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  1. Mark Talisman collection

    The collection consists of drawings, correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting life in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Walter H. Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of German postage stamps and two revolvers relating to the experiences of Walter Rothschild as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.

  3. Sidney Bruskin collection

    The collection consists of a sign relating to the experiences of Sidney Bruskin as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II. Also includes a photograph and document. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Mary Cook and Nita Howton collection

    Oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps, work camps, and factories, and interviews with other wartime eyewitnesses, including former POWs, GIs, and medical aid workers. Also included is supplementary paper material (photos, correspondence, and publications).

  5. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    The collection consists of pins, an audiotape, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Yvonne Rothschild Klug and her family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the United States as well as correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude Fraenkel and her family before and during the Holocaust in France and Poland and her postwar emigration to the United States. Collection also includes a portrait of Yvonne Redgis (Rothschi...

  6. Oral history interviews of the Kempler family collection

    Oral history interviews with Tosca Kempler and Ignatz Kempler.

  7. Thermos and pot found in the territory of the former Brest Ghetto

    Traditional copper thermos used for Shabbat by Jewish families, and copper pot used by a Jewish family before WWII and most likely during internment in the Brest Ghetto.

  8. Donald Norton Pitts collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Donald Norton Pitts, who served as a foreign service officer with the State Department in Warsaw, Poland in 1950. Included are notes, reports, and writings, primarily about the political climate in Poland; diary; correspondence; identification card; clipping; metal dish; and negatives taken while Donald was stationed there. Also included are copy negatives and prints documenting atrocities against Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.

  9. David Friedman artwork and letter

    Artwork by and letter from donor's grandfather, David Friedman. The collection includes three pages of preliminary sketches created in1963-1964 for drawings and etching plates (the etchings were produced in 1967), as well as a copy of a letter dated September 19, 1972. The original letter, which begins "Lieber Heinz" (Dear Heinz), was adhered to the back of an etching by David Friedman which was gifted to fellow Łódź Ghetto survivor Heinz Konig. Additionally, the collection includes two etchings dated 1967 titled "In Łódźer Ghetto, Some Found Food in Trash Containers."

  10. Joan Finnegan collection

    Contains materials donated by Joan Finnegan, documenting her father's experiences as an American soldier during and after the liberation of a concentration camp. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Larry Papier collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Washington, D.C. area

  12. Oral history interviews from the University of Maryland, Baltimore collection

    Oral history interview with Deli Strummer and Max Amichai Heppner

  13. Oral histories from the WXXI, Channel 21 (Rochester) collection

    The interviews document the stories of some of the 982 Holocaust survivors, from 18 countries, whom were interned at the Fort Ontario Army Camp in Oswego, NY for 18 months from August 1944 to December 1946.

  16. Oral histories from the Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation & Research collection

    Oral histories from the Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation & Research

  17. Oral history interviews from the Allentown Jewish Archives collection

    Oral history interviews with Danny Gevirtz and Judy Freeman

  18. Anton & Etta Berkovits oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Etta Berkovits and Anton Berkovits

  19. Nahmias oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Sadi Nahmias and Mary Nahmias

  20. Imperial War Museum, World at War oral history collection

    Oral history interviews from the Imperial War Museum, World at War collection