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  1. Oral history interviews of the Avi Dobrysh collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in Estonia.

  2. Marti Korach Weiss collection

    The collection includes a diary written by Ilona Braunstein Korach in 1945, documenting her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland and Buchenwald concentration camp sub-camps Gelsenkirchen and Sömmerda. The diary was created by Livia Klein with whom Ilona and her daughter Martha were in camp with. The front cover of the diary states "Ilu [Ilona] Béla [Ilona’s husband who perished] and Marti” and the back states “minden elmulik egyszer” ("this too shall pass").

  3. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  4. Formal Jap Surrender

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information: "Japs Sign Surrender Papers." On the broad decks of the USS "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay, the official Japanese delegation signs the formal surrender documents. Military representatives of each of the victorious Allied powers, then affix their signatures, and hostilities are ended. Gen. MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allies, speaks to the gathering, and to the world, stating that hostilities have ceased, and that with God's help, war will be ended forever.

  5. Judenrat in Tarnów Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Tarnów (Sygn. 267)

    Records of the Judenrat in Tarnów, Poland. Consists of court documents and identity cards of inhabitants of Jewish ghetto in Tarnów.

  6. Liberation of Lublin, Majdanek

    Liberation of Polish towns. Liberation of Lublin, Majdanek.

  7. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, a passport with case, books, an album, a set of tefillin, and tallit relating to the experiences of Ruth Abraham, her parents, Ilse and Horst Abraham, her grandparents, Hedwig and Isidor Brilling, and her aunt, Hildegard Brilling, in Germany and Ecuador before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Bernard Nissenbaum collection

    Contains a testimony and other materials documenting the experiences of Bernard Nissenbaum. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Imperial War Museum oral history collection

    Oral history interviews from the Imperial War Museum

  10. Preparations for Easter in the region of Lowicz and Witów

    VS, preparations for church in Lowicz, Poland. VS of the procession (likely for Easter Sunday) of townspeople, all in traditional clothing, to the church. They are led by the local clergy and several carry banners as they process through the streets. VS of the young children dressed in their finery, two flower girls sprinkle the path to the church with flower petals. Polish highlanders march from the church through the Polish village of Witów, in Kościelisko Commune, Tatrzański County. The priest visible in the middle wearing a dark cassock and elaborate hat is then parson of Chochołów pari...

  11. Jack and Marilyn Pechter collection

    The collection consists of identification canteen notes, identification tags, scrip, clippings, correspondence, documents, a map, propaganda materials, photographic postcards, photographs, and a philatelic collection documenting pre-war Jewish life, anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus Affair, the arrest of Herschel Grynspan, multiple concentration camps, and World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Fenyves family recipe book

    The Fenyves family recipe book was prepared by Klári (Klara) Fenyves and is written in Hungarian. After the Fenyves family was forced to leave their apartment before deportation in May 1944, the family’s cook, Maris, entered the apartment and saved this cookbook and some of Klári Fenyves’ artwork. The cook returned the artwork and the recipe book to the surviving family members after the war.

  13. Mieczyslaw Flaum collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Mieczyslaw Flaum during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Faith in Humankind oral history collection

    Oral history interviews from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Faith in Humankind collection

  15. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    The collection consists of fifteen courtroom sketches created by Charles R. Hazard for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the postwar deportation trials of Karlis Detlavs and George Theodorovich in Baltimore, Maryland, for withholding information about their involvement with war crimes in Eastern Europe during World War II.

  16. Oral history interview with Hannah Stein

  17. George J. Fine collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, a fork, and a letter relating to the experiences of Getzel Fingerhut (later George Fine) during the Holocaust when he was a prisoner in Kaufering X concentration camp in Germany and after the Holocaust in Feldafing displaced persons camp.

  18. Julius & Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center collection

    Oral histories from the Julius & Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center collection

  19. Oral histories from the Anti-Defamation League of Washington, D.C. collection

    Oral histories from the Anti-Defamation League of Washington, D.C.

  20. Boyan Papazov oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Boyan Papazov collection