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  1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    The collection consists of three wallets, currency, scrip, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ladislav Glattstein (later Larry Gladstone) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  2. Ernst and Johanna Weihs collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ernst and Johanna Weihs, both originally of Vienna, Austria. Included are identification documents of Ernst and Johanna, certificates of Ernst and Johanna certifying that they were prisoners of Auschwitz and eligible for benefits in Vienna, and an identification document certifying that Ernst was a prisoner at Dachau. The collection also includes two pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip.

  3. Donald W. Rust collection

    Original color drawings created by Hungarian Jewish survivor Erwin Abadi and given to Pfc. Donald W. Rust (donor's grandfather) after liberation near Magdeburg; newsletters & documents of Rust’s US Army unit; photograph of woman depicted in Abadi drawing; photograph of Donald Rust; photograph and obituary of Edwin Rust (Donald’s brother); envelope and original housing material that collection arrived in and was stored in.

  4. Josef Pistiner family collection

    The collection consists of badges, wallets, watercolors, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials related to the experiences of Josef Pistiner and his family, including his parents, Aron and Taube, and brother, Max, before the Holocaust in Galicia, Bukovina, and Berlin and during the Holocaust in Berlin, their 1939 emigration via China to the United States, as well as documents from Josef Pistiner’s service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and restitution files from the 1960s-1970s.

  5. Felix Kaszub collection

    The collection consists of a passport holder, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Felix Kaszub, originally of Krośniewice, Poland, during and after the Holocaust, when he was imprisoned in Krośniewice ghetto, and Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps, as well as his postwar travel and immigration to the United States.

  6. Moses and Mania Leinwand family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, a manuscript, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Moses and Mania Pfeffer Leinwand before and during the Holocaust in and near Przemyslany, Poland, where they lived in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as a copy of a siddur written while in hiding by Moishe Boruchowicz (Borochovitch) of Dzelechov (likely Zelechow), Poland.

  7. Jean Jones collection

    The collection consists of wooden toys, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and booklets relating to the experiences of Jean Jones in Iowa, who received them from her German pen pal, Irmgard Richter, whose parents were teachers in Berlin.

  8. Fela and Chaim Perelman collection

    The collections consists of medals, correspondence, documents, memoirs, newspaper clippings, publications, and videocassettes relating to the experiences of Drs. Fela and Chaim Perelman, before, during, and after the war in Belgium where they were active in the Jewish underground and then in the care of refugees and postwar emigration to Palestine, and later ardent supporters of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The collection also includes oral history interviews with Fela Perelman, which were conducted by Jean-Philippe Schreiber between 1984 and 1989.

  9. Annemarie Warschauer family collection

    The collection consists of a tefillin bag, 3 tefillin with straps, two leather wallets, an autograph book, a television interview, documents, photographs, and Trauer albums relating to the experiences of Annemarie Alexander Israelski (later Warschauer) and her family before and during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, in Shanghai, China, where they fled in 1940, and later in the United States.

  10. Richard Schifter collection

    Correspondence, postcards, photographs, pins, patches, medallions, notebooks, and related documents and ephemera, related to the history of the Schifter family of Vienna, Austria, and the immigration of Richard Schifter to the United States in 1938 and his subsequent service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the Austrian Army during World War I, documents related to Paul Schifter's business ventures in the United States during the 1920s, school documents for Richard Schifter in Austria and...

  11. Julius Sussman collection

    Collection of documents and photographs related to Julius Sussman who was born in Eiself, Germany on September 20, 1910. The family resided in Frankfurt am Main. In 1933 Julius immigrated to Palestine; he was able to bring his parents to Palestine in 1936. On July 8, 1940, Julius enlisted in the British Army, Royal Military Pioneer Corps, 605th Palestinian regiment, Pvt #11621. He fought in the African campaign from November 1940 - March 1941. From March 1941, a small British force helped the Greek Army to defend it from the German invasion on April 6th. On April 29th, Julius became POW #66...

  12. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families collection

    The collection consists of a passport case, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Eugen Lilienthal during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and, after the Holocaust, from Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as documents related to the emigration of Max and Margo Fraenkel from Germany to the United States prior to the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Julie Keefer family collection

    The collection consists of a tin cup, documents, a manuscript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Aisik Eisen and his granddaughters Tola and Jula (later Julie Keefer) during the Holocaust in the ghetto and in hiding with the assistance of Lucia Nowicka, as well as a hat and table runner brought by Thea Klestadt from Dusseldorf, Germany, to the United States in 1938.

  14. Panariti and Kuonne families collection

    The collection consists of a a necklace, two watches, and copy prints relating to the experiences of the Panariti and Kuonne families in Greece, and then Albania during the Holocaust.

  15. Lányi family collection

    The collection consists of a bottle and cup, mess kit, pot, ribbon, spool of thread, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Lanyi family of Budapest, Hungary.

  16. Veronika Pártos Lakatos family collection

    The collection consists of a doll and an envelope relating to the experience of Veronika Pártos and her family in prewar Hungary and during World War II when Veronika lived in hiding.

  17. Vera Hauser collection

    The collection consists of a toothbrush cup, newspaper clippings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Vera Hauser in Sweden after World War II.

  18. Èva Bán family collection

    The collection consists of an embroidered linen relating to the experiences of Gizella Weisz and a photographic print of Vilma Gonda and her daughter.

  19. László Rosenthal collection

    The collection consists of two wooden boxes owned by László Rosenthal.

  20. 19th century antisemitic print collection

    The collection consists of five nineteenth century lithographs depicting scenes of antisemitism.