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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. 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.

  13. Beno Helmer collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner patch, currency, scrip and ration cards, and documents related to the experiences of Beno Helmer in the Łódź ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust.

  14. Thermos and pot found in the territory of the former Brest Ghetto

    Traditional copper thermos used for Shabbat by Jewish families, and copper pot used by a Jewish family before WWII and most likely during internment in the Brest Ghetto.

  15. Wolf and Zofia Paszko collection

    The collection consists of photographs, medals, and oral history tapes documenting the experiences of Wolf and Zofia Paszko before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  16. Ruth Olesker Geary collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, passports and tea set illustrating the experiences Osias and Seril Olesker in Vienna, Austria, and their children, Ruth and Martha, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria. The collection shows efforts to secure visas for all family members. Ruth and Martha were able to flee May 31, 1939, with the support of Henry Turkel, a cousin, and documents show he then tried to secure visas for Osias and Seril, who never left. They were deported to Opole, Poland in February 1941, where they were likely killed. Letters within collection indicate e...

  17. John Honig collection

    The collection consists of an accordion and case, music book, patches, issues of Boy Scout journals, commemorative Boy Scout stamps, Boy Scout diaries and pamphlets, and writings related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  18. Eli Pfefferkorn collection

    Files containing the writings and research of Eli Pfefferkorn.

  19. Fritz Weinschenk collection

    The Fritz Weinschenk collection consists of case files and recordings documenting his assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany.

  20. Hans and Hertha Steinberg collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Hertha and Hans Steinberg and their children Ernst Dieter [donor] and Martin in Hamburg, Germany, Italy and the United States. Hertha and sons left Germany in 1936 for Palestine, stopping in Italy for more than two years And eventually emigrating from Italy to the United States in 1939. Hans never joined, passing away in Germany in 1936. Included are birth and death records, family tree, letters of recommendation, Ketubah, marriage certificates, books, including Talmud and correspondence and report cards.