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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Kalman and Pauline Pajes Barakan in Poland during and after the World War II, including their repatriation and lives in Łódź until 1968, when they again became refugees and immigrated to the United States.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. Serbian antisemitic poster collection

    The collection consists of antisemitic posters created in Serbia during the military occupation by Nazi Germany from 1941-1944.

  5. 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.

  6. Vera Lechtman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Vera and Marcel Lechtman, Georges Maringer, and Marc Hoffman as rescued children in Switzerland during the Holocaust.

  7. 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.

  8. Oral history interviews of the "Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans" documentary film collection

    Collection consists of video recordings and supporting documents related to interviews with Jewish underground fighters who fought in the forests of Poland, Lithuania, and Belorussia between 1941 and 1945, gathered for the film "Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans." Supporting documentation includes interview lists, newspaper articles, research and production notes, shooting logs, correspondence, resistance fighter files, photos of film crew and interviewees, copies of PBS honors, project proposals, and program descriptions.

  9. Ella Brecher Lieberman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experience of Ella Brecher Lieberman and her family in Poland and during their emigration to Palestine prior to the Holocaust.

  10. 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...

  11. Oral history interviews of the Netherlands Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Netherlands Documentation Project

  12. Anna Levendel family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Gizela Levendel and their children, Anna, Lea, and Zvi who lived in hiding in German occupied Belgium during the Holocaust.

  13. Charles Byron Smith, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of a banner and a cigarete album relating to the experiences of Charles Byron Smith, Jr. when he served in the United States Army, European Theatrer, during World War II.

  14. Daisy Brand collection

    The collection consists of prewar photographs and postwar sculptures created by Daisy Schweiger Brand relating to her experiences of life of pre and postwar Czechoslovakia and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaiserwald, Dondagen II, Libau, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  15. 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...

  16. 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.

  17. Max Wachtel and Herbert Wolf family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Wachtel and his family and Herbert Wolf and his family in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust, as well as items related to Hans Wachtel and his service in the United States Army during World War II.

  18. Yahad-in Unum oral history collection

    Oral history interviews conducted in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus by Yahad-in Unum.

  19. 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.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Eyewitness Project collection

    Oral history interviews produced by the Holocaust Eyewitness Project.