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  1. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    The collection consists of an Israeli flag, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Paul Taylor as part of his duties as an aide to the mayor of New York City, charged with arrangements for visiting dignitaries in the 1950s.

  2. Segen family collection

    The Segen family collection consist of biographical materials, resettlement and immigration papers, restitution papers, correspondence, photographs, childrens clothing and artifacts documenting the experiences of Berta and Moses Segen in the Borszczów and Radom, Poland ghettos; their time in resettlement camps in Germany; and their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  3. Shmuel Rozin Collection

    Consists of two documents, described as follows: .1 Certificate: issued in Lithuania as proof of membership in Partisan movement against Nazi occupation; handwritten in black ink, black ink inscription on left side with circular black ink stamp, black ink stamp with handwritten entries in upper left, two blue ink spots at top left and top right; circa July 1944; in Russian and Lithuanian .2 Affidavit: Affidavit of good moral character issued during period of donor's participation as fighter partisan; issued in Lithuania; handwritten in blue ink, black ink inscription along left side with tr...

  5. Pressel family collection

    Consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Joseph and Miriam Pressel, who, with son Philip, were originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in 1939 and survived the war in Marseille, Lyon, and Paris. Includes wartime letters from the Pressels to Eli Schwerner, an uncle of Miriam in New York, requesting help to escape. Also includes similar wartime letters to Susi Pantzer, niece of Joseph Pressel, who lived in London, as well as letters to and from other family members....

  6. Oral history interviews of the Greek Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Greek Witnesses Documentation Project.

  7. Carter E. Ruby collection

    The collection consists of two US army badges, a shoulder patch, decals, correspondence, documents, publications, photographs, and a DVD relating to the experiences of Lieutenant Carter E. Ruby, U.S. Army, at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, April-May 1946.

  8. David Diamant collection

    The David Diamant collection includes papers documenting members of the French Resistance, a poster, and a printing press.

  9. Juliette Frisch Haymes collection

    The Juliette Frisch Haymes collection includes a Star of David badge as well as biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Juliette Frisch and her family.

  11. Antiques USA collection

    The collection consists of three issues of Life magazine, dated November 21, 1938; September 18, 1939; and September 25, 1939.

  12. Jewish Community in Iasi collection

    The collection consists of two plaques commemorating members of the Jewish Community of Iasi, Romania, who were killed during the Holocaust.

  13. Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute collection

    Contains interviews with rescuers and Holocaust survivors collected by the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. The interviews were produced as research for the book "The Altruistic Personality," by Dr. Samuel Oliner and Pearl Oliner. Interviews are in English, Polish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Dutch.

  14. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald's work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The collection also includes a name plate for Ambassador McDonald and a bible presente...

  15. Friedrich and Edith Löw Taussig collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edith Löw before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and documents relating to the experiences of Friedrich Taussig during the Holocaust in slave labor camps and in Vienna.

  16. Charles Bartfeld collection

    The collection consists of a butter mold, wooden stamps, medals, documents, copies of memoirs, photographs, and photocopies relating to the experiences of the Bartfeld family, owners of a dairy business in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and after their emigration to Palestine.

  17. War Bonds poster collection

    The collection consists of a war bond poster and a war propaganda poster produced in the United States during World War II.

  18. Janina Jasinska Luterek family collection

    The collection consists of two drawings, three handkerchiefs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Janina Jakubowicz and her family before, during, and after World War II in Poland.

  19. irn32273

    Two posters. 1-"Bicz ludzkosci." 2-"Anordnung..."

  20. International Red Cross labels

    Collection of labels printed and used by the Red Cross during the Holocaust.