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  1. Norman K. Holloway collection

    The collection consists of a Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal and a photograph relating to the experiences of Norman K. Holloway as a soldier in the United States Army 6th Armored Division in Germany during World War II and an oral history compact disc recorded in 2004.

  2. Sally and David Tauber collection

    Contains a camera, photographs and documents illustrating the experiences of Sala Kleinberg, who was born in 1922 in Otynia and lived in Kolomea before the war, and David Tauber, born in 1908 in Stanislau. They met before the war, survived (Sala in hiding on a farm with her sisters and David in Russia), then reunited after the war in a displaced persons camp. Includes photographs and documents as well as a camera used in or issued in a displaced persons camp in Germany, as well as numerous photographs of the couple's first child, Clara, who was born in Germany.

  3. Anna Sved Blum collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences Anna Sved Blum and her parents Dezső and Ernesztina (Segő) Sved of Budapest, Hungary. Included are birth, death and wedding certificates, photographs, report card, identification cards, immigration papers, family history documents, a personal narrative by Anna describing her Holocaust experiences, and a narrative/claim in German regarding the confiscation of belongings. Additionally, there are digital audio recordings of interviews of Anna conducted by her son.

  4. Rubin and Huntly families collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative pin-back button, commemorative materials, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Rubin and Huntly families in Hungary, Poland, and the United States before during, and after the Holocaust.

  5. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    The collection consists of four paintings relating to the experiences of Judith Evan Goldstein in Poland, Latvia, and Germany during the Holocaust.

  6. Oral history interviews of the "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII" documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII"

  7. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    The collection consists of document cases, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fred Loy (born Alfred Löwenstein), Lola Stern Loy, Julius Loewenstein, and their families in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and China before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  8. Schatz and Bonder families collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and documents pertaining to the Schatz and Bonder families previously of Berlin and Warsaw. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through the marriage of Henry Schatz and Rischa Bonder when the couple were married in the United States. The collection also includes teffilin and embroidered teffilin bag belonging to Jacob Schatz prior to the Holocaust. The teffilin was given to Henry Schatz by his father Jacob and kept through interment at Ferramonti.

  9. Shirley R. Hyman art collection

    Collection of artwork created by multiple artists including Karl Schwesig and other artists in various French internment camps including St. Cyprien and Les Milles; dated c. 1940-1941

  10. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    The collection consists of an armband, ghetto scrip, Star of David badges, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Benjamin Marx and the Marx family in Germany before and during the Holocaust, in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  11. Zehngut and Weiss families collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs concerning the Zehngut and Weiss families in Europe; papers concerning the emigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the 50 Children rescued from Vienna by Brith Sholom and Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus as well as the emigration of their parents Stella Zehngut Weiss and Leon Weiss; and related materials from their lives in the United States including school records, government documents, a draft of a memoir written by Inge, and a Camp Ray-Oot swimming medal.

  12. Signed testimonies of the Simon Carmel collection

    Interviews and recordings featuring Deaf survivors of the Holocaust

  13. Renee Kann Silver family collection

    The collection consists of a camera with case, a medal, documents, oral testimony, and photographs related to the experiences of Renee Kann (later Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland, including their imprisonment in Gurs internment camp, during the war, and in Switzerland, France, and the United States after the war.

  14. Maria de Kornfeld collection

    Oral history interview with Maria de Kornfeld

  15. Erna Weyl and Walter Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of American Army uniforms, correspondence, copies of documents, and a photograph relating to Erna and Walter Rothschild.

  16. Hugo Ostreich collection

    Collection belonging to Hugo Ostreich including wooden box purchased in Shanghai, China, Jewish prayer books, textbook for citizenship, tallis and tallis bag, photographs and documents that illustrates donor's [Paula Berg] great uncle's experiences fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany in 1939 with his younger brother Alfred, leaving behind Hugo's wife, Erna Baer and extended relatives. Hugo and Alfred survived WWII in Shanghai, immigrating to the United States in the late 1940s.

  17. Zajaczkowska family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to Sweden notifying Basia that her brother, Leon Zajaczkowski, in a Polish Army camp, and that her husband is in Italy. It also includes pre and post war photographs, vaccination cards, baggage claim...

  18. Gelb and Heiser family collection

    Consists of identity papers, correspondence, photographs, genealogical material related to the pre-war lives, emigration, and families of Charlotte Kuhlfas (also Hochheiser, Heiser) and Martin Gelb. Charlotte emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1937 and Martin in 1940; they married soon after his arrival. Includes letters he wrote to her in March 1940 as he was preparing to emigrate; family photographs, the machzor Martin purchased and inscribed after arriving in the United States; their identity cards and naturalization papers; family tree information for the Gelb and Heiser families; Charlot...

  19. Henry Weil collection

    Documents issued for Heinz Weil (donor), born September 22, 1935 in Vienna, Austria and fled to the United States in 1939. Document portfolio in which documents were kept.

  20. Michael Kutz collection

    Collection includes photographs, documents, negatives and scrip as well as a memoir. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.