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  1. Edgar Rauner collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings. Correspondence from Edgar Rauner (donor's brother) to his parents Neddy and Aron in New York. Edgar, a member of the United States 7th Army was a refugee of Nazi Germany, arrived in the United States before WWII and was drafted into the US Army where he was stationed at Fort Ritchie in Maryland before being sent overseas to Europe during the war. Also included in the collection are photographs taken in Europe, depicting the American Army and many captured German propaganda images.

  2. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection

    The collection consist of a knife, documents, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther and Helen Mermelstein, sisters, before and during the Holocaust when they were deported from Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia, to Munkacs Ghetto, and then to a series of concentration camps until liberated in Bergen Belsen and after the Holocaust in Karlstad, Sweden.

  3. Ullrich Remak collection

    The collection consists an animal bone souvenir, correspondence, documents, drawings, and newsletters related to experiences of Ullrich Remak during the Holocaust when he emigrated from Breslau, Germany, to Scotland on a Kindertransport in 1939, his subsequent life at the Birkenward Hostel in Skelmorlie, Scotland, and efforts by his mother, Nanni Remak, to emigrate from Germany to Palestine.

  4. Erna and Otto Stein family collection

    The Otto and Erna Stein family collection includes a German Cross of Honor for World War I Combatants, biographical materials and correspondence documenting the Stein family, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and their relatives’ experiences under Nazi rule in Neustadt an der Haardt, Nieder-Olm, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim.

  5. Greta Herensztat Wizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and photographs relating to the experiences of Greta Herensztat and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Stanislaw Mambort collection

    The collection consists of currency, a map, and documents relating to the experiences of Stanislaw Mambort during World War II when he fought with the Armia Krajowa in the Warsaw Uprising, was held as a German prisoner of war, and upon liberation, joined the Polish Military in the West.

  7. Oral history interviews with local populations of Crimea

    Collection consists of audio oral history audio interviews with transcripts in Russian conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the elderly members of the local ethnic communities in Crimea, including Karaites, Crimean Tatars, and Subbotniks in 2005-2006. The interviewees describe Jewish life (including their customs, local history, and the relationship between local Jews and the rest of the ethnic communities) before, during, and after World War II.

  8. Oral history interviews of "The Children of Chabannes" documentary film

    Oral history interviews and related film and video images used in the making of the documentary film "The Children of Chabannes." For information about the film, see http://childrenofchabannes.org/

  9. Robert M.W. Kempner collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Robert M.W. Kempner.

  11. Bernard and Sarah Widman collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard and Sarah Rothfeld Widman before and during the Holocaust in Poland, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  12. Ernest Bergman collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, and envelopes, postcards, and philatelic material relating to experiences in Switzerland, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust and World War II.

  13. Eric Hauser collection

    The collection consists of two prisoner food bowls collected after the Holocaust by Eric Hauser, in the former Janowska concentration camp in Lwow where his family was prisoners.

  14. Ella Iranyi collection

    The collection consists of thirteen artworks created by Ella Iranyi in Vienna, Austria, prior to her arrest ca. 1939 and deportation to a concentration camp, where she perished.

  15. Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen collection

    The collection consists of a medical case containing two calipers and two pencils used as part of anthropological race studies during the eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.

  16. Eiszyszki shoemaker's tools collection

    The collection consists of 2 shoemaker's tools.

  17. Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, identity paperwork, notes, photographs, and published material related to the experiences of Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson and their family before the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Lithuania and during and after the Holocaust in Lithuania and the United States, where they emigrated in 1940.

  18. Peter Dallos family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and postcards relating to the experiences of Erno and Maria Klein Deutsch and their son Peter in Hungary during the Holocaust and to Maria and Peter after the war.

  19. New Yorker magazine collection

    Two covers of The New Yorker magazine: one dated August 1, 1936 and the other dated June 10, 1939.

  20. Krakow, Poland collection

    The collection consists of clothing irons, a coffee mill, a meat grinder, and a scale relating to Krakow, Poland before and during the Holocaust.