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  1. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families collection

    The collection consists of a portrait drawing, correspondence, documents, photographs, and assorted memorabilia related to the experiences of Julius and Lilli (Loewenthal) Hockenheimer and their children, Marianne and Rudolf (Rudy) (later Ralph Hockley) during the Holocaust in Germany and France, their 1940 emigration to the United States, and postwar life, as well as other members of the Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Atlanta History Center collection

    Oral history interviews with liberators of Nazi concentration camps.

  3. Karlsruher, Schweizer and Eisenmann family collection

    The collection consists of a charm bracelet, doily, dish towel, lace samples, field glasses, opera glasses, napkin, napkin rings, cookbook, correspondence, documents, photographs, and photo albums relating to the experiences of Jella Furth Karlsruher and her daughters Ruth Karlsruher Eisenmann and Irene Regensburger-Karlsruher Schweizer before the Holocaust in Mannheim, Germany, and after the Holocaust in Chicago, Illinois, and the experiences of Albrecht Eisenmann and his family before the Holocaust in Noerdlingen, Germany, and after the Holocaust in Chicago, Illinois.

  4. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    This collection consists of two metal signs posted by the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto. One is for the Statistical Department and the other is for the two white enameled metal signs with black text: One is from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt / Zentral-Einkaufsstelle" [Main Purchasing Agency of the Łódź ghetto Jewish Council]; Łódź, Poland; dated 1944; in German The other sign (accreted to the collection in 2016) reads "Der Aelteste Der Juden / in Litzmannstadt / Statische Abteilung"

  5. Abendstern, Fleischmann and Meyerhoff families collection

    Correspondence, photographs, documents and artworks relating to the family of Otto and Elly (Meyerhoff) Abendstern and their son Peter Abendstern (later Aldin) as well as Elly's second husband Adolf Richard Fleischmann. Chiefly related to Otto's internment in camps in south France, Elly and Peter's time in hiding in France during the war, and Fleischmann's internment at Camps Les Milles and Saint Nicolas in southern France. Includes birth and marriage certificates, immigration and travel documents, correspondence between members of the Abendstern family, artwork (sketchbooks, ink drawings, ...

  6. Albert E. Carter collection

    The collection consists of political cartoons, a book, and newspaper articles relating to the experiences of Albert E. Carter as a journalist in the United States, Germany, and South America before and during World War II.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Story Preservation Initiative collection

    Oral history interviews produced by the Story Preservation Initiative.

  8. Mirjam Lewie Bolle collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and a copy photograph relating to the experiences of Mirjam Lewie in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

  9. Ludwig Friedrich Sussman collection

    The collection consists of three Jewish prayer books and a medal relating to the experiences of Ludwig Friedrich Sussman, who left Germany for the United States in 1938.

  10. Erwin Tepper collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, and writings related to the experiences of Erwin Tepper and his parents, Juda Ber and Schifra Tepper, originally from Vienna, Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1939.

  11. William Shapiro collection

    Memoir written by William J. (Bill) Shapiro (donor's husband); Speech given by William Shapiro about his experiences during WWII; VHS tape of presentation given by him at the U.S. State Department; Bill Shapiro was an American soldier who was captured as a POW and taken to Berga with 349 other Americans to perform slave labor.

  12. Braun and Rosenfeld families collection

    The collection consists of a linen and photographs relating to the experiences of the parents and family of Dina Rosenfeld in Munkacs, Dej Orhei, and Bystrica, Hungary, and Romania.

  13. Joshua and Fela Feldman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Szyja (Joshua) and Fela Winter Feldman after the Holocaust, during which Szyja was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, in Switzerland and Sweden.

  14. Gerald Kaiser family collection

    The collection consists of a knit bag and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard, Cesia, and Jurek (Gerald) Kaiser and their family before and during the Holocaust in Kielce Ghetto, Chlewice, Lipnica labor camp, and Sosnowiec, Poland, and in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war and of the Wlodek family in Lvov and Wegleszyn, Poland. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Richard Newman collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Richard Newman for research on his book Alma Rosé : Vienna to Auschwitz

  16. Nazi-issued propaganda magazines

    Nazi issued propaganda magazines entitled: Die Arbeitsmaid, Berlin; Ewiges Deutschland, circa July 1937; Freude und Arbeit, Berlin 1938; Freude und Arbeit, Berlin, 1938; Freude und Arbeit, Berling 1939; Deutshland, Germany 1934.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education collection

    Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education collection.

  18. Chana Pergerycht Wandersman collection

    The collection consists of a leather satchel, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chana Pergerycht Wandersman in Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, and in Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  19. Leon Scharff collection

    The collection consists of three pieces of scrip relating to the experiences of Lt. Leon Scharff, US Army Signal Corps, who was among the first wave of American troops to enter and liberate Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.

  20. Bernard Robinson collection

    Recorded interviews, notes, photographs, correspondence, copied documents, and other research material compiled, collected, or created by Bernard Robinson, the donor’s father, as well as Amalia Robins, the donor's mother, in the course of their extensive research on the topic of women who were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, and were forced on death marches toward the end of that war. The specific focus of much of the material are the two death marches that Amalia Robinson participated in between January and May 1945. Includes approximately 100 or more audiorecordings of interv...