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  1. Gelb and Heiser family collection

    Consists of identity papers, correspondence, photographs, genealogical material related to the pre-war lives, emigration, and families of Charlotte Kuhlfas (also Hochheiser, Heiser) and Martin Gelb. Charlotte emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1937 and Martin in 1940; they married soon after his arrival. Includes letters he wrote to her in March 1940 as he was preparing to emigrate; family photographs, the machzor Martin purchased and inscribed after arriving in the United States; their identity cards and naturalization papers; family tree information for the Gelb and Heiser families; Charlot...

  2. Henry Weil collection

    Documents issued for Heinz Weil (donor), born September 22, 1935 in Vienna, Austria and fled to the United States in 1939. Document portfolio in which documents were kept.

  3. Michael Kutz collection

    Collection includes photographs, documents, negatives and scrip as well as a memoir. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Fritz Grünberg collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Fritz Grünberg, originally of Rheine, Germany, including his involvement with the Jewish Council and the Contact Afdeling (Contact Division) of the Westerbork transit camp. The collection consists of biographical materials, including identification papers, correspondence, and immigration documents; photographs; and material related to Westerbork including prisoner and deportation lists, administrative papers, post-war investigation papers regarding the Contact Afdeling, and a testimonial narrative about the Contact Afdeling and Weste...

  5. Ita Rozenczwajg Dimant collection

    Diary: written by Ita Rozenczwajg (donor's mother) during her forced labor on a farm in Germany, 1943-1945 on parchment paper she stole from the German owners of the farm. Collection of photographs (40), pre- and post-war; false documents; wartime correspondence from Ita's rescuer's family, Brust, pre and post-war correspondence; transcript of the Polish language diary; English memoir written by Ita Dimant based on her diary; Hebrew translation of the memoir. Fake tooth that contained cyanide which was installed in the mouth of Ita Rozenczwajg by members of the Polish underground. Ita was a...

  6. Neu family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, books, and artifacts relating to the experiences of Richard and Hedwig Sanders Neu and their daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection, featuring testimonies from sisters Ilse Carlsen and Edith Lindner who discuss their family's flight from Upper Silesia to the Philippines and then New York.

  8. Dr. Henry Kupfer family collection

    The collection consists of a child's coat and matching hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer, for his daughter, during his service in the Soviet Army during World War II.

  9. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Albanian Witnesses Documentation Project

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

  10. Lucien and Marthe Dreyfus portraits

    Portraits of Lucien and Marthe Dreyfus.

  11. Drechsler and Kramer families collection

    Consists of correspondence, photographs, prayer book with inlaid cover, buckle, compact and 2 figures pertaining to the experiences of Clarisa (née Drechsler) Kramer, formerly of Trnava, Czechoslovakia and later of the United States. Clarisa immigrated to the United States in 1939 and remained in touch with her parents, Isidore and Anna, and siblings Andor, Bela, and Rose who remained in Europe throughout the Holocaust.

  12. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    The collection consists of Judaica, scrip, correspondence, ephemera, papers, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mariette Gruenbaum and Milton Emont in Czechoslovakia, England, the United States, and France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  13. Sylvia and Abram Kolski collection

    The Sylvia and Abram Kolski photographs document Sylvia and Abram Kolski and their families in Poland before and during the Holocaust and in France and the United States after World War II. Photographs depict Sylvia and Abram Kolski; Sylvia’s parents parents, brothers, and cousins; Frymet’s brother Abram Borenstein, her sister Laia Karpman, and their families; the individuals who hid with Sylvia and her father in a bunker in Krushev during the Holocaust; the Polish woman Bronislawa Witosinska who hid them; the Pogorzelski family who hid Abram Kolski following the Treblinka uprising; and two...

  14. Hedwig Kudesch and Robert Briscoe collection

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

  15. James H. Mahoney collection

    Consists of a collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after the liberation of the camp, as well as a Rolleiflex camera discovered at the camp. Dr. James Mahoney, a member of the 120th Evacuation Hospital, took the photographs of the liberation and brought the camera home with him.

  16. Marion Phillips collection

    Papers and ephemera related to a trip to Europe by Miss Marion Phillips in the summer of 1936, including materials related to the Berlin Olympics; also includes a ribbon from Goethe's birthplace.

  17. Wayne Perrin collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Wayne Vester Perrin, an American who traveled from Detroit, Michigan to Nuremberg, Germany in June 1946 as a civilian working for the Office of the Secretary of War as a court reporter during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. Includes a copy of the book "Nuremberg" by Charles Alexander (Nurnberg: Karl Ulrich and Co., 1946) with annotations on some pages.

  18. Honig family collection

    Honig family papers to include documents, correspondence, diary, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, translations, writings, small photo album, and military medals.

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

    The collection consists of documents, books, a camera and a kippah.

  20. Eva and Otto Pfister collection

    The Eva and Otto Pfister papers consist of diaries, immigration files, and other materials documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee husband Otto Pfister and their socialist colleagues, and the anti-Nazi work of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). Eva’s four diaries document her teenage years in Goldap, her life as a refugee in France separated from Otto, interned in Gurs, waiting in Montauban for her opportunity to emigrate, her escape over the Pyrénées to Lisbon, and her immig...