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  1. Toby Ticktin Back oral history collection

    Interviews on audiocassette conducted by Toby Ticktin Back in Israel in 1986.

  2. Frieda Rosenzweig Jankner family collection

    The collection consists of a clothes hanger, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Frieda Rosenzweig Jankner, who immigrated to the United States in 1911, and her family members who lived in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust.

  3. Anholt and Joosten families collection

    Postcard written by Herman Joosten who was from Zaltbommel, Netherlands to his sister upon his imminent deportation to the Westerbork internment camp in The Netherlands. From there he was eventually deported to the Malapane slave labor camp in Poland. Additional documents, surrounding the Anholt and Joosten families, a cigar box and scrip.

  4. Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, booklets, clippings, documents, and propaganda materials relating to the experiences of Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum, before, during, and after World War II (1939-1945), during which Edward, a 1st Lieutenant in the OSS and the US Army, was the first American officer to enter Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation, a participant in the liberation of Ohrdruf, and author of the Buchenwald Report. His father, Joseph Tenenbaum, was one of the organizers of the early boycott against Nazi Germany.

  5. Marion Strauss Sapir collection

    Documents, correspondence, books and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Strauss (b. 1898) and spouse Margarit Wolff Strauss (b. 1902) both from Marburg, Germany and their children Marion (b. 1925) and Karl-Heinz (b. 1929) in Frankfurt, Germany. Letters between extended family who fled Nazi occupation and Strauss family who fled Germany for the Netherlands where they were arrested and interned in Westerbork. From there, they were deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United ...

  6. Aleksander Rebbe photograph collection

    Photographs of Aleksander Rebbe and oral history testimonies of mother and grandmother (Israel Farber)

  7. Salomon family collection

    Photographs illustrating pre-war and post-war life of Alexander Salomon, born in Satu-Mare, Romania and his wife Amalia (nee Rosenbaum) born in Tiszaferegy Haza, in what is today Czech Republic, and their children Michael, Morris and Elizabeth born between 1939-1941 in Satu-Mare, Romania. The family remained in Satu-Mare in hiding during the Holocaust and lived in Bindermichl and Ebelsberg displaced persons camps in Linz, Austria after the war. Materials also include oral and written testimonies that discuss the experiences of the Salomon family and their family friend Livia Szabo.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Steven Pressman collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus"

  9. Mark Talisman collection

    The collection consists of drawings, correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting life in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Walter H. Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of German postage stamps and two revolvers relating to the experiences of Walter Rothschild as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.

  11. Sidney Bruskin collection

    The collection consists of a sign relating to the experiences of Sidney Bruskin as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II. Also includes a photograph and document. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. David Klein collection

    The collection consists of stamps, stamped envelopes, scrip, correspondence, receipts, etc. to/from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz Birkenau, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Mauthausen Natzweiler, and internment camps in Mauritius and Westerbork, and official post-war documents from Bergen-Belsen and Feldafing displaced persons camps.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Mary Cook and Nita Howton collection

    Oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps, work camps, and factories, and interviews with other wartime eyewitnesses, including former POWs, GIs, and medical aid workers. Also included is supplementary paper material (photos, correspondence, and publications).

  14. Fred Lindheim family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, memoirs, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Fred (Horst) Henry Lindheim, his parents, Berthold and Hertha, and his extended family in prewar Frankfurt, Germany, and during the Holocaust when Fred Lindheim was sent on a Kindertransport to Belgium until his parents were able to obtain visas for the family to emigrate to England and then the United States.

  15. Oral history interviews of the "There Once Was a Town" documentary film collection

    Video recordings and supplementary paper material (transcripts and film logs) produced for the documentary film "There Once Was a Town."

  16. Oral history interviews of "The Red Orchestra" collection

    Video interviews with family and members of the Berlin-based resistance group which the Nazis labeled as "Red Orchestra."

  17. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    The collection consists of pins, an audiotape, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Yvonne Rothschild Klug and her family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the United States as well as correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude Fraenkel and her family before and during the Holocaust in France and Poland and her postwar emigration to the United States. Collection also includes a portrait of Yvonne Redgis (Rothschi...

  18. Leopold Guttman collection

    The collection consists of three military medals, metal tags, and a medal attached to a Magen David necklace, documents, a photograph album, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leopold Guttman, before, during, and after World War II, during which he served in the Belgian Army and was imprisoned in a German stalag. as a member of the Belgian army.

  19. RuSHA racial science posters collection

    The collection consists of two lithographed wall charts produced by The Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) to teach racial hygiene in Nazi Germany.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Kempler family collection

    Oral history interviews with Tosca Kempler and Ignatz Kempler.