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  1. Anne Ranasinghe collection

    Photographs, documents, and memorabilia related to the donor’s mother, Anneliese Katz (later Anne Ranasinghe), her childhood in Essen, Germany and immigration alone to England at age13. Includes a small photograph album; loose photographs; a diary (approximately 100 pages, covering 1939-1947 [bulk 1939-1942], in German with some English poems and phrases); wartime letters and postcards from Annaliese’s parents in Germany; miscellaneous correspondence; family history material; Alte synagogue Exhibition document, nursing badges, and order of merit awarded by German government.

  2. Lisbeth Modley Kornreich collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, papers, magazine clippings and photographs related to William and Augusta (Lipiner) Modley and their daughter Lisbeth (Modley) Kornreich [donor's mother]. Also includes Augusta's recipe book and fashion sketches, and Lisbeth's leather travel documents pouch. Additional materials from other relatives includes letters (with English translations) from Karl Linder and letters and a selection of wartime diary entries from Hans Zehetner, who survived the war in Vienna. Also includes the donor's audio recorded interview w/her mother Lisbeth (Mo...

  3. Stephen Kornreich collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, papers, ephemera, photographs, and a leather travel documents pouch related to Stephen Kornreich [donor's father], a Hungarian Jew who left for Palestine in 1933 and later immigrated to the United States in 1939. Additional materials are donor's audio-recorded interview with her father Stephen Kornreich, from 1981-1984, and a partial transcript of the interview. Also includes a memoir that Stephen Kornreich's brother Beno Korda wrote for, and gave to, the donor.

  4. Werner Meyerstein and Ruth Echt collection

    The collection consists of newspaper clippings, documents, photographs, butcher's certificate, identification cards, immigration documents and passport documenting the experiences of Werner Meyerstein and his family in Germany and Sosua. The collection also includes documentation, passport, immigration papers and other identification from Germany and Shanghai belonging to Ruth Echt. In addition, the collection includes a glazed ceramic cup with handle.

  5. Goldstein and Thebner families collection

    The Goldstein and Thebner families collection consist of biographical material, correspondence, a diary, and photographs relating to Ruth Goldstein and Arthur Thebner’s families pre-war and wartime experiences. The collection includes a large amount of correspondence among family members relating to their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger, Arthur’s cousin, during her time in London from 1942-1958, and a prayer book.

  6. Jiří Lauscher collection

    The Jiří Lauscher collection consist of reports, albums, artwork, writings, photocopies, photographs, copyprints, and diary entries documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde's work related to emigration and job training in Prague; the administration, history, and culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. The collection also includes a Star of David badge and postage stamps. Lauscher collected the materials during his internment in Theresienstadt from 1942-1945 and acquired many of them from friends and acquaintances as they were deported to killing centers.

  7. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, scrip, publications, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland.

  8. Hersz Berlinski collection

    Collection of documents, certificates, correspondence, wallet, tag, receipt and other papers documenting the experiences of Hersh (Herz) Berlinski, b. March 20, 1921 in Łódź, Poland who survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz (prisoner # 95325) and Kaufering where he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. After the war he recuperated in Bad Wörishofen hospital. He immigrated to the United States in January 1951 with the assistance of the International Refugee Organization under the US Displaced Persons Act.

  9. Heinemann family papers

    Contains naturalization certificates, birth certificates, correspondence, and oral history interviews and edited films related to the Heinemann family.

  10. Avram Kaminsky collection

    Consists of a 10 mark Łódź ghetto scrip note, a 20 mark note of allied military currency, and a photo album depicting scenes of the Łódź ghetto. The album was located in the streets of Łódź by Avram Kaminsky after the war when he returned to look for his family. Scenes depicted include events attended by Chaim Rumkowski and other leaders within the Łódź ghetto administration.

  11. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    Collection documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner and her husband Maurice Teich, who met in Warsaw, Poland, married, and eventually fled to Cuba and ultimately the United States.

  12. Stella and Chester Szczesny collection

    Photographs documentating memorialization of Polish Roman Catholic Stanislawa and Czeslaw Szczesny, both survivors of multiple concentration camps and attempts to drown victims (some who survived) Thielbeck and Deutschland ships. Postwar identity card for Czeslaw and wallet in which all were kept.

  13. Baruch family collection

    Artifacts and documents from the Baruch family including a set of china (EPIAG/Czechoslovakia) owned by the donor's grandmother Astro (Elias) Baruch; a set of silverware owned by the donor's mother, Rachel (Zadick) Baruch; an amulet; a mezuzah pendant engraved with floral motifs; a shell motif pendant; Greek documents for David Baruch; British gold coins (3); a U.S. silver dollar; a British one penny coin; and photographs.

  14. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of a table knife and a religious medal relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek in the Warsaw ghetto and during her forced labor service in the assumed identity of a non-Jewish Polish person in Germany during the Holocaust.

  15. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    The collection consists of Honor and Iron Cross medals, buttonhole ribbon bars, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Kurt Schlesinger and his family in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Janet Beasley collection

    The collection consists of a bisque doll, a stuffed animal, a wooden toy, and a children's book relating to the experiences of Jutta Grybski (later Janet Beasley) before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, and after the Holocaust near Terezin in Czechoslovakia.

  17. Elizabeth Trausel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, scrip, and a Star of David badge that relating to the experience of Elisabeth Trausel in Prague and Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp and her father Josef, and their family in Prague during the Holocaust.

  18. Andrzej Bninski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the occupation of Warsaw, Poland, by Nazi Germany from 1939-1945.

  19. Dr. Arthur Kessler collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Arthur Kessler, originally of Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), including his imprisonment in the Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria and his efforts to treat and manage an outbreak of paralysis of fellow prisoners due to consumption of Lathyrus sativus. Included are artifacts, objects gifted to him, biographical materials, correspondence, research notes and samples related to Lathyrism, written testimony, writings, and a small amount of photographs. Also included is his unpublished memoir Ein Arzt im Lager (A Camp Physician).

  20. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper collection

    The collection consists of Identity documents and papers from Antoni Stefan Koper, postcards from POW camp, Sophie Koper's biography of Antoni and account of apartment raid in Warsaw; Antoni's written memories; also includes Antoni's insignias and Sophie's cap from the Polish First Armored Division; papers and certificate related to Antoni Stefan Koper being honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations; Warsaw telephone directory from 1939/1940 and miscellaneous publications. Also press kit from when Sophie was honored in Richmond, Virginia.