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  1. Bill Leftwich collection

    Contains the Sgt. Bill Leftwich story and one drawing relating to the liberation of the Landsberg camp. The story describes how the American Army broke the camp, Hurlach #4, near Landsberg on 28 April, 1945, and had liberated 2800 allied prisoners. The graphic, singed by Bill Leftwich and dated June, 1945, shows two camp prisoners with an American tank; and on the other site: one prisoner in a dark room.

  2. Abram Bork collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, passport, identification card, photographs, translations, document holder documenting the immigration of Abram Bork to the United States from Lublin, Poland. Abram immigrated to his maternal grandparents in New York.

  3. Fischl and Gerstmann family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral histories relating to the experiences of Alice Fischl Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  4. Sobibor perpetrator collection

    The collection consists of 361 photographs (two albums and loose photographs) and dozens of paper documents that depict Johann Niemann’s social background, his family, and his SS career, including his advancement through the concentration camp system (Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen) and the T4 euthanasia program (Grafeneck, Brandenburg and Bernburg) to the Operation Reinhard death camps (Belzec and Sobibor). There are an additional 15 photographs, three publications, and one wallet.

  5. Maier family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts from the Maier family (Ludwig, Freya and Sonja), who were passengers on board the MS St. Louis: 2 women's handbags, a blue velvet ball gown, a shoe bag, a women's toiletries bag, and a tan blanket.

  6. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    The collection consists of documents, a cookbook, and prayer books documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  7. Shraga Weil family collection

    The collection consists of a diary, postcards, correspondence, poems, documents, permits, identification papers, receipts, photographs, a book of printed drawings, and an embroidered keepsake relating to the experiences of Shraga (Frantisek) Weil and the extended Weil family.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Life After the Holocaust collection

    The Life After the Holocaust collection reveals the complexity of starting over for six Holocaust survivors whose journeys brought them to the United States following WWII.

  9. Soviet Jewish Veterans Video Interviews and Memory Project

    Interviews with Jewish Red Army veterans who fought with the Soviet Armed Forces against the Nazis in WWII, as well as partisans and Leningrad blockade survivors

  10. Jewish American ephemera and archival collection

    The collection consists of pins, poster stamps, illustrations, currency, photographs, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the American response and humanitarian campaigns in the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  11. Lieselotte Bohm collection

    The Collection consists of documents, photographs, document holders, and armband, prayer books, and Stars of David illustrating the experiences of Lieselotte Bohm and her extended family in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war.

  12. Schulmuseum Berlin collection

    The collection consists of a leather schoolbag, a blackboard, three slate pencils, a wood pencil case, and school–related documents used in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket and pants.

  14. Leon Shear collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Leon Shear, his family, and his friends. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Kurt Maier family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial artifacts, photographs, and a letter relating to the experiences of Kurt Maier and his extended family before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Bela and Gisa Pless collection

    Documents and photographs related to Bela and Gisa Pless [donors' parents], Czechoslovakian Jews who survived Sered and Theresienstadt; also includes Bela Pless's memoir and a yellow star, as well as letters.

  17. Stanley Robbin collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, identification documents, writings, and newsclippings illustrating the experiences of Stanley Robbin (Samuel Rubinstein) as a physician during the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland, ghetto in Krakow, Płaszów concentration camp and Mauthausen concentration camp.

  18. Anker family collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, postcards, documents, and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Georg and Gertrud Anker, their children, Eva and Hilde Anker (later Fogelson), Bertha Gottschalk, and Ursula and Paul Elgart in Germany and England before and during the Holocaust.

  19. Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg collection

    The Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers consist of the personal papers of the first post-Holocaust Chief Rabbi of Hesse and Frankfurt am Main. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, records relating to legal cases, writings, a nineteen-volume set of the Heidelberg Talmud, audio recordings, and a photograph album. The collection documents Weinberg’s work in reorganizing the surviving German Jewish community after the war and his examination of philosophical and ethical issues stemming from the Holocaust.

  20. Signed testimonies of the Deaf Austrians and National Socialism collection

    Videotaped interviews with Deaf eyewitnesses to WWII and the Holocaust