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  1. Oral histories from the Louis Cavagnaro collection

    Contains eighteen sound cassettes of oral history interviews conducted with liberators and Louis Cavagnaro's notes for his unfinished manuscript about concentration camps

  2. Research Project of Jewish Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps affiliated with the Volkswagen Corporation collection

    Contains eleven interviews regarding slave labor experiences in Nazi concentration camps affiliated with the Volkswagen Corporation

  3. Shmuel Zygielbojm collection

    Newspaper articles about Shmuel Zygielbojm and a reel tape.

  4. Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial in Richmond, Virginia

    Contains photocopies of documents relating to the history of the Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, correspondence, speeches, clippings, invitations, program brochures and booklets containing the names of Holocaust victims, and a video recording of the November 7,1999 Kristallnacht Memorial Service at the Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial.

  5. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

    Contains testimonies written by concentration camp liberators during the 1981 International Liberators Conference held in Washington, D.C., in October 1981. The testimonies describe liberation experiences at various Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe at the end of World War II. Also included are letters from Miles Lerman and Elie Wiesel to the liberators describing the International Liberators Conference. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Alex and Boots Kertesz family collection

    The collection consists of five antisemitic posters published in Nazi Germany.

  8. Isaac Bitton collection

    Consist of materials concerning the situation of Portuguese Jews during and after the Holocaust. Among the topics covered are emigration to Palestine, the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and the Nahariya memorial to Jewish refugees. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Mordecai E. Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of armbands, a card, and drawings by Alfred Glück relating to the experiences of Mordecai E. Schwartz during his wartime service in the United States Army and after the war when he served as Area Director for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) from 1945 to 1948 and then as Area Director for the International Refugee Organization in Germany.

  10. Oral history interviews of the University of California, Los Angeles Holocaust Testimonies Project

    Contains interviews with 59 Holocaust survivors in the Los Angeles, California area recorded by the University of California, Los Angeles Holocaust Testimonies Project in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Christian Rescuers Project

    Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel

  12. Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo oral history collection

    Contains interviews with 96 Holocaust survivors, liberators, resistance fighters, and Righteous Gentiles in the Buffalo, N.Y. area

  14. Oral history interviews of the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies

    Contains interviews with 31 Holocaust survivors in the Dallas, TX area

  15. Jacqueline Pollen collection

    The collection consists of a Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip and a Westerbork transit camp voucher.

  16. Raoul Wallenberg Project Archive collection

    Consists of interviews and transcripts collected by the Raoul Wallenberg Project containing testimony of Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The interviews contain information about the diplomatic work of the Swedish government and its agents, among them Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, and Charles Lutz, in Hungary (primarily Budapest) during 1944 and 1945. Also contains records copied from Sweden's Foreign Office, the Hungarian Interior Ministry, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York, the Public Record Office in London, and the War Refugee Board in Hyde Park, N.Y.

  17. Oral history interviews of the National Council of Jewish Women Cleveland Section Holocaust Archive Project

    The interviews document the experiences of 136 Holocaust survivors, Righteous Gentiles, and former concentration camp liberators from the Cleveland, Ohio, area.

  18. Hadassah Rosensaft oral history collection

    Interviews with 15 Holocaust survivors documenting their experiences as children during the Holocaust.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Emmanuel Ringelblum collection of Oral History Memoirs of the Holocaust

    The interviews, conducted from 1977 to 1991, discuss the experiences of thirty-four Holocaust survivors from the Dayton area. While not all interviewees were imprisoned in concentration camps, each had his or her life greatly changed by the Holocaust, The videotape versions of the interviews were used to create the program, "Faces of the Holocaust."

  20. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history volunteer collection

    Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life before World War II, life in the ghettos, life in concentration camps, and life after the Holocaust.