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  1. Oral history interviews of the Kempler family collection

    Oral history interviews with Tosca Kempler and Ignatz Kempler.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Larry Papier collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Washington, D.C. area

  4. Marion Strauss Sapir collection

    Documents, correspondence, books and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Strauss (b. 1898) and spouse Margarit Wolff Strauss (b. 1902) both from Marburg, Germany and their children Marion (b. 1925) and Karl-Heinz (b. 1929) in Frankfurt, Germany. Letters between extended family who fled Nazi occupation and Strauss family who fled Germany for the Netherlands where they were arrested and interned in Westerbork. From there, they were deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United ...

  5. Oral history interviews of "The Red Orchestra" collection

    Video interviews with family and members of the Berlin-based resistance group which the Nazis labeled as "Red Orchestra."

  6. Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, booklets, clippings, documents, and propaganda materials relating to the experiences of Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum, before, during, and after World War II (1939-1945), during which Edward, a 1st Lieutenant in the OSS and the US Army, was the first American officer to enter Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation, a participant in the liberation of Ohrdruf, and author of the Buchenwald Report. His father, Joseph Tenenbaum, was one of the organizers of the early boycott against Nazi Germany.

  7. Leopold Guttman collection

    The collection consists of three military medals, metal tags, and a medal attached to a Magen David necklace, documents, a photograph album, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leopold Guttman, before, during, and after World War II, during which he served in the Belgian Army and was imprisoned in a German stalag. as a member of the Belgian army.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Aaron and Esther Cohen collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Aaron Cohen and Esther Cohen in Mexico City, Mexico.

  9. Edith Hahn-Beer collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Hahn-Beer, originally of Vienna, Austria, including forced-labor in Osterburg and Aschersleben, Germany, living in Munich and Brandenburg an der Havel under the false-identity of Margarete Denner, and marriage to German Nazi officer Werner Vetter. The bulk of the collection consists of wartime correspondence between Edith and her fiancé Joseph Rosenfeld, along with family correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs.

  10. Zaiband family collection

    Oral history interview with Morris Zaiband. Oral history interview with Ruth Finder Zaiband and Morris Zaiband.

  13. Cardarelli family collection

    Oral history interviews with Silvana (Cardarelli) Fabrizi and Maria (Cardarelli) Puzzanghero, an annotated transcript, and original photos from San Donato Val di Comino, Italy

  14. Levisson family collection

    The collection consists of sketchbooks with hand-colored drawings, correspondence, documents, identity papers, and geneological materials relating to the experiences of the Levisson family, particularly Benno M. Levisson, while living in the Netherlands, a portion of the time in hiding, and Curaçao before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. Cornelia Heise collection

    The collection consists of a banknote and papers documenting the experiences of Cornelia Heise during her service with UNRRA child services in Germany after World War II (1939-1945).

  16. Ze’ev Raveh Werba collection

    The Ze’ev Raveh Werba collections consist of a tablecloth, documents, awards, certificates, manuscripts, and photographs documenting Ze’ev Raveh Werba in prewar Maniewicze, Poland (Manevychi, Ukraine), as a partisan during the war, and after the war in the Adriatic displaced persons camp in Italy and then in Israel. Documents recognize Werba for his participation as a partisan and in the Israeli Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel. The manuscripts describe Werba’s experiences during and after the Holocaust. Photographs depict the Werba family in Maniewicze before the war; Werba as a partisan ...

  19. Muller family collection

    Oral history interviews with Louis and Eva Muller

  20. Oral history interviews of the Jay Ratafia-Brown collection

    Oral history interviews with Aron Ratafia, Bronia Ratafia, and Joseph Gottainer