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

  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  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. 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).

  5. Anti-Hitler posters and Palestine recruitment pamphlet collection

    The collection consists of one anti-Hitler broadside, one pamphlet issued in Palestine by the World Union, Zion Workers, and one anti-Nazi movie poster, produced before and during World War II.

  6. Stephen Glick collection

    The collection consists of five filmstrips created to indoctrinate and educate members of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany during the late 1930s.

  7. Oral history interviews of The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project

    The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project contains audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with liberators, survivors and others created between 1978 and 1983.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Robert Buckley collection

    Oral history interviews of the Robert Buckley collection

  10. Signed testimonies of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf collection

    Oral history interviews with deaf survivors of the Holocaust.

  11. Jolene Sonnheim collection

    The collection consists of an artifact and photographs relating to the experience of Jolene De Wilde and her family in the Netherlands before and during the Holocaust when they lived in hiding.

  13. Queensborough Community College oral history collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by the Queensborough Community College Holocaust Resource Center and Archives

  14. 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.

  16. Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association oral history collection

    Oral histories conducted by the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.