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  1. Harry Froehlich and Isaak Judas families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a Boy Scout banner, belt, twenty drawings, two albums, papers, and photographs related to the experiences of Harry Froehlich, in a refugee camp in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, circa 1939-1945, and then in Palestine, as well as documents and photographs related to the experiences of Isaak Judas, originally of Ihringen, Germany, before and after World War II.

  2. Francis Fife collection

    The collection consists of a bouquet of paper flowers hand made by unknown concentration camp prisoner out of German stationery/forms given to 1st Lt. Francis Fife, a member of the US Army 4th Infantry Division during their liberation of Haunstetten, a sub-camp of Dachau, in late April 1945; Copy prints and images of 1st Lt. Francis Fife during his military service during WWII.

  3. Hess, Spier and Steinberg family collection

    The collection consists of two typescript memoirs, photographs, and Hanukiah relating to the experiences of Walter Hess and Hannah Spier Hess and her family in Germany, Ecuador and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  4. Fried and Faktor families collection

    The collection consist of an apron, documents, photographs, and other materials related to the experiences of Ann Fried Buchsbaum, her parents, Judka (Bernard) and Laura Dickmann Fried Faktor, and her stepfather, Alois (Lou) Faktor and his family in prewar Vienna, Austria, and their efforts to emigrate to the U.S. Also included are photographs of Ann’s husband, Walter Buchsbaum, a refugee from Vienna, rescued by Ben Buchsbaum, who served in the U.S. Army.

  5. Andrew Nagorski collection

    Materials related to research conducted by Nagorski into topics related to the history of the Holocaust and World War II. Includes the extended draft of an article about Auschwitz written by Nagorski, 1995, and published version of same as it appeared in Newsweek, 16 January 1995, sound recordings of interviews of historical eyewitnesses, historians, and others interviewed by Nagorski during his career at Newsweek, and while writing his books “Hitlerland” and “The Nazi Hunters,” transcripts of interviews, and other related research (and other) materials.

  6. Otto Feuer collection

    THe collection consists of a striped concentration camp uniform jacket and pants, and brown corduroy jacket marked "KLB" with a prisoner number patch, worn by Otto Feuer while a prisoner in multiple concentration camps including Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Buchenwald where he was liberated on April 11, 1945 and a white reading "Jnformation" [sic] originally worn by Otto Feuer on the sleeve of the brown corduroy jacket.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

  8. Pollatschek family collection

    The collection consists of a toy bus and correspondence relating to the Pollatschek family in Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  9. Elsie A. Ragusin Azzinaro collection

    The collection consists of a patch, a pouch, three drawings, a prayer book, clippings, correspondence, notes, and photocopies relating to the experiences of Elsie Ragusin during World War II, when, in 1939, on a visit from the United States to Italy with her family, Elsie and her father were arrested as political spies, and Elsie was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps, and after the war when, after liberation, she was taken to Sweden to recover, and returned to the United States in December 1945.

  10. Lilienthal family collection

    The Lilienthal family collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, and business records documenting the Lilienthal family from Mönchengladbach, the aryanization of their fabric business, their immigration to the United States, and the printing company and magazine Ernest Lilienthal established in New York.The collection also includes an original pencil sketch by architect Bruno Paul.

  11. Reicher family collection

    Two rabbincal tractates hidden in Polish town of Jelesnia near Krakow in 1939 by non-Jewish neighbors. Prayerbooks belonged to Rabbi Mordechai Reicher and were entrusted to a neighbor by his wife Chaja. Iin 2004, Esther retreived the books (by chance). Both of her parents perished during the Holocaust.

  12. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    The collection consists of patches, scrip, stamps, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry and Irene Silberstein Frank and their relatives in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany and the United States after World War II.

  13. Juan Jorge and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts relating to the experiences of Juan Jorge Schäffer (b. Vienna) and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer (b. Mannheim), both of whom fled Nazi occupation and immgrated to Uruguay. The collection includes photographs of the extended Schäffer family, school documents, restitution papers as well as a clock brought to Uruguay by a German Jewish refugee and a pre-war Viennese dance card.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Grünfeld/Heimann Family collection

    Oral history interviews with members of the Grünfeld/Heimann family who discuss their escape from Nazi Germany and experiences as refugees in Shanghai, China.

  15. Eisenberg and Birnbaum families collection

    The collection consists of a metal tag, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Helena (Nelly) Eisenberg (later Birnbaum), and her parents, Ilya and Sonia Eisenberg, before, during, and after the Holocaust, who immigrated from Danzig to the United States between 1936-1939, as well as the immigration of Joseph Birnbaum, from Kosice, Czechoslovakia, to Baltimore, in 1939.

  16. Sam Gasson collection

    The collection consists of seven straight razors and documents relating to the experiences of Sam Gasson during or after the Holocaust.

  17. Susanne Berglind collection

    Six works of art created by artist Susanne Berglind (donor's mother) illustrating her experiences during the Holocaust. Susanne Zimmerman was born in Miskolic, Hungary and was interned in the ghetto there. Susanne was deported to a series of concentration camps with her sister and mother, including Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen Belsen. Her mother died at liberation in Bergen-Belsen. The six works of art, which are watercolor on tissue or pastel on paper, document these experiences. Susanne was taken to Sweden after liberation on June 28, 1945 on the Kastleholm, where she recuperated.

  18. Schwarz and Rosenwald families collection

    The collection consists of a bank note, a framed poem, correspondence, documents, a photograph album, and video tapes related to the experiences of extended family members of Richard Schwarz and Bertha Rosenwald Schwarz and their emigration from Nazi Germany to the United States, made possible by the financial assistance of Julius Rosenwald.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Mária Tóth collection

    Oral history interviews with non-Jewish eyewitnesses on the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in the town of Csákvár, Hungary.

  20. Bier family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, identification in wallet, papers and photographs illustrating the Bier family who resided in Berlin and family that fled from Nazi Germany. Particularly documented is Siegfried Bier (donor's husband's uncle) who fled to France and then the UK where he was interned as an enemy alien, and eventually then to the US.