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  1. Juan Jorge and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts relating to the experiences of Juan Jorge Schäffer (b. Vienna) and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer (b. Mannheim), both of whom fled Nazi occupation and immgrated to Uruguay. The collection includes photographs of the extended Schäffer family, school documents, restitution papers as well as a clock brought to Uruguay by a German Jewish refugee and a pre-war Viennese dance card.

  2. Wartime board game and Atlit/Latrun detention camp photographs collection

    The collection consists of a World War II board game, The Road to Victory, and photographs of Atlit and Latrun detainee camps in Israel (Palestine).

  3. Isle of Man collection

    Illustration of one of the detention camps in Douglas., Isle of Man. Stenciled leaf, hand colored. dated in print "Douglas, 1940" at the bottom of the leaf is a handwritten dedication by two brothers whose surname is Gartner - former detainees at the Central Camp in Douglas; in English; dated 1940 Postcard, printed and hand colored for Chanukah, printed at the Mooragh detention camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 1940. On recto is an illustration of an eight branched menorah (not a hanukkiah) surrounded with rays of light, in a light blue frame with Stars of David on the corners and the caption "Lig...

  4. Oral history interviews of the Mária Tóth collection

    Oral history interviews with non-Jewish eyewitnesses on the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in the town of Csákvár, Hungary.

  5. Martin and Hertha Hirsch family collection

    The collection consists of artwork reproductions, documents, photographs, and publications related to the experiences of Martin and Hertha Hirsch and their daughters, Dorothea and Stephanie, during the Holocaust when they left Germany for the United States in 1938-1939 and a memoir by Dorothea Hirsch Bartha, written circa 1995.

  6. Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia collection

    Doors and windows from the Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia

  7. Susanne Berglind collection

    Six works of art created by artist Susanne Berglind (donor's mother) illustrating her experiences during the Holocaust. Susanne Zimmerman was born in Miskolic, Hungary and was interned in the ghetto there. Susanne was deported to a series of concentration camps with her sister and mother, including Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen Belsen. Her mother died at liberation in Bergen-Belsen. The six works of art, which are watercolor on tissue or pastel on paper, document these experiences. Susanne was taken to Sweden after liberation on June 28, 1945 on the Kastleholm, where she recuperated.

  8. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    The collection consists of patches, scrip, stamps, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry and Irene Silberstein Frank and their relatives in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany and the United States after World War II.

  9. Oral history interviews of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Legacy Project

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who are asked to consider broad, philosophical questions such the meaning of their Holocaust experiences; their reflections on how being a survivor has shaped their worldview, and what they wish their legacies to be.

  10. Tom Schaumberg collection

    Documents, photographs, artifacts and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Ernst Schaumberg born 1906 in Kircheim, Germany, his wife Gertrude “Pollo” Schaumberg, [neé Leda] born 1911 in Oldenburg, Germany and their son, Tom, born 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1943, family was deported to Westerbork transit camp in Netherlands and then in February 1944, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. From there, in April 1945, they were transported towards the east, and, almost two weeks in to the journey, were liberated in Troebitz, Germany. Includes a photograph album.

  11. Lilienthal family collection

    The Lilienthal family collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, and business records documenting the Lilienthal family from Mönchengladbach, the aryanization of their fabric business, their immigration to the United States, and the printing company and magazine Ernest Lilienthal established in New York.The collection also includes an original pencil sketch by architect Bruno Paul.

  12. Hendel and Weissman families collection

    The collection consists of a Girl Scout pin and sash, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Hendel and Weissman families in Yugoslavia before the Holocaust and as refugees in Croatia, Italy, and Fort Ontario, New York during and after the Holocaust.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Avi Dobrysh collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in Estonia.

  14. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, a passport with case, books, an album, a set of tefillin, and tallit relating to the experiences of Ruth Abraham, her parents, Ilse and Horst Abraham, her grandparents, Hedwig and Isidor Brilling, and her aunt, Hildegard Brilling, in Germany and Ecuador before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. Professor David Bloch collection

    Archive of Professor David Bloch, musicologist, founder and director of the Terezin Music Memorial Project, and Israeli institute devoted to the documentation and study of music and music making at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia and at other localities under German occupation during the Second World War.

  16. Francis Fife collection

    The collection consists of a bouquet of paper flowers hand made by unknown concentration camp prisoner out of German stationery/forms given to 1st Lt. Francis Fife, a member of the US Army 4th Infantry Division during their liberation of Haunstetten, a sub-camp of Dachau, in late April 1945; Copy prints and images of 1st Lt. Francis Fife during his military service during WWII.

  17. Pollatschek family collection

    The collection consists of a toy bus and correspondence relating to the Pollatschek family in Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Isidor and Chava Braun collection

    The collection consists of artwork, a journal/memoir, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor and Chawa (Eva/Evelyn) Braun who survived in hiding during the Holocaust in German occupied Poland (now Ukraine) and then lived as displaced persons in Stuttgart, Germany, after the war.

  19. Anne Clark Schames collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Anne Clark Schames, her parents Max and Kaethe, and her brother Henry before World War II in Stuttgart, Germany, during the war in Germany and Netherlands, and after the war when they immigrated to the United States in the early 1940s.

  20. Sam Gasson collection

    The collection consists of seven straight razors and documents relating to the experiences of Sam Gasson during or after the Holocaust.