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  1. Arthur Mendel collection

    The collection consists of Jewish prayer books owned by a prisoner at Gurs concentration camp in France.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Michael Schwartz collection

    Oral history interviews with Edgar Ansten and Marian Ansten

  3. Sue Elder collection

    The collection consists of federal documents, ID cards, trial booklets, clippings, stamps, currency, and other ephemera documenting the experiences of Sue Elder, who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials from 1946-1948.

  4. Leonard Greenblatt collection

    The collection consists of a silk escape map, a letter, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leonard Greenblatt as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.

  5. Leo Haas collection

    The collection consists of a publication, 12 puvodnich litografii z německych koncentracnich taboru Leo Haas, a set of lithographs created by Leo Haas about the concentration camps where he was imprisoned during World War II, that was published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1947.

  6. Adrienne Friede Krausz collection

    The collection consists of Buchenwald scrip, news clippings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adrienna Matyas (Krausz) as a prisoner in Altenburg and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust and her subsequent role as a witness during the postwar trial of a war criminal. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. William G. Justis Jr. collection

    The collection consists of two pieces of 1 RM Buchenwald scrip and typed testimony from 2013 relating to the experiences of William (Bill) G. Justis, Jr., a soldier in the 5th Ranger Battalion during World War II, who was stationed as a guard at the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

  8. Gustav Steiner collection

    The collection consists of a set of toys relating to the experiences of Gustav Steiner who was deported from Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, and killed during the Holocaust, and to the postwar experiences of his cousin, Maud Michal Beer.

  9. Oral history interviews of the 20th Anniversary National Tour collection

    Oral history interviews conducted during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary National Tour

  10. Voces de la Shoá oral history collection

    Interviews of the Voces de la Shoá oral history collection produced by Fundación Memoria Viva.

  11. Graphic materials from British ruled Palestine collection

    The collection consists of a military recruitment poster, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Jewish people in British controlled Palestine before, during, and after World War II and German-occupied Europe during the Holocaust.

  12. Srog family collection

    The collection consists of some family photographs and identification documents of the Srog family, including Ludwig Srog's Torah binder (wimpel).

  13. Louis Kampf collection

    The collection consists of some documents and correspondence in addition to Jewish ceremonial objects that all relate to the experiences of Louis Kampf and his parents.

  14. Schulz family collection

    The collection consists of a Torah Scrol from synagogue in Altona, Germany, carried when the Schulz family were forced to emigrate from Nazi Germany to Switzerland in 1939 as well as identification cards, passports, and correspondence documenting the Schulz family in Altona [Hamburg], Germany and their efforts to flee Nazi Germany.

  15. Wolf family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, passports, a WWII diary, and some military medals and insignia that belonged to the Wolf family, namely Eric W. Wolf who was a German refugee who served in the U.S. Military in the Signal Corps.

  16. Herman Silbiger collection

    The collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, a luggage tag and label, and Herman Silbiger's scrapbook within a school exercise book that features materials from his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945. It also includes the tin cigar box within which he kept the ephemera prior to compiling it into the scrapbook.

  17. Algava family collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs of pre- and postwar life, predominantly in Greece, and the recorded testimonies of Allegra and Henricos Algava, which were conducted by the donor, their son Andreas Algava, a child survivor.

  18. Degen family collection

    The collection contains cassette tapes of interviews between the donor's mother, Helen Degen [Degenfisz] Cohen and her parents, Blima [Bluma] and Josef Degen [Degenfisz] after the War as well as with her rescuer, Maria Szumska. It also includes postwar letters written between Helen and Maria. There is also a booklet likely used after the War inscribed with Hebrew and Polish [appears to be educational], likely kept in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp.

  19. Hochbaum family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing relating to the experiences of Jeffrey, Leon, and Blanka Hochbaum in Vienna, Austria, after the Holocaust.

  20. Eisenberg family collection

    The collection consists of identification documents, correspondence, a tallit, and an oral history with Henry Eisenberg all relating to the Eisenberg family's experiences during the war in the Starachowice camp and in Displaced Persons camps.