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  1. David C. Porter collection

    The collection consists of patches, pins, dog tags, a medal, boxes, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David C. Porter in the United States Army in Germany during World War II and after the war as a guard during the International Military Tribunal proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany.

  2. Peter R. Black research collection

    Consists of correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, memoir materials, and other research materials gathered by Peter R. Black in preparation for his 1981 Columbia University PhD dissertation, "Ideological Commitment and Personal Politics in the Third Reich: The Case of Ernst Kaltenbrunner." Also includes a bound copy of unpublished research papers written by Black in the early 1970s, including "The SS in Perspective" (a history and historiography of the SS), on "The Resistance that Never Was" (a study of the failure of any anti-Allied Nazi resistance movement), and the project proposa...

  3. Boris Schachnes family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Schachnes family in Berlin until 1938, in Warsaw between December 1938 and December 1939, Istanbul, Turkey and Palestine since March 1941. Three audio tapes: interview with Boris Uri Schachnes. Erna and Abram Schachnes joined their children Boris and Wladimir in Palestine c. 1942. Wladimir and Boris fought in the War of Independence in the Givati Brigade; Wladimir Zeev Schachnes was killed in action on May 13, 1948.

  4. Jewish Community of Thessaloniki collection

    The collection consists of two tombstone fragments from the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was destroyed in December 1942 during the German occupation.

  5. Baer family collection

    The collection consists of two gripper pliers, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a manuscript relating to the experiences of Berthold Baer, his family, and extended family in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Henri Engel collection

    The collection consists of posthumous award certificates and medals relating to the experiences of Henri Engel as a German Jewish resistance fighter in Lyon, France during World War II.

  7. Jamila Kolonomos collection

    The collection consists of medals, medallions, bar pins, cases, certificates, an oral history, documents, photographs and CDs with songs in Ladino relating to the experiences of Jamila Kolonomos and her family in Bitola, Yugoslavia before and during the Holocaust, her time as a partisan fighter, and of Jamila and her husband in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of eleven drawings created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) during and after the Holocaust as her eyewitness testimony of people and scenes she saw and experienced in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Harrisburg Jewish Community Oral History Project

    Oral testimonies, presentations, Holocaust observances, and WWII commemorations from the Harrisburg, PA Jewish Community Oral History Project.

  10. Mandel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Yehuda and Ella Mandel and their son Emanuel [Manny]. Collection documents their lives in Riga, Latvia where Manny was born in 1936, and their move to Hungary, where Yehuda was Chief Cantor of the Rombach Street Synagoge in Budapest until 1944, their flight from Budapest on a transport of 1600 Jewish Hungarians [arranged by Rudolph Kastner and the Aid and Rescue Committee] to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and general materials illustrating Yehuda's post-war Cantorial career in the United Stat...

  11. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The collection consists of a doll, luggage tags, artifacts, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Rosenfeld who was sent by her parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain in June 1939.

  12. Arthur J. Mainzer collection

    War diary of U.S. Air Force combat cameraman Arthur Manizer (about 40 pages) and one 16mm original kodachrome film documenting Arthur Manzer's wedding to Germaine Giradot on June 30, 1945 in a suburb of Paris, France (Montreuil Sous Bois).

  13. Stephen Glick collection

    The collection consists of five filmstrips created to indoctrinate and educate members of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany during the late 1930s.

  14. Oral history interviews of The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project

    The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project contains audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with liberators, survivors and others created between 1978 and 1983.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Robert Buckley collection

    Oral history interviews of the Robert Buckley collection

  17. Signed testimonies of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf collection

    Oral history interviews with deaf survivors of the Holocaust.

  18. Jolene Sonnheim collection

    The collection consists of an artifact and photographs relating to the experience of Jolene De Wilde and her family in the Netherlands before and during the Holocaust when they lived in hiding.

  20. Queensborough Community College oral history collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by the Queensborough Community College Holocaust Resource Center and Archives