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  1. Thomas Rehfisch collection

    Letters sent to donor's father Thomas Rehfisch (later Rey) from family in Germany and friends. Thomas Rehfisch immigrated to the UK from Germany in 1934. Also included in the collection are a slide rule and a first aid booklet sent to him from his mother in Germany (the slide rule was secondhand), and educational certificates.

  3. Lucie Steinhagen collection

    The collection consists of photographs, song lyrics, a Star of David, scrip, and a document relating to the experiences of Lucie Steinhagen and her friend Rita Rosenberger in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Vienna, and Freiberg during the Holocaust.

  4. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    The collection consists of an earring, tooth bridge, paper bags, a prayer book, documents, memoirs, and a composition book, relating to the experiences of Leopold and Herta Schwartzbart Stoer and their families in Austria before the Holocaust and in Austria, Belgium, Poland, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  5. Gelbhaus, Neumann, Butzel and Beck families collection

    The collection consists of documents (primarily photocopies from Austrian archives) related to the experiences of the Gelbhaus and Neumann family, documents and photos about Juliette Beck's clothing design and custom couture for Princess Valerie, correspondence from Butzel family and photographs, a statue given to donor's father by the employees of his bicycle factory in 1932 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the factory, and photocopies of correspondence from Gabriele Aufricht.

  6. Ernest Weiss collection

    The collection consists of documents, papers, photographs, interrogation reports, publications, broadsides (German and American), maps, and books related to Ernest Weiss's service in the U.S. Army Intelligence. Also includes documents related to Eva Hausen Feuerman Weiss.

  7. Baruch and Cila Knaster collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, a pair of earrings, a skirt, hand-embroidered linens, a doily, handknit baby clothing, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Baruch and Cila Hausman Knaster and their families in Poland before and during the Holocaust, and relating to their and their daughter Mirka's experiences in a displaced persons camp in Italy after the war.

  8. Susi Traumann Lewinsky collection

    The collection consists of children’s illustrated books, documents, photographs, a prayerbook, news articles and periodicals relating to Susi Traumann Lewisnsky.

  9. Dr. Carl W. Bordas Collection

    The collection consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence from former prisoners at Ebensee concentration camp, U.S. army documents, and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Dr. Carl W. Bordas in Austria and the United States during and after World War II.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Paul Polansky collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by Paul Polansky with Roma and other subjects in Serbia/Vojvodina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Istanbul, featured in his three volume book series "One Blood, One Flame: The oral histories of the Yugoslav gypsies before, during, and after WWII."

  11. Arie Torner collection

    The collection consists of a belt, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Arie Torner in the Netherlands and Poland before World War II, in several forced labor camps and in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust, and in the Netherlands and the United States after the war.

  12. Ernst and Hildegard Israel Collection

    The collection contains a painting done by Ernst Israel, dated c. 1951, that depicts China where he was during the Holocaust, and an interview to Susan G. Decker.

  13. Max Krause collection

    The collection consists of two drawings and a woodcut created by Max Krause in Dresden, Germany, during the Holocaust.

  14. Museum für Deutsche Geschichte collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters related to the activities of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s.

  15. Rashel and Haim Eshaya collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David button and four photographs relating to the experiences of Rashel and Haim Eshaya before the Holocaust in Burgas, Bulgaria, during the Holocaust in Gradeshnitsa, where Haim was a forced laborer, and after the Holocaust in Burgas.

  16. Benjamin B. Ferencz collection

    The collection consists of the personal papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen at the Nuremberg Trials. Papers include biographical information pertaining to Ferencz and materials relevant to the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust-related restitution and indemnification issues, war crimes justice, his activities in the formation of the International Criminal Court in The Hague; his teaching, research, and speaking activities, in particular as director of the Pace Peace Center, but also more generally in the subject areas of world peace, crimes a...

  17. Handcrafted artifacts from prewar Poland collection

    The collection consists of artifacts handcrafted in Poland from 1920-1941.

  18. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    The collection consists of two change purses relating to the experiences of Johanna Hirsch following her deportation from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs internment camp in France during the Holocaust.

  19. Łódź ghetto hand tools collection

    The collection consists of a variety of shoe and garment-making tools of the type used in Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race exhibition collection

    Oral history interviews with twelve Holocaust survivors recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race."