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  1. Wachs family collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry Wachs and his family before the Holocaust in Mrotschen (today Mrocza, Poland) and 1916 in Berlin, Germany. and during the Holocaust in Belgium, Great Britain, Australia, Palestine, and the United States.

  2. Ernest Michel collection

    Correspondence from Ernest Michel, originally of Mannheim, Germany, that he sent to an American pen-pal (Robert Lindsay, of Wilmington, Delaware) from 1937-1939, as well as selected postwar documents, and a DVD titled "Ernest Michel: Memories of a Lifetime" (undated). Also includes a file of materials related to an Auschwitz-Buna Memorial Dinner in New York, and to survivors of that camp, 1964.

  4. Hess, Spier and Steinberg family collection

    The collection consists of two typescript memoirs, photographs, and Hanukiah relating to the experiences of Walter Hess and Hannah Spier Hess and her family in Germany, Ecuador and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  5. Fried and Faktor families collection

    The collection consist of an apron, documents, photographs, and other materials related to the experiences of Ann Fried Buchsbaum, her parents, Judka (Bernard) and Laura Dickmann Fried Faktor, and her stepfather, Alois (Lou) Faktor and his family in prewar Vienna, Austria, and their efforts to emigrate to the U.S. Also included are photographs of Ann’s husband, Walter Buchsbaum, a refugee from Vienna, rescued by Ben Buchsbaum, who served in the U.S. Army.

  6. Bielski family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs chiefly relating to the experiences of Dr. Johannes Bielski, his wife Dr. Hildegard Bielski, and their daughter Marion before and during the Holocaust when they escaped to the United States in November 1939 and als to the experiences of Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents for America in 1940.

  7. Bier family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, identification in wallet, papers and photographs illustrating the Bier family who resided in Berlin and family that fled from Nazi Germany. Particularly documented is Siegfried Bier (donor's husband's uncle) who fled to France and then the UK where he was interned as an enemy alien, and eventually then to the US.

  8. Sigall family collection

    Correspondence, identification documents, photographs, and related materials, concerning the emigration of Emmy (née Sigall) Loeb, from her home in Darmstadt, Germany, on a “Kindertransport” to Britain in 1939; her settlement in Britain; and the efforts of her parents, Hermann and Natalie Sigall, and brother, Alex, to leave Germany in the years that followed.

  9. Reicher family collection

    Two rabbincal tractates hidden in Polish town of Jelesnia near Krakow in 1939 by non-Jewish neighbors. Prayerbooks belonged to Rabbi Mordechai Reicher and were entrusted to a neighbor by his wife Chaja. Iin 2004, Esther retreived the books (by chance). Both of her parents perished during the Holocaust.

  10. Eliyahu and Ninette Cohen collection

    Collection of photographs, identity photos, and photo torn from identity card that document Eliyahu Cohen, his wife Ninette (nee Arish), their family and friends in Tunis, Marseille, and Israel primarily after the Holocaust; dated circa 1948-1950s. Cobbler’s last used by Eliyahu Cohen in Tunis, Tunisia when he began as an apprentice shoemaker after liberation.

  11. Felice Zimmern Stokes collection

    Consists of copies of correspondence and post-war documents related to the experiences of Felice Zimmern Stokes. Includes copies of correspondence (with English translations) written by members of the Zimmern family in 1939-1942, including letters written in the Gurs internment camp. Also includes documents related to Felice Zimmern Stokes' membership in hidden children organizations, information related to the fate of her parents, David and Lydia Zimmern, both of whom perished, and correspondence with memorial associations. Suitcase carried by Felice Stokes when she immigrated to the Unite...

  12. Juan Jorge and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts relating to the experiences of Juan Jorge Schäffer (b. Vienna) and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer (b. Mannheim), both of whom fled Nazi occupation and immgrated to Uruguay. The collection includes photographs of the extended Schäffer family, school documents, restitution papers as well as a clock brought to Uruguay by a German Jewish refugee and a pre-war Viennese dance card.

  13. Wartime board game and Atlit/Latrun detention camp photographs collection

    The collection consists of a World War II board game, The Road to Victory, and photographs of Atlit and Latrun detainee camps in Israel (Palestine).

  14. Isle of Man collection

    Illustration of one of the detention camps in Douglas., Isle of Man. Stenciled leaf, hand colored. dated in print "Douglas, 1940" at the bottom of the leaf is a handwritten dedication by two brothers whose surname is Gartner - former detainees at the Central Camp in Douglas; in English; dated 1940 Postcard, printed and hand colored for Chanukah, printed at the Mooragh detention camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 1940. On recto is an illustration of an eight branched menorah (not a hanukkiah) surrounded with rays of light, in a light blue frame with Stars of David on the corners and the caption "Lig...

  15. Oral history interviews of the Mária Tóth collection

    Oral history interviews with non-Jewish eyewitnesses on the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in the town of Csákvár, Hungary.

  16. Martin and Hertha Hirsch family collection

    The collection consists of artwork reproductions, documents, photographs, and publications related to the experiences of Martin and Hertha Hirsch and their daughters, Dorothea and Stephanie, during the Holocaust when they left Germany for the United States in 1938-1939 and a memoir by Dorothea Hirsch Bartha, written circa 1995.

  17. Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia collection

    Doors and windows from the Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia

  18. Susanne Berglind collection

    Six works of art created by artist Susanne Berglind (donor's mother) illustrating her experiences during the Holocaust. Susanne Zimmerman was born in Miskolic, Hungary and was interned in the ghetto there. Susanne was deported to a series of concentration camps with her sister and mother, including Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen Belsen. Her mother died at liberation in Bergen-Belsen. The six works of art, which are watercolor on tissue or pastel on paper, document these experiences. Susanne was taken to Sweden after liberation on June 28, 1945 on the Kastleholm, where she recuperated.

  19. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    The collection consists of patches, scrip, stamps, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry and Irene Silberstein Frank and their relatives in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany and the United States after World War II.

  20. Oral history interviews of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Legacy Project

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who are asked to consider broad, philosophical questions such the meaning of their Holocaust experiences; their reflections on how being a survivor has shaped their worldview, and what they wish their legacies to be.