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  1. Richard Weilheimer collection

    The Richard Weilheimer collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, a watercolor booklet hand-made in Gurs, photographic materials and a prayer book documenting the Weilheimer, Wetzler, and Stern families from Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany. Documents reflect the families’ prewar lives in Germany, their deportation to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France in 1940, Richard and Ernst Weilheimer’s relocation to a children’s home and immigration to the United States in 1942, Kurt and Nelly Stern’s earlier immigration to the United States in 1937, and the memorializat...

  2. Bernard Berthold Bock collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter in case held by belt, Stammbuch, siddur, price list for Bernard Berthold Bock's (donor's grandfather) tool factory, catalogs for factory items all having belonged to Bernard Berthold Bock.

  3. Sklar family collection

    Video testimony concerning the wartime experiences of Jean Sklar (Szklarz); Sklar family photographs; and a copy of the personal diary "Livre Tallis" written by Jean Sklar and colleagues at the Moulin in Moissac, France towards the end of the war and in its aftermath

  4. Music study collection

    Various audio cassettes, CDs, and LPs containing original sound recordings, published materials, interviews, or music obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's curator of music.

  5. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    Collection documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner and her husband Maurice Teich, who met in Warsaw, Poland, married, and eventually fled to Cuba and ultimately the United States.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society collection

    Oral history interviews, presentations, and remembrance programs with Holocaust survivors and witnesses to WWII from the archive of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society.

  7. Baruch family collection

    Artifacts and documents from the Baruch family including a set of china (EPIAG/Czechoslovakia) owned by the donor's grandmother Astro (Elias) Baruch; a set of silverware owned by the donor's mother, Rachel (Zadick) Baruch; an amulet; a mezuzah pendant engraved with floral motifs; a shell motif pendant; Greek documents for David Baruch; British gold coins (3); a U.S. silver dollar; a British one penny coin; and photographs.

  8. Max and Lotte Wertheim collection

    The collection documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration to the United States in 1937. Documents consist of identification and family papers including birth and marriage certificates, German passports, a family book (Stammbuch), Lotte’s autograph book, and immigration papers. Photographs include depictions of prewar family life, portraits, vacations, and Stanley’s childhood. The collection also includes a silver cup.

  9. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection

    The collection consists of a handmade vest and correspondence relating to the experiences of Sara Lamhaut, Chana Goldwasser Lamhaut, and Riiha Goldwasser in Łódź, Poland, and Brussels, Belgium, during the Holocaust.

  10. Lester M. Libo collection

    The collection consists of papers, photographs, and printed matter from the military service of Lester M. Libo. Includes items related to his denazification work including his personal notebook, Fragebogen used in denazification and confiscated items including propaganda material, money, medals, and a piece of cloth with a swastika insignia. In addition, several newspapers and an issue of Army Talks (28 October 1945) and posted military government notices.

  11. Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary collection

    Sewing kit, manicure kit and two perpetual calendars which belonged to Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary and used by her after she arrived in England on the Kindertransport.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Arnold S. Task collection

    Interviews with Holocaust survivors, US liberators, and witnesses to events of WWII, recorded at memorial gatherings in Greensboro NC

  13. Janet Beasley collection

    The collection consists of a bisque doll, a stuffed animal, a wooden toy, and a children's book relating to the experiences of Jutta Grybski (later Janet Beasley) before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, and after the Holocaust near Terezin in Czechoslovakia.

  14. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of a table knife and a religious medal relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek in the Warsaw ghetto and during her forced labor service in the assumed identity of a non-Jewish Polish person in Germany during the Holocaust.

  15. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    The collection consists of Honor and Iron Cross medals, buttonhole ribbon bars, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Kurt Schlesinger and his family in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Elizabeth Trausel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, scrip, and a Star of David badge that relating to the experience of Elisabeth Trausel in Prague and Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp and her father Josef, and their family in Prague during the Holocaust.

  17. Oral histories of the Dimant family collection

    Audio and video testimonies of Ita Dimant and an audio recording of the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, including Simcha Dimant and others.

  18. Maria Rivka Chowles Lichtenfeld collection

    The collection consists of two prayerbooks used by Maria Rivka Chowles Lichtenfeld while she was living in hiding under an assumed identity as a Polish Christian during the Holocaust.

  19. Abraham family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, artifacts illustrating Reha, Ruth and Walter Abraham's experiences surrounding the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, prewar Tel Aviv and postwar Switzerland, and correspondence.

  20. Andrzej Bninski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the occupation of Warsaw, Poland, by Nazi Germany from 1939-1945.