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  1. Henry Morgenthau family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, extensive personal and official correspondence, documents, photographs, research notes, audiotapes, books, and a DVD copy of home movies related to the experiences of the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and Armenian genocide, the family's long relationship with the Roosevelts, the Treasury Department, and the pre-war, wartime, and post-war lives of members of the family as well as family history research, collected documents, and transcripts of oral histories created and compiled by Henry Morgenthau III.

  2. Fred Vendig family collection

    The collection consists of wartime drawings, a pocket calendar, correspondence, papers, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Ernst and Charlotte Vendig, their sons Fritz (Fred) and Heiner (Henry) and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany, during their unsuccessful 1939 voyage on the M.S. St. Louis, their internment in French detention camps and escape to Switzerland, and their emigration to the United States after the war.

  3. Langer family collection

    Documents and recordings pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Robert Langer and his parents Igantz and Stefanie Langer, including their emigration from Vienna, Austria to Shanghai, China after the German annexation of Austria in 1938, and post-war immigration to the United States.

  4. Bondy, Feldman, Kafka, and Loewenbach families collection

    The collection consists of a pin, correspondence, documents, photographs, and published materials relating to the experiences of the Bondy, Feldman, Kafka, and Loewenbach families.

  5. Arie Eshkoli collection

    Consists of the manuscript, entitled "In Memory of Arie Eshkoli: The War Stories," by Daphne Kaufman, which is based on taped interviews with Mr. Eshkoli, her grandfather. Arie Eshkoli, born Leon Grappa, originally of Ostrów Mazowiecki, Poland, worked for the underground before being arrested in 1939 and shipped to a Russian labor camp. He was released in late 1940 and fought with the Polish Red Army. He participated in the liberation of the Majdanek concentration camp and worked for the post-war Zionist movement before immigrating to Israel in 1947. Also includes audiotapes of the origina...

  6. John Butzke family collection

    The collection consists of a teddy bear, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans (later John) Butzke and his parents Julius and Netty before and during the war in Vienna, Austria, and in Panama and the United States following their 1940 immigration.

  7. Emanuel Scherer collection

    The collection consists of a badge, scrip, correspondence, documents, negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Emanuel Scherer as a member of the Bund in Warsaw, Poland, and of Jewish people in Germany and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.

  8. Wenk family collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Henriette Kieffer Wenk, her daughter Marion (born in Gurs) in France and in hiding. Also illustrated is Henriette's immediate family including her sister Emma, and Emma's family, who fled Germany.

  9. Uki Goni collection : The Real Odessa research material

    Contains the research materials collected by Uki Goňi, author of "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina." In course of his research for this book, Mr. Goňi collected relevant documents over a period of 20 years in various archives worldwide, including in Argentina, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Uki Goňi shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican...

  10. Forrest James Robinson Jr. collection

    The collection consists of 33 American WWII era poster stamps, which include images commemorating Poland and France, Peace for America, the National Recovery Administration, the Council against Intolerance in America, V for Victory, and other subjects.

  11. Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives collection

    Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives, recollections of survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants recorded by students from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the International Media Center (IMC) at HAW Hamburg.

  12. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    The collection consists of three china plates, tefillin and pouch, a tallit pouch, a kippah, correspondence, documents, an oral testimony, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of the Kurt Rosenbaum (later Goldsmith) and his family in Schonungen, Germany, before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Gabi Rosberger collection

    Consists of photographs of the Lederer and Bruck families ca. 1938-1940, including photographs of Nina Lederova, whose watercolor is featured in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." Also includes documentation for Mr. Kurt Reitler, who emigrated from Prague to Shanghai, and a 1940 Czech passport, receipts, Chinese identity cards, and other vaccination certification; including four multi-colored telegrams in Czech sending familial greetings. Also contains film reels of b&w and color Kodachrome with home movies of the Lederer and Bruck families in Prague, Plana Nad Luznici, Pacov, and Stechov...

  14. irn601528

    The collection consist of one poster issued by the French Government Seine-et-Oise department in 1941, 112 paintings created by Zenek Maor, a Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, the Elkan family papers, from 1941-1946, and a typed manuscript with a list of Polish refugees from the immediate postwar period.

  15. Benjamin Meed collection

    The collection consists of ten pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Benjamin Miedzyrzecki (later Benjamin Meed), when he lived in Łódź, Poland, after leaving liberated Warsaw, where he had been a resistance member in the ghetto and while living in hiding.

  16. Helmut Rosendahl collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David Badges, Westerbork scrip, testimony, and a speech relating to the experiences of Helmut Rosendahl during and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and Germany.

  17. Harold Lehman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, drawings, sketches, publications, prints and photographs relating to the artist Harold Lehman and his experiences in the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  18. Bernat Berk collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book with loose inserts, a pair of tefillin with covers and pouch, a Tallis with a bag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernat Berk as a displaced person in Germany, Switzerland, and Australia after the Holocaust.

  19. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    The collection consists of opera glasses, buttons, textiles, petticoats, a Rorschach ink blot test, and a composition book, relating to the experiences of Leopold and Herta Schwartzbart Stoer and their family in Austria before the Holocaust and in Austria, Belgium, Poland, and the United States during the Holocaust.

  20. Elizabeth Walsh collection

    Censored envelopes sent to Victor Gibbs (donor's uncle) from his mother who escaped to England, and other friends and family in Germany; written testimony of Steffi Aghassi (friend of donor's mother) regarding her experiences during the Holocaust; sound recordings of various Yom HaShoah commemorative events, memorial programs, testimonies, and a school presentation by Herman Haller (donor's father)