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  1. Henry Baigelman collection

    The collection consists of three musical instruments: two violins with fitted cases and a saxophone with a fitted case, as well as instrument accessories, relating to the experiences of Henry Baigelman and his family before and during their incarceration in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland, prior to their deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that toured displaced persons camps after the war.

  2. Norman Fellman collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner identification tag, dog tags, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Norman Fellman, soldier, Company B, 275th regiment, 70th Infantry Division, United States Army, as well as documents from other US soldiers, who, like Norman, were held as German prisoners of war in Stalag IX-B and Berga slave labor camp from January to April 1945.

  3. Moshe Matarasso collection

    The collection consists of three paintings, handcrafted woodlinks, a document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Moshe Matarasso during and after the Holocaust.

  4. Yasinow and Wurtz family collection

    The collection consists of signs, an armband, documents, and newspapers relating to the experiences of Dr. J. Benjamin and Rose Kaplan Yasinow in the United States and Alexander Wurtz in the United States Army during and after World War II.

  5. Gustav J. Meyer collection

    The collection consists of three Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp notes, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gustav (Gus) Meyer in prewar Germany and during his journey on a Kindertransport to Great Britain.

  6. Miriam Reinharz Klein collection

    The collection consists of photographs and two prayer books relating to the experiences of the Reinharz, Sturm, and Schech families before the Holocaust in Przemysl, Poland, and after the Holocaust in Sweden; photographs of the Banasiewicz family who hid Mr. and Mrs. Reinharz and their son Samek; and photographs of Berek Dov Klein, originally from Chrzanow, who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

  7. Amalia Reisenthel collection

    The collection consists of a German newspaper, a photograph, and a sketch relating to the experiences of the Bren family and Artek Schneider and friends from the Zionist Youth movement before, during, and after World War II in Poland.

  8. John J. Truty collection

    The collection consists of six uniform patches, a map, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of John J. Truty as a medic with the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps) under General Walker, United States Third Army during combat in Europe during World War II.

  9. Carl Werner Lenneberg collection

    The collection consists of World War I medals, ribbons, and shoulder boards, currency, a DRL sports badge, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Carl Werner Lenneberg and his family before the Holocaust in Germany, during their voyage on the MS St Louis in 1939, and emigration to the United States in 1940.

  10. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of a billfold, currency, documents, oral history compact discs, photographs, and postcards relating to the experiences of Shlamke and Shanke Orlinsky Minuskin, their two young sons, Henikel (Harold) and Kalmanke, and their extended families in prewar Zhetel, Poland, in the Zhetel ghetto and the surrounding forests with the partisans during the Holocaust, and as refugees in Germany and then the United States after the war, and a billfold, day planner, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lew Minuskin who was in Siberia during the war.

  11. Julie Lando collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and publications relating to the family of Julie Lando who emigrated from Bamberg, Germany, to the United States in 1936.

  12. Boris Taslitzky collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Boris Taslitzky in Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors collection

    Oral history interviews with Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Gerald Schneiderman collection

    Oral history interviews with Poles who later in life discovered they have Jewish roots.

  15. Theresa Flaherty collection

    Consists of one musical score for piano, entitled "Chopin-Auswahl: dreissig Klaviercompositionen von Friedrich Chopin fur den Unterricht progressiv geordnet und herausgegeben von Karl Zuschneid" published in 1930 in Berlin and containing markings designating it as part of the holdings of the prisoner library in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Also includes one identity card for Sylvia Apfelbojm as a forced laborer in Drohobycz in 1944, including a photograph. The work pass identifies her hometown as Boryslaw and her occupation as pianist.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Dessayer family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Dessayer Family collection.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Germany Documentation Project.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Herb Krosney collection

    Oral history interviews produced for use in the film Kovno Ghetto: A Buried History.

  19. Lori Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a pillowcase and a photograph relating to the experiences of Lori Kohn in Bucharest, Romania, during the Holocaust.

  20. Gerald Schwab collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Gerald Schwab