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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Carter E. Ruby collection

    The collection consists of two US army badges, a shoulder patch, decals, correspondence, documents, publications, photographs, and a DVD relating to the experiences of Lieutenant Carter E. Ruby, U.S. Army, at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, April-May 1946.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Greek Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Greek Witnesses Documentation Project.

  3. Janina Jasinska Luterek family collection

    The collection consists of two drawings, three handkerchiefs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Janina Jakubowicz and her family before, during, and after World War II in Poland.

  4. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute lantern slide collection

    The collection of lantern slides and boxes is from the holdings of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. This Institute for anthropology and genetics was one of many centers used for the study of eugenics during the Third Reich. Aside from ordering sterilization and other eugenic "procedures," medical experiments originating in euthenasia killing centers and concentration camps were also evaluated at the Institute. Such names as Von Verschuer, Fischer, and Mengele are associated with the Institute. The slides contained in the boxes were probably used for teaching purposes. The slid...

  5. Oral history interviews of the Davide Ivaldi collection

    Oral history interviews with former residents of Sualki, Poland who endured WWII in Siberia and elsewhere.

  6. Denker and Kleiner family collection

    The collection consists of a doctor's bag relating to the experiences of Josef Kleiner before and during the Holocaust in Poland which he, his wife Jocheved, and their son Adolf (later Al) survived by living in hiding and also photographs relating to the experiences of the Denker and Kleiner families in Budzanoff, Poland, before and after the war.

  7. Charles Bartfeld collection

    The collection consists of a butter mold, wooden stamps, medals, documents, copies of memoirs, photographs, and photocopies relating to the experiences of the Bartfeld family, owners of a dairy business in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and after their emigration to Palestine.

  8. Eddie Mills Murphy collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, original photographs, and photographic negatives relating to the experiences of Eddie Mills Murphy, during and after World War II, when he served as a soldier in the United States Army, 3264th Signal Photo Battalion, and was assigned as a photographer at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg War Crimes trials from 1945-1946.

  9. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald's work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The collection also includes a name plate for Ambassador McDonald and a bible presente...

  10. Edward J. Diehm collection

    The collection consists of a German coin, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Edward J. Diehm while a sergeant in the United States Army during World War II.

  11. Wanda Lomazow collection

    The collection consists of two pieces of Łódź ghetto scrip, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Wanda Lomazow during the Holocaust when she lived under a false identity and after the Holocaust when she worked for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Wels and Badgstein displaced persons camps, married Jacob Lomazow, and emigrated to the United States.

  13. Imre Amos collection

    The collection consists of a set of prints of linocuts, Zsido Unnepek [Jewish Holidays] created by Imre Amos, a Hungarian Jewish artist, and published during the Holocaust during which he perished in Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany.

  14. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a coat, vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David and Lisa Eizenberg before and after the war in Germany when David worked with the Joint Distribution Committee and HIAS assisting displaced persons in Germany and Palestine.

  15. Pressel family collection

    Consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Joseph and Miriam Pressel, who, with son Philip, were originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in 1939 and survived the war in Marseille, Lyon, and Paris. Includes wartime letters from the Pressels to Eli Schwerner, an uncle of Miriam in New York, requesting help to escape. Also includes similar wartime letters to Susi Pantzer, niece of Joseph Pressel, who lived in London, as well as letters to and from other family members....

  16. Jewish Community in Iasi collection

    The collection consists of two plaques commemorating members of the Jewish Community of Iasi, Romania, who were killed during the Holocaust.

  17. United We Win poster collection

    The collection consists of two United We Win posters produced by the United States during World War II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front.

  18. Albert and Olga Friedmann family collection

    Consists of documents related to the life of Albert Friedmann, his wife Olga, son Tibor, and stepdaughter, Eva (born Weiss). Albert and Olga married in 1946; both had lost their spouses in the Holocaust. The documents mainly concern the Friedmanns' lives in the Hallein displaced persons camp and Mr. