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  1. Helen and Harry Berger collection

    Collection contains scrip and documents related to Helen Berger (nee Blum) and Harry Berger (aka Chaim David Berger); includes Helen's wartime documents under the name Helen Borciszewska. It also contains a cigarette case taken from the home of an SS soldier and family that Helen Blum worked as a nanny for.

  2. Heymann and Frank families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, and other materials primarily relating to the Heymann and Frank families before, during, and after the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Collection includes, but is not limited to: pre-war documents, ration cards, cookbook, poesie book, certificates, report cards, notes, correspondence, identity documents, passport, prayer books, small portfolio, a family book, and a booklet.

  4. Henry Landman collection

    Collection contains correspondence, documents, photographs, leaflets, postcards, and related materials, including a yarmulke, which document the immigration of Joseph and Regina Landman, and their son Henry (Heinz), originally of Augsburg, Germany, to the United States as a result of anti-Semitic persecution in Germany. Includes biographical documents about Joseph and Regina, sports awards received by Henry in Augsburg, prior to emigration; correspondence with relatives of Regina Landmann, including the Aretz family; documents and ephemera related to Henry's service in the United States Arm...

  5. Danielle [Fernande] Halerie Snegg and David Snegg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a drawing and correspondence relating to the experiences of Avram, Marguerite, Danielle [Fernande], and David Halerie in France during and after the Holocaust.

  6. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: armbands, a badge, a leaflet, military insignia, a pennant, a ring, and scrip relating to the experiences of Harold Goldberg as a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

  7. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    The collection consists of two change purses relating to the experiences of Johanna Hirsch following her deportation from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs internment camp in France during the Holocaust.

  9. Łódź ghetto hand tools collection

    The collection consists of a variety of shoe and garment-making tools of the type used in Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  10. Hidden Child Foundation records

    The collection consists of documents, media, correspondence, and a piece of Theresienstadt scrip, relating to the Hidden Child Foundation (a part of the Anti-Defamation League), in New York after the Holocaust.

  11. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    The collection consists of an earring, tooth bridge, paper bags, a prayer book, documents, memoirs, and a composition book, relating to the experiences of Leopold and Herta Schwartzbart Stoer and their families in Austria before the Holocaust and in Austria, Belgium, Poland, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  12. Peter Masters collection

    Material pertaining to the experiences of Peter Masters (donor's husband) [nee Arany] a Viennese Jewish refugee who served in the British commandos: Album with material documenting his service in 3 Troop of the British Commandos which contains photographs of various servicemen, documents and shoulder patches; Peter Masters's Solder's Service Pay Book; Precis on Military Law; Maps of Germany used in Peter Masters's military service; Confiscated service card from German POW; Correspondence from other members of 3 Troop, their families, and historians; Information about the fate of Peter Giles...

  13. Paul Shapiro collection

    Antisemitic Romanian pamphlet illustrated with cartoon characters and coupon for mandatory donation to help pay for the integration of Bukhovina and Transnistria into Greater Romania.

  14. Arie Torner collection

    The collection consists of a belt, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Arie Torner in the Netherlands and Poland before World War II, in several forced labor camps and in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust, and in the Netherlands and the United States after the war.

  15. Lucie Steinhagen collection

    The collection consists of photographs, song lyrics, a Star of David, scrip, and a document relating to the experiences of Lucie Steinhagen and her friend Rita Rosenberger in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Vienna, and Freiberg during the Holocaust.

  16. Margret Hantman collection

    The collection consists of a dress, brassiere, Star of David pendant and badge, Theresienstadt scrip, commemorative pendant, documents, photographs, and a memoir relating to the experiences of Margret Hantman in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  17. Gaon family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, folk objects, coffee pots, a bowl, a tray, a bottle and a pair of socks that relate to the experiences of Mencham, Lottie, and Izzica Gaon and Esther Mussafia before, during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Susi Traumann Lewinsky collection

    The collection consists of children’s illustrated books, documents, photographs, a prayerbook, news articles and periodicals relating to Susi Traumann Lewisnsky.

  19. Goldschmied (Gilbert) Family Collection

    THe collection consists of family papers of Albin Goldschmied and Louise Ohs Goldschmied, their daughter Renée, and their parents Leopold and Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a notebook, a silk textile fragment, a cardboard box and related materials. Date range is late 19th century to the 1960s. Majority of the papers concern the emigration of Albin, Louise, and Renée Goldschmied from Prague through the efforts of Waitstill and Martha Sharp and their experiences as new ...

  20. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Swedish Witnesses project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Swedish Witnesses project