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  1. Cornelia Heise collection

    The collection consists of a banknote and papers documenting the experiences of Cornelia Heise during her service with UNRRA child services in Germany after World War II (1939-1945).

  2. Cardarelli family collection

    Oral history interviews with Silvana (Cardarelli) Fabrizi and Maria (Cardarelli) Puzzanghero, an annotated transcript, and original photos from San Donato Val di Comino, Italy

  3. Oral history interviews of the Aaron and Esther Cohen collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Aaron Cohen and Esther Cohen in Mexico City, Mexico.

  4. Perman family collection

    The collection consists of an oral history with Malka Perman, translated by her daughter, Eileen Perman Baker, and documents such as naturalization records, falsified birth certificates, family photographs, and restitution-related papers. The materials all relate to the experiences of the Perman family particularly following their escape from Poland to Siberia and then Central Asia after they were forced into the Bialystok and Warsaw ghettos.

  5. Levisson family collection

    The collection consists of sketchbooks with hand-colored drawings, correspondence, documents, identity papers, and geneological materials relating to the experiences of the Levisson family, particularly Benno M. Levisson, while living in the Netherlands, a portion of the time in hiding, and Curaçao before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Edith Hahn-Beer collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Hahn-Beer, originally of Vienna, Austria, including forced-labor in Osterburg and Aschersleben, Germany, living in Munich and Brandenburg an der Havel under the false-identity of Margarete Denner, and marriage to German Nazi officer Werner Vetter. The bulk of the collection consists of wartime correspondence between Edith and her fiancé Joseph Rosenfeld, along with family correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs.

  7. Andrew and Rose Hausman collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin, documents, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adolf Hausman in Hungary during and after the Holocaust and of documents relating to Rose Hausman after the Holocaust.

  8. Eva and Zvi Schloss collection

    The collection consists of a French lottery ticket and one 50 kronen Theresienstadt scrip, as well as documents relating to the experiences of Meier Schloss while imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp in Germany before the Holocaust.

  9. Esther Weisz Grun oral history collection

    Includes a CD-ROM of audio interviews with Esther Weisz Grun conducted from December 15, 2005 until May 8, 2006 and a DVD of a video testimony recorded at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY ca. 2009.

  10. Peter Lerner oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by Peter Lerner.

  11. Magueye Kasse oral history collection

    Oral history interviews with Theodor Wonja conducted February 9, 1997 and Dominique Mendy conducted January 5, 1998

  12. Jablow family collection

    Consists of documents, passports, identity papers, school papers, restitution papers, and correspondence related to the Holocaust experiences of the Jablow, Jablonowski, Weiner, and Israel families. Contains wartime and post-war correspondence from Leopold and Regina Jablonowski, who immigrated to Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1938 to their son, Reinhold Jablow (previously Jablonowski), who immigrated to the United States in 1936. Includes identity and immigration documentation, including Reisepasses, for Reinhold, his wife, Marianne Weiner Jablow, and her mother, Charlotte Israel Weiner. Also, one ...

  13. Walter Spitzer collection

    The collection consists of etchings created postwar by Walter Spitzer based upon his experiences as an inmate in Buchenwald and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  14. Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

    The collection consists of an MS St. Louis ship plan, a child's drawing, an evening dress, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Joseph and Lily Joseph and their daughter Liesl before the Holocaust, when they left Germany on the MS St. Louis, their arrival in England, and their immigration to the United States.

  17. Middlebury College Language Schools oral history collection

    Consists of oral history interviews conducted by the Middlebury College Language Schools.

  18. Isaac Kraicer collection

    The collection consists of a trophy and photographs relating to the experiences of Icek Krajcer (Isaac Kraicer) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Zychlin and the ghetto in Gostynin, Poland, and to Icek's experiences after the Holocaust in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany and then in Palestine. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Schmidek family collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, and passport pertaining to Julie Schlamme, Thekla Schlamme Schmidek, and Norbert Schmidek. Included is also documentation of the extended Schlamme and Schmidek families. The collection also includes an oral history interview with Inge Maerowitz.