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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. Sara Weber Schwimmer memoir

    Consists of a bound copy of a memoir, handwritten by Sara Weber Schwimmer, originally of Czechoslovakia. The memoir, addressed to her children and grandchildren, describes her childhood, memories of her siblings, and her memories of chores and recipes. She describes how various countries occupied her area, and her memories of moving to Budapest. She spent most of the war in Budapest, and remembers life in Hungary in 1944, enduring antisemitic persecution. She was ordered to perform forced labor and describes witnessing a mass shooting. She was then turned over to the Germans and deported, f...

  2. Ella Landenberg collection

    Consists of a folder of documents, correspondence, and articles regarding Ella Landenberg, who lived on false papers in Belgium during World War II and was an active member of the Resistance. Includes copies of wartime correspondence, in English and Hebrew, written to Ella as "Leonie" about her wartime espionage.

  3. Bayard L. Cabe papers

    The Bayard L. Cabe papers consists of a letter written by Bayard L. Cabe, a member of the 6th Armored Division, on 23 April 1945, regarding the liberation of Buchenwald. In the letter, he describes the tour he took with English-speaking former prisoners and summarizes their experiences. The letter is missing the final page(s). The papers also include photocopies of military records and photographs from his service.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Netherlands Documentation Project

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

  5. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of six small copy prints depicting the liberation of Dachau. The images, which are fuzzy and were mass produced, are labeled on the verso "Dachau, Germany, '45-'46." The photographs were taken in April 1945.

  6. Brenner and Levenstein family collection

    Consists of 36 photographs taken of the Brenner family, originally of Riga, Latvia, between 1920-1940. Includes photographs of trips, weddings, and family gatherings. Also includes two letters, one written by Arthur Levenstein, undated in English, regarding immigration issues, and one letter written by Bella Levenstein to her aunt "Lienka," probably when Bella was about 10 years old. Also includes a drawing of three women and a house, drawn by Libin Levenstein. Also includes photocopies of correspondence and official documents in Latvian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The entire Levenstein family pe...

  7. Signal Corps photographs

    Consists of 23 enlarged copyprints of images taken by the United States Army Signal Corps. Includes images of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Nuremberg trials, President Harry Truman in Europe, the ruins of the city of Nuremberg, and the discovery and reburial of corpses found in the snow.

  8. John W. Schafer collection

    Consists of eleven photographs taken of the Gusen concentration camp after liberation. The photographs depict survivors, the quarries, the crematoria, and the burial of victims. John William Schafer acquired the photographs while he was a member of the United States Army during World War II.

  9. Fran Laufer collection

    Consists of post-war candid photographs of Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, and David Ben-Gurion. Also includes a group photograph of German soldiers and two photographs of the execution by hanging of an SS officer.

  10. 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.

  12. Oral history interview with Dora Russek

  13. 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.

  14. Violin, bow, and case used by a prisoner while interned in a camp run by Oskar Schindler

    Violin crafted in 1890 by Guadagnini, a master Italian instrument maker in Turin. Henry Rosner bought it in Vienna in 1928. It was his constant companion for 66 years, excepting a brief separation near the end of the war. Rosner played the violin professionally in well-known cafes, hotels and resorts all over Europe until Poland fell to the Nazis in 1939. Three years later, Rosner, his wife Manci -- their young son Alexander, and Rosner's two brothers, were sent to the Płaszów forced labor camp. There, Henry and his brother Poldek, an accordianist, were required to play for the camp's comma...

  15. 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.

  16. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau on 27 April 1945. The photographs, which are identified on the verso, show corpses on a train, an SS officer beaten to death after liberation, and a photograph of an American soldier holding a Nazi flag in Schwabmunchen, Germany.

  17. Oral history interview with Mendel Halberstam

  18. Moritz Deutsch collection

    Consists of a letter written by Moritz Deutsch in Vienna on 7 October 1939, to his brother, William (Wilhelm) Deutsch, in New York City. In the letter, Moritz asks for William's help to procure visas for Moritz and his wife to immigrate to the United States. Also includes a World War I era photograph of Moritz Deutsch as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

  19. Meir Eldar memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs, entitled "KZ Spaichingen and the march to...liberty" and "The Voyage of the Olim of the 'Biria,'" written by Meir Eldar, originally of Biala-Bielsko, Poland. In the "KZ Spaichingen" memoir, Mr. Eldar describes the forced march from the Spaichingen concentration camp to Steingaden, Germany from 17-27 April 1945. He includes articles and correspondence with historians and with other survivors of this march. In the "Voyage of the Olim" memoir, Mr. Eldar includes maps, photographs, and his memories of his illegal immigration to Palestine and the voyages of the ships Bir...

  20. Peter Mittler memoir

    Consists of the first chapter, entitled "Childhood," of the memoir of Peter Mittler, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, 27 pages, Dr. Mittler describes his memories of the Anschluss. Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Vienna, and his experiences as an eight-year-old on a Kindertransport to England, leaving 11 January 1939. He reunited with his parents in England in the spring of 1939, and describes their efforts to become Anglicized. He also records biographical narratives of his parents, Gustav and Gertrude Mittler, and of other family members, some who passed away before World War ...