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  1. Rosenbaum family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, a prayer book, papers, certificates, passports and identification cards, restitution paperwork and other materials which document the experiences of David and Rachel Rosenbaum (donor's paternal grandparents) and their son Leo (donor's father) who fled Berlin in 1939, immigrating to Bolivia and then the United States.

  2. Oral history interviews of the "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII" documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII"

  3. Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection, featuring testimonies from sisters Ilse Carlsen and Edith Lindner who discuss their family's flight from Upper Silesia to the Philippines and then New York.

  4. James H. Mahoney collection

    Consists of a collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after the liberation of the camp, as well as a Rolleiflex camera discovered at the camp. Dr. James Mahoney, a member of the 120th Evacuation Hospital, took the photographs of the liberation and brought the camera home with him.

  5. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Austrian Witnesses Documentation Project

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

  6. Renee Kann Silver family collection

    The collection consists of a camera with case, a medal, documents, oral testimony, and photographs related to the experiences of Renee Kann (later Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland, including their imprisonment in Gurs internment camp, during the war, and in Switzerland, France, and the United States after the war.

  7. Ita Rozenczwajg Dimant collection

    Diary: written by Ita Rozenczwajg (donor's mother) during her forced labor on a farm in Germany, 1943-1945 on parchment paper she stole from the German owners of the farm. Collection of photographs (40), pre- and post-war; false documents; wartime correspondence from Ita's rescuer's family, Brust, pre and post-war correspondence; transcript of the Polish language diary; English memoir written by Ita Dimant based on her diary; Hebrew translation of the memoir. Fake tooth that contained cyanide which was installed in the mouth of Ita Rozenczwajg by members of the Polish underground. Ita was a...

  8. Salomon and Jenny Blum collection

    Documents, photographs, purse and ring illustrating the experiences of Salomon Blum and Jadzia Chaba who married during the war in and around Poland and Germany, and in Bergen Belsen and Malmo, Sweden post-war, and their daughter Nata who was born following the war.

  9. Neu family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, books, and artifacts relating to the experiences of Richard and Hedwig Sanders Neu and their daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  10. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    The collection consists of an armband, ghetto scrip, Star of David badges, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Benjamin Marx and the Marx family in Germany before and during the Holocaust, in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  11. Henry Weil collection

    Documents issued for Heinz Weil (donor), born September 22, 1935 in Vienna, Austria and fled to the United States in 1939. Document portfolio in which documents were kept.

  12. Zehngut and Weiss families collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs concerning the Zehngut and Weiss families in Europe; papers concerning the emigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the 50 Children rescued from Vienna by Brith Sholom and Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus as well as the emigration of their parents Stella Zehngut Weiss and Leon Weiss; and related materials from their lives in the United States including school records, government documents, a draft of a memoir written by Inge, and a Camp Ray-Oot swimming medal.

  13. Eva and Otto Pfister collection

    The Eva and Otto Pfister papers consist of diaries, immigration files, and other materials documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee husband Otto Pfister and their socialist colleagues, and the anti-Nazi work of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). Eva’s four diaries document her teenage years in Goldap, her life as a refugee in France separated from Otto, interned in Gurs, waiting in Montauban for her opportunity to emigrate, her escape over the Pyrénées to Lisbon, and her immig...

  14. Michael Kutz collection

    Collection includes photographs, documents, negatives and scrip as well as a memoir. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Institute of National Remembrance collection

    The collection consists of a rail car used to deport victims to concentration camps, railroad tracks and components that led to Treblinka killing center, and a chain.

  16. Robert Levitt collection

    The collection consists of seven prints of Arthur Syzk paintings that relate to his experiences in Poland and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  17. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    The collection consists of four paintings relating to the experiences of Judith Evan Goldstein in Poland, Latvia, and Germany during the Holocaust.

  18. Gelb and Heiser family collection

    Consists of identity papers, correspondence, photographs, genealogical material related to the pre-war lives, emigration, and families of Charlotte Kuhlfas (also Hochheiser, Heiser) and Martin Gelb. Charlotte emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1937 and Martin in 1940; they married soon after his arrival. Includes letters he wrote to her in March 1940 as he was preparing to emigrate; family photographs, the machzor Martin purchased and inscribed after arriving in the United States; their identity cards and naturalization papers; family tree information for the Gelb and Heiser families; Charlot...

  19. Schatz and Bonder families collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and documents pertaining to the Schatz and Bonder families previously of Berlin and Warsaw. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through the marriage of Henry Schatz and Rischa Bonder when the couple were married in the United States. The collection also includes teffilin and embroidered teffilin bag belonging to Jacob Schatz prior to the Holocaust. The teffilin was given to Henry Schatz by his father Jacob and kept through interment at Ferramonti.

  20. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    The collection consists of Judaica, scrip, correspondence, ephemera, papers, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mariette Gruenbaum and Milton Emont in Czechoslovakia, England, the United States, and France before, during, and after the Holocaust.