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  1. Frank Meissner family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Franz Meissner and his family in Czechoslovakia before and during the Holocaust, and of Franz's experiences after escaping to Denmark, then Sweden, and Great Britain, where he joined the Royal Air Force, for the duration of World War II.

  2. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Kalman and Pauline Pajes Barakan in Poland during and after the World War II, including their repatriation and lives in Łódź until 1968, when they again became refugees and immigrated to the United States.

  3. Charlotte Neufeld collection

    The collection consists of an armband and a diary relating to the experiences of Charlotte (Sari) Ickovics (later Charlotte Neufeld) in the slave labor camp in Sommerda, Germany, during the Holocaust.

  4. Esther Vardi collection

    The collection consists of a watch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Vardi and her family in Hungary before, during, and after World War II, and of Esther's arrest and imprisonment in several concentration camps for her resistance activities during the Holocaust.

  5. Manfred Lobel collection

    The collection consists of a handmade board game and two textbooks relating to the experiences of Manfred Lobel and his family during their flight from Berlin, Germany, and their life in Shanghai, China, during and after the Holocaust.

  6. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The collection consists of artifacts used or discovered by Yahad-in Unum during their work to investigate and to document the mass executions of more than 2 million Jews in Eastern Europe between 1941 and 1944 by Nazi Germany and those who collaborated with therm.

  7. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of William and Bela Kasztan Citron (Cytrynblum) and their families in Poland and in various concentration and labor camps before and during the Holocaust and of William, Bela, and their daughter Gela (Miriam) in displaced persons camps in Germany and their emigration to the United States during the postwar period.

  8. Abigael de Vries family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Abigael de Vries, Ingeborg de Vries Nikkels, Simon Berklou, and friends in the Netherlands during World War II.

  9. 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.

  10. National World War I Museum collection

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

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. Serbian antisemitic poster collection

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

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.