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  1. Frances Doniger collection

    Photographs, correspondence, documentation and drawing surrounding the experiences of the Abusch and Pick families during the Holocaust and of siblings Frances and Max Abusch who fled Vienna, Austria on the Kindertransport. Their parents were able to travel to New York, where Frances soon joined them. Max eventually made his way to Toronto, ON, Canada. The collection also follows the Pick family, relatives of Frances's mother. Her cousin Josef Pick was able to escape, but the rest of his family was killed.

  2. Donald L. Hildenbrand collection

    Collection of materials that document Donald Hildenbrand’s experiences as one of the 350 American POWs selected from Stalag IXB and sent as a slave laborer at the Berga concentration camp. Includes: German patch and knife inscribed April 23, 1945 both given to him by one of his liberators, relics from the tunnels where he performed slave labor, US Army issued medals, pins, and ribbons (some boxed), patches, his German issued POW dog tag #27013 received upon arrival at Stalag IXB, Donald’s Silver Star Medal in box with ribbon and pin, 100th Division challenge coin, POW medallion on ribbon, o...

  3. Stephen Kornreich collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, papers, ephemera, photographs, and a leather travel documents pouch related to Stephen Kornreich [donor's father], a Hungarian Jew who left for Palestine in 1933 and later immigrated to the United States in 1939. Additional materials are donor's audio-recorded interview with her father Stephen Kornreich, from 1981-1984, and a partial transcript of the interview. Also includes a memoir that Stephen Kornreich's brother Beno Korda wrote for, and gave to, the donor.

  4. Ettelson family collection

    Consists of a suitcase, wallet, photo album, photographs, newspapers, clippings, notebooks, documents, correspondence, ephemera, and other original material pertaining to the experiences of Ralph Ettelson who emigrated from Vilkaviskis, Lithuania to the Dominican Republic before the war. The collection includes correspondence and photographs pertaining to Ralph's mother, Itta Ettelson Shimenski, and his siblings Reveka and Max, who perished in the Holocaust. Additional photographs, correspondence, and clippings pertain to Jewish communities, and Jewish refugees, in the the Caribbean and Ral...

  5. Gutmann family collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Herbert Gutmann and the Gutmann family in Germany and their immigration to the United Kingdom and the United Sates before and during WWII.

  6. Ohringer and Weil family collection

    Documents, correspondence and journal illustrating the experiences of Inge Ohringer [nee Weil] and her husband Sigmund Ohringer and their extended families. Inge, her father Arthur and step-mother Anneliese left Germany in 1939 on the MS St. Louis, disembarked in England, and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1941. Sigmund Ohringer had fled Nazi Germany earlier, arriving in the US in the late 1930s, as did his three brothers. Also included in the collection are letters from Camp de Gurs from Anneliese's parents, Julius and Klara Weil, who did not survive, as well as photographs,...

  7. Mauerstein family collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs related to Israel Mauerstein and Yetta (Friedmann) Mauerstein, who were from Zborow, and were in DP camps in Italy following the war; their daughter Mina Mauerstein, who was born in camp Trani; and uncles David Mauerstein and Sigmund Appel. Also includes a souvenir booklet from the SS General Greely and Israel Mauerstein's briefcase which he brought with him from Italy.

  8. Betty Siebenscheinova collection

    The Betty Siebenscheinova collection includes biographical material, correspondence, diaries, subject files, photographs and a drawing relating to the Holocaust experiences of Betty Siebenscheinova, originally from Prague.

  9. Edward Boehm Collection

    Artillery leaflets produced by the United States Armed Forces shelled/dropped in Italy where Edward Boehm [donor's father] was assigned to the U.S. 5th Army and British 8th Army as combat liaison propaganda officer with purpose of creating leaflets targeting Germans behind enemy lines. Books entitled “P.W.B/Shell Leaflets [Psychological Warfare Branch] containing leaflets fixed within books. Newspapers entitled Frontpost dating December 1943 through June 1945. Propaganda Leaflets produced by Germany targeted at Allied troops collected by Boehm. Identification card issued to Boehm during the...

  10. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    The collection consists of table linens, a mustard pot, coin purse, suitcase, book, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, documents, and an audio recording relating to the experiences of Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Fritzi Frank, Herbert Frank, Miep Gies, Jan Gies, Bep Voskuijl, and Victor Kluger in Frankfurt, Germany, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Basel, Switzerland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. Werner Meyerstein and Ruth Echt collection

    The collection consists of newspaper clippings, documents, photographs, butcher's certificate, identification cards, immigration documents and passport documenting the experiences of Werner Meyerstein and his family in Germany and Sosua. The collection also includes documentation, passport, immigration papers and other identification from Germany and Shanghai belonging to Ruth Echt. In addition, the collection includes a glazed ceramic cup with handle.

  12. Archives de la Communauté de Taizé collection

    Oral history interviews regarding the Taizé Community, an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France which aided a large number of refugees during WWII.

  13. Paul Hendel collection

    The collection consists of a pin, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Pinchas Hendel and his family before the Holocaust in Hrubieszow, Poland, and after the Holocaust in Germany.

  14. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman collection

    Documents and photographs related to Marsha G. Kreuzman (nee Grunberg) and Robert Kreuzman. Also includes Marsha's spoon from the Jewish Hospital in Krakow; and Robert Kreuzman's leather bracelet with metal prisoner number ID tag (#86778) from Mauthausen.

  15. Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe collection

    The collection consists of a booklet used as part diary, part autograph book, containing poetry and signatures written during and after the Holocaust by Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe. It also contains paper scraps re-used to write on in subcamps of Buchenwald by an unknown author (potentially Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe) and a cloth identification number patch.

  16. Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and Ignaz and Rosine Auerbach collection

    Collection of documents, correpondence, photographs and publications surrounding Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and their escape from Nazi occupied Vienna, Austria. Kurt, a lawyer, was arrested and held by the Gestapo before being released and able to flee to the United States.

  17. Anne Ranasinghe collection

    Photographs, documents, and memorabilia related to the donor’s mother, Anneliese Katz (later Anne Ranasinghe), her childhood in Essen, Germany and immigration alone to England at age13. Includes a small photograph album; loose photographs; a diary (approximately 100 pages, covering 1939-1947 [bulk 1939-1942], in German with some English poems and phrases); wartime letters and postcards from Annaliese’s parents in Germany; miscellaneous correspondence; family history material; Alte synagogue Exhibition document, nursing badges, and order of merit awarded by German government.

  18. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of military items of Orban Wales Peters, Jr. including uniform jacket, two hats, a helmet; “After Action Report” of the 914th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes; selected copies of “The Rolling.” Correspondence from Margarete Lang Schweidler, from Germany, to her daughter Gretel Schweidler Holzer in the U.S. Her daughter, Anna Margarete Holzer married Orban Wales Peters, Jr. They are the parents of the donor.

  19. Sophia Chatov collection

    Artwork: “In Memoriam” To the lost Jewish Community of Amsterdam – 1945; dated 1995, copper, oil and mixed media on canvas; created by the donor; Written testimony: “Our Lives In The Netherlands Before, During and After the Holocaust” given by the donor on May 3, 1995 at the Anne Frank In The World Exhibition in New York; in English

  20. Edward Lawrence Associates castings collection

    The collection consists of fiberglass castings of a ghetto and cemetery walls, a dissecting table, a cobbled road, a doorway surround, a gateway arch, a gas chamber door, and a crematorium oven, stretcher, and poker, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum relating to the experiences of Jewish victims in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow ghettos, Majdanek and Treblinka killing centers, and Mauthausen and Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland and Austria during the Holocaust.