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  1. Tom Schaumberg collection

    Documents, photographs, artifacts and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Ernst Schaumberg born 1906 in Kircheim, Germany, his wife Gertrude “Pollo” Schaumberg, [neé Leda] born 1911 in Oldenburg, Germany and their son, Tom, born 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1943, family was deported to Westerbork transit camp in Netherlands and then in February 1944, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. From there, in April 1945, they were transported towards the east, and, almost two weeks in to the journey, were liberated in Troebitz, Germany. Includes a photograph album.

  2. Lilienthal family collection

    The Lilienthal family collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, and business records documenting the Lilienthal family from Mönchengladbach, the aryanization of their fabric business, their immigration to the United States, and the printing company and magazine Ernest Lilienthal established in New York.The collection also includes an original pencil sketch by architect Bruno Paul.

  3. Felix Kaszub collection

    The collection consists of a passport holder, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Felix Kaszub, originally of Krośniewice, Poland, during and after the Holocaust, when he was imprisoned in Krośniewice ghetto, and Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps, as well as his postwar travel and immigration to the United States.

  4. László Rosenthal collection

    The collection consists of two wooden boxes owned by László Rosenthal.

  5. Larry Gladstone family collection

    The collection consists of three wallets, currency, scrip, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ladislav Glattstein (later Larry Gladstone) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  6. Fela and Chaim Perelman collection

    The collections consists of medals, correspondence, documents, memoirs, newspaper clippings, publications, and videocassettes relating to the experiences of Drs. Fela and Chaim Perelman, before, during, and after the war in Belgium where they were active in the Jewish underground and then in the care of refugees and postwar emigration to Palestine, and later ardent supporters of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The collection also includes oral history interviews with Fela Perelman, which were conducted by Jean-Philippe Schreiber between 1984 and 1989.

  7. Norman A. Miller family collection

    The collection consists of religious and military artifacts, correspondence, a diary, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Norman A. Miller and his family before and during the Holocaust in Nuremberg, Germany, and in Great Britain where Miller was a Kindertransport refugee and later a World War II soldier, as well as his postwar life in England, Canada, and the United States.

  8. Esther Rada collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Jan Marie Schoffelen who was born July 14, 1921 in Heerlen, Netherlands and worked along with his wife Ingrid Koke-Schoffelen during WWII as a Dutch resister in Sittard, Netherlands and surrounding areas. Jan's account is included and identifies their work mainly responsible for "transporting, hiding, and freeing" allied pilots shot down and in the area of Sittard. As an active resister, Jan was arrested, released and followed by the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging [NSB], Dutch collaborators, as well as Germans. Eventually, he went into hiding an...

  9. Denes and Janos Adler family collection

    The collection consists of a World War I medal, scrip and currency, a Star of David badge, a tablecloth, albums, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a publication related to the experience of brothers Denes and Janos Adler, originally of Szeged, Hungary, and members of their extended families, as well as the family of Eva Timar Adler before, during, and after the Holocaust, when Denes emigrated before the war and Eva and Janos survived forced labor camps and emigrated to the United States following the war.

  10. Ernst and Johanna Weihs collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ernst and Johanna Weihs, both originally of Vienna, Austria. Included are identification documents of Ernst and Johanna, certificates of Ernst and Johanna certifying that they were prisoners of Auschwitz and eligible for benefits in Vienna, and an identification document certifying that Ernst was a prisoner at Dachau. The collection also includes two pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip.

  11. Jean Jones collection

    The collection consists of wooden toys, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and booklets relating to the experiences of Jean Jones in Iowa, who received them from her German pen pal, Irmgard Richter, whose parents were teachers in Berlin.

  12. Magdolna Schrieber collection

    The collection consists of two SS Standart Kantine Buchenwald Außenkommando scrip relating to the experiences of Magdolna Schrieber who was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  13. Joseph Strip family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, currency, flier, patches, correspondence, diaries, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the Holocaust when they fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France, and, after a year, for the United States, as well as for Joseph's US Army service in Germany beginning in 1944.

  14. Veronika Pártos Lakatos family collection

    The collection consists of a doll and an envelope relating to the experience of Veronika Pártos and her family in prewar Hungary and during World War II when Veronika lived in hiding.

  15. 19th century antisemitic print collection

    The collection consists of five nineteenth century lithographs depicting scenes of antisemitism.

  17. Joseph and Ruth Rosenberg collection

    The collection consists of a comb, scrip, tags, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Josef Rosenberg and Ruth Wolman, both born in Poland and interned in Łódź ghetto, various concentration camps, and liberated in Bergen-Belsen, where they met, married and had their daughter Bella.

  18. Inge Braunwasser Steinberger family collection

    The collection consists of a cigar holder, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Inge (Braunwasser) Steinberger, originally of Vienna, Austria, and her parents, Simon and Elsa Braunwass emigration to the United States in 1939.

  19. Sutin Family Collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, negative film, and moving images documenting the experiences of the Sutin family in displaced persons' camp Neu Freimann-Siedlung in Germany. The moving images and still photography were shot by Jack Sutin donor in his capacity as photo journalist for the Yiddish newspaper Jidisze Cajtung. The film footage features daily scenes and sporting events in Neu Freimann, Sutin family footage, and a meeting of the Third Congress of the Shearit Ha-Pletah in Munich

  20. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families collection

    The collection consists of a passport case, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Eugen Lilienthal during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and, after the Holocaust, from Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as documents related to the emigration of Max and Margo Fraenkel from Germany to the United States prior to the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.