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  1. David Farin collection

    The collection consists of five Allach porcelain figurines manufactured at Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  2. Auschwitz bunk bed collection

    The collection consists of two bunk beds from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.

  3. Walt Rudy Horenstein collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Rudy Horenstein, born in 1923 in Grajewo, Poland, and who survived on false papers under the name Rudolf Budkis, of Russian descent. Includes false identification documents; postwar passports and identity papers; immigration paperwork compiled to support his coming to the United States after the war; restitution paperwork; correspondence and photographs. It also includes a metal prisoner tag.

  4. Susan Darvas collection

    The collection consists of prewar documents, a medallion and a silver make up case which belonged to Mano Herskovits.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Forum Institute, Samorin, Slovakia/Zoltán Kőrös collection

    Oral history interviews, photos, and documents related to the experiences of ethnic Hungarians and former soldiers (WWII combatants) in Slovakia who witnessed events that impacted Jews during the Holocaust and/or have memories of prewar Jewish life in Slovakia. The collection also includes testimonies about the lives of ethnic Hungarians under the Czechoslovakian regime.

  6. Sobibor perpetrator collection

    The collection consists of 361 photographs (two albums and loose photographs) and dozens of paper documents that depict Johann Niemann’s social background, his family, and his SS career, including his advancement through the concentration camp system (Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen) and the T4 euthanasia program (Grafeneck, Brandenburg and Bernburg) to the Operation Reinhard death camps (Belzec and Sobibor). There are an additional 15 photographs, three publications, and one wallet.

  7. Tarjan family collection

    The collection primarily consists of wartime family correspondence between sisters Erzsébeth Steiner and Ágnes Steiner Takács in Budapest, Hungary and their parents Margit and Simon Steiner in Pécs, Hungary from 1941-1944. Some letters include transcriptions and translations provided by Erzsébeth and Tibor’s son Peter Tarjan. Also included in the collection are a personal narrative by Peter regarding his family’s Holocaust experiences, prewar family photographs, and a small amount of documents related to Ágnes. Included in the documents are a prewar address book related to Ágnes’s salon cli...

  8. Jacob Yessenow collection

    The collection consists of photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (donor's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division. The collection also includes two cameras used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen conce...

  9. Stanley Robbin collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, identification documents, writings, and newsclippings illustrating the experiences of Stanley Robbin (Samuel Rubinstein) as a physician during the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland, ghetto in Krakow, Płaszów concentration camp and Mauthausen concentration camp.

  10. Hirsch family collection

    The collection consists of a doll carried by Eva Hirsch when her family fled Germany via Switzerland and Portugal, arriving in the United States in 1939.

  11. Joseph Polzer collection

    The collection consists of notebooks, written by Joseph Polzer, in 1940 and 1941 in Chateau du Chaumont, France in a children’s home, and sketchbook also used in France with detached and additional drawings. Photographs of pre-war Austria, where Joseph was born in 1929. Along with his mother Mirrha, Jewish and originally Russian and father Karl Polzer, non-Jewish and Austrian, the family fled to France in 1938. By 1940, Joseph was placed at Chateau du Chaumont, a chateau used by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants that housed thousands of Jewish children. The Polzer family was able to leave b...

  12. Kovary and Neuhaus families collection

    The Kovary and Neuhaus families collection includes medals, ribbons, pins, a leather wallet, a leather portfolio, a set of silver ice cream spoons, and family papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Kovary family from Bratislava and the Neuhaus family from Hamburg.

  13. Donald Norton Pitts collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Donald Norton Pitts, who served as a foreign service officer with the State Department in Warsaw, Poland in 1950. Included are notes, reports, and writings, primarily about the political climate in Poland; diary; correspondence; identification card; clipping; metal dish; and negatives taken while Donald was stationed there. Also included are copy negatives and prints documenting atrocities against Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.

  14. Bela and Gisa Pless collection

    Documents and photographs related to Bela and Gisa Pless [donors' parents], Czechoslovakian Jews who survived Sered and Theresienstadt; also includes Bela Pless's memoir and a yellow star, as well as letters.

  15. Anker family collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, postcards, documents, and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Georg and Gertrud Anker, their children, Eva and Hilde Anker (later Fogelson), Bertha Gottschalk, and Ursula and Paul Elgart in Germany and England before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska collection

    The Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and writings documenting Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as well as her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski’s experiences in Nazi-annexed Poznań and as a displaced person in Germany. The collection also includes a wallet, several buttons and publications.

  17. Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets

    Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets: - Der Fuhrer und der Arbeiter - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 3 - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 4 - Der Fuhrer 1938 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1934 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1935 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer und Mussolini - Des Fuhrers kampf in Norwegen - Des Fuhrers kampf in Frenkreich

  18. Nisha Holton collection

    Nisha Holton's audio recorded memoir of her experiences in Austria prior to the Holocaust and a hand-painted map of locations near her childhood home in Baden, Austria that she mentions in the memoir

  19. Hausner family collection

    The collection consists of a film projector, textiles made in Hausner factory, documents, photographs and identification cards.

  20. Gerda Happ and Josef Stern collection

    Documents, photographs, manuscript of a family tree, and a prayer book illustrating Gerda Happ and her extended family and Josef Stern and his extended family. Gerda and Josef met and married in South Africa after they both fled there to escape Nazi persecution.