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  1. Haas family collection

    Photographs and letter illustrating the experiences of the Haas family surrounding the Holocaust: pre-war images of Semi Haas and his wife Frieda Steinberger Haas and their children Walter, Ilse and Ernst (donor) in Neumarkt, Germany and after 1938 in Fürth. Also included are pre-war photographs of extended family members and post-war photographs of Ernst in Germany after his liberation from Riga and Stutthof concentration camps. Letter to Walter in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 from Semi, Frieda, Ernst and Ilse and Fürth, Germany. Frieda, Semi and Ilse did not survive. Post-war documents issu...

  2. Akou family collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts illustrating the Akou family in Athens, Greece before and after the Holocaust.

  3. Kessler family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and film illustrating the experiences of Alice and Jakob Kessler and their son, Hans Otto, who was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Baden, Austria. Their experiences fleeing to the United Kingdom in 1939 and then immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s, as well as the experiences of the extended family is also documented in the collection.

  4. Alfred Linhard family collection

    The collection consists of a cup and saucer, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Alfred Linhard and his family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Anschluss, and in England and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  5. Kirschenbaum and Mosak family collection

    Concentration camp uniform jacket. Accretion: Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Leah (Lonia) Kirschenbaum and Uscher Mossak (Mosak) and surrounding their internment in concentration camps and displaced persons camps in Poland, Austria

  6. Kőszeg brick factory collection

    The collection consists of two broken tiles and four bricks from a local brick factory relating to events in the area of Kőszeg, Hungary, during the Holocaust

  7. Oral history interviews of the "Turned Away" documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews with St. Louis passengers and academic experts gathered for the documentary film "Turned Away"

  8. George A. Silver collection

    Photographs, maps, propaganda leaflets, booklets, and ephemera, related to the military career during World War II of George A. Silver, including his service in the U.S. Army in the North African and Italian theatres, 1943-1945, as well as the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. Included are a book plate from the library of Adolf Hitler, Allied and German propaganda leaflets, and information provided to American soldiers in occupied Germany after the war. Also contains material documenting Silver's attendance at the International Liberators' Conference, hosted by the United States Holo...

  9. Allerhand and Wohlfeiler families collection

    Photographs: depicting the Allerhand family before the war in Krakow; students in the elementary school Alexander attended in 1935/1936; portraits of family members sent to Leopold Allerhand imprisoned in Oflag IIc Wollenberg and postwar images of the family. Photographs of Wohlfeiler family before the war in Katowice and in Krakow after the war; wedding photograph of Olek and Krysia Allerband in Krakow on July 15, 1951. Cloth sack the donor and her mother used in Brünlitz concentration camp used to gather food on liberation day, May 1945; 2 stones: one from Umschlagplatz in Warsaw ghetto (...

  10. Oral history interviews of the Litow family collection

    Litman Litow, born in Visheva, Belorussia, discusses his Holocaust experiences on the run and in hiding from the Nazis and his subsequent years as a leader of a Jewish partisan unit. Included is a panel discussion regarding partisans of Vilna.

  11. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers collection

    The collection consists of a charm bracelet, handkerchief, wooden jewelry box, a patch, napkin holder, and ORT key award, correspondence, documents, identity papers, and photographs related to the experiences of Ruth Engelhardt Spivack (later Meyers) and her mother Helene Engelhardt, during and after the Holocaust when Ruth lived in Montmorency OSE home in France prior to being sent on a September 1941 USCOM transport to the United States, where she lived with the Spivack family in Cleveland.

  12. Elena Boguslavsky Zondowicz collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, Polish report cards, a Catholic prayer book, and a picture of the Virgin Mary relating to the experiences of Elena Boguslavsky Zondowicz while in hiding during the Holocaust as well as her subsequent immigration to Mexico.

  13. Guy Reed Branch collection

    Consists of a photograph album containing photographs of life at the prisoner of war camp in Laon, France, which the American military used to house German POWs after the war. Includes photographs of performances, housing, and groups of prisoners. The album was compiled, described, and given by an unknown POW to Guy Branch, a member of the American occupying forces who staffed the camp. The POW may have been Hans Scheffler; the collection also contains a letter with his prisoner number which matches the prisoner number and photograph on the interior of the album. Also includes a handmade wo...

  14. Russel McCallum collection

    Russel McCallum collection: papers, notes, statements, correspondence, translations and book jacket relating to the defendants of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg as well as the briefcase/portfolio that the files were originally kept in. The collection was acquired by medic Russel McCallum from a secretary to the Tribunal; in German and English; dated 1945-1946

  15. Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive

    The collection consists of poster stamps and a letter relating to the United States and Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  16. Bernhard Wiesenfeld Collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs from Bernhard Wiesenfeld (father of donor) and his family, dating from his youth in Galicia, through his years in Austria, his immigration to England, and his subsequent immigration to the United States. Documents include letters sent while he was interned at Camp Kitchener in England in 1939, and designs for inventions he created in the United States after his immigration in 1940. The collection also includes a cigarette lighter and a compact that he invented.

  17. Abraham Spiegel collection

    Consists of one pre-war and wartime file of papers gathered and used by Abraham Spiegel, originally of Munkács, Czechoslovakia, to establish himself as a Hungarian citizen. Includes scrip from both the Theresienstadt and Litzmannstadt ghettos and official documents and paperwork for the Spiegels once they arrived in the United States, including passports. The paperwork focuses on Abraham Spiegel and his wife, Edita Rosenwasser Spiegel.

  18. Margolies and Zetterberg Nuremberg collection

    Contains photographs, correspondence, newspaper articles, speeches, briefs, and two badges pertaining to Daniel Margolies and Harriet Zetterberg's role on the prosecution team during the Nuremberg Trials. Includes: briefs regarding the history of various defendents, written by Harriet Zetterberg for the Trials; numerous post-war articles and speeches by Daniel Margolies regarding the Trials; identity cards and Tribunal entry passes; large photographs showing Margolies and Zetterberg in the Trials.

  19. Rivka Ribak collection

    The collection consists of a fragment of embroidered curtain and a scarf relating to the experiences of Rivka Ribak during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto in German occupied Poland.

  20. Oral history interviews of the India Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust who lived in India during or after WWII.