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  1. Bernard Berthold Bock collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter in case held by belt, Stammbuch, siddur, price list for Bernard Berthold Bock's (donor's grandfather) tool factory, catalogs for factory items all having belonged to Bernard Berthold Bock.

  2. Schwalbe family collection

    THe collection contains documents, correspondence (letters and postcards), journals, photographs, postwar writings, newspaper clippings, 2 metal disc recordings, ephemera and three dimensional artifacts to include a portfolio, eyeglass case and small notebook documenting the experiences of the Schwalbe family and their relatives in Berlin, Teheran, Palestine and their immigration and settlement in the United States.

  3. Goldmann family collection

    Correspondence, documents, and related materials concerning Kurt Goldmann pertaining to his life in Germany from his birth in 1921 through his emigration in 1939, his experiences as a newly arrived immigrant to the U.S. as a student at Penn State University and membership in the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity, his Army service during WWII, and post-war experiences as a naturalized American. Included as well are items pertaining to his parents Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann and their emigration from Germany to England and then to the U.S. and family records prior to and during the Nazi era incl...

  4. Jack Garfein collection

    Documents, papers, photos, poster, correspondence, and objects related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Jack Garfein and his family, originally of Mukachevo.

  5. Max and Lotte Wertheim collection

    The collection documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration to the United States in 1937. Documents consist of identification and family papers including birth and marriage certificates, German passports, a family book (Stammbuch), Lotte’s autograph book, and immigration papers. Photographs include depictions of prewar family life, portraits, vacations, and Stanley’s childhood. The collection also includes a silver cup.

  6. Cohen family collection

    The collection consists of postcards sent to Morris Cohen (donor's paternal grandfather) primarily from his sister-in-law Esther Feyge (Fagel)regarding their family in Rutki Kossaki, Poland, 1939-1940; postcard sent to Morris Cohen from family friend in Rutki Kossaki regarding the murder of family members in 1942; Also included in the collection are two (2) leather wallets.

  7. Sklar family collection

    Video testimony concerning the wartime experiences of Jean Sklar (Szklarz); Sklar family photographs; and a copy of the personal diary "Livre Tallis" written by Jean Sklar and colleagues at the Moulin in Moissac, France towards the end of the war and in its aftermath

  8. Ungar, Hammerschlag and Breuer family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs of the Ungar, Hammerschlag and Breuer family of Vienna. Also drawings either by or collected by Dora Breuer.

  9. George John Meade collection

    The collection consists of documents, illustrations, a Nazi patch, photographs, publication, negatives, and an oral testimony documenting the experiences of George John Meade in Germany as a United States soldier during and after World War II (1939-1945).

  10. Abraham family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, artifacts illustrating Reha, Ruth and Walter Abraham's experiences surrounding the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, prewar Tel Aviv and postwar Switzerland, and correspondence.

  11. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection

    The collection consists of a handmade vest and correspondence relating to the experiences of Sara Lamhaut, Chana Goldwasser Lamhaut, and Riiha Goldwasser in Łódź, Poland, and Brussels, Belgium, during the Holocaust.

  12. Collin and Reis families collection

    The collection consists of material related to the Collin and Reis families including photographs, correspondence, documents, passports, identification papers, diary and transltion, pamphlets, notebooks, school book and magazines and medal.

  13. Maria Rivka Chowles Lichtenfeld collection

    The collection consists of two prayerbooks used by Maria Rivka Chowles Lichtenfeld while she was living in hiding under an assumed identity as a Polish Christian during the Holocaust.

  14. Signed testimonies of the Ma'agalei Shema Association collection

    Video interviews with Deaf Holocaust survivors, produced by the Ma'agalei Shema Association

  15. Richard Weilheimer collection

    The Richard Weilheimer collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, a watercolor booklet hand-made in Gurs, photographic materials and a prayer book documenting the Weilheimer, Wetzler, and Stern families from Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany. Documents reflect the families’ prewar lives in Germany, their deportation to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France in 1940, Richard and Ernst Weilheimer’s relocation to a children’s home and immigration to the United States in 1942, Kurt and Nelly Stern’s earlier immigration to the United States in 1937, and the memorializat...

  16. Rattner and Breindler families collection

    The Rattner and Breindler families collection consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting the families of Beno Rattner and Edith Breindler in Vienna, the couple’s lives and marriage in England, and their parents’ unsuccessful efforts to emigrate. Biographical materials include Beno’s German passport, two of Edith’s British passports, birth and registration records, Beno’s World War II military papers, and certificates documenting the deportation of Beno’s parents. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Beno and Edith in England from their parents in Vienna. The lett...

  17. Dave Fox art collection

    Artwork by Dave Fox with images from his memories of Vienna from his childhood. Dave Fox was born in Vienna in 1920, where he lived until shortly after the annexation of Austria in 1938. He escaped via the German-Belgian border, seeking refuge in Belgium. He arrived in the U.S. in December 1939 and settled in Los Angeles. During WWII he served in the US Army in the Philippines and Japan. Returning to the US, he studied at art school and was a painter and printmaker for over 60 years. He married Senta Salomons of Dortmund, Germany, who was also a refugee. They had two children, Rabbi Karen F...

  18. Holub, Glaser and Ornstein families collection

    Papers, correspondence, and photographs related to Eva Glaser (nee Holub), her parents, Josef and Marie Holub (nee Popper), her brother Hanus ("Honza") Holub, and her first husband Arno Erban, and their sons Peter and Tomas. Also includes papers and photographs related to Eva's second husband, Herbert Glaser, his sister, Ana Glaser, and Eva and Hebert's daughter, Vivian; a recorded interview (on CD) and transcript of an interview with Herbert Glaser; restitution-related papers; a photograph album with images of the Holub and Glaser families; documents, a diary and correspondence related to ...

  19. Joshua Heilman collection

    The collection consists of a camera used by Joshua Heilman and pre-war photographs he took of Lubaczow using this camera, which he assembled into an album which he took with him to British Mandate Palestine in 1939.

  20. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, a newspaper, and artifacts related to Anatol and Alexandra Gorko who both survived the Holocaust and married after the war in Łódź, Poland.