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  1. Photograph of a Jewish woman in the Zhmerynka ghetto

    The photograph is a portrait of a Jewish woman in the ghetto in Zhmerynka (Zhmerinka), Ukraine; blue ink inscription in margin beneath image; verso: “Pal/1 dem/1943r.” inscribed in blue ink; dated 1943.

  2. Blanka Majer-Eisdorfer papers

    The papers consist of two documents issued for Blanka Eisdorfer, formerly of Suskovo, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), concerning emigration from her current residence in Bucharest, Romania.

  3. Yuliy Yamin photograph collection

    The photograph collection consists of two black and white photographs taken in Belarus. One photograph depicts a woman and three children in a kitchen. The remaining photograph depicts a boy in Minsk, Belarus.

  4. Maria Dubover photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Maria Dubover in Zhmerynka (Zmerinka), Ukraine, in 1949 and a photograph of Maria Dubover and a boy in Zhmerynka in 1944.

  5. Vera Jilkova photographs

    The collection consists of two photographs. One photograph is an image of Lydia Holznerova, the sister of donor, Vera Jilkova nee Holznerova in Hronov, Czech Republic. Also included in the collection is Vera Jilkova's class photograph of "Mitbagrij Gymnasia," a Jewish grammar school in Brno. Inscribed verso are the names of each person in the class. Ms. Jilkova is located in the third row from the bottom and third person person from the right.

  6. Sam and Celia Feldman collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs, an identification card, a certificate, and one newspaper relating to Sam and Celia Feldman and their families' experiences during the Holocaust.

  7. Dzialoszynski family photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographic portraits of Ruth, Erich, and Herta Dzialoszynski taken in Glatz, Germany, in 1939.

  8. Biruta Poyser photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs and one photographic postcard of staff at the Jewish hospital in the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. The postcard shows three rows of doctors and nurses standing outside the hospital. The remaining three photographs are individual portraits of survivors who worked at the hospital. Included among these portraits are Bronislawa Lewkowicz, wearing a nurse's uniform; Mania Fajvlevitz, a midwife, wearing a pearl necklace and rectangular pin; and Hania Feiner.

  9. Margaret Gold photograph collection

    The collection consists of a portrait of Margaret Gold taken in 1940; a photograph of the Kostztelitz family and other relatives seated on a park bench in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, in 1941; a photograph of Ignacz Gold, Margaret's father-in-law, Anna Szlatky, Margaret’s sister-in-law, and Judith Szlatky, Margaret's niece, in Budapest, Hungary, in 1940 or 1941; and a photograph of Sandor Szlatky, Margaret's brother-in-law, and Judith Szlatky in Budapest in 1941.

  10. Miriam Levitt photograph collection

    The collection consists of 27 photographs documenting the experiences of Eli and Esther Kushelewicz and their daughter, Miriam donor, in the displaced persons' camp in Lampertheim, Germany.

  11. Dr. E. George Stern papers

    The papers consist of a letter from Ralph Dorn Hetzel, president of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, on behalf of Dr. Bruno Stern's son George E. Stern, that helped Dr. Bruno Stern and his wife, Frida, escape from Nazi Germany to the United States where they joined their three sons. Also included is a photographic portrait of Dr. Bruno Stern.

  12. Michal Birbrajer photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard of the Birbrajer and Perelmuter familes in Dermanka, Ukraine, in 1935, a photographic postcards of the Birbrajer family in Korzec (Korets), Ukraine, in 1936, and a photograph taken in 1923 in Korzec, Ukraine, of four women wearing hats, including Rysia Birbrajer, Michał Birbrajer’s mother.

  13. Chris Lerman photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of Chris and Miles Lerman, their friends, and their family, during their time in the Berlin Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in Germany after liberation and their voyage to the United States on board the "Marine Perch." Also included in the collection are three photographs of the Lermans' friends in Bergen-Belsen.

  14. Rywa Scwarcberg Zeidlitz papers

    The papers consist of two notebooks belonging to Rywa Scwarcberg Zeidlitz. It is probable that Rywa obtained the notebooks while in a convalescence home in Sweden, where she was located after liberation. Included in her writings are poems about her experience in Auschwitz and her longing for family members who perished in the Holocaust. Rywa also recounts her family’s experiences in the Łódź ghetto.

  15. Saender family photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of the Saender family while in the Bad Harzburg Displaced Persons camp.

  16. Bluma Krzepicka papers

    The Bluma Krzepicka papers consist of two postwar identification cards documenting Bluma Krzepicka and her husband, Hersz Mendel Krzepicki, and 18 photographs documenting Krzepicka and her family in Poland before the Holocaust and Krzepicka with fellow survivors in Sweden after the Holocaust.

  17. Lehmann family photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of the Lehmann family including Gertrud Elias Lehmann, her husband Siegfried Lehmann, and their daughter, Eva Charlotte in Berlin and Mallwischken, Germany. Siegfried Lehmann was the only surviving family member from the Holocaust.

  18. Henryk Nirensztejn papers

    The papers consist of photographs and documents regarding Henryk Nirensztejn (born Chaim Goworczyk) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Poland.

  19. Joseph Harmatz photograph collection

    The collection consists of twelve photographs relating to Joseph Harmatz and his family before and during World War II and his life after the war with members of the Nekama (Revenge) Group.

  20. Zachariasz family photographs

    The collection consists of four photographs of Judit Popinski (born Judyta Zachariasz) and her family while in the Łódź ghetto, Poland.