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  1. Anthony and Valeria Steiner collection

    Documents, photographs, artifacts illustrating the experiences of Valeria Gemeiner Lowi Steiner who was in hiding in Slovakia with her husband Alexander and children Vierka and Pavel who were killed in the forest in Zwollen, Slovakia. Documents also illustrate Josef who fled and returned to Slovakia and married Valeria in 1947 in Slovakia.

  2. Freddy Rotenberg collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Freddy Rotenberg in in Germany before the Holocaust.

  3. Meyer family collection

    Correspondence, photograph and prayer book illustrating the experiences of Tana and her parents Gerda and Heinz Meyer and her grandmother Charlotte Abelt. Correspondence from Charlotte and Gerda to Charlotte's sister and brother-in-law in Sweden. Charlotte and Tana survived in Theresienstadt. Gerda and Heinz separately deported to Auschwitz where Gerda was killed.

  4. Julian Feingold collection

    Collection includes photographs of Feingold’s artwork documenting the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp and of a theatre production at Zeilsheim; clippings about Feingold, his wife, and the Holocaust; and a reproduction of a drawing by Feingold of a military photographer with Holocaust survivors in the background. It also includes a watercolor depicting the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

  5. The Kálmán Clarence and Anna Farkas Gutlohn Grant collection

    The collection consists of medals, a plaque, a sketch, documents, and photographs relating to the varied experiences of Kálmán Clarence and Anna Farkas Gutlohn Grant in Hungary before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Lessing family collection

    Documents, photographs, correspondence, family history albums, and miscellaneous papers related to the Lessing family (Edward, his parents Nardus and Engeline, and his brothers Arthur and Alfred) in the Netherlands, in the U.S. (1929-1932), while in hiding during WWII, and in the postwar period. Also includes Edward's drawings and sculpture made while hidden, his short memoir, materials related to Engeline's arrest by the Germans and her time interned at Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen as well as in the UNRAA camp Jeanne D'Arc in Philippeville, Algeria. In addition, the collection includes int...

  7. Bienonida Ezoory collection

    The collection consists of a doll and two dresses relating to the experiences of Bienonida Ezoory in Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia) before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Helen Fagin collection

    Manuscript drafts of writings, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, and related materials, concerning the activities of Holocaust survivor and educator Helen Fagin. Includes manuscript drafts of Fagin's memoirs, "My European Journey, 1939-1946" and "My American Journey, 1946-2008," a manuscript draft of "Hell Translated: A Survivor's Approach to Teaching the Holocaust as a Moral Lesson;" a manuscript draft of her translation (from Polish) of interviews published in the book "Dzieci Żydowskie oskarżają" ("The Children Accuse"); a copy of typed testimonies about Fagin's work as an e...

  9. Alfred and Emma Heumann Pisko family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Alfred Rudolph Pisko and his wife, Emma Heumann Pisko, and their families in Austria and Germany before the Holocaust, and the United Kingdom and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  10. Lustig and Levy family collection

    The Lustig and Levy family collection includes: multiple photo albums and photo scrapbook, loose photographs, portfolio of studio photographs, framed photos, documents about the family including educational, financial, emigration/immigation records, naturalization papers, etc.; documents about the Rivoli hat company; ledger books; correspondence including letters, postcards and feldposts; restitution paperwork; newspaper clippings; calling cards; blank stationary; drivers license from the United Kingdom; handwritten pamphlet titled "Mutti"; drawing of the Cologne Cathedral; children's artwo...

  11. Cinema Judaica collection

    The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina.

  12. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    The collection consists of prayer books, a cup, a bowl, an identification card, and photographs relating to the experiences of Szapse (Charles) and Malka Bilfeld and their son Mozes (Marvin) in Poland and the Soviet Union before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany, where their daughter Chana (Anna) was born, and the United States after the Holocaust.

  13. Joseph Pallone collection

    The collection consists of two over-printed maps of the area around Bergen-Hohne, Germany, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s.

  14. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann family collection

    The collection consists of a Shabbat lamp, documents, photographs, and photograph albums relating to the experiences of Emanuel and Louise (Lisl) Schwarzenberger Suessmann in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Harry and Luba Marcus family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Marcus family in Prenzlau, Germany, before and during the Holocaust, and in Cuba and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  16. Erna Weyl and Walter Rothschild collection

    Documents, photographs, pamphlets, books, clippings, artifacts concerning the experiences of Walter Rothschild and Erna Weyl Rothschild.Collection includes: photo albums; loose prewar, wartime and postwar photographs; correspondence (some with translation); personal documents including: citizenship papers, Army documents, birth, marriage, and death records; Passports and identification cards; film roll in metal canister from Frankfurt; US Sarmy file including: maps, photos, official documents, clippings, US Army prayer book, Camp Ritchie menu, telephone directory and ID cards; wallet of doc...

  17. John Phillips collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Allied Military currency, three military identification tags, a shadow box with a collage of military insignia, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of John Phillips while a soldier in the United States Army from June 1945 to January 1947, and as part of the Army of Occupation from April 1946-January 1947.

  18. Mina Bernstein clothing collection

    Collection of baby clothes which belonged to Mina Bernstein born in 1923 who was murdered at age 18 during the Holocaust. The clothing was saved by her mother Rachel Bernstein (nee Yakira).

  19. H. Frank Brull Collection

    Correspondence, photographs, maps, travel brochures, printed materials, documenting the immigration of Hans Frans Brull (later H. Frank Brull) to the United States as a child, correspondence from his parents in Berlin, travel itineraries and brochures from the cruise ship line on which he traveled to the United States; photographs of Brull as a child, his parents, and classmates in Berlin; and booklets and printed material from his military career, as well as a transcript of opening statements at one of the Allied military tribunals held in Nuremberg, 1947. 7 additional pieces of scrip are ...

  20. Gershon Perecman collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of Gershon Perecman (donor's father) before, during, and after the Holocaust; includes newspaper "Our Hope" from the displaced persons camp (dated 1947), Perecman's memoir on a notepad and loose pages, translation of the memoir, envelopes of watchsprings and other watch repair parts from his time in the DP camp, oral history interview with Gershon Perecman on VHS, and one German coin.