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  1. Rose Greenbaum collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Rose Greenbaum and her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Marila Muszynski collection

    The collection consists of postcards, letters, poems, and a gold charm illustrating the experiences of Marila Muszynski and her family during the Holocaust.

  3. Jack Garfein collection

    Documents, papers, photos, poster, correspondence, and objects related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Jack Garfein and his family, originally of Mukachevo.

  4. Town of Tîrgu-Mureș collection

    The collection consists of a Kiddush cup and saucer relating to the experiences of a Jewish family in Tîrgu-Mureș, Romania before and during the Holocaust.

  5. Maria Klein collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Maria Klein's family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Julie Lando collection

    The collection consists of books, notebook, raffia craft kit, baby clothing, carried out of Nazi-occupied Germany by the donor, who was born in Bamberg Germany in 1920 and fled in 1936.

  7. Walter Genewein collection

    Contains photographic slides documenting life in the Łódź ghetto. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Darby Linn collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded by Darby Linn in Boulder, CO

  9. Simon Schweitzer collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Simon Schweitzer during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Gutmann family collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Herbert Gutmann and the Gutmann family in Germany and their immigration to the United Kingdom and the United Sates before and during WWII.

  11. Sigmund Boraks collection

    Contains photographs and other materials documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Sigmund Boraks. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Nazi propaganda: war in the Balkans

    This "Sonderbericht der Deutschen Wochenschau" [Special report of the German weekly newsreel] starts on April 4, 1941 with footage of Goebbels addressing the German people via radio and von Ribbentrop delivering diplomatic letters to the ambassadors of Yugoslavia and Greece. Then soldiers, armored personal carriers, and tanks cross the Yugoslav border into Croatia from Styria, thus opening the Southeastern front of WWII after an alleged 'new provocation by the British.' German Stukas [dive fighters] and Italian warplanes fly over Greek mountains. Serbian fortresses and bunkers are captured,...

  13. Program on nuclear weapons

    Host: Carl Sagan. Guest: George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982), designed and built the chemical charge that triggered the first nuclear explosion. Sagan interviews Kistiakowsky about his involvement in nuclear weapons. Program discusses the history of the nuclear arms race and the "grave threat" of the human future. Kistiakowsky says that a nuclear war is probable and that only our efforts will help stop it.

  14. Albert Einstein letter to Maja Winteler-Einstein

    A hand-written letter from Albert Einstein, addressed to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein, dated December 14, 1938, in which Einstein encourages his sister to visit him in America on a visitor’s visa and describes the relief work he is undertaking on behalf of persecuted victims of Nazi Germany.

  15. Oral history interview with Judith Beker Meisel

  16. Erwin Haber papers

    The Erwin Haber papers consist of correspondence written by Erwin Haber, brother of Kitty Goldberg, written in August 1942. The correspondence relates the experiences of Erwin Haber and include a letter he threw from a train as we was being deported from Malines (Mechelen), Belgium, in August 1942. The letter was found by a stranger and mailed to his family.

  17. Vera and Max Klueger collection

    Collection of two (2) Deutsches Reich Reisepass passports issued in Vienna, Austria to Vera Degen and Max Klüger (donor and donor’s husband); stamped with red ink “J” identifying them as Jewish. Max’s passport was issued March 29, 1939, Vera’s was issued on December 12, 1938; both immigrated to the United States in April 1939; in German, French, English.

  18. Presentation by Gabrielle S. Edgcomb to Howard University

  19. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s

    Correspondence, reports, and files relating to Jewish residents and refugees in Belgium before, during, and after World War II that document the Communauté Israélite de Bruxelles and its president Max Gottschalk, the Comité d’aide et d’assistance aux Réfugiés d’Allemagne, the Comité d’assistance aux enfants juifs réfugiés d’Allemagne, and the La Ramée agricultural school for Jewish youth. The collection also includes index cards documenting Jewish community in Brussels during the Second World War, individual files on child refugees, and files and drawings documenting Dina Dreyfus, the daugh...

  20. Oral history interview with Salvator Moshe