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  1. Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and a pair of youth soccer cleats pertaining to the experiences of the Blogier, Wides, and Wechselman families. Abraham Blogier and his sister Edith Blogier Wechselman were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and h...

  2. Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary collection

    Sewing kit, manicure kit and two perpetual calendars which belonged to Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary and used by her after she arrived in England on the Kindertransport.

  3. Lore Anthes Schwarz family collection

    The collection consists of a jewelry box, a postcard, and several documents relating to the experiences of Regina Hess in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust and the family of Julius Bentheim in Germany during the Holocaust, which were kept hidden by Georg, Elise, and Lore Anthes in Germany during World War II.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Gili Ronen collection

    Interviews with members of the Rubicsek/Ronen family and with Jucika Rehakova née Farkas, the daughter of rescuers.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society collection

    Oral history interviews, presentations, and remembrance programs with Holocaust survivors and witnesses to WWII from the archive of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society.

  6. Yakob Langer collection

    Photocopies and transcripts from the collection of Yakob Langer (also known as Klaus Langer), originally of Essen, Germany. Includes color copies of pages of Yakob Langer's diary, a typed transcript of a letter written by his father between November 1941 and April 1942, and an audio recording in which he reads portions of his diary.

  7. Lester M. Libo collection

    The collection consists of papers, photographs, and printed matter from the military service of Lester M. Libo. Includes items related to his denazification work including his personal notebook, Fragebogen used in denazification and confiscated items including propaganda material, money, medals, and a piece of cloth with a swastika insignia. In addition, several newspapers and an issue of Army Talks (28 October 1945) and posted military government notices.

  8. Bäecher family collection

    THe collection consists of a letter from the Movement for the Care of Children From Germany in London to Mrs. A. Baecher in Bronham, England concerning her son Ivan and his disposition. Dated July 3, 1940, signed by Barbara Winton. Metal tag usd in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Josef Fleischer, Ivan’s grandfather, who died in the camp in 1943. Tag was kept by Ivan’s Grandmother, Jenny who did survive but passed away in June 1945, after her liberation; Photographs of Ivan’s extended family-Aunts, Uncles, cousins who did not survive the Holocaust or survived in hiding.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Kindertransport Association collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who fled Nazi-occupied Europe on the Kindertransport

  10. Signed testimonies of the Deaf Holocaust Experience collection

    Interviews and recorded programs and presentations featuring Deaf survivors of the Holocaust

  11. Oral history interviews of the Brad Zarlin collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded by telephone.

  12. Robert L. Tumler collection

    The collection consists of wartime and postwar photographs, postcards, a typed report on Ebensee (Mimeograph copy) and a German map on which Tumler drew the route his unit took ending in Ebensee. The photographs include some images of the Ebensee camp taken shortly after liberation. Robert L. Tumler (1911-1980) served as a medic in the US Army during WWII. His unit landed in Normandy six weeks after D-day and followed the Advancing Troops across Europe. As camps were liberated, they provided a basic level of medical care - the last camp was at Ebensee.

  13. Susie and Margarete Wiesner collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, cigarette case with pin, doll, cloth pouch and coins and currency used, carried by Susie Marie Wiesner Metzger and her mother Margarete Wiesner who survived the Holocaust; 3 videocassette tapes.

  14. Oral histories of the Dimant family collection

    Audio and video testimonies of Ita Dimant and an audio recording of the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, including Simcha Dimant and others.

  15. Nacht family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, drawings, photos, passports, notebook and additional materials relating to and documenting the experiences of Max Nacht, his wife Elfriede (nee Kamm), sons Edward and Felix, Elfriede's parents Alfred and Amalie Kamm and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany, Shanghai, and the Dominican Republic.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Lieberman/Goldman family collection

    Oral history interviews with Daniel Goldsmith, Donald Greenbaum, and Ernest Gross

  17. Music study collection

    Various audio cassettes, CDs, and LPs containing original sound recordings, published materials, interviews, or music obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's curator of music.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Arnold S. Task collection

    Interviews with Holocaust survivors, US liberators, and witnesses to events of WWII, recorded at memorial gatherings in Greensboro NC

  19. Walter Peiser artwork collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Walter Peiser-Preisser ("Prei"). One woodcut print that is part of a series of 12, created in the Neustadt/Holstein DP camp, circa 1946. Seven prints (one hexagon and six trapezoids) depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz-Monowitz, Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and general scenes of commemoration that include names of camps, prisoner numbers and markings, with small holes punched around the entire border of each page.

  20. Hans Marcuse collection

    The collection consists of etters, documents, a Hagadah, physics kit, tefillin, tzitzit (tallit katan), and bag documenting the experiences of Hans Marcuse and his family.