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  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Atlanta History Center collection

    Oral history interviews with liberators of Nazi concentration camps.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Carole Ann Fer collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors of the Holocaust.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Sender Shapiro and Abe Rabinowitz collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by Robert Moses Shapiro and Isaiah Kuperstein.

  10. Neu family collection

    Deutsches Reich Reisepass, passport, issued to German Jewish man, Erich Neu, Born May 8, 1912 in Strasbourg, France, first page, inside cover, stamped with red letter "J" which is dated October 14, 1938, passport dated September 5, 1938, Offenburg, Germany, in German, issued French transit visa in Karlsruhe, Germany and United States immigration visa in Stuttgart, Germany on January 12, 1939. The collection also contains correspondence illustrating the experiences of Clementine and Emil Neu, living in Offenburg, Germany and their children Erwin, Alice and Erich. Alice and Erich immigrated t...

  11. Marie Naples collection

    Collection consists of a portrait of Adolf Hitler and a signet ring.

  12. Fritzi Klein Natko collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book, correspondence, a passport, identity papers, photographs, and an autograph book relating ot the experiences of Fritzi Klein and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust, who, as a child, emigrated from Vienna, Austria, to the United States in June 1939 as part of the 50 Children group organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus.

  13. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of over 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, toys and everyday household items decorated with depiction...

  14. Oral history interviews of the Story Preservation Initiative collection

    Oral history interviews produced by the Story Preservation Initiative.

  15. Pick family collection

    The collection consists of four watercolors created by Jo Spier while imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia and a brooch with charms representing aspects of daily life at Theresienstadt.

  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. Jakob and Fania Heifetz family collection

    Documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral testimonies illustrating the experiences of Jakob Chajfec born in Lachwa, Poland and Fania Luczki born in Pohost Zagorodskiy.

  18. Hans Landesberg collection

    The collection consists of a lapel pin, a cufflink, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg, a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

  19. Liebschütz and Rozsa family collection

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, diaries, and other writings, related to the families of Elise (Lisa) Rozsa, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia, and her husband, Imre Rozsa, originally of Hungary, both of whom fled Europe during the Holocaust, living in exile in Iraq, Palestine, Uganda, and Kenya. The collection includes written memoirs from Lisa Rozsa and her mother, Selma Liebschütz, detailing their experiences during the war years, including Liebschütz's account of being deported to Auschwitz, her experiences in several subsequent camps as a forced laborer, escape from a death mar...

  20. 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.