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  1. Judith Stieglitz Kessler collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Judith (Yehudit) Stieglitz Kessler and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Hungary and Yugoslavia.

  2. Franka and Samuel Baral family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Franka and Samuel Baral and their three children, Aneta, Jim, and Martin, as refugees from German occupied Poland, including several years spent living in hiding, chiefly in Hungary, during the Holocaust.

  3. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    The collection consists of a spice box, sugar tongs, a tabelcloth, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hannah Kronheim, a Kindertransport refugee from Bochum, Germany, and her family before and during the Holocaust.

  4. Pablo Cano collection

    The collection consists of a miniature bust of Hitler, six Nazi propaganda pamphlets, documents, and photographs associated with the propaganda efforts of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933-1945.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Romania Roma Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with eight non-Jewish witnesses (Roma) whom were victims of persecution, humiliation, and forced labor in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  6. Gene Selig family collection

    The collection consists of a Haggadah, a certificate, and photographs relating to the experiences of Siegfried and Hildegard Selig and their ten year old son Gert (Gene) during the Holocaust when they fled Frankfurt, Germany, and traveled on the trans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.

  7. Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experiences of Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Dorien Grunbaum family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Manfred and Rita Grunbaum and their daughter, Dorien, in the Netherlands, Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States in the postwar period.

  9. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernestine Wiesenthal, her son, Fritz, his wife, Gertrude, and their daughters, Illa and Nellie, in Germany, England, and the United States before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Riesenfeld family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, papers, correspondence, a steamer trunk and other assorted materials documenting and related to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Riesenfeld (nee Schwabacher) and their children Ernst and James (donor's father) originally from Wurzburg, Germany who fled to the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in March 1940. Also documents extended family and friends.

  11. Sig Feiger collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Sig Feiger and his family in Vienna, Austria, and during their escape to the United States via the United Kingdom and Cuba before and during the Holocaust.

  12. Leah Grochowska Gutman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leah Grochowska and her family in Poland and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  13. Charlotte Drucker family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, clippings, documents, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Charlotte Landesmann Hirsch and her family in Hungary during and after the Holocaust.

  14. Nissim Farhi collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Nissim Farhi and his family in Bulgaria and Palestine during and after the Holocaust.

  15. Kay Nabel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a forced labor badge, a dress, and a towel, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Krystyna Selinger Nabel and her family in Poland and Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Bertha and Eliazer Davids family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the extended families of Bertha Kaufman Davids and Eliazer Davids in the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  17. Sylvia Bassman collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sylvia Bassman before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Aviva Slesin oral history collection

    Collection of materials gathered for and related to the film Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII, including oral history interviews, photo stills, B-roll footage, and video segments.

  19. Sonia Beker collection

    The collection consists of three broadsides relating to the experiences of Fania and Henia Durmashkin as members of the St. Ottilien displaced persons orchestra in Germany after the Holocaust during which the sisters had been interned in several concentration and labor camps.

  20. German cultural propaganda collection

    The collection consists of a bust of Hitler, an Olympic torch holder, and a German made radio associated with the history of Germany under the Nazi regime.