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  1. George Birman collection

    The collection consists of a belt, hunting knife, pliers, wristwatch, agenda planners, documents, and photographic materials relating to the experiences of George Birman and his father Abel before World War II in Lithuania, during the war when they were interned in Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto and Kedahnen (Kedainiai) labor camp, and after the war as displaced persons, including George's postwar education and work with displaced persons in Vienna, Austria.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Greek Witnesses Documentation Project

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

  3. Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute collection

    Contains interviews with rescuers and Holocaust survivors collected by the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. The interviews were produced as research for the book "The Altruistic Personality," by Dr. Samuel Oliner and Pearl Oliner. Interviews are in English, Polish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Dutch.

  4. War Bonds poster collection

    The collection consists of a war bond poster and a war propaganda poster produced in the United States during World War II.

  5. irn32273

    Two posters. 1-"Bicz ludzkosci." 2-"Anordnung..."

  6. Charles Bartfeld collection

    The collection consists of a butter mold, wooden stamps, medals, documents, copies of memoirs, photographs, and photocopies relating to the experiences of the Bartfeld family, owners of a dairy business in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and after their emigration to Palestine.

  7. Friedrich and Edith Löw Taussig collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edith Löw before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and documents relating to the experiences of Friedrich Taussig during the Holocaust in slave labor camps and in Vienna.

  8. Edward J. Diehm collection

    The collection consists of a German coin, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edward J. Diehm while a sergeant in the United States Army during World War II.

  9. Eddie Mills Murphy collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, original photographs, and photographic negatives relating to the experiences of Eddie Mills Murphy, during and after World War II, when he served as a soldier in the United States Army, 3264th Signal Photo Battalion, and was assigned as a photographer at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg War Crimes trials from 1945-1946.

  10. Denker and Kleiner family collection

    The collection consists of a doctor's bag relating to the experiences of Josef Kleiner before and during the Holocaust in Poland which he, his wife Jocheved, and their son Adolf (later Al) survived by living in hiding and also photographs relating to the experiences of the Denker and Kleiner families in Budzanoff, Poland, before and after the war.

  11. Albert and Olga Friedmann family collection

    Consists of documents related to the life of Albert Friedmann, his wife Olga, son Tibor, and stepdaughter, Eva (born Weiss). Albert and Olga married in 1946; both had lost their spouses in the Holocaust. The documents mainly concern the Friedmanns' lives in the Hallein displaced persons camp and Mr. Friedmann's position within the camp. Also includes immigration and naturalization correspondence and documents for Nisen Ganz, a survivor of Auschwitz, Melk, Ebensee, and Terezin, originally from Czechoslovakia. Olga Leitman (her maiden name). Also included are fourteen pillowcases and four sma...

  12. Juliette Frisch Haymes collection

    The Juliette Frisch Haymes collection includes a Star of David badge as well as biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Juliette Frisch and her family.

  13. Leon Levitch collection

    Collection of music bound in imprinted booklets, written in interment camps in Italy. It consists of six booklets of music, one single sheet of music (four pages), one bound music booklet entitled "Jüdische liedex", one booklet (publication-"II Quaderno Musicale") with hand written notes, one publication entitled "Clementi etc. / Ferramonti Copy", one notebook and one envelope.

  14. Carter E. Ruby collection

    The collection consists of two US army badges, a shoulder patch, decals, correspondence, documents, publications, photographs, and a DVD relating to the experiences of Lieutenant Carter E. Ruby, U.S. Army, at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, April-May 1946.

  15. Wanda Lomazow collection

    The collection consists of two pieces of Łódź ghetto scrip, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Wanda Lomazow during the Holocaust when she lived under a false identity and after the Holocaust when she worked for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Wels and Badgstein displaced persons camps, married Jacob Lomazow, and emigrated to the United States.

  16. Julius Wald and Ernst Breuer families collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag, an autograph album, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Julius Wald and Ernest Breuer and their families, originally from Vienna, Austria, during the Holocaust when Julius was sent to Great Britain on a Kinderstransport and Ernst emigrated to the United States, and then later returned to Europe as a soldier with the the US Army.

  17. Ava Kadishson Schieber collection

    The collection consists of ten drawings and two paintings created by Ava Hegedish while living in hiding near Belgrade, Yugoslave, during the Holocaust.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Marcia Horn collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, veterans, a rescuer, a witness, and the child of a Holocaust survivor produced by Dr. Marcia Horn.

  19. David Diamant collection

    The David Diamant collection includes papers documenting members of the French Resistance, a poster, and a printing press.

  20. Baer family collection

    The collection consists of two multi-volume sets of Jewish prayer books and a photograph relating to the experiences of Lore Baer, her parents Hellmuth and Hedwig, and her brother Max in Germany, France, Shanghai, Britain, and Australia before and during the Holocaust.