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  1. Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and Ignaz and Rosine Auerbach collection

    Collection of documents, correpondence, photographs and publications surrounding Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and their escape from Nazi occupied Vienna, Austria. Kurt, a lawyer, was arrested and held by the Gestapo before being released and able to flee to the United States.

  2. David Frohman collection

    Correspondence written by David S. Frohman (donor's father), a member of the 89th Infantry Division, Third United States Army ["Patton's Own"]. Included in the correspondence are two sets of letters from David in Camp Roberts, California and Fort Benning, Georgia, and from Germany and post-war Austria. Letters describe David's experiences in the military and overseas as an American Jewish soldier. First set of letters written to David's parents in Chicago area. Second set of letters written to family friend Leandro Pastorelli in Chicago area. The collection also includes an 89th Infantry Di...

  3. Hyman Kirsh collection

    The Hyman Kirsh papers includes photographs of the Kirszenewajg family taken in Poland prior to World War II, and a fragment of an engagement announcement for Golda Kirszenewajg and Chaim Berenzweig, circa 1912-1914. The collection also includes a prayerbook found in a Jewish home after liberation.

  4. Vera Herz collection

    The Vera Herz papers include two ORT documents. The first, issued to Vera Spitz and dated April 15, 1947, is an ORT identification document that states she was working as a teacher at the ORT school in Eggenfelden, Germany. The second is an ORT certificate issued to “Jewish Displaced Person” Bela Spitz by the World ORT Union. Also included in the collection are sixteen black and white photographs of Vera Spitz with her father, Bela Spitz, and friends in Germany, likely at the displaced persons camp in Eggenfelden, circa 1948. The collection also includes a handbound dress pattern book with ...

  5. Bronislaw Zbigniew Bulkowski collection

    Collection and memoirs illustrating the experiences of Bronislaw Bulkowski, born Roman Catholic on July 11, 1920 in Ostrowiec, Poland, surrounding the Holocaust. Bronislaw was a forced laborer for the Nazi occupying authorities and was conscripted to the German Rail Authorities in Altena, Germany. Between 1942 and 1945, he slave labored alongside other forced laborers. Included is a diary ("Wartime Log") he kept in which he references other slave laborers as well as abuse they, endured, the group digging a tunnel, working all night, lack of food, overpriced bread and accidents that hurt and...

  6. Eva Rosenbaum Loewy collection

    Collection illustrating the postwar life of Eva Rosenbaum who survived concentration camps, was liberated and lived in Austria until her immigration to the United States in 1949. Also included is information for her two sisters Ilona and Ede who also survived. They were originally deported from Budapest, Hungary in 1944. The collection also includes a metal and plastic ID card holder.

  7. Betty Siebenscheinova collection

    The Betty Siebenscheinova collection includes biographical material, correspondence, diaries, subject files, photographs and a drawing relating to the Holocaust experiences of Betty Siebenscheinova, originally from Prague.

  8. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    The collection consists of diaries, planners, publications, correspondence, statistical charts, seven unused Star of David badges, a Waffen SS addressed envelope, and a US Army's Chaplain tallit relating to the experiences of Rabbi Judah Nadich as a chaplain in the United States Army in Paris, France, following the liberation of the city by US forces in August 1944, as the first advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Eisenhower, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces, and his post-war work with WWII and Holocaust commemoration.

  9. Edward Boehm Collection

    Artillery leaflets produced by the United States Armed Forces shelled/dropped in Italy where Edward Boehm [donor's father] was assigned to the U.S. 5th Army and British 8th Army as combat liaison propaganda officer with purpose of creating leaflets targeting Germans behind enemy lines. Books entitled “P.W.B/Shell Leaflets [Psychological Warfare Branch] containing leaflets fixed within books. Newspapers entitled Frontpost dating December 1943 through June 1945. Propaganda Leaflets produced by Germany targeted at Allied troops collected by Boehm. Identification card issued to Boehm during the...

