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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Dr. Emanuel Tanay collection

    Papers of Dr. Emanuel Tanay, consisting of photographs, documents, correspondence, audiovisual media, and patient case files, among other materials. Much of the material relates to the history of Dr. Tanay's family in pre-Holocaust Europe, as well as his own experiences as a Holocaust survivor in displaced persons camps following World War II. Also includes case files of patients, chiefly Holocaust survivors, whom he examined in support of their Holocaust-era restitution claims, and in relation to his own research as a psychiatrist on the effects of post-traumatic stress on Holocaust surviv...

  2. Mann family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, correspondence, documents, memoir material, photographs, and photographic negatives, and artwork relating to the experiences of Dr. Ignacy (Igor) and Erika Schoenbaum Mann and their family before, during, and after World War II, in Istanbul, Palestine, Rhodesia, and Kenya.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Carole Ann Fer collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors of the Holocaust.

  4. Jakob and Fania Heifetz family collection

    Documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral testimonies illustrating the experiences of Jakob Chajfec born in Lachwa, Poland and Fania Luczki born in Pohost Zagorodskiy.

  5. Neu family collection

    Deutsches Reich Reisepass, passport, issued to German Jewish man, Erich Neu, Born May 8, 1912 in Strasbourg, France, first page, inside cover, stamped with red letter "J" which is dated October 14, 1938, passport dated September 5, 1938, Offenburg, Germany, in German, issued French transit visa in Karlsruhe, Germany and United States immigration visa in Stuttgart, Germany on January 12, 1939. The collection also contains correspondence illustrating the experiences of Clementine and Emil Neu, living in Offenburg, Germany and their children Erwin, Alice and Erich. Alice and Erich immigrated t...

  6. Terna family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Frederich Taussig, born 1923 in Vienna, Austria and raised in Prague, Czech Republic and survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. Materials also illustrates his mother [d. 1932] and father, Lona and Jochanan Taussig, younger brother Thomas [the latter two whom did not survive] as well as his first spouse Stella [also survivor of Auschwitz]. Paintings and artwork; postwar art that reflects and illustrate Frederick’s experiences surrounding the Holocaust. Included is a har...

  7. Alison Owings collection

    Correspondence, transcripts, audiorecordings, clippings, reviews, and other research and editorial materials created and/or collected by Alison Owings, during the research, writing, and publication of her book "Frauen: Women in the Third Reich" (Rutgers University Press, 1993). Collection includes transcripts of interviews and interview notes; audiorecordings; correspondence with interviewees, scholars, and others who were involved with or advised on the research; and correspondence, reviews, and other material related to the publication of the book.

  8. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families collection

    The collection consists of a portrait drawing, correspondence, documents, photographs, and assorted memorabilia related to the experiences of Julius and Lilli (Loewenthal) Hockenheimer and their children, Marianne and Rudolf (Rudy) (later Ralph Hockley) during the Holocaust in Germany and France, their 1940 emigration to the United States, and postwar life, as well as other members of the Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Atlanta History Center collection

    Oral history interviews with liberators of Nazi concentration camps.

  10. Karlsruher, Schweizer and Eisenmann family collection

    The collection consists of a charm bracelet, doily, dish towel, lace samples, field glasses, opera glasses, napkin, napkin rings, cookbook, correspondence, documents, photographs, and photo albums relating to the experiences of Jella Furth Karlsruher and her daughters Ruth Karlsruher Eisenmann and Irene Regensburger-Karlsruher Schweizer before the Holocaust in Mannheim, Germany, and after the Holocaust in Chicago, Illinois, and the experiences of Albrecht Eisenmann and his family before the Holocaust in Noerdlingen, Germany, and after the Holocaust in Chicago, Illinois.

  11. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    This collection consists of two metal signs posted by the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto. One is for the Statistical Department and the other is for the two white enameled metal signs with black text: One is from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt / Zentral-Einkaufsstelle" [Main Purchasing Agency of the Łódź ghetto Jewish Council]; Łódź, Poland; dated 1944; in German The other sign (accreted to the collection in 2016) reads "Der Aelteste Der Juden / in Litzmannstadt / Statische Abteilung"

  12. Abendstern, Fleischmann and Meyerhoff families collection

    Correspondence, photographs, documents and artworks relating to the family of Otto and Elly (Meyerhoff) Abendstern and their son Peter Abendstern (later Aldin) as well as Elly's second husband Adolf Richard Fleischmann. Chiefly related to Otto's internment in camps in south France, Elly and Peter's time in hiding in France during the war, and Fleischmann's internment at Camps Les Milles and Saint Nicolas in southern France. Includes birth and marriage certificates, immigration and travel documents, correspondence between members of the Abendstern family, artwork (sketchbooks, ink drawings, ...

  13. Albert E. Carter collection

    The collection consists of political cartoons, a book, and newspaper articles relating to the experiences of Albert E. Carter as a journalist in the United States, Germany, and South America before and during World War II.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Story Preservation Initiative collection

    Oral history interviews produced by the Story Preservation Initiative.

  15. Mirjam Lewie Bolle collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and a copy photograph relating to the experiences of Mirjam Lewie in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

  16. Ludwig Friedrich Sussman collection

    The collection consists of three Jewish prayer books and a medal relating to the experiences of Ludwig Friedrich Sussman, who left Germany for the United States in 1938.

  17. Erwin Tepper collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, and writings related to the experiences of Erwin Tepper and his parents, Juda Ber and Schifra Tepper, originally from Vienna, Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1939.

  18. William Shapiro collection

    Memoir written by William J. (Bill) Shapiro (donor's husband); Speech given by William Shapiro about his experiences during WWII; VHS tape of presentation given by him at the U.S. State Department; Bill Shapiro was an American soldier who was captured as a POW and taken to Berga with 349 other Americans to perform slave labor.

  19. Braun and Rosenfeld families collection

    The collection consists of a linen and photographs relating to the experiences of the parents and family of Dina Rosenfeld in Munkacs, Dej Orhei, and Bystrica, Hungary, and Romania.

  20. Joshua and Fela Feldman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Szyja (Joshua) and Fela Winter Feldman after the Holocaust, during which Szyja was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, in Switzerland and Sweden.