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  2. Felicia Berland Hyatt collection

    The collection consists of twenty-seven black and white photographs, three documents, one negative and a prisoner badge relating to Felicia Berland Hyatt and her family in Chelm, Poland, before the war and in Łódź, Poland, and Sweden after the war, and her immigration experiences to North America as a Displaced Person.

  3. Eric Bergtraun collection

    The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs and photo albums, log books, biographical materials, badges, and uniforms relating to Boy Scout activities of Eric Bergtraun and other Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China.

  4. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Hanna Olomucki based on her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and as an inmate in the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  5. Lobstein family collection

    Collection consisting of two armbands, a memoir written by Fritzi Lobstein, biographical information, correspondence, legal documents, and photographs pertaining to the Lobstein family's experiences in Vienna, Belgium, France, St. Cyprien, and the United States.

  6. Bertl Rosenfeld Esenstad collection

    The collection consists of four pillowcases and a suitcase relating to the experiences of Bertl Rosenfeld during and after the Holocaust when she and her three sisters were sent on a Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain in 1939, and later emigrated to the United States.

  7. Peter Dallos collection

    The collection consists of The War Series, a group of nine semi-abstract welded steel sculptures, created by Peter Dallos (originally Deutsch) about his childhood experiences in German occupied Hungary and as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and World War II.

  8. Stanley Appel family collection

    The collection consists of a belt, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Stanley (Zelig) Appel and his family in prewar Stary Sacz, Poland, of Stanley’s experiences during the Holocaust while incarcerated in several camps, and ater the Holocaust in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

  9. Isaac Ossowski family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Isaac Ossowski and his family in Germany before the Holocaust.

  10. Theresa Gruenberger Mermelstein family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, two pillow shams, a music composition book, and photographs relating to the experiences of Terez Gruenberger and her family in prewar and postwar Munkacs, Hungary, to Terez and her sister Miriam's experiences in Torgau slave labor camp during the Holocaust, and in Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust where she married Jakob Mermelstein.

  11. Max and Ruth Levi Eis family and the Kronthal family collection

    The collection consists of a wreath, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Max Eis and his family in Mainz, Germany, before the Holocaust, in Theresienstadt labor camp-ghetto during the Holocaust, and after their respective immigrations to the United States and also to the experiences of the Levi and Kronthal families in Mainz and Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust, in several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and after their respective immigrations to the United States.

  12. Frank Siegel family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Francois Zygielman (later Frank Siegel) and his family in Belgium during and after the Holocaust.

  13. Dina Pollak Gabos collection

    The collection consists of a contemporary painting and photographs relating to the experiences of Dina Pollak Gabos, and her parents Otto and Rifka Pollak, who escaped Yugoslavia in 1941 and lived in hiding in Italy until 1944. Accretion: Painting: by Dina Gabos (donor); acrylic on paper; titled: “Sorrow”; dated: 1982; 28x19.5”; Calendar: issued by Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Israel) for the Hebrew year 5710 (1949-1950); with images of symbols of the State of Israel; map of the State of Israel and a list of new settlements founded by JNF in Israel. In Italian; Membership ID: issue...

  14. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    The collection consists of religious articles, document cases, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leo Nast before and after his immigration to the United States from Hamburg, Germany, in 1934 and of publications relating to the experiences of Arthur Cohn, who emigrated with his family from Breslau, Germany, to the United States.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Exodus 1947 collection

    Oral history interviews gathered for the documentary film "Exodus 1947"

  17. Yakov Gincherman collection

    Contains an oral history interview with Yakov Gincherman, ten black and white photographs, and a newspaper article pertaining to the memorial at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Nafartav to the thousand Jews shot by German fascists, 1941 September 14.

  18. Ralph Harpuder family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, newspapers, and photographs relating to the experience of Ralph (Ralf) Harpuder and his family in Berlin, Germany, before the Holocaust, in Shanghai, China, during and after World War II, and in the United States following their emigration in 1947, and of Ralph's stepfather, Viktor Stummer, in Vienna, Austria, before the Holocaust and in Shanghai during and after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Linda Hunt collection

    Oral testimonies gathered by Linda Hunt for her study of the U.S. government's post World War II program for the utilization of German scientists and technicians, of which many had been members of the Nazi Party, in Operation Paperclip.

  20. Martin Shallow III collection

    The collection consists of Nazi Party cigarette cards, Theresienstadt scrip, and German passbooks relating to life under the Nazi led governments in Germany and occupied Czechoslovakia.