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  1. Oral history interview with Angela Schneider

  2. Goldmann family papers

    The Goldmann family papers consist of correspondence, biographical records, immigration documents, school notes and records, photographs, and military documents relating to Kurt Goldmann's prewar life in Germany, immigration to the United States in 1939, experience as a student at Pennsylvania State University, service in the United States Army during WWII, and his postwar life in the United States. Also included are documents related to Kurt’s parents, Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann, and their emigration from Germany to England and the United States, as well as prewar documents relating t...

  3. Henriette Bick Hahn papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of Henriette Bick Hahn and her parents Karl and Emma Bick, originally of Munich, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of documents and correspondence relating to Karl’s imprisonment in Stadelheim and Dachau after Kristallnacht. The last letter in the collection written by Karl while in Dachau is dated May 5, 1940. Other material in the collection includes Karl and Emma’s marriage certificate, identification cards and naturalization certificate of Henriette, and prewa...

  4. Oral testimony of William C. Goins, Jr.

  5. Oral history interview with Tomasz Pietrzykowski

  6. Oral history interview with Simon Bornstein

  7. Tela Zasloff research collection related to Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille

    Consists of notes, photocopies, photographs, interview transcripts, book excerpts, and other research material created and collected by Tela Zasloff for the preparation of her book, "A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France." Includes correspondence and interviews with those who knew Toureille; copies of documents from the World Council of Churches in Geneva; photographs of the places he lived and worked; copies of his articles and sermons; minutes of the Committee of Nimes; and correspondence regarding his recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.

  8. Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp barracks

    Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks had no insulation from the cold or heat, the wooden roofs often leaked, and the straw sometimes supplied as bedding was soon filthy and wet. The only toilet facility was a single bucket, and dia...

  9. Peter Feigl papers

    The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs, printed materials, and photocopies documenting Feigl’s wartime experiences in summer camps, children’s homes, and schools in Condom (Gers), Le Chambon‐sur‐Lignon (Haute‐Loire) and Figeac (Lot), his teachers and classmates there, his escape to Switzerland, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the American Friends Service Committee with Jewish refugees in France. Correspondence includes letters from Peter and his parents in Fr...

  10. Oral history interview with Leah Gutman

  11. Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers

    The Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers consist of advertisements, photographs, printed materials, and store catalogs documenting the Brenner family’s photograph supply stores in Cologne, their expropriation under the Nazi regime, the establishment of their store in Rome, their escape to the United States, the establishment of their store in Washington, DC, and Leo Brenner’s store in Haifa.

  12. Jack Moses papers

    The Jack Moses papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, and photographs documenting Jack Moses, his family’s immigration to the United States, his military service during and after World War II, and the fate of relatives who remained behind in Europe. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Nazi-era newspapers and booklets. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men.

  13. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Jacket belonging to Chaim Smitskovitz from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  14. Lillian and Alexander Schachter papers

    The Lillian and Alexander Schachter papers consist of birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, immigration and naturalization certificates, and affidavits and legal correspondence documenting the Schachters’ internment in Auschwitz and Mauthausen, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to receive restitution for damages suffered during the Holocaust including teeth that Lillian Schachter lost.

  15. Wiesel family collection

    Collection of family photographs documenting Frieda and Louis Wiesel (donor's parents) and their sons Jacques and Irving (donor and his brother) while living in Belgium and Casablanca during World War II.

  16. Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers

    The Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers consist of biographical materials, photographic materials, a letter, and lyrics to “Das Ladenmädel” documenting Hertha Wolff’s family in Berlin, Hertha’s escape to Shanghai with her daughter Vera, her husband Georg Wolff’s deportation to Trawniki, Vera’s death in Shanghai, and Hertha’s immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include identification papers; birth, marriage, and vaccination certificates; emigration and immigration paperwork; and a death announcement documenting Hertha and Vera Wolff’s lives in Berlin, their travel to Shanghai a...

  17. Alter and Dora Edelman Skwarny Collection

    The collection consists of photogrpahs depicting the Skwarny and Edelman families and documents regarding Alter and Dwora Skwarny's immigration to Canada in 1948.

  18. Lazega family collection

    Documents, photographs, papers, correspondence documenting the experiences of Jacob and Leah Lazega, and their children Fanny (donor), Eva, and Max before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Lazega family fled their home in Brussels during the German invasion of Belgium and went to Paris temporarily. When the Germans arrived in Paris, the family fled first to Vannes and then south to Marseilles. Jacob was taken to Camp des Milles, where the family could occasionally visit and bring him food and supplies. Leah was able to help her husband escape from the camp, and he then went into hiding....

  19. Brandes family correspondence

    Correspondence from Keila and Anna (Hanna) Brandes in Vienna to their son and brother Richard Brandes (donor's grandfather), who following his emigration from Austria and the outbreak of World War II, was classified by the British government as an "enemy alien" and interned in a camp in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. File contains a letter of reference from Richard Brandes' employer in Vienna in 1934, and six letters sent to him by his mother and sister in Vienna, between December 1939 and May 1941. One on of the last letters, Richard Brandes wrote a reply, intending to send it back to them. K...

  20. Oral history interview with Abe Hill