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Displaying items 22,081 to 22,100 of 22,191
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Country: United States
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, a duvet cover, a glass slide projector, glass slides, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ephraim Robinson and his family as refugees during the Holocaust, as residents of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, and as immigrants to the United States in the postwar period.

  2. Doriane Kurz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Doriane Kurz following her liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and her postwar life in Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and during her journey to the United States.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Sy Rotter collection, RG-50.596

    Oral history interviews, edited films, B-roll footage and interview outtakes, and supporting documentation produced for educational television documentaries by Sy Rotter, founder of the Foundation for Moral Courage. Films include: The Other Side of Faith (1990); Zegota: A Time to Remember (1992); Rescue in Scandinavia (1994); A Time to Gather Stones Together (1994); A Debt to Honor (1995); One Day in the Life of Oni (1996); It Was Nothing...It Was Everything (1997); Zegota: Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland (1996); Treason or Honor: German Rescuers of the Holocaust (1998); Making C...

  4. Emily Heyser collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative medal and a book relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  5. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of 147 drawings, 47 oil paintings, and 135 mixed material pieces of artwork created by Halina Olomucki based upon her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner and death march survivor of Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  6. Raoul Cohen-Addad collection

    The collection consists of a military cap, epaulets, an armband, a rubber stamp, a hammer head, and correspondence, documents, and a copy print relating to the experiences of Raoul Cohen-Addad in Algiers during World War II.

  7. Wanda Stoops Collection

    Collection of artwork including 11 framed pictures (etchings and lithographs), 2 unframed etchings, and one portfolio of 10 prints.

  8. Life magazine collection

    Three issues of Life Magazine with articles about the film "March of Time," the destruction of the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw, and antisemitic propaganda; issues dated January 31, 1938, March 29, 1938, and May 13, 1940.

  9. Margaret Murphy collection

    The collection consists of labels, a Red Cross patch, and an SS armband and patch, notebooks, and a pass relating to the experiences of Margaret Murphy as a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, during and after World War II, including service at the liberated Dachau concentration camp.

  10. Gene Selig family collection

    The collection consists of a Haggadah, a certificate, and photographs relating to the experiences of Siegfried and Hildegard Selig and their ten year old son Gert (Gene) during the Holocaust when they fled Frankfurt, Germany, and traveled on the trans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.

  11. Janie Frank collection

    The collection consists of a complete set of 52 issues of Der Stuermer newspapers published in 1927.

  12. Lenczycki family collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Simon Lenczycki, his wife Sara Glatter Lenczycki and their son Henryk [donor] in the displaced persons camps in Feldafing and Fuerth, Germany: included are drivers licenses and identity cards for Fuerth, and an identity card issued to Simon who was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landshut and Muhldorf concentration camps. Documents illustrating the immediate post-war experiences of Mania Fiedler, Sara’s sister: included are a "civilian internee” identity card issued in post-liberation Mauthausen concentration camp as...

  13. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers: "Das Schwarze Korps" published by the SS in Berlin, Germany, dated December 8, 1938 and December 15, 1938.

  14. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    The collection consists of a metal shard, military patches, and a wallet, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fanny Dominitz in Germany and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and of Leo Englard in Palestine and the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II.

  15. Otto Schick collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Otto Schick and his family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and the experiences of Otto Schick in the United States following his emigration in 1940.

  16. Bernard M. Fishman collection

    The collection consists of a table knife and filmstrips relating to the experiences of Bernard Fishman while serving as a member of the United States Army stationed in Ulm, Germany, in the immediate postwar period.

  17. Chester C. Boone collection

    The collection consists of two welding torches and associated parts related to the experiences of Chester C. "Jack” Boone of the United States Army at the Dora Mittelbau V2 rocket factory during and after World War II.

  18. Diane Keeley collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and published materials relating to the experience of Diane Keeley in Germanywith the US occupation forces after World War II.

  19. Bernard Kupferman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a POW tag, a pince-nez, and a ribbon bar, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Bernard Kupferman during and after World War II as a soldier in the United States Army including when he was held as a prisoner of war of Germany.

  20. Marta Hafner collection

    The collection consists of clippings, documents, photographs, and a medallion relating to the experiences of Marta Hafner in Romania during the Holocaust during which she was deported to Transnistria and during the postwar period when she worked for the United States Army. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.