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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Noemi Ekert collection

    The collection consists of a black and white photographic print bearing the image of a crowd of men and women participating in a funeral of a Jewish student, Felermajer, who was killed by the ND (Endecja - Polish nationalist party), dated Spring 1939; Lvov, Poland; and an identification labor card (in 2 pieces): "Ausweis fur Arbeitsjuden," issued to "ECKERT JAKOB" by the German labor department and the SD in the Drohobycz district. The collection also includes a handmade Jewish worker armband with a blue Star of David.

  2. Philip Beckjord collection

    The collection consists of of six film strips of Nazi propaganda published by Reichsauschuss fuer Volksgesundheitsdienst: six filmstrip canisters: 4 cylindrical blue cardboard containers; 1 cylindrical orange cardboard container; 1 square gray box. Each canister has labels describing content of filmstrips.

  3. David Gradinger collection

    Contains materials created or compiled by David Gradinger during and after World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Linda Hunt collection

    The collection consists of research files in paper and audio tape format and published books relating to Linda Hunt's study of the US government's post World War II program for the utilization of German scientists and technicians in Operation "Paperclip." Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Ludwika and Moses Myers collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mojzesz Majerczyk (later Moses Myers) before and during the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland, and when he was imprisoned at Plaszow forced-labor camp and Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee concentration camps; and of both Mojzesz and Ludwika Finder after the war in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria, where they met and married. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    The collection consists of three dish towels, three spoons, a tallit bag, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt (after 1942, Fred and Juliana Silversmith) during the Holocaust when they fled Germany in 1939 for the Netherlands, leaving there in 1940 for the United States.

  7. Alice and Peter Masters collection

    The collection consists of pajamas, an autograph book, correspondence, documents, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alice Ebserstark and her family during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Great Britain and after the war in Great Britain and the United States. It also contains documents on the German Army collected by Peter Masters when he served in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the UK and 3rd Troop 10th Commando in France and Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    This collection consists of materials originally donated to the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in Springfield, MA.

  9. Antoni Czerniewski collection

    Documents: relating to Antoni Czerniewski (donor's late father) a graduate of the Wilno (Vilnius) University and Warsaw Academy of Arts; Lieutenant in the Polish Army taken POW and imprisoned in Oflag XI B in Germany; his older brother, Dr. Aleksander Czerniewski was executed by the Soviets in April 1941 in Katyn. The collection includes a notebook Antoni Czerniewski kept during his imprisonment; sketches of the altar in Wilno, documents and photographs from before the war and after the war; documents relating to his immigration to the US in December 1946 and a letter from Czeslaw Milosz, c...

  10. Harry C. Abeles collection

    Correspondence: received by Harry C. Abeles (Heinz Abeles) [donor's father] born in Munich, Germany on December 6, 1922. The letters were written by his parents Margarete Grete Lewy Abeles and Eugenie Abeles in Munich after their son's emigration to the USA in 1937. Prayer book: received by Harry Abeles on the occassion of his Bar Mitzvah on December 14, 1935, presented to him by the Jewish Community of Munich.

  11. Marianne Trompetter Dazzo collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts related to the Holocaust experiences of Maurits and Femma Trompetter and their children, Marianne and Sylvia, originally of the Netherlands. Includes identity cards for Femma Trompetter (including an identity card under her alias as a member of the underground resistance movement, Else Jansen), post-war documents authorizing Femma Trompetter to travel with her children, photographs of Auschwitz survivor Maurits Trompetter, photographs of Marianne and Sylvia Trompetter in hiding in the Netherlands, a Dutch Magen David, an armband owned issued...

  12. Phonograph player with accessories and phonograph records

    Phonograph player with accessories (crank and needles) and 24 post-war phonograph records. Nechama Zelikovna Shulman (nee Figlin) [donor's aunt] took the phonograph player and some of these records with her when she was evacuated from Gomel (Belarus) to Chkalovsk district in summer 1941.

  13. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a trunk, typewriter with lid, and child's skirt, bonnet, ribbon, and dress. The collection also includes documents, photographs, and correspondence, as well as drawings created by the donor as a child.

  14. Mark Hochman collection

    Documents illustrating and describing the experiences of Mark Hochman, born in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia [present-day Ukraine] who was interned in various forced labor camps during the Holocaust. Included are post-war affidavits of birth and employment in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia, Czech driver’s license and police document [potentially residential]. Also included in the collection is an application for reparations from the Claims Conference, dated 1993. Two cassette tapes, recorded interview with Mark Hochman, one labeled “Interview/Mark Hochman/Louis Rosenkranz/1989”.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Ariel Baron collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors of the Holocaust born or living in Italy.

  16. Zdenka Eismannova collection

    The collection consists of five watercolor paintings of camp life created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  17. Martin Dannenberg collection

    The collection consists of a Minox B camera, an identification badge and holder, a wallet with credentials, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Martin Dannenberg during World War II, when he served in the Counter Intelligence Corps in the US Army.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Centro de Documentatión e Información sobre Judaismo Argentino "Marc Turkow" collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors living in Argentina, produced by Centro de Documentatión e Información sobre Judaismo Argentino "Marc Turkow," Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina-Communidad de Buenos Aires (AMIA).

  19. Henry Himmelfarb collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner badge and copy and photographic prints relating to the experiences of Chaim (Henry) Himmelfarb before and after the war in Germany and as a concentration camp inmate in Germany during the Holocaust.

  20. John Bole collection

    The collection consists of four drawings, a cap, a pouch, a finger ring, and documents relating to the experiences of Ivan Bole (later John Bole) during the Holocaust in Buchenwald concentration camp, and after the Holocaust in displaced persons camps in Italy and Germany.