  10. Eugene and Irene Wojcik Wojtas family collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eugeniusz Wojtas and Irena Wojcik Wojtas, Roman Catholics who were persecuted in German occupied Poland during World War II when both Eugeniusz, a prisoner of war, and Irena, were assigned to forced labor in Germany, and, after the war, when they met and married as displaced persons.

  11. Frances Doniger collection

    Photographs, correspondence, documentation and drawing surrounding the experiences of the Abusch and Pick families during the Holocaust and of siblings Frances and Max Abusch who fled Vienna, Austria on the Kindertransport. Their parents were able to travel to New York, where Frances soon joined them. Max eventually made his way to Toronto, ON, Canada. The collection also follows the Pick family, relatives of Frances's mother. Her cousin Josef Pick was able to escape, but the rest of his family was killed.

  12. Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher collection

    The collection consists of a set of porcelain soup and dinner plates with drinking glasses relating to the experiences of Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher and her family in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, before and after the Holocaust, during which she and her family were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp.

  13. Alfred and Elsa Dukes collection

    The collection consists of a man’s nightshirt and a woman’s nightgown relating to the experiences of Alfred and Elsa Dukes and their daughter, Gertrude, in Austria before and during the Holocaust and in the United States following their emigration in 1939.

  14. Walter Fried collection

    The collection consists of brass knuckles and a Nazi state criminal police warrant disc relating to the experiences of Walter Fried, a Jewish Austrian refugee, while serving in the United States Third Army, War Crimes Investigating Team #6824, Judge Advocate Section during World War II.

  15. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of military items of Orban Wales Peters, Jr. including uniform jacket, two hats, a helmet; “After Action Report” of the 914th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes; selected copies of “The Rolling.” Correspondence from Margarete Lang Schweidler, from Germany, to her daughter Gretel Schweidler Holzer in the U.S. Her daughter, Anna Margarete Holzer married Orban Wales Peters, Jr. They are the parents of the donor.

  16. Susan Flusser Tausig collection

    The collection consists of photo albums, loose photos, documents, an autograph album, postcards, correspondence, an album of Chinese scrip, coins (Chines, Austria, etc.), a map of Shanghai, newspaper clippings related to Susan Flusser Tausig, her father Rudolf Flusser, her mother Blanka Rosenbaum (nee Lipiner), her stepfather Ludwig Rosenbaum, stepmother Dina Raave, and brother Peter Flusser. Also includes documents from Susan Flusser Tausig's father-in-law Peter Tausig and a Cafe Roy/Adieu going away card for Alexander Fried (a friend of the Tausig family).

  17. Ettelson family collection

    Consists of a suitcase, wallet, photo album, photographs, newspapers, clippings, notebooks, documents, correspondence, ephemera, and other original material pertaining to the experiences of Ralph Ettelson who emigrated from Vilkaviskis, Lithuania to the Dominican Republic before the war. The collection includes correspondence and photographs pertaining to Ralph's mother, Itta Ettelson Shimenski, and his siblings Reveka and Max, who perished in the Holocaust. Additional photographs, correspondence, and clippings pertain to Jewish communities, and Jewish refugees, in the the Caribbean and Ral...

  18. Edward Lawrence Associates castings collection

    The collection consists of fiberglass castings of a ghetto and cemetery walls, a dissecting table, a cobbled road, a doorway surround, a gateway arch, a gas chamber door, and a crematorium oven, stretcher, and poker, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum relating to the experiences of Jewish victims in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow ghettos, Majdanek and Treblinka killing centers, and Mauthausen and Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland and Austria during the Holocaust.

  19. Paul Mayer collection

    The collection consists of diaries, artwork, books, documents, clippings, and correspondence pertaining to the experiences of Paul Mayer and his family, formerly of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and later of the United States.

  20. Stephen Mize collection

    Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer issued to Polish youth (Wasyl Nowodejki?)in 1944; Antisemetic Notgeld coupon from Brakel, Germany; dated March 1, 1922