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  1. Uzi Ben-Ami oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Uzi Ben-Ami collection

  2. Anna and Harry Chinitz oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Anna Chinitz and Harry Chinitz

  3. 131st Evacuation Hospital Nurses oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with nurses from the 131st Evacuation Hospital

  4. Norman Feld oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Stephen Feld, Mel Feld, and Estelle Nadel

  5. Oral histories from the Yad Vashem collection

    Oral histories from the Yad Vashem collection

  6. Desperak oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Sam and Ruth Desparek

  7. Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews collection

    Oral history interviews with individuals concerning the Danish Resistance and the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.

  8. Suburban Temple oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Suburban Temple collection

  9. Meyer Schwarz collection

    Contains materials collected by Meyer Schwarz as well as materials documenting his experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. David Friedman collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of artwork created by artist David Friedman: drawing entitled "Nothing in His Pot"; Poster montage of 1964 exhibition photos; 1966 sketch of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; 2 pieces In Memorial of the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish Community Center in Baltimore; Poster created of the original invitation to the Warsaw Memorial Meeting.

  11. Line Five oral history collection

    Oral history interviews from the Line Five collection

  12. Schermeister family vacationing in Snekkersten, 1929

    An indoor shot of the donor's great grandparents, Leopold and Franzisca Cohen. They exit the door to their vacation home in Snekkersten, along with Bernhard (donor's grandfather) and his sister. The extended family on the lawn. The three girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, eat ice cream with Bernhard's mother (Hana Schermeister). Various family members pose for the camera.

  13. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 7 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  14. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  15. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 6 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  16. Medal

  17. Edna Silberman Holocaust Oral History Project collection

    The oral history interviews were conducted by the Holocaust Education Committee of the Edna Silberman Memorial Library.

  18. Patricia Benezra oral history collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by Patricia Benezra of Claudius Communications.

  19. Pick family collection

    The collection consists of four watercolors created by Jo Spier while imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia and a brooch with charms representing aspects of daily life at Theresienstadt.

  20. Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine

    350 Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine, (no date, originally reviewed March 27, 1944) INTs, Teheran railroad station. Polish refugees on platform bustle about as some bid farewell to departing friends. Persian/Arabic inscriptions. Pan, wall of newsstand/booth. Dolly shot, relatives and friends bid one another farewell from train windows; along railcars, more crowded, various men in uniform. Belongings on platform. Men, women, and children mill about, looking anxious and excited, some dressed well, some with hats (mix of Middle Eastern and Baltic looks). CU, native porter salutes in...