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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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).

  15. 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.

  16. Eugene Goldfield collection

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

  17. Horia Stamatu collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and other materials related to the life and career of the donor's father, Horia Stamatu (1912-1989), the Romanian poet and essayist, and onetime member of the Iron Guard. Most of the materials document Stamatu’s career as a writer, poet, and philosopher living in Freiburg, Germany, from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

  18. Philipson collection

    The collection consists of a opy of the Rainbow Map: large illustrated map of the Rainbow Division's 1945 campaign and assorted restitution documentation from various Holocaust survivors,

  19. Ilona (Elena) Kellner Kalinova collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner badge, factory pin, leather charm, recipes, and copy photographs relating to the experiences of Ilona (Elena) Kellner Kalinova in Hungary, Poland, Germany, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Appenzeller and Dukes families collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, a ruler and a banknote relating to the experiences of Erna Appenzeller Kent, and her maternal and paternal families, the Dukes and Appenzellers in Vienna, Austria, Milan, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal and the United States before, during and after the Holocaust.