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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Sketchbook

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Created by Max Heppner (donor), circa 1942-1943.

  2. Sewing basket made while in hiding in the Netherlands

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Basket and accessories made by Amichai (Max) Heppner from weeds and reeds found on a farm while in hiding in North Brabant, the Netherlands, circa 1943.

  3. Handbell

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Created by Max Heppner (donor) for Irene Heppner (donor's mother), March 1945.

  4. Henry Schmelzer papers

    1. Henry Schmelzer collection

    The papers are related to Henry Schmelzer's journey from Austria to England via Kindertransport in 1938 and his stay in England during World War II.

  5. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers

    The Elsa and Selmar Biener papers consists of immigration documents, correspondence, photographs, and financial materials related to the emigration of Elsa and Selmar Biener aboard the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation in England, and their internment on the Isle of Man. The correspondence includes letters and telegrams to / from Selmar and Elsa Biener, their family, and various Jewish aid societies, dated 1929-1968, and undated. The papers also includes receipts for sending registered postal packages, 1940, and a collection of messages written and received by members of the Friedler famil...

  6. Rover Boy Scout set of green epaulets with fleur-de-lis worn by a Jewish refugee

    1. Les L. Salter collection

    Green Rover Scout shoulder boards worn by Ludwig Salzer when he was in the 13th (United) Boy Scouts Rover troop in Shanghai, China, during World War II. Ludwig was a Jewish refugee from Vienna, Austria. In 1938, after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, anti-Jewish laws were enacted to persecute Jews. Ludwig's father, Hugo, was arrested during the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom and sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was released in 1939 and he and his wife, Theresa, decided to send 18 year old Ludwig to Shanghai. His 13 year old sister, Ilse, was placed on a kindertransport to Engla...

  7. Holocaust survivor testimonies (RG-97) עדויות בעל פה

    The collection contains 2315 testimonies of 1552 Holocaust survivors. Among them are testimonies of Yehuda Harit, Betka, Avraham Silberstein on Motek Silberg, Arthur and Naomi Ben-Israel, Mordechai Kamhi (Max Meller), Shlomo Klass, Benyamin Ben-Nahum, Yehoshua Ron, Josef Raban, Tova Mali, Avraham Stern (Kohavi), Shaike Weiner, Yurek Plonski and Miriam Yahieli.

  11. Oral history interview with Tania Lefman

  12. "L'histoire de Hersz Jedlinski et sa famille de Czenstochowa" [sic]

    Printed biography, 80 pages, compiled by Eliane and Claude Ungar, recounting the history of Hersz Jedlinski (1918-1992), the father of Eliane Ungar, and his family in Częstochowa, Poland, prior to and during the Holocaust. Included is a genealogy of the Jedlinski family, including relatives living in Israel, and a description of the history of Jews in Czestochowa prior to the war, and the events there following the German occupation and the formation of the ghetto. Jedlinski's own experiences are detailed, including his time as a forced laborer at a HASAG camp in Częstochowa and at other ...

  13. Rabbi Samuel and Ella Freilich papers

    Consists of wartime and post-war photographs, documents, correspondence, and letters relating to Rabbi Samuel Freilich and his wife, Ella (Wieder) Freilich. The photographs depict Rabbi Freilich and his family in Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia after the war. Included in the documents and correspondence are identity paperwork; paperwork to establish Rabbi Freilich’s professional credentials; a handwritten notebook of testimony related to Holocaust experiences, written in 1945; emigration paperwork; restitution claims; correspondence with attorneys; and medical papers, which assisted...

  14. Dyno Lowenstein collection

    Contains photographs and passports documenting the experiences if Dyno Lowenstein, who escaped via Marseille with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Kurt and Mara Lowenstein.

  16. Jewish Agency for Palestine pin issued to an American rabbi

    Pin issued to Eugene Lipman after World War II when he worked for the Jewish Agency for Palestine.