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  1. Don and Ada Timmer collection

    Consists of copies of photographs and written testimonies related to the experiences of Don Timmer and his sister, Ada Timmer, both of whom were members of the United States military during World War II. Ada Timmer was an army nurse and worked in the Ebensee concentration camp after it was liberated, while Don Timmer participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the 89th Infantry. Includes two DVDs of oral history interviews with Don Timmer about his experiences; one was conducted by the Madison High School History Club in Mansfield, OH, and the other by Mr...

  2. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    The collection consists of a camera, a prayer book, documents, photographs, and two memoirs relating to the experiences of Heinz Stephan Lewy before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in France, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  3. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Swedish Witnesses project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Swedish Witnesses project

  5. Paul Shapiro collection

    Antisemitic Romanian pamphlet illustrated with cartoon characters and coupon for mandatory donation to help pay for the integration of Bukhovina and Transnistria into Greater Romania.

  6. Oral history interviews, presentations, and recordings of the Mira Kimmelman collection

    Videotaped interviews, presentations, news features, and lectures related to the experiences of Holocaust survivor Mira Kimmelman

  7. Violet Dattner collection

    The collection consists of handwritten notes of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial written by Violet Dattner as well as photographs, documents, and newsaper clippings of and from the trial. The collection also includes three maps of concentration camps and other materials relating to the Holocaust experiences of Wilhelm and Violet Dattner.

  8. Henry Landman collection

    Collection contains correspondence, documents, photographs, leaflets, postcards, and related materials, including a yarmulke, which document the immigration of Joseph and Regina Landman, and their son Henry (Heinz), originally of Augsburg, Germany, to the United States as a result of anti-Semitic persecution in Germany. Includes biographical documents about Joseph and Regina, sports awards received by Henry in Augsburg, prior to emigration; correspondence with relatives of Regina Landmann, including the Aretz family; documents and ephemera related to Henry's service in the United States Arm...

  9. Peter Masters collection

    Material pertaining to the experiences of Peter Masters (donor's husband) [nee Arany] a Viennese Jewish refugee who served in the British commandos: Album with material documenting his service in 3 Troop of the British Commandos which contains photographs of various servicemen, documents and shoulder patches; Peter Masters's Solder's Service Pay Book; Precis on Military Law; Maps of Germany used in Peter Masters's military service; Confiscated service card from German POW; Correspondence from other members of 3 Troop, their families, and historians; Information about the fate of Peter Giles...

  10. Dash family collection

    The collection consists of scrip, copy prints, documents, ID cards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Paula and Sol Dash and their daughter Lilly in Poland and Germany, during and after the Holocaust.

  11. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program. The collection is arranged chronologically.

  12. Margarete Schwarz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts documenting the experiences of Margarete (Gretl) Schwarz and other family members who fled Vienna. Includes photograph of her father in a frame, handwritten cookbooks, cigarette case, sewing case and crochet, embroidery tools, emigration documents, doily, prayer books, and a small hope chest.

  13. Hendla Dzialoczynska (Anna Green) collection

    Postwar photographs of Hendla Dzialoczynska (later Anna Green) [donor's mother; Ruchla Dzialoczynska (nee Dztajnberg) [donor's grandmother], and Chaya Dzialoczynska Kretchmer (later Helen Herman) [donor's aunt], all of whom survived the Łódź Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. Also includes Hendla's needles wrapped in fabric and wince and placed in a small glass vial from Bergen Belsen (either concentration camp or displaced persons camp) as well as a photographic Jewish New Years card for the year 5740 (1949) from the Bergen Belsen DP camp.

  14. Anthony A. Carullo collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner, pennants, and propaganda leaflet relating to the experiences of Anthony A. Carullo during World War II, when he served as a sergeant in the 2nd Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, United States Army.

  15. Margret Hantman collection

    The collection consists of a dress, brassiere, Star of David pendant and badge, Theresienstadt scrip, commemorative pendant, documents, photographs, and a memoir relating to the experiences of Margret Hantman in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  16. Gaon family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, folk objects, coffee pots, a bowl, a tray, a bottle and a pair of socks that relate to the experiences of Mencham, Lottie, and Izzica Gaon and Esther Mussafia before, during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Heymann and Frank families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, and other materials primarily relating to the Heymann and Frank families before, during, and after the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Collection includes, but is not limited to: pre-war documents, ration cards, cookbook, poesie book, certificates, report cards, notes, correspondence, identity documents, passport, prayer books, small portfolio, a family book, and a booklet.

  19. Lubran family collection

    The collection consists of a wedding dress, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and clippings relating to the experiences of Walter Lubran and his sister Alice Lubran Plocki before, during, and after the Holocaust in Europe and the United States.

  20. Jecheskiel and Gertrude Rottholz Steinfink collection

    Photograph of Klara Steinfink (donor's paternal grandmother); photograph of Klara Steinfink's tombstone in Vienna, Austria; photograph of clothing store that belonged to donor's paternal grandfather. They are pictured in front of the store with their sons Owen (donor's father) and Alan; a prayer book from November 13, 1920 from a Bar Mitzvah that was saved by Owen.