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  1. Harry Lindauer collection

    Papers of Harry Lindauer, Col. U.S. Army, retired. Documents, letters, photographs, published accounts and military reports concerning Harry Lindauer's family history and military experiences, 1941-1945. Additional photocopies and photographs of his return trips to Germany and of award from Federal Republic of Germany in 1988; Dog tag issued to Harry Lindauer.

  2. Louis W. Collier collection

    Consists of material related to Louis W. Collier's experiences as a member of the American occupying forces in post-war Europe, particularly his role as director of the Werl-Westf. displaced persons (DP) camp for non-Jewish Poles in Germany. Includes correspondence with his family; photographs; a bound, handwritten log of camp activities illustrated with photos; and a photo album of handmade crafts. Also includes Polish emblems, one mounted on a wooden plaque, and one with a chain.

  3. David Friedman collection

    Archival material documenting the legacy of artist David Friedman (donor's father) including artist's scrapbook with photographs, correspondence, exhibit brochures and catalogs, press clippings, magazines book and DVD (for Library) and "Warsaw Ghetto Aufstand" (pen and ink drawing with color)

  4. Kim family collection

    The collection consists of of correspondence, documents, photographs, identification cards, and other original materials pertaining to Max and Regina (née Tenenbaum) Kim and their daughter Betty, as extended family members in Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. Included in the collection is a letter from Cordell Hull relating to their efforts to get visas and leave Nazi Germany. The collection also includes a Star of David "Juif" badge worn by Regina’s brother Joseph Tenenbaum, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in France.

  5. Loewenstein family collection

    Consists of documents related to the Loewenstein family, originally of Luxembourg. Includes ration books, identity paperwork, and inventories from pre-war Luxembourg, Gurs, wartime France, and post-war Luxembourg. Also includes a paper document pouch.

  6. Philipson collection

    The collection consists of a opy of the Rainbow Map: large illustrated map of the Rainbow Division's 1945 campaign and assorted restitution documentation from various Holocaust survivors,

  7. Karl and Julie Lotti Baum collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust of Karl Baum and his wife Julialotte Zwaab who survived the Holocaust. Also included is information on their extended family.

  8. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, a ruler and a banknote relating to the experiences of Erna Appenzeller Kent, and her maternal and paternal families, the Dukes and Appenzellers in Vienna, Austria, Milan, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal and the United States before, during and after the Holocaust.

  9. József Katona collection

    Papers relating to Rabbi József Katona, the chief rabbi of Dohány, Hungary. Inlcudes correspondence, typescript text of sermons, documents, newspapers, and further information about Rabbi Dr. Katona and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Vice President Henry A. Wallace collection

    The collection consists of a briefcase, two ribbons, a stamp, two portfolios of handmade miniature textiles, documents, artwork, books, photographs, and fliers relating to the French Resistance during WWII and presented to former Vice President Henry A. Wallace in France after the Holocaust.

  11. Zyga Butler collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, prayerbook, diary, and artifacts illustrating the experience of Zyga Butler.

  12. Zonligt family collection

    Correspondence, postcards, photographs, pocket mirror, wooden cradle, diary, poesie book, reports, naturalization documents, published works, awards and other original materials pertaining to the Zonligt and Blitz families of the Netherlands, Belgium, and later of the United States. Gerard Samuel Zonligt's postwar work as an U.N.R.R.A. DP camp administor is also covered therein.

  13. Salzmann family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, medical bags, a prayer book, and smoking pipes that relate to the experiences of Berthold Salzmann, his sister Ernesta Spieler, and their family in Austria, and Germany before and during the Holocaust and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  14. Lilly Morawetz collection

    The collection consists of a photograph case carried by Lilly Morawetz, a Jewish Austrian refugee, from the Czech Republic through France, including while in Gurs and a jewelry case carried by her when she was deported by the French police from Paris to the Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal. When the family was imprisoned in Spain, this case was taken from Lilly, but because she had lost the key, they couldn’t open it and her jewelry remained safe. She carried the case with her to the US in 1941.

  15. Frederic Zeller collection

    Correspondence; diaries; documents; photographs; interview; of David Borgenicht (one of “The Boys”); manuscript of unfinished chapters of second book: “Friendly Enemy Allien”; negatives; all related to the Zeller family of Berlin: Heinrich Zeller and Fanny Gottesmann Zeller and their two children: Frederic and Lilian. Pocket Watch: which Heinrich Zeller left with a French woman he worked for, when he was in a camp in South of France. Heinrich Zeller left this watch and a suit with the French woman as he was deported to Drancy. The woman located Frederic after the war and returned the watch ...

  16. Vamos family collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and artifacts illustrating prewar German Jewish life, flight to United Kingdom and immigration to USA of Ruth Haack Vamos, Arthur Vamos, their daughter Maureen and extended family. Also included are personal oral histories recorded by the family.

  17. Maria Strashnaya family collection

    The collection consists of a bucket and pitcher relating to the experiences of Maria Strashnaya and the Strashnaya family, who concealed their Jewish neighbors, the Gurvits family, in Beleavinţi, Romania (now Moldova), during the Holocaust.

  18. John Van Ellis collection

    Collection of John B. Vanellis, later Van Ellis, pertaining to his years of service with the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Collection is comprised of 2 albums/scrapbooks, unit histories, military commendations, photographs, unit patches, undeveloped film, publications, correspondence, shell fragment, and other original materials. Among these items are period copies of original arrest records of high ranking Nazi officials prepared in Camp Ashcan (Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure No. 32) prior to their transfer to Nuremberg for prosecution by Allied authorities.

  19. Collected documents, correspondence and exchange media

    “Statute of Kalisz” published by Artur Szyk in Paris, France; c. 1926-1932; based on a legal document issued in 1264 by a Polish Duke, Boleslaw the Pious, granting Jews civil liberties – in the USHMM Library; documents, scrips, stamps, SS coupons, correspondence; coins.

  20. Dr. Friedrich Rösing collection

    The collection consists of an eye color tool and a skin color tool used as part of anthropological race studies during the eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.