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  1. Obschatko family papers

    Photographs of the people gathered at the Monument of Remembrance for the Victims of the Shoa, Argentina.

  12. Elizabeth and Bernard Kasmar collection

    Collection of Alzbieta and Bernhard Kasmacher (later Kasmar) in Vienna, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Includes Reisepasses, letters, birth certificates, US naturalization certificates, and newspaper clippings documenting the couple's journey from Vienna to England before arriving in the United States in 1940.

  13. Hand towel

    Paul Kuttner received the towel from his mother, Margarete Kuttner, before his immigration from Berlin, Germany, to Great Britain through Kindertransport in February 1939.

  14. Oral testimony of Gertrude Weinfeld Bettelheim

  15. Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb

  16. Moritz Rubinstein papers

    The collection includes a Swiss refugee identification card for Moritz Rubinstein (born 1919), a businessman originally from Lublin, Poland, a document from a work camp for internees in Birmensdorf (Zürich), and a pamphlet addressed to refugees issued by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police.

  17. Dawidua Schiff identification card

    1. Gabriele Derenberg Schiff collection

    The identification card ("Igazolvany- Legitymacj") was issued to Dr. Dawidua Schiff [donor's husband], born February 23, 1912, by the Polish-Hungarian Refugee Committee, Nr. 2201.

  18. John Koenig photographs

    1. John Koenig collection

    The collection consists of 66 photographs of John Koenig after liberation in Ziegenheim displaced persons camp and during his journey to the United States.

  19. Selected records from the State Archives of the Western-Kazakhstan Region in Uralsk

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians.

  20. Miriam Greenstein photographs

    1. Miriam Greenstein collection

    The collection consists of six photographs of Miriam and her parents, Zalmen and Ruth Kominkowski, in Poland and Sweden before and after World War II. Some captions in Polish are on the verso.