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  1. The Holocaust Oral History Project of the Anti-Defamation League, Orange County, California collection

    Consists of 152 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Orange County, California area

  2. Oral history interviews of the Association Memoire et Documents

    Consists of 34 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Paris, France area

  3. Oral history interviews of Project Eternity: The Holocaust Remembered

    Consists of 36 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.

  4. Oral history collection of the Holocaust Research collection of Florida Atlantic University

    Consists of 33 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Boca Raton, Florida area

  5. Cheryl Zoller oral history collection

    Consists of 23 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Los Angeles, California area.

  6. Oral history collection of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

    Consists of 35 interviews of Holocaust survivors and liberators in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area.

  7. Oral histories from the Krakow Underground Project collection

    Contains interviews with 14 Holocaust survivors who were members of the Krakow Underground recorded by Eli Pfefferkorn for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council in October 1987

  8. Oral history interviews of the France Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with witnesses to the Holocaust recorded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as part of the France Documentation Project. Interviews include testimonies from French witnesses to the Holocaust, individuals who had been part of the Vichy regime, Nazi war criminal hunters, the last surviving member of the Commissariat General aux Question Juives - the Vichy government bureau of Jewish affairs responsible for the deportation of French Jews, and two former French policemen, one of whom provides an account of how orders were given to arrest Jews and procedures f...

  9. Oral history interviews of the University of Michigan-Dearborn Holocaust survivor oral history project

    Twenty-three Holocaust survivors from the Dearborn, Mich., area discuss their experiences during the Holocaust. The interviews were conducted from May 11, 1982, to Jan. 26, 1993.

  10. Eva VonAncken family collection

    The collection consists of a teddy bear, a stuffed rabbit, and photographs relating to the experiences of Éva Erszébet Kiss, her parents Istvan and Lilian Brichta Kiss, and the extended Kiss, Brichta, and Benko families before the Holocaust in Pecs and Szeged, Hungary, and during the Holocaust, when Eva and Lilian were interned in Szeged ghetto, Strasshof labor camp in Austria, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in Czechoslovakia, and after the war when they returned to Hungary.

  11. Felicia Liban collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs pertaining to the experiences of Felicia Liban during the Holocaust as well as a 1995 copy of her birth certificate from Poland, a photocopy of her United States naturalization certificate from 1953, and five children's books that Felicia Liban read while she was in hiding in Poland

  12. Lebensborn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, pamphlets, and photographs relating to the Lebensborn program in Nazi Germany which encouraged the birth rate among persons designated as racially pure Germans.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in North Macedonia

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in North Macedonia

  14. Henry Dressler family collection

    The collections consists of two concentration camp uniforms, knit caps, a set of playing cards, correspondence, documents, clippings, negatives, photographs, and video tapes relating to the experiences of Heinz, Joachim, Martha, and Susi Dressler, originally from Dresden, Germany, in the Brunnlitz factory in Moravia operated by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust which they all survived by being placed on Schindler's list, and also their postwar experiences following their emigration to the United States.

  15. Isidore Lipschutz collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, a poster, and publications relating to the experiences of Isidore Lipschutz, including his anti-Nazi activities during the war and his postwar political involvement with human rights organizations, the creation of Israel, and the establishment of the Memorial of the Unknown Jewish Martyr in Paris, France.

  16. Jack Ratz collection

    The collection consists of a HIAS pin, a ring made from a ring, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Isaak Racs during the Holocaust in Riga, Latvia, and Lenta, Stutthof, Burggraben, and Goddentow concentration camps, and after the Holocaust in Landsberg, Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Ruth Loewenstein collection

    Doll: handmade by Annie Loewenstein (donor's mother) in Munich, Germany. The Loewenstein family: Willy (donor's father) [b. 1894], Annie [b. 1904], Ruth (donor) [b. 1929], and Marianne (donor's sister) [b. 1932], were able to leave Germany in August 1939 for England. Ruth and Marianne were wearing thin gold bracelets on their wrists and each carried a doll. The German guard at the Dutch border tore off the bracelets, but did not pay any attention to the dolls. Upon arrival in New York on September 10, 1940, Annie took the heads off the dolls, in which she had hidden valuables. She sold the ...

  18. Carl Weiler and Mina Kaufmann Weiler families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, an oral testimony, and photographs relating to the Mina Kaufmann and Carl Weiler families in Germany, Switzerland and the United States before World War II and in Germany and Gurs internment camp in France during the war.

  19. Eugene Lorant collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and two prayer books relating to the experiences of Eugene Lorant and his emigration to the United States after the Holocaust.

  20. Andries Roos family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a tallit and pouch, and a book relating to the experiences of Andries Roos, and his son Leo Roos, before and during the Holocaust in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during which Andries was executed for his resistance activity and Leo and other family members lived in hiding.