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  1. Srog family collection

    The collection consists of some family photographs and identification documents of the Srog family, including Ludwig Srog's Torah binder (wimpel).

  2. Louis Kampf collection

    The collection consists of some documents and correspondence in addition to Jewish ceremonial objects that all relate to the experiences of Louis Kampf and his parents.

  3. Schulz family collection

    The collection consists of a Torah Scrol from synagogue in Altona, Germany, carried when the Schulz family were forced to emigrate from Nazi Germany to Switzerland in 1939 as well as identification cards, passports, and correspondence documenting the Schulz family in Altona [Hamburg], Germany and their efforts to flee Nazi Germany.

  4. Wolf family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, passports, a WWII diary, and some military medals and insignia that belonged to the Wolf family, namely Eric W. Wolf who was a German refugee who served in the U.S. Military in the Signal Corps.

  5. Herman Silbiger collection

    The collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, a luggage tag and label, and Herman Silbiger's scrapbook within a school exercise book that features materials from his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945. It also includes the tin cigar box within which he kept the ephemera prior to compiling it into the scrapbook.

  6. Algava family collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs of pre- and postwar life, predominantly in Greece, and the recorded testimonies of Allegra and Henricos Algava, which were conducted by the donor, their son Andreas Algava, a child survivor.

  7. Degen family collection

    The collection contains cassette tapes of interviews between the donor's mother, Helen Degen [Degenfisz] Cohen and her parents, Blima [Bluma] and Josef Degen [Degenfisz] after the War as well as with her rescuer, Maria Szumska. It also includes postwar letters written between Helen and Maria. There is also a booklet likely used after the War inscribed with Hebrew and Polish [appears to be educational], likely kept in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp.

  8. Hochbaum family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing relating to the experiences of Jeffrey, Leon, and Blanka Hochbaum in Vienna, Austria, after the Holocaust.

  9. Eisenberg family collection

    The collection consists of identification documents, correspondence, a tallit, and an oral history with Henry Eisenberg all relating to the Eisenberg family's experiences during the war in the Starachowice camp and in Displaced Persons camps.

  10. Grzegorz Meisler collection

    The collection consists of photographs and objects related to HIAS Chairman Grzegorz (Gregory) Meisler.

  11. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection

    The collection consists of six games, two composition books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anneliese Centawer and her family before the Holocaust in Nuremberg, Germany, and during and after the Holocaust in the United States, after leaving Germany in July 1938.

  12. Werner and Inge Berg Katzenstein family collection

    The collection consists of a pin relating to the experiences of Inge Berg and her family in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Holocaust, and of cards, envelopes, stamps, and postcards relating to the experiences of Werner Katzenstein in prewar Germany and during and after the war in the United States.

  13. Amy Wolff collection

    Oral history interview with Edward Wolf (né Isidor Wolff) and a recording of Edward Wolf's recital of the song "Wir sind dazu verdammt."

  14. Conversations with “50 Children” group collection

    Video recorded conversations with members of the "50 Children" group, survivors who were rescued from Nazi occupied Austria by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus

  15. Oral testimonies of the George Sanders collection

    An oral history interview with George Sanders and a recorded presentation

  16. Moses and Posen families collection

    The collection consists of materials such as documents, photographs and correspondence, as well as embossed or inscribed books and some objects, like a game and bib, that all document the experiences of Lotte Moses Grunwald (1915-2001) and members of the Moses and Posen families. There are also some documents related to the Grunwald family.

  17. Heny Hersh collection

    Collection documenting the experiences of Heny Hersh (nee Stern) [1926-2017], her family, her survival in a Romanian ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and ober Hohenelbe concentration camps, and DP camps Admund, Salfenden, Rivoli, and Barletta, eventually immigrating to the United States in 1950 with Artie Hersh [b. 1927 Osoj] who survived Auschwitz, Hausdorf, and Ebensee concentration camps, and was in DP camps Rivoli, Kobenz, and Bagnoli. Collection includes health card, Rivoli letter of reference, Yetta Ginsburg's sponsor application for Artie and Heny, certificate of residence, US immigration ...

  18. Oral history interviews of the Blatman family collection

    Oral history interviews with Jacob and Margaret Blatman

  19. Dorothy Powell collection

    The collection consists of two training manuals.

  20. Alexandre Davidowitch collection

    The collection consists of Yiddish language newspaers published in Paris in the 1930s.