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  1. Harold Lehman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, drawings, sketches, publications, prints and photographs relating to the artist Harold Lehman and his experiences in the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  2. Sara Ginaite-Rubinson collection

    The Sara Ginaite-Rubinson papers contain photographs and documents relating to her family and the time she served as a partisan fighter in Lithuania during World War II. The photographs consist mainly of her family members, with some depicting Sara during her time fighting in the “Death to Occupiers” partisan group. Also included are documents concerning her relative Zlata Ginaite, photocopies of primary documents she discovered while researching the Lithuanian resistance movement, and correspondence with museums regarding her research. Additionally, in an oversized folder is a copy of the ...

  3. irn601528

    The collection consist of one poster issued by the French Government Seine-et-Oise department in 1941, 112 paintings created by Zenek Maor, a Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, the Elkan family papers, from 1941-1946, and a typed manuscript with a list of Polish refugees from the immediate postwar period.

  4. Arie Eshkoli collection

    Consists of the manuscript, entitled "In Memory of Arie Eshkoli: The War Stories," by Daphne Kaufman, which is based on taped interviews with Mr. Eshkoli, her grandfather. Arie Eshkoli, born Leon Grappa, originally of Ostrów Mazowiecki, Poland, worked for the underground before being arrested in 1939 and shipped to a Russian labor camp. He was released in late 1940 and fought with the Polish Red Army. He participated in the liberation of the Majdanek concentration camp and worked for the post-war Zionist movement before immigrating to Israel in 1947. Also includes audiotapes of the origina...

  5. Otto Pankok collection

    The collection consists of five Sinti woodcut portaits created by Otto Pankok in postwar Germany.

  6. Leo Melamed collection

    The collection consists of a crayon box, documents, and a publication relating to the experiences of Lejb Melamdowicz (Leo Melamed) and his family before and during the Holocaust when they fled Bialystok, Poland, to Vilna, and then Kobe, Japan, until reaching the United States in 1941.

  7. Henri Pieck collection

    The collection consists of a published folio inscribed by the artist, Henri Pieck: 7 Origineele Kleurenlitho's Van Beelden Uit Het Concentratiekamp Buchenwald, seven reproductions of sketches of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp based on his experiences as an inmate.

  8. Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives collection

    Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives, recollections of survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants recorded by students from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the International Media Center (IMC) at HAW Hamburg.

  9. Egon Feldmann collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, correspondence, documents, identity cards, and photographs related to the experiences of Egon Feldmann and his mother, Sofie, before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and Egon's immigration to Basel, Switzerland with his first wife, Else, in 1939, and later in the United States.

  10. Uki Goni collection : The Real Odessa research material

    Contains the research materials collected by Uki Goňi, author of "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina." In course of his research for this book, Mr. Goňi collected relevant documents over a period of 20 years in various archives worldwide, including in Argentina, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Uki Goňi shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican...

  11. Mania Baghdadi collection

    The collection consists of one doll and a photograph relating to the experiences of Mania Kleinburd as a young child in a displaced persons camp after World War II.

  12. Bondy, Feldman, Kafka, and Loewenbach families collection

    The collection consists of a pin, correspondence, documents, photographs, and published materials relating to the experiences of the Bondy, Feldman, Kafka, and Loewenbach families.

  15. Eastern European sewing equipment collection

    The collection consists of six sewing machines, treadle tables, and a scale used in Poland before, during, and after World War II.

  16. Edmund Graf collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform, soap, a sweater, and a shirt relating to the experiences of Edmund Graf after he was deported from Poland to Flossenburg and Altenhammer concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  17. Stanislaw Kozler family collection

    The collection consists of a fork, spoon, and a commemorative photograph relating to the experiences of Stanislaw Kozler and his family, originally of Kryłów, Poland, after World War II when they were liberated by the United States military from a forced labor camp in Schwarzburg, Germany.

  18. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland collection

    The collection consists of a handmade card, correspondence, photographs, reports, and drafts relating to the experiences of Roswell and Marjorie McClelland and their work for the American Friends Service Committee in Europe from 1940-1945, and Roswell McClelland’s work as a War Refugee Board representative in Switzerland, 1944-1945.

  19. John Butzke family collection

    The collection consists of a teddy bear, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans (later John) Butzke and his parents Julius and Netty before and during the war in Vienna, Austria, and in Panama and the United States following their 1940 immigration.

  20. Fred Vendig family collection

    The collection consists of wartime drawings, a pocket calendar, correspondence, papers, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Ernst and Charlotte Vendig, their sons Fritz (Fred) and Heiner (Henry) and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany, during their unsuccessful 1939 voyage on the M.S. St. Louis, their internment in French detention camps and escape to Switzerland, and their emigration to the United States after the war.