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  1. Karl and Julie Lotti Baum collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust of Karl Baum and his wife Julialotte Zwaab who survived the Holocaust. Also included is information on their extended family.

  2. Lilly Morawetz collection

    The collection consists of a photograph case carried by Lilly Morawetz, a Jewish Austrian refugee, from the Czech Republic through France, including while in Gurs and a jewelry case carried by her when she was deported by the French police from Paris to the Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal. When the family was imprisoned in Spain, this case was taken from Lilly, but because she had lost the key, they couldn’t open it and her jewelry remained safe. She carried the case with her to the US in 1941.

  3. Jerome S. Buser collection

    Consists of notebooks, documents, and clippings from the collection of Jerome S. Buser, who was given intelligence gathering and German language training at Carleton College in Minnesota during World War II. This training was done for eventual espionage wherein Mr. Buser would be dropped behind enemy lines to pose as a German businessman. The notebooks contain notes from history, geography, and language classes, demonstrating the training one received for future espionage activities. Due to the end of the war in Europe, Mr. Buser was never deployed overseas. Also includes seven small German...

  4. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    The collection consists of a kimono, shoes, a vase, decorative silver figurines, a novelty card, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Sara Kupinski Cohen and her family in Poland and Lithuania, before and during the Holocaust, in the Soviet Union, Japan, and China during the Holocaust, and in Canada after the war.

  5. Baumann and Moravec families collection

    Documents and Photographs; relating to the Baumann and Moravec families (related by marriage); The grandfather of Ms. Zuckerbrod was Emanuel or Eman Moravetz, later James E. Morris, who was married to Anna Baumann, Dr. John Shilling’s (another USHMM donor) maternal aunt. The documents include passports of Emanuel Moravetz; Berta Baumann and Anna Baumann and a copy of the passport of Otokar Baumann as well as claims for reparations; Tallit and Teffilin; which belonged to Emanuel Moravec, later James E. Morris; Teffilin consist of a complete set of leather boxes with straps, one worn on the f...

  6. Town of Tîrgu-Mureș collection

    The collection consists of a Kiddush cup and saucer relating to the experiences of a Jewish family in Tîrgu-Mureș, Romania before and during the Holocaust.

  7. Piroska Toim collection

    The collection consists of two photographs and a figurine relating to the experiences of Ilona Kirschner, Piroska Toim, Frida Farbenblum, and Katalin Weinrauch in Munkačevo and Beregszasz, Hungary before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Hungarian brick collection

    The collection consists of two bricks from local brick factories relating to events in the area of Kőszeg, Hungary, during the Holocaust.

  9. Berlfein and Burns families collection

    Collection of photos and documents related to the Berlfein family. Scrapbook documenting the experiences of Leon Burns as a member of the US Army serving in Europe during WWII Audio recordings of survivor interviews Camera used by Lee S. Burns (donor's father-in-law) acquired while in service in German and used to take some of the photos in this collection

  10. Hirschbruch family collection

    Photographs; Photo Album; Correspondence; Documents; Map; Publication; relating to the Hirschbruch ,Greatz and Rosenblüth families in Germany and later in Palestine. Eva Hirschbruch, donor’s mother, was born in Potsdam, Germany on Dec. 12, 1920. Her younger brother, Josef was born in 1923. Felix Rosenbluth, later Pinchas Rosen, was active in the Zionist Federation of Germany, influenced his extended family to immigrate to Palestine. The Hirschbruch family left Germany in 1933, but Eva and Josef’s paternal grandfather and two aunts with their families were deported to Riga in January 1942. B...

  11. Bojdman family collection

    Photographs; some found after the mass murder in Łuck ghetto on August 19-23, 1942 in Hirka Polanka, during which 18,000 Jews were murdered, among them Froim Aron Bojdman, Rywka Bojdman, donor’s maternal grandparents and Rachela, Abram and Leib Bojdman, siblings of Estera Bojdman, later Ettinger. As well as Stella Ettinger, donor’s paternal grandmother and her son Aleksander Ettinger. Other photographs are from 1944-1946 in Łuck and later in Warsaw. Correspondence and documents; letters from Estera’s cousins in USSR and others; list of Germans and Ukrainians who tortured and murdered Jews i...

  12. Adler and Houska families collection

    Fur coat entrusted to the Houska family by Jewish friends Richard, Elsa and Hanus Adler prior to their deportation. The Adlers were deported to the Łódź ghetto and murdered in Chelmno. Also donated is a contemporary photograph of Mr. Houska and a period wedding photograph.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Ciel Loots Hidden Children collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who were hidden by Ciel Loots in the Montessori school she ran for children with learning disabilities in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

  14. Zonligt family collection

    Correspondence, postcards, photographs, pocket mirror, wooden cradle, diary, poesie book, reports, naturalization documents, published works, awards and other original materials pertaining to the Zonligt and Blitz families of the Netherlands, Belgium, and later of the United States. Gerard Samuel Zonligt's postwar work as an U.N.R.R.A. DP camp administor is also covered therein.

  15. Dr. Friedrich Rösing collection

    The collection consists of an eye color tool and a skin color tool used as part of anthropological race studies during the eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.

  16. Salzmann family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, medical bags, a prayer book, and smoking pipes that relate to the experiences of Berthold Salzmann, his sister Ernesta Spieler, and their family in Austria, and Germany before and during the Holocaust and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  17. Harry Lindauer collection

    Papers of Harry Lindauer, Col. U.S. Army, retired. Documents, letters, photographs, published accounts and military reports concerning Harry Lindauer's family history and military experiences, 1941-1945. Additional photocopies and photographs of his return trips to Germany and of award from Federal Republic of Germany in 1988; Dog tag issued to Harry Lindauer.

  18. Nazi party documents, correspondence and artifacts collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and artifacts relating to several high ranking Nazi party members and likely collected as evidence by the US Army after World War II (1939-1945).

  19. Loewenstein family collection

    Consists of documents related to the Loewenstein family, originally of Luxembourg. Includes ration books, identity paperwork, and inventories from pre-war Luxembourg, Gurs, wartime France, and post-war Luxembourg. Also includes a paper document pouch.

  20. Eugene Goldfield collection

    The collection consists of two German American Bund posters and a photograph of a drawing.