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  1. Laurie Zell collection

    The collection consists of two phonograph record sets featuring works created by American artists to protest the actions of Adolf Hitler and the threat of Nazi Germany.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Czech Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Czech Witnesses Documentation Project

  3. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 where he and his family were held after the ship on which they sailed from Romania to Palestine was captured by the British Navy.

  4. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal, some relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 and others on biblical themes or Jewish culture and his life in Israel.

  5. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket, a pin, a pouch, a towel, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Franka Rosenblum and Julian Hirshfeld and their families in Poland and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and in a displaced persons camp in Paris, France, where they married after the end of World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Post-Holocaust oral history collection

    This is a supplemental interviewing project to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history project, RG-50.030, containing interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, war crimes prosecutors, and other witnesses to the events of the Holocaust. The focus of this collection, RG-50.549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre (Melbourne, Vic.)

    Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the Melbourne, Victoria, Australia area.

  8. Faces of the Holocaust oral history collection

    Contains oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, a child of Holocaust survivors and a German exchange student from the Dayton, Ohio, area

  9. Oral history interviews of the Flight and Rescue collection

    Contains oral history interviews with twenty Holocaust survivors and witnesses recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, "Flight and Rescue," which opened May 3, 2000. The interviewees discuss their experiences of their journey from Lithuania to Shanghai, China, via Japan

  10. Samuel Zisman collection

    The collection consists of an UNRRA patch, a leather notebook case, and archival papers including biographical materials, team records, drawings and maps, memoranda and reports, personal correspondence, photographs, and printed materials, relating to the experiences of Samuel Zisman as a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director of District 5 in Bavaria from 1945-1947.

  11. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains records captured by the Red Army around the end of World War II currently housed at the Russian State Military Archive, formerly the Osobyi archives. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections (CPHDC) and in 1999 The Russian Archives Committee merged the CPHDC into the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA) located next door. The RGVA contains prewar Soviet military documents. While the Osobyi is now a part of RGVA, the old Osobyi fond numbers for the various collections remain unchanged. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the...

  12. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.

  13. South Carolina Council on the Holocaust oral history collection

    Contains interviews with 39 Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators from S.C.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project recorded by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 26 interviews in this collection date from 1994 to1995.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, and other eyewitnesses, recorded by the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project throughout the 1980s and 1990s in the San Francisco, CA area

  16. Oral history interviews of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre collection

    Contains interviews with 49 Holocaust survivors in the Montreal, Quebec, Canada area

  17. Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower, and a wooden cover, metal box, toolbox, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszow ghetto and imprisoned Plaszow forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenburg concentration camp, after the war in a displaced persons camp, and a metal box, wooden cover, and poesie album relating to the experiences of Doba Drezner in an orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland. An accretion of documents, photographs, correspondence...

  18. Oral history interviews of the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Children of Holocaust Survivors

    Interviews of the Children of Holocaust Survivors collection contains oral history interviews with 13 Holocaust survivors in the Atlanta, Ga.; Savannah, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; and Birmingham, Ala., areas.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center

    Contains interviews with seven Holocaust survivors in the Portland, Oregon area