Archival Descriptions

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  1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal, some relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 and others on biblical themes or Jewish culture and his life in Israel.

  2. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket, a pin, a pouch, a towel, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Franka Rosenblum and Julian Hirshfeld and their families in Poland and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and in a displaced persons camp in Paris, France, where they married after the end of World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Post-Holocaust oral history collection

    This is a supplemental interviewing project to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history project, RG-50.030, containing interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, war crimes prosecutors, and other witnesses to the events of the Holocaust. The focus of this collection, RG-50.549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre (Melbourne, Vic.)

    Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the Melbourne, Victoria, Australia area.

  5. Faces of the Holocaust oral history collection

    Contains oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, a child of Holocaust survivors and a German exchange student from the Dayton, Ohio, area

  6. Oral history interviews of the Flight and Rescue collection

    Contains oral history interviews with twenty Holocaust survivors and witnesses recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, "Flight and Rescue," which opened May 3, 2000. The interviewees discuss their experiences of their journey from Lithuania to Shanghai, China, via Japan

  7. Samuel Zisman collection

    The collection consists of an UNRRA patch, a leather notebook case, and archival papers including biographical materials, team records, drawings and maps, memoranda and reports, personal correspondence, photographs, and printed materials, relating to the experiences of Samuel Zisman as a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director of District 5 in Bavaria from 1945-1947.

  8. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains records captured by the Red Army around the end of World War II currently housed at the Russian State Military Archive, formerly the Osobyi archives. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections (CPHDC) and in 1999 The Russian Archives Committee merged the CPHDC into the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA) located next door. The RGVA contains prewar Soviet military documents. While the Osobyi is now a part of RGVA, the old Osobyi fond numbers for the various collections remain unchanged. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the...

  9. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.

  10. Jack Ratz collection

    The collection consists of a HIAS pin, a ring made from a ring, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Isaak Racs during the Holocaust in Riga, Latvia, and Lenta, Stutthof, Burggraben, and Goddentow concentration camps, and after the Holocaust in Landsberg, Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower, and a wooden cover, metal box, toolbox, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszow ghetto and imprisoned Plaszow forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenburg concentration camp, after the war in a displaced persons camp, and a metal box, wooden cover, and poesie album relating to the experiences of Doba Drezner in an orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland. An accretion of documents, photographs, correspondence...

  12. Ruth Loewenstein collection

    Doll: handmade by Annie Loewenstein (donor's mother) in Munich, Germany. The Loewenstein family: Willy (donor's father) [b. 1894], Annie [b. 1904], Ruth (donor) [b. 1929], and Marianne (donor's sister) [b. 1932], were able to leave Germany in August 1939 for England. Ruth and Marianne were wearing thin gold bracelets on their wrists and each carried a doll. The German guard at the Dutch border tore off the bracelets, but did not pay any attention to the dolls. Upon arrival in New York on September 10, 1940, Annie took the heads off the dolls, in which she had hidden valuables. She sold the ...

  13. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation project recorded by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 383 interviews in the collection date from 1991 to 2000 with two new additions in 2011, and as an ongoing project, additional interviews will be added. The interviews are recorded in a variety of languages including Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.

  14. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    The collection consists of German military uniform clothing and accessories: dress jacket, four hats, helmet, two canteens, belt, and nine shoulder boards relating to the experiences of Bernard B. Cohen, as a soldier in the United States Third Army, European Theater of Operations, during World War II.

  15. Michael C. Lanham collection

    The collection consists of two rings related to membership in the Nazi Party and the German military.

  16. Miriam Novitch collection

    The collection consists of two scrip of the type issued in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto and a damaged prayer book relating to the experiences of Miriam Novitch after the Holocaust in Europe.

  17. David Friedman collection

    The collection consists of one etching, eleven drawings and six paintings created by David Friedmann (from 1960, Friedman) after the war based upon his experiences during the Holocaust in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in Poland from October 1941 - August 1944 and as a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz I, and Blechhammer concentration camps from August 1944 until his liberation soon after a death march on January 25, 1945.

  18. Lili Andrieux collection

    The collection consists of 91 sketches by Lili Andrieux depicting life in several internment camps and collection centers in France from 1941-1942: Camp de Gurs 1940 - 1941; Police Center Hotel Terminus du Port, Marseille - 1942; Les Milles - 1942.

  19. La Grange Park Library collection

    The collection consists of an unused envelope and a piece of letterhead stationery for the Reichswerke Aktiengesellschaft für Erzbergbau und Eisenhütten "Hermann Göring", an armaments factory established by Nazi Germany in Linz, Austria, in 1938, just before World War II.