Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 23,501 to 23,520 of 56,066
  1. Sidney Lindenheim family collection

    The collection consists of a pin, documents, a notebook, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Siegfried (later Sidney) Lindenheim and other family members before and during his immigration to the United States in 1939.

  2. Alec Tulkoff collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documenets, numismatics, maps, photographs, and publications relating to the history of the Jews and of the Holocaust in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Germany.

  3. US propaganda buttons, pins, and realia collection

    The collection consists of twenty-four US World War II propaganda buttons, pins, and realia.

  4. Hans Drabinowski collection

    The collection consists of a crocheted pillowcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Drabinowski (later Hanan Arnon) during and after the Holocaust in Denmark and Israel.

  5. Gerhard and Ursula Naumann Maschkowski collection

    The collection consists of scrip, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gerhard Maschkowski before the Holocaust in Elbing, Germany, and during the Holocaust in Neuendorf and Auschwitz concentration camps, and of documents, correspondence, and photographic postcards relating to the experiences of Ursula Naumann (later Maschkowski) and her family during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt, and to both Gerhard and Ursula after the war in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, where they met, and in the United States where they later settled.

  6. Spector family collection

    Consists of identity papers documenting the post-war life of Clara (Klara) and Morris (Mauriczu) Silberman (later Spector), both Holocaust survivors. Includes copies of the birth certificate for their son, Steven (Schloma), born in 1948 while they were in the Zehlendorf displaced persons camp in Berlin, Clara's naturalization papers, restitution papers, and a DVD, entitled "Mrs. Clara Specter: What Can I Tell You?" [sic] containing video of Clara giving a presentation about her wartime experiences to a group of students.

  7. World War II American poster collection

    The collection consists of nine World War II propaganda and War Bond posters produced in the United States during World War II.

  8. Bob Levitan collection

    Consists of documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, and an oral history related to Hyman Robert (Bob) Levitan, a World War II veteran who became the captain of the SS Ben Hecht and illegally transported a group of refugees, mainly Holocaust survivors, to Palestine in 1947. The ship was intercepted by British warships and the passengers and crew were imprisoned. The crew was released after six months, while the refugees were eventually allowed into Palestine. The collection includes photographs taken on the ship and in prison, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and documents relat...

  9. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    The collection consists of a five piece silver cutlery set, a miniature ivory penknife, a silver locket, a miniature mother of pearl compass, an autograph book, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, photographs, printed materials, and school records relating to the experiences of Elizabeth M. Ornstein (later Orsten) and her family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and the Ornstein family’s immigration to the United States.

  10. Laurie Mitchell Billowitz collection

    The collection consist of two labels of the type mandated for use by Jewish physicians during the Nazi regime in Germany, 1933 - 1945.

  11. Breznik and Zylberglajt families collection

    Two limestone sculptures done by Arie Breznik (donor’s maternal cousin) from Boremel, Ukraine; one of the sculptures is symbolic grave for his family; Ink Drawing: done by Moshe Breznik (Arie’s 10-years-old brother), depicting Theodor Zeev Herzl. Arie kept it throughout the war in USSR. Correspondence: letters and postcards from Zylberglajt family in Warsaw, where Jankel Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal grandfather) was an owner of toy company at 51 Nowolipie Street; dated: 1936-1941 in Yiddish and Polish; other letters and postcards are from Zeev Zylberglajt’s friends and relatives, before th...

  12. JosMarie Vanderspek collection

    Audio and video recordings of JosMarie Vanderspek's presentation about her memories of the German invasion and occupation of the Netherlands from 1940-1945."

  13. Ardie Wickers collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner and flag pole finial relating to the experiences of Ardie Wickers, a US soldier, during the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany on April 4, 1945.

  14. Arthur Kerdemann collection

    The collection consists of documents, a memoir, and publications relating to the experiences of Arthur Kerdemann during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp, as well as materials he collected after the war.

  15. Ilona Winograd Barkal collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Ilona Winograd Barkal and her parents, Bella and Marcus Winograd, in Łódź, Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust during which they were separated and deported to different concentration camps.

  16. Miep Kaempfer-van Engel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Miep Kaempfer-van Engel as a hidden child in the Netherlands during and after the Holocaust.

  17. Flora and Louis Pearl collection

    The collection consists of a finger ring and documents relating to the experiences of Louis and Flora Stark Pearl and her parents in Hungary and in several concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  18. Dr. Francis W. Roscoe collection

    The collection consists of two portraits of Dr. Francis W. Roscoe painted by Josef Nassy when both men were imprisoned in Laufen internment camp during World War II.

  19. Minnie Vromen family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, clippings, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Minnie Vromen and her children, Clara and Jaap, while living in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  20. Mark C. Levy collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, and documents relating to the experiences of Mark C. Levy as a tank commander in the United States Army 4th Armored Division, 3rd Army, and as a military intelligence officer in Germany during and immediately after World War II.