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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Leo Vogel collection

    The collection consists of a hand stamp, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leo Vogel in prewar Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as postwar correspondence between the attorneys and Mr. Vogel's daughter, Marlies Levenger, concerning his restitution claim.

  2. Janina Jasinska Luterek family collection

    The collection consists of two drawings, three handkerchiefs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Janina Jakubowicz and her family before, during, and after World War II in Poland.

  4. Haim family collection

    Consists of 8mm film, photographic negatives, a wedding certificate and documents related to forced labor. The collection concerns the prewar and wartime experiences of Max Licco Haim and family in Bulgaria.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Davide Ivaldi collection

    Oral history interviews with former residents of Sualki, Poland who endured WWII in Siberia and elsewhere.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection

    Oral history interviews of the Leonard and Edith Ehrlich collection, created in the late 1970s during the Ehrlichs' research for the book "Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust," about the fate of the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Holocaust era. Contents include interviews related to key figures in the Jewish Community of Vienna during the Nazi era, including Benjamin Murmelstein, rabbi and member of the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt and Josef Löwenherz, leader of the Jewish Community of Vienna under Nazi rule and subsequently the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt. Other intervie...

  7. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald's work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The collection also includes a name plate for Ambassador McDonald and a bible presente...

  8. Salomon and Berg families collection

    The collection consists of a chess set, a harmonica, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Alfred Berg in Austria and Marianne Salomon Berg in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  9. Mathilde Schwarz Rosenblatt collection

    The collection consists of burnt page fragments from Hebrew books, a Pentatuch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mathilde Schwarz Rosenblatt before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria.

  10. Morris Dembowitz collection

    The collection consists of a poster, documents, and photographic prints relating to the discovery of Gardelegen and Ohrdruf concentration camps in Germany and a letter attesting to the origin of the "Treblinka Song" record.

  11. Lester D. Edelstein collection

    Consists of an original photocopy of a letter writen by a soldier in the 11th Armored division regarding the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The soldier, whose name is unknown, described what they witnessed when they entered the camp and what they learned from prisoners with whom they spoke. Also includes a speech, on audio CD, with Lester D. Edelstein, who was a captain in the 11th Armored Division (63rd Armored Infantry Battalion), in which he describes his memories of Mauthausen, including how the camp smelled and his impressions of how people managed to survive.

  12. Shmuel Rozin Collection

    Consists of two documents, described as follows: .1 Certificate: issued in Lithuania as proof of membership in Partisan movement against Nazi occupation; handwritten in black ink, black ink inscription on left side with circular black ink stamp, black ink stamp with handwritten entries in upper left, two blue ink spots at top left and top right; circa July 1944; in Russian and Lithuanian .2 Affidavit: Affidavit of good moral character issued during period of donor's participation as fighter partisan; issued in Lithuania; handwritten in blue ink, black ink inscription along left side with tr...

  13. George Birman collection

    The collection consists of a belt, hunting knife, pliers, wristwatch, agenda planners, documents, and photographic materials relating to the experiences of George Birman and his father Abel before World War II in Lithuania, during the war when they were interned in Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto and Kedahnen (Kedainiai) labor camp, and after the war as displaced persons, including George's postwar education and work with displaced persons in Vienna, Austria.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Greek Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Greek Witnesses Documentation Project.

  15. Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute collection

    Contains interviews with rescuers and Holocaust survivors collected by the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. The interviews were produced as research for the book "The Altruistic Personality," by Dr. Samuel Oliner and Pearl Oliner. Interviews are in English, Polish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Dutch.

  16. War Bonds poster collection

    The collection consists of a war bond poster and a war propaganda poster produced in the United States during World War II.

  17. irn32273

    Two posters. 1-"Bicz ludzkosci." 2-"Anordnung..."

  18. Charles Bartfeld collection

    The collection consists of a butter mold, wooden stamps, medals, documents, copies of memoirs, photographs, and photocopies relating to the experiences of the Bartfeld family, owners of a dairy business in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and after their emigration to Palestine.

  19. Friedrich and Edith Löw Taussig collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edith Löw before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and documents relating to the experiences of Friedrich Taussig during the Holocaust in slave labor camps and in Vienna.

  20. Edward J. Diehm collection

    The collection consists of a German coin, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edward J. Diehm while a sergeant in the United States Army during World War II.