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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Alona Frankel family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publication relating to the experiences of Gusta and Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family lived in hiding in the Lvov ghetto, and after the war in Krakow and following their emigration to Israel.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Sophie Caplan collection

    Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Australia before and after the war. Collection includes supporting documentation about interviewees and outlines of each testimony, as well as supporting personal documents such as letters, newspaper clippings, and memoirs.

  3. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The collection consists of artifacts used or discovered by Yahad-in Unum during their work to investigate and to document the mass executions of more than 2 million Jews in Eastern Europe between 1941 and 1944 by Nazi Germany and those who collaborated with therm.

  4. Aliza Bar collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experience of Aliza Bar, who was a hidden child in Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  5. Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner in Poland and as refugees in the Soviet Union before, during, and after World War II.

  6. Esther Vardi collection

    The collection consists of a watch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Vardi and her family in Hungary before, during, and after World War II, and of Esther's arrest and imprisonment in several concentration camps for her resistance activities during the Holocaust.

  7. Herbert L. Markow collection

    Herbert Markow papers relating to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials; Mr. Markow acted as an attorney advisor to the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, specifically for subsequent trial preparation for the indictment against former SS member Oswald Pohl who was head of the Economic and Administrative Office of the SS; Markow also completed preliminary work in preparation for the mesical experiments trial.

  8. 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.

  9. Hans Reinhardt collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Rosenberg (Reinhardt) and his family in Germany and the United States before the Holocaust.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Romania Roma Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with eight non-Jewish witnesses (Roma) whom were victims of persecution, humiliation, and forced labor in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  11. Sonia Beker collection

    The collection consists of three broadsides relating to the experiences of Fania and Henia Durmashkin as members of the St. Ottilien displaced persons orchestra in Germany after the Holocaust during which the sisters had been interned in several concentration and labor camps.

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. United States Army division shoulder sleeve insignia badge collection

    The collection consists of thirty-five United States Army Division shoulder sleeve insiginia badges issued for Divisions active in the European theater during World War II.

  16. Judith Stieglitz Kessler collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Judith (Yehudit) Stieglitz Kessler and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Hungary and Yugoslavia.

  17. Daniel T. O'Connell collection

    The collection consists of a judicial robe and a photograph relating to the experiences of Justice Daniel Theodore O'Connell who was a presiding judge at the Race and Resettlement Office (RuSHA) main trial in Nuremberg, Germany, from October 20, 1947, to February 17, 1948.

  18. 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.

  19. United States Army patch and booklet collection

    The collection consists of four patches: two war photographer, one 12th Army Group, and one 4th Cavalry Group, and three booklets relating to the history of units of the United States Army active during World War II.

  20. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernestine Wiesenthal, her son, Fritz, his wife, Gertrude, and their daughters, Illa and Nellie, in Germany, England, and the United States before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.