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  1. Siedner family collection

    The collection consists of documents, citizenship certificates (and holders), photos, passport, family book, a Kennkarte (passport), and a phototopy of a personal testimony that documents the experiences of Kurt and Regina Siedner (donor's grandparents) and their daughters Rosemarie (donor's mother) and Ursula, from Flensburg, Germany, and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  2. Walter Gumpert family collection

    The collection consists of an attache case, prayer book, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Walter and Erna Gumpert and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.

  3. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  4. Henry Rosenthal collection

    Documents, letters, photographs and prayer book documenting the experiences of Henry Rosenthal's family.

  5. Hungarian and Polish poster collection

    The collection consists of three Hungarian posters and one Polish poster.

  6. Singer family collection

    The collection consists of a brick from the wall around the synagogue in Celldömölk, Hungary which was bombed down by the Germans and a curtain embroidered by Ilona Waldhauser which she took to the ghetto in Csorna and was taken from her there by locals. Ilona's daughter saw it in a window in Csorna after the war and it was returned to her.

  7. Sprung and Braksmajer families collection

    Documents, photographs, an oral testimony, and correspondence illustrating the Sprung and Braksmajer families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Sisters Frieda and Blanche Sprung, born in Poland, lived in Rawa Ruska before the war, managed to secure false documents in the names of Tatiana Osemek and Katharina Lazar/Antonia Osymak respectively, and survived in several slave labor camps. Also documented is Schol Braksmajer whom married Frieda Sprung in 1947 after they met in Eschwege displaced persons camp in Germany.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas oral history Project

  9. Kahn and Neuhaus families collection

    The collection consists of some correspondence and identification information related ot the Kahn and Neuhaus families, with objects such as a sketchbook and textiles, primarily relating to the donor's aunt, Ilse Neuhaus (1924-1942), in Hadamar and Hochspeyer, Germany, and in Amsterdam.

  10. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    The collection consists of books, documents, correspondence, photographs, and tefillin documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner Teich and her husband Maurice Teich during the Holocaust.

  11. Victoria J. Barnett collection

    Victoria J. Barnett's oral history interviews with Germans who were associated with the Confessing Church. Excerpts from these interviews were published in Barnett's book "For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler."

  12. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Digital copies of the audio, film, and paper components of the Archives of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg. The original materials include: 1,942 cut gramophone discs of audio recordings of the hearings of the IMT; 37 rolls of 35mm nitrate films used as evidence during the trial; and 269,093 pages of documents (exhibits submitted to the Tribunal; trial briefs; minutes; lists).

  13. Fleischmann family collection

    Trunk brought from Czech Republic with Sonia Fleischmann, who fled Prague to the United Kingdom in 1940. Eva and her sister, Milena Fleischmann, were sent ahead of their parents from Czechoslovakia on Kindertransport, or, a children’s transport to the United Kingdom, in 1939. Backpack used and worn by Eva Fleischmann. Tag worn by Eva while traveling to the UK., photographs of Eva, Milena and the Radcliffe Family who cared for the girls once They arrived in the UK., Identification for “Seina Fleischmannova” and luggage tag, documenting Sonja’s voyage through Oslo, Norway to Liverpool, UK and...

  14. Cacilie and Stefanie Klarfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a plaque, correspondence, documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Cacilie Klarfeld and Stefanie Klarfeld, originally from Vienna, Austria, including during the Holocaust when Cäcilie was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  15. Marcel Janco artwork collection

    The collection consists of four original drawings depicting the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust by Romanian artist Marcel Janco. Janco immigrated to Israel in 1941, shortly after his brother's murder during the Bucharest Pogrom. The drawings were created during the 1940s.

  16. Paul and Margit Rafford collection

    The collection consists of papers, photograph album, loose photographs and artwork relating to Paul and Margit (Lichter) Rafford

  17. Sietsema and Zomer families collection

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of the Sietsema and Zomer families, originally from the Netherlands. Documents consist of two letters regarding the imprisonment of Pieterdina Sietsema and her daughters Katherine and Henrietta, all three American citizens, in Liebenau internment camp from 1942-1944. Objects consist of patriotic ribbon worn by Hilda Zomer after the Netherlands was liberated, and ten woven "trinkets" made at Liebenau by Pieterdina and her daughters Katherine and Henrietta: box, 2 napkin rings, 2 round pins, 1 bar pin, 2 hat pins, 1 hat, and 1 cluster of flowers.

  18. Hauer and Honig families collection

    Photographs, documents and prayer books related to the Hauer and Honig families in Berlin, Shanghai, and the United States.

  19. Herb Romerstein collection

    THe collection consists of a red “Winterhilfe” collections canister and postcard “Kämpfen Arbeiten Opfern” with image of worker and German soldier.

  20. Szűz Mária Társasága collection

    The collection consists of a plate and missal relating to the experiences of the Nuns of the Order of the Virgin Mary and the orphanage they ran in Budapest, Hungary during World War II. The Order, under the leadership of Zsuzsanna Ván, managed an orphanage after the Arrow Cross takeover of 1944. The orphanage was located on Vörösmarty Street in Budapest, next to Arrow Cross headquarters. The nuns were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations in 1991.