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

  1. Second Generation of Long Island oral history collection

    Interviews conducted by the Second Generation of Long Island as part of a project to document the testimonies of Holocaust survivors on Long Island, New York City, and Israel from 1982-1989

  3. Oral History interviews of the Ukraine Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the Ukraine Documentation Project conducted in partnership with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with the assistance of Beit Lohamei Haghetaot in Israel. The 43 interviews with Ukrainian Jewish Holocaust survivors were conducted between August 1-15, 1994, resulting in about 60 taped hours, covering a geographical span of about 3500 kilometers. The journey consisted of two main parts - to the east of Kiev, and to the west and south of Kiev. Taping was conducted in Kharkov, Cherk...

  7. Betti Blaugrund collection

    The collection consists of a baby doll, and infant and doll clothing relating to the experiences of Betti Blaugrund in Belgium before and during the Holocaust when, as an infant, she was placed in hiding with Louise and Udile Ceulemans-Gryson, and of her cousin, Aline Klajn, who was deported and killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  8. United States Holocaust Memorial Council/International Liberators Conference oral history collection

    Includes oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps.

  9. Chaim and Regina Hollander collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, an oral history audiocassette, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chaim Hollander in Poland during and after the Holocaust, and of Kajla-Rykwa Miller in Belgium during the Holocaust.

  10. Mark Asch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and correspondence relating to the experiences of Mark Asch and his family in Kutno, Poland, and as they escaped to the United States during the Holocaust.

  11. Hanan Kisch collection

    The collection consists of ration coupons relating to the experiences of Hanan Kisch and his family and other inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  12. Karl Schlesinger collection

    The collection consists of a badge and eyeglasses, a photograph, and a postcard relating to the experiences of Karl Schlesinger in several concentration camps in Belgium, France, Germany, and Poland during the Holocaust and after the war in displaced persons camps in Germany. An accretion of post-war documents, certificates, identity card issued to Karl (Carl) Schlesinger. A second accretion of a pair of eyeglasses (broken) carried by Karl Schlesinger during WWII; identification cards and papers, correspondence, certificates, and documents relating to Karl and Eva Schlesinger during the Hol...

  14. Klaus Zwilsky family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Klaus Zwilsky and his family in Berlin, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Kato Ritter in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau concentration camps and Gyorgy Frankfurter in Hungary and forced labor battalions before and during the Holocaust, and of Kato and Gyorgy in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany until their immigration to the United States in 1951.

  16. Ray and Hersch Berman collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs documenting the experiences of Ray Golembiowski and Hersch Berman (donors) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes four published booklets.

  17. Louis de Groot collection

    Original film footage of pre war life in Holland; film shot by Meijer de Groot; documents, photographs and correspondence surrounding the de Groot family during the Holocaust, several of whom perished in Auschwitz. Includes letters from donor's sister Rachel, documents from the Red Cross about the fate of the de Groot family, and Rachel de Groot's homework notebook. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. John M. Steiner collection

    The papers and recordings of Dr. John Michael Steiner which include 1. correspondence, writings, transcripts and recorded interviews, questionnaires, printed material, and collected research materials documenting Steiner’s experiences during the Holocaust and his internment in several Nazi concentration camps, the immediate post-war years, and his career as a sociologist and a scholar who studied the Holocaust and its origins; 2. materials related to his interviews with former Nazis, in particular members of the SS and other Nazi officials, which include audio recordings, correspondence wit...

  19. Manfred Lewinnek collection

    The collection of consists of correspondence, documents, journals, and publications relating to the experiences of Manfred Lewinnek before and during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany as well as his experiences as a member of the United States Army while stationed at Camp Cooke, a prisoner of war camp in California, where he was responsible for the re-education of German POWs.

  20. Lola and Menachem Mozes collection

    THe collection consists of photographs, documents and blankets illustrating the experiences of Lola Rewitz, born in Katowice, Poland and Menachem Mozes, born in Goworowo, Poland. Lola was deported from Bochnia in 1943 with her mother and sent to Plaszow, Auschwitz, marched on foot and then transferred by train to Ravensbrueck then Malhoff. On a death march from Malhoff, they were liberated by Russian soldiers and transferred back to Łódź, Poland. In 1940, Menachem's family was deported to Archangelsk in Russia. They were then free to travel to Kutaisi, Georgia where they remained until 1945...