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  1. John L. Steffens collection

    Contains photographs taken by Roman Vishniac. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Walter Benson collection

    Contains photographs related to the liberation of various concentration camps. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Hausner family collection

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. Sass and Sygal families collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, German POW camp issue scrip, and wallet/document holder. The collection pertains to the experience of Paul (Pesach) Sass, his wife Bernice (Bronia) Sass (née Sygal) and their families. A number of Sass and Segal family members survived the Holocaust in Poland. They later lived as displaced persons in Cremona, Italy where 3 Sass siblings (Pesach, Schaja, and Nechama) married three Sygal siblings (Bronia, Ruth, and Szamu). The collection also includes a document confirming Pesach Sass's release from Majdanek in February 1942 to return to Ska...

  13. Zajonc family collection

    THe collection consists of a suitcase from Hinda Zajonc (Hilda Kreuzer in the United States), photos of liberation of Dachau and Dachau postcard in red photo holder, and copies of documents related to Zelda Zajonc (Sophie Morris in the United States).

  14. Maier family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts from the Maier family (Ludwig, Freya and Sonja), who were passengers on board the MS St. Louis: 2 women's handbags, a blue velvet ball gown, a shoe bag, a women's toiletries bag, and a tan blanket.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Darby Linn collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded by Darby Linn in Boulder, CO

  16. Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg collection

    The Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers consist of the personal papers of the first post-Holocaust Chief Rabbi of Hesse and Frankfurt am Main. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, records relating to legal cases, writings, a nineteen-volume set of the Heidelberg Talmud, audio recordings, and a photograph album. The collection documents Weinberg’s work in reorganizing the surviving German Jewish community after the war and his examination of philosophical and ethical issues stemming from the Holocaust.

  17. Fischl and Gerstmann family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral histories relating to the experiences of Alice Fischl Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Seymour Samuels collection

    The collection consists of pamphlets, documents, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings documenting the 1936 Winter Olympic as well as documents, and correspondence surrounding the Stettbergers family, and a book, Ludendorffs Halbmonatschrift: 1936 (nos. 5-8), 1937 (no. 4).

  19. Dingfelder family collection

    The Dingfelder family collection contains identification papers, photographs, clippings, and a prayer book relating to the experiences of the family in pre-war Germany and in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Included are birth, bris, and marriage certificates; clippings of articles about their experiences in Nazi Germany and their new lives in the United States; and Siegfried Neu’s prayer book which he used while interned at Theresienstadt. The photographs include loose photographs of Sigbert and Elizabeth Dingfelder; the ship which carried the Sigbert, Elizabeth, and their son Justin to ...

  20. Kurt Maier family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial artifacts, photographs, and a letter relating to the experiences of Kurt Maier and his extended family before and during the Holocaust.