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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Alfred Kurz family collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Kurz and his parents, Meilach (Emil) and Klara Bieberstein Kurz, and his sister Doriane in Vienna, Austria, The Netherlands, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany before and during the Holocaust, Klara, Alfred, and Doriane's repatriation to the Netherlands after the Holocaust, and Alfred and Doriane's immigration to the United States in 1946.

  3. Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association oral history collection

    Oral histories conducted by the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association

  4. Ernst Meyer family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernst Meyer [Mejer], his wife Ilse Seidler, and their children, Marion and Werner, who fled Krefeld, Germany, for the United States in December 1938.

  5. One Generation After oral history project

    Interviews of the One Generation After oral history project were conducted between 1980 -1982 by One Generation After, a Boston based group of children of Holocaust survivors. The interviews are with Holocaust survivors.

  6. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a pair of child's shoes, cut paper works, a trunk and an autograph album and books relating to the experiences of Irene Rosenthal Gibian, her husband, Otto Gibian, and stepdaughter Susanna before and during the Holocaust in Austria and in the United States after their emigration.

  7. Rappel family collection

    The collection includes documents, photographs and correspondence concerning Ingrid Rappel (donor's mother) and her parents Hersz and Recha Rappel in Germany and Ferramonti, Italy during and after WWII. It also includes a luggage tag. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Judith Ellis Glickman collection

    The collection consists of portrait photographs taken by Judith Ellis Glickman from 1992-1993 of eleven Danish citizens who rescued Jews in German occupied Denmark and a Jewish couple who were rescued through these efforts during the Holocaust.

  9. Romeo J. Fagiolo collection

    The collection consists of four prints of a set of maps depicting the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Trail relating to the experiences of Romeo J. Fagiolo as an infantry soldier in the United States Army, serving in combat in the European Theatre and present at the liberation of Dachau concentration camp during World War II.

  10. Renia Sperber Perel collection

    The collection consists of two blouses, a skirt, and a comb relating to the experiences of Renia Sperber in Malnow, Poland, and as a forced laborer in the Lampertsmuhle textile factory near Kaiserslautern, Germany, during the Holocaust and in displaced persons camps in Dunsen and Backnang, Germany, after the end of World War II.

  11. Maier Firnbacher family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Maier Firnbacher, his wife, Ida, their son, Manfred, and other family members in Straubing, Germany, before and during the Holocaust and following the family's emigration to the United States in 1939.

  19. Don Stanton collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Don Stanton as a soldier in the United States Army serving in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.