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  1. Betti Blaugrund collection

    The collection consists of a baby doll, and infant and doll clothing relating to the experiences of Betti Blaugrund in Belgium before and during the Holocaust when, as an infant, she was placed in hiding with Louise and Udile Ceulemans-Gryson, and of her cousin, Aline Klajn, who was deported and killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  2. United States Holocaust Memorial Council/International Liberators Conference oral history collection

    Includes oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps.

  3. Chaim and Regina Hollander collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, an oral history audiocassette, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chaim Hollander in Poland during and after the Holocaust, and of Kajla-Rykwa Miller in Belgium during the Holocaust.

  4. Mark Asch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and correspondence relating to the experiences of Mark Asch and his family in Kutno, Poland, and as they escaped to the United States during the Holocaust.

  5. Hanan Kisch collection

    The collection consists of ration coupons relating to the experiences of Hanan Kisch and his family and other inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  6. Asna Hirschman Lutwak and Max Lutwak Collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Asna Hirschmann, born 1922, Pinsk, Belarus and Max Lutwak born 1922 in Dortmund, Germany. Collection documents their individual experiences during and after the Holocaust. Asna was interned in the Kovno Ghetto, the Vaivara camp in Estonia in August 1943, then Stutthof concentration camp in Poland, and liberated January 1945. After the War, Asna pursued her medical degree, earning it June 1948. Max studied in Rennes, France and moved to Marseilles to study in 1940. He immigrated to...

  7. Karl Schlesinger collection

    The collection consists of a badge and eyeglasses, a photograph, and a postcard relating to the experiences of Karl Schlesinger in several concentration camps in Belgium, France, Germany, and Poland during the Holocaust and after the war in displaced persons camps in Germany. An accretion of post-war documents, certificates, identity card issued to Karl (Carl) Schlesinger. A second accretion of a pair of eyeglasses (broken) carried by Karl Schlesinger during WWII; identification cards and papers, correspondence, certificates, and documents relating to Karl and Eva Schlesinger during the Hol...

  9. Klaus Zwilsky family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Klaus Zwilsky and his family in Berlin, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  10. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Kato Ritter in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau concentration camps and Gyorgy Frankfurter in Hungary and forced labor battalions before and during the Holocaust, and of Kato and Gyorgy in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany until their immigration to the United States in 1951.

  11. Bruno Einstein family collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Einstein and their son Dieter when they fled Germany for the United States in 1939.

  12. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The collection consists of a doll, luggage tags, artifacts, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Rosenfeld who was sent by her parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain in June 1939.

  13. Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, documents, oral testimonies, and photographs relating to the experiences of Beate Ada Oppenheimer in Lauenforde, Germany, and the United States and Ernest Oppenheimer in Mannheim, Germany, and the United States and of members of their extended families who escaped Germany or were imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  14. David Steiner family collection

    The collection consists of two prewar photographs and a 1948-1949 Hebrew calendar book relating to the experiences of David Steiner and his family in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), where he survived in hiding during the Holocaust.

  15. Seth Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of a program for a Nazi propaganda film and three periodicals relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  16. Mandel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Yehuda and Ella Mandel and their son Emanuel [Manny]. Collection documents their lives in Riga, Latvia where Manny was born in 1936, and their move to Hungary, where Yehuda was Chief Cantor of the Rombach Street Synagoge in Budapest until 1944, their flight from Budapest on a transport of 1600 Jewish Hungarians [arranged by Rudolph Kastner and the Aid and Rescue Committee] to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and general materials illustrating Yehuda's post-war Cantorial career in the United Stat...

  17. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    The collection consists of audio recordings, artifacts, documents, and photographs collected by Dr. Dorit Whiteman for her work as an author and clinical psychologist researching and writing books about the Holocaust.

  18. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of two Russian ruble coins and a HIAS pin relating to the experiences of Shanke (Sonia) Minuskin, her husband Shlamke, and their two children, Henikel and Kalmanke, while living in hiding in Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus during the Holocaust and in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  19. Fred and Kay Zeidman collection

    The collection consists of King Christian X commemorative pins produced in Denmark and worn as symbols of patriotism during the occupation by Nazi Germany from 1940-1945.

  20. Hannah Messinger collection

    The collection consists of a series of drawings done around 1970 by Hannah Messinger based upon her experiences as a prisoner in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Sackisch concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Czechoslovakia immediately after the end of the war.