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  2. Thomas Rehfisch collection

    Letters sent to donor's father Thomas Rehfisch (later Rey) from family in Germany and friends. Thomas Rehfisch immigrated to the UK from Germany in 1934. Also included in the collection are a slide rule and a first aid booklet sent to him from his mother in Germany (the slide rule was secondhand), and educational certificates.

  3. Lubran family collection

    The collection consists of a wedding dress, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and clippings relating to the experiences of Walter Lubran and his sister Alice Lubran Plocki before, during, and after the Holocaust in Europe and the United States.

  4. Oral history interviews of the documentary film "Under the Sky" collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Under the Sky," which features Jewish refugees who escaped the Second World War by way of Portugal.

  5. Margarete Schwarz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts documenting the experiences of Margarete (Gretl) Schwarz and other family members who fled Vienna. Includes photograph of her father in a frame, handwritten cookbooks, cigarette case, sewing case and crochet, embroidery tools, emigration documents, doily, prayer books, and a small hope chest.

  6. Dash family collection

    The collection consists of scrip, copy prints, documents, ID cards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Paula and Sol Dash and their daughter Lilly in Poland and Germany, during and after the Holocaust.

  7. Erna Ketchie Collection

    Collection of documents, letters, photographs, and scrip (24 items total)

  8. Ernest Weiss collection

    The collection consists of documents, papers, photographs, interrogation reports, publications, broadsides (German and American), maps, and books related to Ernest Weiss's service in the U.S. Army Intelligence. Also includes documents related to Eva Hausen Feuerman Weiss.

  9. Ernst and Hildegard Israel Collection

    The collection contains a painting done by Ernst Israel, dated c. 1951, that depicts China where he was during the Holocaust, and an interview to Susan G. Decker.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Paul Polansky collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by Paul Polansky with Roma and other subjects in Serbia/Vojvodina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Istanbul, featured in his three volume book series "One Blood, One Flame: The oral histories of the Yugoslav gypsies before, during, and after WWII."

  11. Oral history interviews of the Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race exhibition collection

    Oral history interviews with twelve Holocaust survivors recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race."

  12. Don and Ada Timmer collection

    Consists of copies of photographs and written testimonies related to the experiences of Don Timmer and his sister, Ada Timmer, both of whom were members of the United States military during World War II. Ada Timmer was an army nurse and worked in the Ebensee concentration camp after it was liberated, while Don Timmer participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the 89th Infantry. Includes two DVDs of oral history interviews with Don Timmer about his experiences; one was conducted by the Madison High School History Club in Mansfield, OH, and the other by Mr...

  13. Pentcho collection

    Consists of photographs depicting the voyage of the S.S. Pentcho and the internment of passangers at Rhodes and Ferramonti. The collection also includes two commemorative ribbons from 1980 with images of the Pentcho.

  14. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program. The collection is arranged chronologically.

  15. Dr. Carl W. Bordas Collection

    The collection consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence from former prisoners at Ebensee concentration camp, U.S. army documents, and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Dr. Carl W. Bordas in Austria and the United States during and after World War II.

  16. Oral history interviews, presentations, and recordings of the Mira Kimmelman collection

    Videotaped interviews, presentations, news features, and lectures related to the experiences of Holocaust survivor Mira Kimmelman

  17. Hendla Dzialoczynska (Anna Green) collection

    Postwar photographs of Hendla Dzialoczynska (later Anna Green) [donor's mother; Ruchla Dzialoczynska (nee Dztajnberg) [donor's grandmother], and Chaya Dzialoczynska Kretchmer (later Helen Herman) [donor's aunt], all of whom survived the Łódź Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. Also includes Hendla's needles wrapped in fabric and wince and placed in a small glass vial from Bergen Belsen (either concentration camp or displaced persons camp) as well as a photographic Jewish New Years card for the year 5740 (1949) from the Bergen Belsen DP camp.

  18. Violet Dattner collection

    The collection consists of handwritten notes of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial written by Violet Dattner as well as photographs, documents, and newsaper clippings of and from the trial. The collection also includes three maps of concentration camps and other materials relating to the Holocaust experiences of Wilhelm and Violet Dattner.

  19. Jecheskiel and Gertrude Rottholz Steinfink collection

    Photograph of Klara Steinfink (donor's paternal grandmother); photograph of Klara Steinfink's tombstone in Vienna, Austria; photograph of clothing store that belonged to donor's paternal grandfather. They are pictured in front of the store with their sons Owen (donor's father) and Alan; a prayer book from November 13, 1920 from a Bar Mitzvah that was saved by Owen.

  20. Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection

    Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection, which includes interviews with Israel Weinbaum (Izrael Wajnbaum); video footage of the Wine family trip to the village of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, which features conversations with Catholic Poles who hid the donor's father Albert Weinbaum (Adash Wajnbaum) and his parents Israel Weinbaum and Leah Weinbaum (Lola Orzech); and a report about the life of Leah Orzech Weinbaum produced by her great-granddaughter Jodie Cohen.