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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. William A. Nelson collection

    The collection consists of German election posters relating to the experiences of William A. Nelson as a young American tourist in Germany in 1934.

  2. Alice and Paul Paulus collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, oral histories, and photographs relating to the experiences of Aaltje (Alice) and Paul Paulus and Michel and Saartje (Selly) Nathans, who lived in hiding in the Paulus’ home, in Ermelo, Netherlands, during and after the Holocaust.

  3. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of eleven drawings created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) during and after the Holocaust as her eyewitness testimony of people and scenes she saw and experienced in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps.

  4. Anthony Acevedo collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a palm leaf cross, a prayer missal, a diary, a document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anthony Acevedo while serving as a medic in the United States Army, Company B, 275th regiment, 70th Infantry Division, and as a prisoner of war (POW) in Berga an der Elster slave labor camp in Germany during World War II.

  5. Eve and Richard Przemyski collection

    The collection consists of an armband, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ewa Lada (Eve Przemyski) in Poland and prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war camp in Germany during the Holocaust and England and the US after the Holocaust, and of Maria Lada and friends in Poland before and after the Holocaust.

  6. Gabriella Mueller Fogel collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, a tablecoth, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Irena and Ignác Mueller and their children, Erich, Gabriella, and Tibor, in Czechoslovakia before and after the Holocaust during which Irena, Gabriella, and Tibor were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp, Ignác in Buchenwald concentration camp, and Erich was a slave laborer.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Harrisburg Jewish Community Oral History Project

    Oral testimonies, presentations, Holocaust observances, and WWII commemorations from the Harrisburg, PA Jewish Community Oral History Project.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Łódź Ghetto collection

    Interviews conducted for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Łódź Ghetto" exhibition.

  9. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Irena Ehrlich vel Sluszny (now Urdang de Tour) and her family in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria, after the Holocaust.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Belarus Documentation Project

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

  11. Oral history interviews of the Corfu, Greece Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Corfu, Greece Project.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Czech Roma Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Czech Roma Documentation Project.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Estonia Documentation Project

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

  14. Gerry van Heel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Gerry and Molly van Heel, Dutch resistance members who hid two young sisters, Elise and Judith Kann, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

  15. Friedrich Kauf collection

    The collection consists of three Nazi propaganda posters or leaflets relating to laws of the Hitler Jugend and to appropriate behavior of youth while in public.

  16. James A. Romberger collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of James A. Romberger, a soldier in the United States Third Army in France and Germany in World War II, during which he participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp.

  17. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    The collection consists of three handkerchiefs, a cloth case, three children's books, Jewish prayer books, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Mondschein and her family in Vienna, Austria, and as a Kindertransport refugee in the Netherlands with her younger brother before the Holocaust, as well as the family's separate journeys to the United States in 1939.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Oral history interviews and research material gathered by Dorit B. Whiteman for her books, The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy and Escape via Siberia: A Jewish Child's Odyssey of Survival.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust now living in Belgrade and the neighboring autonomous region of Vojvodinain in the Former Yugoslavia. Interviews include testimonies from former partisans and individuals who participated in Yugoslav resistance.

  20. Judith Kranzler collection

    The collection consists of a pair of sandals relating to the experiences of Lazar Horodetzky, a member of Mir Yeshiva, in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and copy prints and photographs documenting Jewish life in Vienna, Austria, Kobe, Japan, and Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.