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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Bertha and Eliazer Davids family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the extended families of Bertha Kaufman Davids and Eliazer Davids in the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  2. Janie Frank collection

    The collection consists of a complete set of 52 issues of Der Stuermer newspapers published in 1927.

  3. Chester C. Boone collection

    The collection consists of two welding torches and associated parts related to the experiences of Chester C. "Jack” Boone of the United States Army at the Dora Mittelbau V2 rocket factory during and after World War II.

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

    The collection consists of 5 finger rings recovered by Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum near a mass grave site for Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Bus'k, Ukraine.

  5. Dr. Samuel Schader collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and papers relating to the experiences of Dr. Samuel Schader as a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps of the British Army during World War II.

  6. Sylvia Bassman collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sylvia Bassman before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the history of the Holocaust and the occupation of Denmark by Germany during World War II.

  8. Gene Selig family collection

    The collection consists of a Haggadah, a certificate, and photographs relating to the experiences of Siegfried and Hildegard Selig and their ten year old son Gert (Gene) during the Holocaust when they fled Frankfurt, Germany, and traveled on the trans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.

  9. Ursula Klau family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, prayer books, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ursula Klau and her family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and after the Holocaust as well as contemporary photographs from the 1950s and later.

  10. Malka Weinapple collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and a photograph relating to the experiences of Malka Weinapple in France and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  11. Margaret Murphy collection

    The collection consists of labels, a Red Cross patch, and an SS armband and patch, notebooks, and a pass relating to the experiences of Margaret Murphy as a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, during and after World War II, including service at the liberated Dachau concentration camp.

  12. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers: "Das Schwarze Korps" published by the SS in Berlin, Germany, dated December 8, 1938 and December 15, 1938.

  13. Bernard Kupferman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a POW tag, a pince-nez, and a ribbon bar, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Bernard Kupferman during and after World War II as a soldier in the United States Army including when he was held as a prisoner of war of Germany.

  14. Riesenfeld family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, papers, correspondence, a steamer trunk and other assorted materials documenting and related to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Riesenfeld (nee Schwabacher) and their children Ernst and James (donor's father) originally from Wurzburg, Germany who fled to the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in March 1940. Also documents extended family and friends.

  15. Maurits and Maria Schenkkan collection

    The collection consists of two forced labor badges, documents, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Maurits Schenkkan before and after the Holocaust in Belgium and during the Holocaust when he was incarcerated in Cosel, a sub-camp of Auschwitz, and Anhalt, Graeditz, Langenbielau, Faulbrueck, and Reichenbach slave labor camps.

  16. Jewish community broadside collection

    The collection consists of two broadsides and a publication relating to the Berlin Jewish Community and the death of President von Hindenburg, British Army enlistment in Palestine, and the Hay internment camp in Australia before and during World War II.

  17. Dorien Grunbaum family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Manfred and Rita Grunbaum and their daughter, Dorien, in the Netherlands, Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States in the postwar period.

  18. Susan Gitlin collection

    The collection consists of filmstrips and a selection of manuals produced by the Hitler Youth Leadership to instruct and indoctrinate Hitler Youth members in the ideology of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

  19. Nissim Farhi collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Nissim Farhi and his family in Bulgaria and Palestine during and after the Holocaust.

  20. Sig Feiger collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Sig Feiger and his family in Vienna, Austria, and during their escape to the United States via the United Kingdom and Cuba before and during the Holocaust.