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  1. Eva Young collection

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

  2. Gertrude Winter collection

    Gertrude Winter collection of drawings, documents, notebooks, correspondence. Gertrude Winter was born on February 28, 1905. She was a first-and second grade teacher for girls at the "Volksschule der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien," which was located in the Castellezgasse in Vienna. The school was closed in the summer of 1941. The content of the collection includes drawings, poems and essays. There are also nine notebooks with between 22-48 pages of writing. In addition there are 11 photographs of the students and teacher. Altogether 35 of the children can be identified by their names. ...

  3. Spielman and Hudes families collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Spielman and Hudes families. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Leah Silverstein collection

    Contains memoirs written by Leah Silverstein about her experiences during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Robert Gessner collection

    Contains materials related to the work of Robert Gessner before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Liebermensch family collection

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

  7. Cyrus Bernstein collection

    Contains materials documenting the postwar experiences of Cyrus Bernstein working with displaced persons. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Anholt and Joosten families collection

    Postcard written by Herman Joosten who was from Zaltbommel, Netherlands to his sister upon his imminent deportation to the Westerbork internment camp in The Netherlands. From there he was eventually deported to the Malapane slave labor camp in Poland. Additional documents, surrounding the Anholt and Joosten families, a cigar box and scrip.

  9. Harry Markowicz collection

    The Harry Markowicz photograph collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and copyprints of Harry Markowicz and his family in Widawa, Poland; Berlin, Germany; and Brussels, Belgium from 1920-1949. It also includes one framed hand-painted photograph of Harry Markowicz that was made after his family was reunited. It further includes a bracelet inscribed "Henri Vanderlinden" entrusted to Harry Markowicz immediately following the WWII by the family with whom he hid.

  10. William Mandel collection

    Contains copies of materials related to the Nuremberg trials. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Zahava Stessel collection

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

  12. Blanka Rothschild collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Blanka Rothschild. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Oral history interviews of the documentary film "Under the Sky" collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Under the Sky," which features Jewish refugees who escaped the Second World War by way of Portugal.

  14. Murray Pantirer collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Murray Pantirer and his family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Hetty D'Ancona de Leeuwe collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Hetty D'Ancona de Leeuwe and her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Hidden Child Foundation records

    The collection consists of documents, media, correspondence, and a piece of Theresienstadt scrip, relating to the Hidden Child Foundation (a part of the Anti-Defamation League), in New York after the Holocaust.

  17. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection

    The Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection relates to the wartime and postwar experiences of Rachel and Dina Mutterperl, Harvey Goldfarb, and a family friend, Berel Rostein. The collection consists of identification and naturalization documents for Dina Mutterperl and Rachel Mutterperl, 1945-1947, 1953; Red Cross documents relating to the fate of Shlomo Mutterperl, 1994; a transcript, in Hebrew, of an oral history interview with Dina Mutterperl, undated; correspondence and transcripts of speeches given at the commemoration of the 60th year of the liberation of the Wiesengrund concentration c...

  18. Bieber family collection

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

  19. Michael Kutz collection

    Collection includes photographs, documents, negatives and scrip as well as a memoir. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Wilfred Kay collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Wilfred Kay and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.