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  1. Jan T. Gross collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Jan Gross's family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Alfred Heidinger collection

    Contains material related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Alfred Heidinger and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Harry Burger collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Harry Burger during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Abraham Sosnowik collection

    Contains memoirs related to Abraham Sosnowik's experiences during the Holocaust. These materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Charlotte Szwajcer collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Charlotte Szwajcer's family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Anna Friedman Prager collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Anna Friedman Prager and her family during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Bluma Fischer collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the family of Bluma Fischer. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Hava Snir collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Hava Snir. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Melvin Goldfarb collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Melvin Goldfarb and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Frederick R. Wohl collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Frederick R. Wohl and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Anton Fojn collection

    Contains materials related to the experiences of Roma during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    Songs included in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's web exhibition, "Music of the Holocaust" https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/music/. Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe. While popular songs dating from before the war remained attractive as escapist fare, the ghetto, camp, and partisan settings also gave rise to a repertoire of new works. These included topical songs inspired by the latest gossip and news, and songs of personal expression that often concerned the loss of family and home. Classical music—instrument...

  13. Adek Firestone collection

    Th collection consists of a bar of soap, a book, and an identification badge relating to the experiences of Adek Firestone in a Jewish refugee camp after the Holocaust.

  14. Harry and Ruth Krautwirth Meyerowitz collection

    The collection consists of a belt and two handkerchiefs relating to the experiences of Ruth Krautwirth, who was an inmate of Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Malchow concentration camps during the Holocaust, and a Nazi armband and SA uniform shirt relating to the experiences of Harry Meyerowitz, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

  15. Nazi Party antisemitic poster collection

    The collection consists of three small text only antisemitic Parole der Woche posters produced by the Nazi Party in Germany.

  16. Mike Korenblit collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of the Nagelsztajn and Kornblit families. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Norma Flanders collection

    The collection consists of a 1936 Olympics map of Berlin and a 1936 route distance schedule for Lufthansa airlines.

  18. Cygielsztrajch family collection

    Contains materials related to the experiences of the Cygielsztrajch family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. David H. Pollock collection

    Contains materials related to David H. Pollock and his work with survivors shortly after the liberation of Buchenwald. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Berta Hertz collection

    Contains materials about the Holocaust-era experiences of the donor, Berta Hertz. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.