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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  2. Robert A. Bauer papers

    Contains material, including scripts and press clippings, pertaining to Robert Bauer's activities broadcasting anti-Nazi programs from France and Normandy. Also includes personal papers regarding his entry into the United States.

  3. Berman and Donner papers

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, written in 1944 by a "Mr. Donner" describing his experiences at Jasenovac. Also enclosed is letter to USHMM from Berman, who met Donner and his family when he was in the U.S. Army in Taranto, Italy, and the Donners were refugees there. Includes photos of Donner family taken in Taranto by Berman, 1945.

  4. Lutz Haase collection

    Contains official documents concerning donor's status as a political refugee in Shanghai during the war. Collection of booklets and newspapers are published by the "Association of Former Central European Refugees from Shanghai." Also includes 27 photographs taken in the Hongkew ghetto between 1943-1948, described by the donor.

  6. Ada Sereni collection

    Contains three reports by Ada Sireni, one of the heads of Mossad LeAliyah Bet in Italy, which supported illegal immigration of Jewish refugees to Palestine in the years immediately after the war. The reports concern ships used for the transfer of weapons.

  7. Oral history interview with Greta Fischer

  8. Kenneth X. Robbins collection

    Collection contains photocopy of telegrams, maps (the Polish Children's Camp, 1942-1946 in India, Jamuagar-Balachadi, and the evacuation map from the Soviet Union to India), notes, clippings and British Library records relating to Polish Refugees in India. Documents illustrate that there were at least some Jews among the Polish refugee camp at Valivade in Kohlapur state and Balachadi in Nawanagar state.

  9. George Stein papers

    Contains one document from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, six photographs from the Admont displaced persons camp, and three black and white Israeli army photographs.

  10. Postage stamp

    1. David Pearlman collection

  11. Postage stamp

    1. David Pearlman collection

  12. Postage stamp

    1. David Pearlman collection

  13. Postage stamp, Dominican Republic, 3 cents, commemorating refugee aid efforts

    1. David Pearlman collection

  14. Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education

    Contains information about the Committee for Refugee Education, teachers working for the committee, and survivors of the Holocaust who eventually became students in the committee's program.

  15. Fritz Blank letter

    Copy of a letter written by Fritz Blank, presumably in 1941, to a cousin, Martha. In the letter, Blank pleads for assistance to family members attempting to escape the Holocaust.

  16. Oral history interview with Eugene Fellner

  17. Oral history interview with Joseph Oppenheimer

  18. Shlomo Perel photographs

    1. Shlomo Solly Perel collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs documenting the experiences of the Perel family before World War II in Germany and during the war in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland.