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  1. Kurt Fisch collection

    The collection consists of archival papers and three rubber stamps captured from the Hermann Goering Division in Italy.

  2. Annette and Franz R. Hollo collection

    Consists of two videotaped oral histories with Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austira, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. Also includes short descriptions of the wartime experiences of Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austria, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. The Hollos both spent part of the war in hiding--Franz in Hungary in 1944 and Annette in France from 1942-1944--as well as a photograph of Franz and his sister Veronica in 1939 and a copyprint of Annette, ca. 1941.

  3. Robert Alden collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Robert Alden as a soldier in the United States Army during World War II when he participated in the liberation of concentration camps in Germany.

  4. Eva Biro Slott family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and a memoir relating to the experiences of Eva Biro Slott and her family during the Holocaust in the ghetto and in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, as well as two identification tags relating to the experiences of her cousin, Arie Kadar, as a prisoner of war in a German stalag.

  5. Miriam Lieber collection

    The collection consists of a child-size, toy horse and carriage and photographs of children with the toy and a group of men relating to the experiences of Miriam (later Lieber) and Heskel Kagan and their parents, Raja and Berl Kagan, in Lithuania during the Holocaust, and in Italy after World War II.

  6. Oral history interviews of the John Shelton Ivany collection

    Oral history interviews with David, Joe, and Paul Halpern.

  7. Wermuth family collection

    The collection consists of Ruth Pollinger's (nee Wermuth) triangle birth pendant, family photographs, and an oral history the donor conducted with her grandmother Hilde Islovitz (née Blumenthal; formerly Wermuth from her first marriage).

  8. Loeb family collection

    The collection consists of some identity documents and Loeb family photos, primarily featuring the donor's mother Ilse Loeb (nee Morgenstern), as well as Ilse's mother, Elivra Froelich Morgenstern's, lacework and handicraft, and a metal plate from her father's printing business.

  9. George Rodger and Alina Szapocznikow collection

    The collection consists of photos taken by George Rodger of Bergen-Belsen at liberation as well as a silver cigarette case created in Bergen-Belsen given to fellow internee Alina Szapocznikow (1942-1943). Both were received by the donor.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Jeffrey Cymbler collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, produced by Jeffrey Cymbler

  11. Weidhorn family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Weidhorn and his parents Anne and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German-annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the United States in 1939, and Manfred and his mother’s immigration to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Included are biographical and identification documents, records related to Aron’s fur businesses in Europe and the United States, immigration paperwork, photographs, correspondence, a diary kept by Aron in 1940, shortly after his arrival in the U.S., chil...

  12. Oberlender family collection

    The collection consists of documents and DP era scrip pertaining to the experiences of Martin and Betty Oberlender, both Survivors of the Holocaust.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Irene Woods Hofstein collection

    Oral history interviews with Irene Woods Hofstein collection

  14. Raphael family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and an appointment book as well as a doll and ring that were given to Inge Raphael Rothschild.

  15. Honigsberg family collection

    The collection consists of a passport, report cards, photographs, and handicrafts made by the donor in Germany. The donor and her family came to the US from Hamburg in 1939.

  16. Greenbaum family collection

    The collection consists of books, a poster, a pamphlet, documents, photographs, and letters documenting the experiences of Henry Greenbaum, his family, and his wife, Esther Stern, in Gąbin, Poland, Romania, and France, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  17. Peter Vanlaw collection

    Photographs, a diary, correspondence, artwork, documentary film, and oral testimony depicting the lives of the Vanlaw (Weinlaub) and Natzler families in prewar Germany.

  18. Arthur and Meta Grunebaum Schmitt collection

    The collection consists of military artifacts and documents, photographs, correspondence, documents, and a dictionary relating to the experiences of Arthur (Abraham) Schmitt and Meta (Miriam) Grunebaum Schmitt and their families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  19. Berger family collection

    The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Barbara Libarkin with her husband's mother and the extended Berger family, as well as their biographical documents and a family photograph.

  20. Mondschein family collection

    Autograph [Poesie] books, hand-written accounts in spiralbound notebooks, photographs, documents, correspondence, identification cards, oral testimonies, newspaper article illustrating the experiences of Rosa Manowicz [later Mondschein] and Jakob Mondschein surrounding the Holocaust.