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Language of Description: Danish
Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner in Poland and as refugees in the Soviet Union before, during, and after World War II.

  2. National World War I Museum collection

    The collection consists of hospital pajamas issued to German soldiers during World War II.

  3. Louis de Groot collection

    Original film footage of pre war life in Holland; film shot by Meijer de Groot; documents, photographs and correspondence surrounding the de Groot family during the Holocaust, several of whom perished in Auschwitz. Includes letters from donor's sister Rachel, documents from the Red Cross about the fate of the de Groot family, and Rachel de Groot's homework notebook. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Gary and Nina Wexler collection

    The collection consists of posters depicting antisemitism in France before and during World War II and posters produced in support of the German occupation of France from 1941-1944.

  5. Eldon G. Nicholas collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eldon G. Nicholas during his service in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. Accretion received in 2010: Copy print: black and white image of Eldon Nicholas and his assistant in front of their ambulance; Document: Citation Award for Meritorious Service Unit Plaque to the 548th Medical Ambulance Company; Letter: sent by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to members of the U.S. Army; Document: Welcome newsletter to American soldier arriving overseas; Map of the 36th Infantry Divisio...

  6. Oral history interviews from town of Tulchin, Ukraine

    Consists of audio oral history interviews with transcripts in Russian conducted by St. Petersburg Judaica Project with the elderly members of the Jewish community in Tulchin, Vinnitsa Oblast, Ukraine. The interviews contain information about Jewish life (customs, local history, Holocaust, relationship within community etc.) before, during, and after WWII.

  7. Lili Scharf Deutsch collection

    The collection consists of a canvas folder and correspondence relating to the experiences of Lili Scharf Deutsch and her family in prewar and wartime Hungary, and postwar, when Lili, after liberation from Bergen Belsen concentration camp emigrated to Palestine.

  8. Serbian antisemitic poster collection

    The collection consists of antisemitic posters created in Serbia during the military occupation by Nazi Germany from 1941-1944.

  9. Joan Kent Finkelstein family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Jerzy and Nadzieja Klein, their daughter, Joanna, (from 1946, George, Nadine, and Joan Kent) and their family and friends in Warsaw, Poland, before and during the Holocaust and their immigration to and postwar life in the United States.

  10. Nina Kaleska collection

    The collection consists of a handmade pin and two religious medallions relating to the experiences of Nelly Kalecka (later Nina Kaleska) in Rechlin concentration camp in Germany, one of several camps where she was imprisoned during the Holocaust, and to her postwar experiences in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

  11. Anna Levendel family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Gizela Levendel and their children, Anna, Lea, and Zvi who lived in hiding in German occupied Belgium during the Holocaust.

  12. Bertha Loret de Mola family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts associated with the 1939 voyage of the MS St Louis acquired by Bertha Loret de Mola from her parents, Luis Loret de Mola and his wife, Maria Luisa Bettencourt, in Havana, Cuba.

  13. Daisy Brand collection

    The collection consists of prewar photographs and postwar sculptures created by Daisy Schweiger Brand relating to her experiences of life of pre and postwar Czechoslovakia and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaiserwald, Dondagen II, Libau, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  14. John M. Steiner collection

    The papers and recordings of Dr. John Michael Steiner which include 1. correspondence, writings, transcripts and recorded interviews, questionnaires, printed material, and collected research materials documenting Steiner’s experiences during the Holocaust and his internment in several Nazi concentration camps, the immediate post-war years, and his career as a sociologist and a scholar who studied the Holocaust and its origins; 2. materials related to his interviews with former Nazis, in particular members of the SS and other Nazi officials, which include audio recordings, correspondence wit...

  15. Oral history interviews of the "Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans" documentary film collection

    Collection consists of video recordings and supporting documents related to interviews with Jewish underground fighters who fought in the forests of Poland, Lithuania, and Belorussia between 1941 and 1945, gathered for the film "Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans." Supporting documentation includes interview lists, newspaper articles, research and production notes, shooting logs, correspondence, resistance fighter files, photos of film crew and interviewees, copies of PBS honors, project proposals, and program descriptions.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Netherlands Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Netherlands Documentation Project

  17. Charles Byron Smith, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of a banner and a cigarete album relating to the experiences of Charles Byron Smith, Jr. when he served in the United States Army, European Theatrer, during World War II.

  18. Max Wachtel and Herbert Wolf family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Wachtel and his family and Herbert Wolf and his family in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust, as well as items related to Hans Wachtel and his service in the United States Army during World War II.

  19. Debra Hiett collection

    The collection consists of three filmstrips produced by the Reich Propaganda Office of the government of Nazi Germany during World War II.

  20. Manfred Lewinnek collection

    The collection of consists of correspondence, documents, journals, and publications relating to the experiences of Manfred Lewinnek before and during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany as well as his experiences as a member of the United States Army while stationed at Camp Cooke, a prisoner of war camp in California, where he was responsible for the re-education of German POWs.