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  1. Schloss family collection

    Original family photographs, documentation for visa and immigration from Germany, France, Cuba, United States, and 2 small books.

  2. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, scrip, publications, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland.

  3. Signed testimonies of the Simon Carmel collection

    Interviews and recordings featuring Deaf survivors of the Holocaust

  4. Maria de Kornfeld collection

    Oral history interview with Maria de Kornfeld

  5. Norman K. Holloway collection

    The collection consists of a Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal and a photograph relating to the experiences of Norman K. Holloway as a soldier in the United States Army 6th Armored Division in Germany during World War II and an oral history compact disc recorded in 2004.

  6. Polish Railroad Authority collection

    The collection consists of railroad signal lanterns, a switch lamp, a station telephone, and station signs used in the daily operations of the railroads in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  7. Anna Sved Blum collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences Anna Sved Blum and her parents Dezső and Ernesztina (Segő) Sved of Budapest, Hungary. Included are birth, death and wedding certificates, photographs, report card, identification cards, immigration papers, family history documents, a personal narrative by Anna describing her Holocaust experiences, and a narrative/claim in German regarding the confiscation of belongings. Additionally, there are digital audio recordings of interviews of Anna conducted by her son.

  8. Honig family collection

    Honig family papers to include documents, correspondence, diary, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, translations, writings, small photo album, and military medals.

  9. Zajaczkowska family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to Sweden notifying Basia that her brother, Leon Zajaczkowski, in a Polish Army camp, and that her husband is in Italy. It also includes pre and post war photographs, vaccination cards, baggage claim...

  10. Lucien and Marthe Dreyfus portraits

    Portraits of Lucien and Marthe Dreyfus.

  11. Rose and Ben Gross collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, photographs and identification cards for Rose and Ben Gross who survived the Holocaust in Europe, met in Reichenbach and married.

  12. Ray D'Addario collection

    The collection consists of a United States Army issue uniform jacket, three shirts, and a tie relating to the experiences of Ray D'Addario, a Signal Corps photographer during and after World War II when he was assigned to cover the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Avery Rosh collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, American servicemen, and European and American witnesses to World War II

  14. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Albanian Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Albanian Witnesses Documentation Project

  15. John and Harriet Isaack collection

    The John and Harriet Isaack collection consists of John’s description of his wartime experiences, Chinese currency and scrip, an original drawing, and biographical, photographic, and printed materials documenting the Isaacks' escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States.

  16. Pilsen Liberation Photographs collection

    Pilsen liberation photographs consist of black-and-white photographs of the liberation of Pilsen (Plzeň), Czechoslovakia and the arrival of the United States Army to the city. Pilsen was liberated on May 6, 1945 by the 16th Armored Division of General Patton's 3rd Army as well as by elements of the 97th and 2nd Infantry Divisions supported by the Polish Holy Cross Mountains Brigade. Elements of the 3rd Army, as well as units from the 1st Army, remained in Plzeň until late November 1945. Images depict parades, memorials, Czech president Edvard Beneš, General George Patton, war damage, soldie...

  17. Shirley R. Hyman art collection

    Collection of artwork created by multiple artists including Karl Schwesig and other artists in various French internment camps including St. Cyprien and Les Milles; dated c. 1940-1941

  18. Dr. Henry Kupfer family collection

    The collection consists of a child's coat and matching hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer, for his daughter, during his service in the Soviet Army during World War II.

  19. Ullman family collection

    Documents, correspondence, poetry, photograph albums, loose photographs, ephemera, audiovisual materials, and other items related to Leo S. Ullman and his family's life in the Netherlands prior to World War II, and their experiences in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands after 1940. Also includes material about their post-war lives in the Netherlands and immigration to the United States. Also included is the memoir of Emily Ullman, titled "A Stormy Survival" (1976), "Stories by Emily Ullman," the memoir of Leo Ullman, titled "796 Days," family geneaological data, and book...

  20. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    The collection consists of document cases, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fred Loy (born Alfred Löwenstein), Lola Stern Loy, Julius Loewenstein, and their families in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and China before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.