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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Kato Ritter in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau concentration camps and Gyorgy Frankfurter in Hungary and forced labor battalions before and during the Holocaust, and of Kato and Gyorgy in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany until their immigration to the United States in 1951.

  2. Bruno Einstein family collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Einstein and their son Dieter when they fled Germany for the United States in 1939.

  3. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The collection consists of a doll, luggage tags, artifacts, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Rosenfeld who was sent by her parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain in June 1939.

  4. Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, documents, oral testimonies, and photographs relating to the experiences of Beate Ada Oppenheimer in Lauenforde, Germany, and the United States and Ernest Oppenheimer in Mannheim, Germany, and the United States and of members of their extended families who escaped Germany or were imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  5. David Steiner family collection

    The collection consists of two prewar photographs and a 1948-1949 Hebrew calendar book relating to the experiences of David Steiner and his family in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), where he survived in hiding during the Holocaust.

  6. Seth Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of a program for a Nazi propaganda film and three periodicals relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  7. Mandel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Yehuda and Ella Mandel and their son Emanuel [Manny]. Collection documents their lives in Riga, Latvia where Manny was born in 1936, and their move to Hungary, where Yehuda was Chief Cantor of the Rombach Street Synagoge in Budapest until 1944, their flight from Budapest on a transport of 1600 Jewish Hungarians [arranged by Rudolph Kastner and the Aid and Rescue Committee] to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and general materials illustrating Yehuda's post-war Cantorial career in the United Stat...

  8. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    The collection consists of audio recordings, artifacts, documents, and photographs collected by Dr. Dorit Whiteman for her work as an author and clinical psychologist researching and writing books about the Holocaust.

  9. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of two Russian ruble coins and a HIAS pin relating to the experiences of Shanke (Sonia) Minuskin, her husband Shlamke, and their two children, Henikel and Kalmanke, while living in hiding in Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus during the Holocaust and in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  10. Fred and Kay Zeidman collection

    The collection consists of King Christian X commemorative pins produced in Denmark and worn as symbols of patriotism during the occupation by Nazi Germany from 1940-1945.

  11. Hannah Messinger collection

    The collection consists of a series of drawings done around 1970 by Hannah Messinger based upon her experiences as a prisoner in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Sackisch concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Czechoslovakia immediately after the end of the war.

  12. Helena and Lewis Victor Koves collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Helena Fuchs in Vienna, Austria, and London, England, and of Victor Koves in London during the Holocaust.

  13. Jacob Barosin collection

    The collection consists of artwork, a Star of David badge, documents, and photographic materials relating to the experiences of Jacob Barosin during and after World War II when he was a prisoner in Gurs internment camp and Langlade forced labor camp and lived in hiding in Paris, France.

  14. Hugo Jaeger collection

    The collection consists of camera equipment, glass slides, and documents relating to the experiences of Hugo Jaeger, who was a personal photographer for Adolf Hitler during World War II.

  15. Mevrouw Moulijn family collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Eleazer Eijl and Mevrouw Moulijn and her family in the Netherlands before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  16. Menia Awret-Back collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a medal, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Menia Awret-Back as a pediatric nurse for several charitable organizations in Poland and Belgium before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  17. Louise Lawrence-Israel's family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and books relating to the experiences of donor's family in Haarlem and Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and during the Holocaust, including two years spent living in hiding.

  18. Sophia Appel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents related to the experiences of Sophia Jungheim Appel and her family in Germany before the Holocaust and during her immigration to the United States in 1938.

  19. Alfred J. Kahn collection

    The collection consists of a letter and a DVD interview with Luba Paltseva.

  20. Arthur J. Mainzer collection

    War diary of U.S. Air Force combat cameraman Arthur Manizer (about 40 pages) and one 16mm original kodachrome film documenting Arthur Manzer's wedding to Germaine Giradot on June 30, 1945 in a suburb of Paris, France (Montreuil Sous Bois).