettle, sugar jar, fork, spoon, and coal iron used by the Bálint family during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary.