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  1. Maureen Graney collection

    The collection consists of one book on Konzentrationslager Oranienenburg and one War Department issued German phrase booklet.

  2. Hetty d'Ancona de Leeuwe collection

    Three pins painted by Felix d'Ancona. Photographs of the D'Ancona family before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Baby announcement of Hetty, two letters written postwar, "rapportboekje" or report card booklet.

  3. 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.

  4. Emanuel Scherer collection

    The collection consists of a badge, scrip, correspondence, documents, negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Emanuel Scherer as a member of the Bund in Warsaw, Poland, and of Jewish people in Germany and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.

  5. William H. Ramkey collection

    Contains materials related to the experiences of William H. Ramkey. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Gustav Rauner collection

    The collection consists of a sewing machine and accessories relating to the experiences of Gustav Rauner and his family, originally from Germany, during the Holocaust when they lived under assumed identities in France, and after the Holocaust when they emigrated to the United States in 1946.

  7. Alfred Eisner collection

    These materials concern Alfred Eisner and his family's experiences in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Eugenia Halbreich collection

    Contains materials donated by Eugenia Halbreich documenting the experiences of her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Long Shadow of Sobibor collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors of Sobibor extermination camp; second generation survivors; and co-defendants at the John Demjanjuk trial

  10. Schmidek family collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, and passport pertaining to Julie Schlamme, Thekla Schlamme Schmidek, and Norbert Schmidek. Included is also documentation of the extended Schlamme and Schmidek families. The collection also includes an oral history interview with Inge Maerowitz.

  11. Jean-Louis Steinberg collection

    Contains memoirs written by Jean-Louis Steinberg documenting his experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Esther Shuster collection

    Contains materials donated by Esther Shuster concerning her family's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Anna Pastor Winkler collection

    Contains material donated by Anna Pastor Winkler, documenting her family's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Kahn and Neuhaus families collection

    The collection consists of some correspondence and identification information related ot the Kahn and Neuhaus families, with objects such as a sketchbook and textiles, primarily relating to the donor's aunt, Ilse Neuhaus (1924-1942), in Hadamar and Hochspeyer, Germany, and in Amsterdam.

  16. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    The collection consists of books, documents, correspondence, photographs, and tefillin documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner Teich and her husband Maurice Teich during the Holocaust.

  17. Prague uprising, April-May 1945

    “Václav Kostelecký. Květnová revoluce 1945.” AGFA logo. Picture reportage from Prague at the end of WW2 filmed by Vaclav Kostelecky from April 30 to May 16, 1945. View of the Prague Castle from a hillside. Mr. Kostelecky inspects a camera. Prague Castle and the top of the Church of Saint Nicholas. Intertitle: “30. duben 1945” April 30, 1945 Prague Castle and a building, perhaps the former headquarters of the Wehrmacht (?). Czech police officer speaks with a German soldier. Street. Car. The Royal Castle. Pan, Prague rooftops, cloudy, the Nazi flag hanging on the castle. A military truck with...

  18. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

  19. German invasion of Norway

    German planes fly over the mountains of Norway. Planes land at Fornebu airbase outside Oslo and German soldiers unload weapons. A German soldier stands next to a sign, "Fliegerhorst- Kdtr. Oslo Fornebu". The narration explains that a British plane has been shot down while smoke rises from a tree-covered area beyond the runway. Bf 109s pass low overhead in squadron formation. German soldiers performing various activities, including a German soldier talking on a field telephone and aiming guns toward the sky. Good shots of German sailors on the deck of a ship. Swastika painted on the foredeck...

  20. Sara and Shlomo Peled collection

    Contains a ketubah [Jewish marriage contract] of Sara Peled and Shlomo (Salomon) Feld Peled in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, dated June 30, 1946.