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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Boris Schachnes family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Schachnes family in Berlin until 1938, in Warsaw between December 1938 and December 1939, Istanbul, Turkey and Palestine since March 1941. Three audio tapes: interview with Boris Uri Schachnes. Erna and Abram Schachnes joined their children Boris and Wladimir in Palestine c. 1942. Wladimir and Boris fought in the War of Independence in the Givati Brigade; Wladimir Zeev Schachnes was killed in action on May 13, 1948.

  2. Jewish Community of Thessaloniki collection

    The collection consists of two tombstone fragments from the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was destroyed in December 1942 during the German occupation.

  3. Baer family collection

    The collection consists of two gripper pliers, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a manuscript relating to the experiences of Berthold Baer, his family, and extended family in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Henri Engel collection

    The collection consists of posthumous award certificates and medals relating to the experiences of Henri Engel as a German Jewish resistance fighter in Lyon, France during World War II.

  5. Jamila Kolonomos collection

    The collection consists of medals, medallions, bar pins, cases, certificates, an oral history, documents, photographs and CDs with songs in Ladino relating to the experiences of Jamila Kolonomos and her family in Bitola, Yugoslavia before and during the Holocaust, her time as a partisan fighter, and of Jamila and her husband in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of eleven drawings created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) during and after the Holocaust as her eyewitness testimony of people and scenes she saw and experienced in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps.

  7. Anti-Hitler posters and Palestine recruitment pamphlet collection

    The collection consists of one anti-Hitler broadside, one pamphlet issued in Palestine by the World Union, Zion Workers, and one anti-Nazi movie poster, produced before and during World War II.

  8. Rappel family collection

    The collection includes documents, photographs and correspondence concerning Ingrid Rappel (donor's mother) and her parents Hersz and Recha Rappel in Germany and Ferramonti, Italy during and after WWII. It also includes a luggage tag. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Benesch and Herman families collection

    The collection consists of documents, scrip, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Franz Herman in Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia. Included is a postwar letter from Quito, Ecuador, four sets of Theresienstadt scrip (incomplete), certificates, and receipt issued by the Aeltestenrat der Juden [Jewish Council] in Prague, and a letter from 1943 with multiple authors. Booklet containing copies of Benesch family tree (donor's mother)

  10. Asna Hirschman Lutwak and Max Lutwak Collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Asna Hirschmann, born 1922, Pinsk, Belarus and Max Lutwak born 1922 in Dortmund, Germany. Collection documents their individual experiences during and after the Holocaust. Asna was interned in the Kovno Ghetto, the Vaivara camp in Estonia in August 1943, then Stutthof concentration camp in Poland, and liberated January 1945. After the War, Asna pursued her medical degree, earning it June 1948. Max studied in Rennes, France and moved to Marseilles to study in 1940. He immigrated to...

  11. Stephen Glick collection

    The collection consists of five filmstrips created to indoctrinate and educate members of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany during the late 1930s.

  12. Oral history interviews of The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project

    The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project contains audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with liberators, survivors and others created between 1978 and 1983.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Robert Buckley collection

    Oral history interviews of the Robert Buckley collection

  15. Signed testimonies of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf collection

    Oral history interviews with deaf survivors of the Holocaust.

  16. Jolene Sonnheim collection

    The collection consists of an artifact and photographs relating to the experience of Jolene De Wilde and her family in the Netherlands before and during the Holocaust when they lived in hiding.

  18. Queensborough Community College oral history collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by the Queensborough Community College Holocaust Resource Center and Archives

  19. Alfred Kurz family collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Kurz and his parents, Meilach (Emil) and Klara Bieberstein Kurz, and his sister Doriane in Vienna, Austria, The Netherlands, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany before and during the Holocaust, Klara, Alfred, and Doriane's repatriation to the Netherlands after the Holocaust, and Alfred and Doriane's immigration to the United States in 1946.