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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Imperial War Museum oral history collection

    Oral history interviews from the Imperial War Museum

  2. Preparations for Easter in the region of Lowicz and Witów

    VS, preparations for church in Lowicz, Poland. VS of the procession (likely for Easter Sunday) of townspeople, all in traditional clothing, to the church. They are led by the local clergy and several carry banners as they process through the streets. VS of the young children dressed in their finery, two flower girls sprinkle the path to the church with flower petals. Polish highlanders march from the church through the Polish village of Witów, in Kościelisko Commune, Tatrzański County. The priest visible in the middle wearing a dark cassock and elaborate hat is then parson of Chochołów pari...

  3. Jack and Marilyn Pechter collection

    The collection consists of identification canteen notes, identification tags, scrip, clippings, correspondence, documents, a map, propaganda materials, photographic postcards, photographs, and a philatelic collection documenting pre-war Jewish life, anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus Affair, the arrest of Herschel Grynspan, multiple concentration camps, and World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Fenyves family recipe book

    The Fenyves family recipe book was prepared by Klári (Klara) Fenyves and is written in Hungarian. After the Fenyves family was forced to leave their apartment before deportation in May 1944, the family’s cook, Maris, entered the apartment and saved this cookbook and some of Klári Fenyves’ artwork. The cook returned the artwork and the recipe book to the surviving family members after the war.

  5. Mieczyslaw Flaum collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Mieczyslaw Flaum during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Faith in Humankind oral history collection

    Oral history interviews from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Faith in Humankind collection

  7. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    The collection consists of fifteen courtroom sketches created by Charles R. Hazard for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the postwar deportation trials of Karlis Detlavs and George Theodorovich in Baltimore, Maryland, for withholding information about their involvement with war crimes in Eastern Europe during World War II.

  8. Oral history interview with Hannah Stein

  9. George J. Fine collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, a fork, and a letter relating to the experiences of Getzel Fingerhut (later George Fine) during the Holocaust when he was a prisoner in Kaufering X concentration camp in Germany and after the Holocaust in Feldafing displaced persons camp.

  10. Julius & Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center collection

    Oral histories from the Julius & Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center collection

  11. Oral histories from the Anti-Defamation League of Washington, D.C. collection

    Oral histories from the Anti-Defamation League of Washington, D.C.

  12. Boyan Papazov oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Boyan Papazov collection

  13. Uzi Ben-Ami oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Uzi Ben-Ami collection

  14. Anna and Harry Chinitz oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Anna Chinitz and Harry Chinitz

  15. 131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with nurses from the 131st Evacuation Hospital

  16. Norman Feld oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Stephen Feld, Mel Feld, and Estelle Nadel

  17. Oral histories from the Yad Vashem collection

    Oral histories from the Yad Vashem collection

  18. Desperak oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Sam and Ruth Desparek

  19. Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews collection

    Oral history interviews with individuals concerning the Danish Resistance and the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.

  20. Suburban Temple oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Suburban Temple collection