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  1. Alfred H. Elbau collection

    Contains materials concerning the Holocaust-era experiences of Alfred H. Elbau and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Alfred Haas collection

    Contains three undated photographs of Alfred Haas' law class circa 1920s (Haas is not identified in any of the three photographs) and photocopies of fragments of the August 20, 1934 issue of "Mainzer Anzeiger." The newspaper contains articles about the NSDAP activities in Mainz, Germany.

  3. Alfred Heidinger collection

    Contains material related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Alfred Heidinger and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    The collection consists of five German cap badges, correspondence, documents, and a photograph album relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Alfred, Maria, and Hans Hirschfeld, originally of Breslau, Germany.

  5. Alfred J. Kahn collection

    The collection consists of a letter and a DVD interview with Luba Paltseva.

  6. Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. papers

    Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, and non-governmental organizations. Among his contacts were Therese Bloch-Bauer, and her daughter Maria; Josef Löwenherz of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; the American journalist Vin...

  7. Alfred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred K., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1931 and raised in Oradea. He recalls Hungarian occupation; his father believing Polish refugee stories of German atrocities; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; hiding with his parents and brother to avoid deportation; their former superintendent assisting their escape to unoccupied Romania; separation on the train (he stayed with his mother); his father's and brother's arrests; traveling to Arad, then Bucharest; returning home after the war; his father's insistence he learn a trade (watch making); illegally traveling...

  8. Alfred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; participating in socialist and Zionist organizations; Austrians welcoming the Germans during the Anschluss; one brother emigrating to relatives in the United States, the other, as a physician with a Kindertransport, to England; the concierge protecting him and his parents during Kristallnacht; fleeing with an aunt and uncle to Belgium; living in Antwerp; placement in Merksplas refugee camp; German invasion; fleeing to France;...

  9. Alfred Kohlberg Papers

    Correspondence, memoirs and other writings, newsletters, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to communism in the United States, China, and other parts of Asia, and to anti-communist movements in the United States.

  10. Alfred Kurz family collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Kurz and his parents, Meilach (Emil) and Klara Bieberstein Kurz, and his sister Doriane in Vienna, Austria, The Netherlands, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany before and during the Holocaust, Klara, Alfred, and Doriane's repatriation to the Netherlands after the Holocaust, and Alfred and Doriane's immigration to the United States in 1946.

  11. Alfred Lind Correspondence

    Relates to conditions of Jews in Germany and in Palestine.

  12. Alfred Linhard family collection

    The collection consists of a cup and saucer, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Alfred Linhard and his family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Anschluss, and in England and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  13. Alfred M. Lilienthal Papers

    Speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, memoranda, press releases, serial issues, conference papers, interviews, studies, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings, relating to the Middle East, Arab-Israeli relations, and American foreign policy in the region.

  14. Alfred Manning photograph collection

    The collection consists of five black-and-white photographs depicting the liberation of the Wöbbelin subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp near Ludwigslust, Germany. All photographs were taken by Alfred Manning.

  15. Alfred Menziles: Copy correspondence

  16. Alfred Meyer papers

    Death certificate for Alfred Meyer, who died at Buchenwald in November 1938, and receipts for expenses of his burial at Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt am Main; letter from camp announcing his death to his widow, Mrs. Erna Meyer; and later correspondence (post-war) as she sought to trace fates of other family members.

  17. Alfred Moritz collection

    The collection consists of artwork, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Moritz and his family in Germany and while living in hiding in France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Alfred Moritz collection

    The collection consists of postage stamps that were created, but not used, in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust.

  19. Alfred Munzer collection

    The collection consists of a teething ring rattle and a barrel relating to the experiences of Alfred Munzer who, as an infant, survived in hiding in The Hague, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

  20. Alfred N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Afred N., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, the third of ten children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until the mid-1930s; celebrating Jewish holidays; military service; hospitalization for frostbite; returning home; military recall when Germany invaded; returning home from defeat; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing contact with non-Jewish friends; joining his family in the Baron de Hirsch quarter; deportation to Birkenau; separation from the women and children; remaining with his brother's brothers-in-law; having to move corpses; a French s...