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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Gerald Kaiser family collection

    The collection consists of a knit bag and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard, Cesia, and Jurek (Gerald) Kaiser and their family before and during the Holocaust in Kielce Ghetto, Chlewice, Lipnica labor camp, and Sosnowiec, Poland, and in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war and of the Wlodek family in Lvov and Wegleszyn, Poland. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Richard Newman collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Richard Newman for research on his book Alma Rosé : Vienna to Auschwitz

  3. Nazi-issued propaganda magazines

    Nazi issued propaganda magazines entitled: Die Arbeitsmaid, Berlin; Ewiges Deutschland, circa July 1937; Freude und Arbeit, Berlin 1938; Freude und Arbeit, Berlin, 1938; Freude und Arbeit, Berling 1939; Deutshland, Germany 1934.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education collection

    Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education collection.

  5. Chana Pergerycht Wandersman collection

    The collection consists of a leather satchel, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chana Pergerycht Wandersman in Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, and in Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  6. Leon Scharff collection

    The collection consists of three pieces of scrip relating to the experiences of Lt. Leon Scharff, US Army Signal Corps, who was among the first wave of American troops to enter and liberate Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.

  7. Bernard Robinson collection

    Recorded interviews, notes, photographs, correspondence, copied documents, and other research material compiled, collected, or created by Bernard Robinson, the donor’s father, as well as Amalia Robins, the donor's mother, in the course of their extensive research on the topic of women who were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, and were forced on death marches toward the end of that war. The specific focus of much of the material are the two death marches that Amalia Robinson participated in between January and May 1945. Includes approximately 100 or more audiorecordings of interv...

  8. Oral history interviews of the Sender Shapiro and Abe Rabinowitz collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by Robert Moses Shapiro and Isaiah Kuperstein.

  9. Henrik Roth family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, pocket watch and stand, two copyprints, and three prayerbooks relating to the experiences of Henrik, Celina, and George (b. 1941) Rath (later Roth), during the Holocaust which they survived by living under assumed identities in Poland and after the war when they lived in Paris, France, from 1947-1951.

  10. The Gajer and Kauders-Kuhe families collection

    Identity cards, documents, certificates and scrip from before, during, and after the Holocaust for Bozena Grunhut (nee Belska) and Abraham Gajer (later Gayer) [donor's parents] and their first spouses Robert Israel Kauders-Kuhe (later Jaros) and Nelli Hammer, and Robert's mother Adrienne Kauders-Kuhe. In addition to identification paperwork, the collection contains DP camp materials, immigration and naturalization documents for Canada and USA, compensation claims, as well as correspondence concerning Nelli Gayer's treatment for PTSD related to her time in the concentration camps. Collection...

  11. Marianne Cohn Roberts collection

    The collection consist of a bank note, clippings, photographs, and a speech relating to the experiences of Marianne Cohn Roberts, who left Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, for the United States in 1939.

  12. Cohen and van Bever families collection

    Two stamp albums, owned by the donors' maternal grandfather, Emanuel van Bever, and retrieved by the donors' mother after the family returned to their apartment in Amsterdam following the end of World War II, which they had survived by living in hiding. These albums were among the very few belongings still left in their apartment. Collection also includes two photographs of Emile Cohen as a boy, including one of him taken while in hiding during the war.

  13. Jozsef Barsony collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner identification bracelet and many pieces of Allied occupation currency relating to the experiences of József Bársony in Hungary and Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  14. Löwenstein family collection

    The collection includes a passport issued to Elfriede Löwenstein (donor's mother), stamped with red letter "J"; dated August 19, 1938, and correspondence from Berta Saalberg Löwenstein (b. April 11, 1884) [Elfriede's mother] and Irma (b. August 19, 1912) [her sister] in Flacht and later in Frankfurt am Main. Both women were deported in 1942. Elfriede Löwenstein left Germany on November 24, 1938 for the US. The collection also includes a leather pouch in which Elfriede kept her family's letters and never showed them to her daughter. Diana found them years later.

  15. Rapoport family collection

    Photographs of Aaron and Feiga Rapoport and their children Malka, Bola, Chana and Benzion who were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, then Liebenau and Titmoning internment camps in Germany, and finally, the Vittel internment camp in France. Additionally, there is evidence that Aaron, Malka, and Bola were imprisoned in Pawiak in Warsaw. The family, all born in Poland, survived and immigrated to the United States in 1946. Accretion: 2 oral history cassettes of interview with Benzion Jacob Rapoport.

  16. Hanneliese Mendowsky family collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hanneliese Mendowsky Tannenbaum and her mother Martha Mendowsky during and after the Holocaust when they left Breslau, Germany, for the United States.

  17. Ernest and Kitty Fischer collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, and prayer books relating to the experiences of Ernst and Kitty Lehrer Fischer and their extended family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Austria, Poland, and the United States.

  18. Nachman Zonabend collection

    The Nachman Zonabend papers consist of biographical materials, ration tickets, and photographs documenting Zonabend’s family from Łęczyca, Poland, his confinement to the Łódź ghetto and the work he performed there, his marriage to Ita Kuperminc, his liberation, and his work as photographer and collector of historical materials for the Main Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland. The collection also includes a bound volume of newspapers published in the Litzmannnstadt Ghetto and two Łódź ghetto coins.

  19. Elfriede Schloss collection

    The collection consists of a tag and documents relating to the experiences of Elfriede Meyer during the Holocaust when she was placed in a Jewish orphanage in France and eventually emigrated to the United States along with other orphaned children with the assistance of the American Friends Service Committee.

  20. Ada Abrahamer collection

    The collection consists of three drawings, a diary, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ada Abrahamer during the war when she was imprisoned in concentration and labor camps, and after the war when she resided in displaced persons camps in Austria.