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  1. Lilian Rosenthal collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Lilian Rosenthal's family during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Frances Doniger collection

    Photographs, correspondence, documentation and drawing surrounding the experiences of the Abusch and Pick families during the Holocaust and of siblings Frances and Max Abusch who fled Vienna, Austria on the Kindertransport. Their parents were able to travel to New York, where Frances soon joined them. Max eventually made his way to Toronto, ON, Canada. The collection also follows the Pick family, relatives of Frances's mother. Her cousin Josef Pick was able to escape, but the rest of his family was killed.

  3. Reiss family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Reiss family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Maria Perlberger-Shmuel collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Maria Perlberger-Shmuel and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Alisa Tennenbaum collection

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

  6. Chanover family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Chanover family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Blatman family collection

    Oral history interviews with Jacob and Margaret Blatman

  8. Hanna Poznanska-Linde collection

    The collection consists of a one piece of Łódź ghetto scrip, and two Soviet bank notes relating to the experiences of Hanna Poznanska-Linde, a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, and her husband, a soldier in the Russian Army during World War II.

  9. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  10. Labor Corps camp / Reichsarbeitsdienst

    Very large pipes laid side-by-side on sloping hill. Labor corps men work on drainage project in mountainous region. Shots of pipes on hillside. Young men from labor corps: Reichsarbeitsdienst [RAD] jog through woods. WS of project site. Several views of men digging at site, pushing wheelbarrows. Brief shot of calisthenics. Outdoor class on political geography for RAD men. Young men in shorts and shoes, sitting, mountains in background. Brief shot of men in lake. Location: Bavarian Alps.

  11. Hitler bust in Vienna; Nazi propaganda

    Loos-Haus, Michaelerplatz, a "Hitler Altar" set up. Slogan painted on top reads "Gleiches Blut gehoert in ein gemeinsames Reich" ["Shared blood belongs in a shared Reich"]. Guard at altar. Passers-by saluting. Bust. LS. Shell headquarters, now with Hitler poster and inscription, "Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuehrer" (official slogan for the referendum on April 10 "One people, one Reich, one Leader.") Propaganda. Pedestrians. Poodle arranged as a still life before a shopping window dressed with a "Hitler Altar". Schwarzenbergplatz and the fountain, viewed from in front of Palais Schwarzenberg. Co...

  12. Pery Broad

    Pery Broad spent two years as a guard in Auschwitz Birkenau. Broad voluntarily wrote a report of his activities whilst working for the British as a translator in a POW camp after the war. The Broad Report corroborates extermination installations and the burning of corpses. This interview was filmed in 1979 with a hidden camera, known as a Paluche, which caught fire. FILM ID 3438 -- Camera Rolls 1A -- 02:00:18 to 02:12:29 Lanzmann and Broad begin the interview by discussing the recently presented television miniseries, Holocaust. Broad states that he can face the past, but cannot dominate it...

  13. Dr. Franz Boaz

    Dr. Franz Boaz speaking on human capabilites, how mental capacity is not dependent upon race. (filmed in studio)

  14. Shirley Sternberg collection

    Stamps acquired in Europe by an American soldier returning to the U.S. from active duty in Germany after WWII.

  15. Veszprém Megyei Érseki Levéltár, Veszprém Records of the Holocaust in Veszprém County, Hungary

    Documents from varied archival records: Name lists of Jews in ghetto and camp (Komakut) in Veszprém (1944); and in city of Pápa (1944). Selections from: general records of prefect, 1945‒1946; administrative records of deputy prefect, 1945‒1946; records of Veszprém mayors’ office, 1939‒1946, including certifications of voting rights, enforcement of anti-Jewish laws, appropriation of property of Jews, and dealing with Jews who survived and returned; lists of Veszprém homeowners for 1926 and 1940. Records of other towns and districts: confidential papers of Dezső Sulyok, the mayor of Pápa, 19...

  16. Farm Work

    Sugar beet harvest. January 1940. Workers in the snow, horses, woman with skis cross-country skiing, Women and men rake hay on the field together, machine in action: grain is harvested, greenhouse, Sudeten Mountains with Schneekoppe, house rebuilding in Franzendorf/Neisse, 1937

  17. German cruiser "Königsberg"

    German cruiser "Königsberg," Laboe memorial site, Everyday life at an airfield, pilot in the cockpit, machines in the air, light railway, Hitler youth BDM (League of German Girls)

  18. Photographic print of Albert Einstein, 1941

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613744
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.190 inches (25.883 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of Albert Einstein at Princeton, 1941.

  19. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee

    Wooden chain carved by Hillel Szajner, of Plauen, Germany, before his death in 1924. Hillel taught one of his sons, Max, how to carve chains from a single piece of wood. While imprisoned in a French transit camp during the Holocaust, Max used this skill to make decorative chains, at least one of which began as a broomstick handle. Max’s wife snuck the chains out of the camp in a loaf of bread. Two of his chains are on permanent display in Israel, at Yad Vashem and Lochamei Hagetaot. Max’s sister, Dora Szajner Faktor, carried their father’s chain when her family immigrated to Australia durin...

  20. Henry Rosenthal collection

    Documents, letters, photographs and prayer book documenting the experiences of Henry Rosenthal's family.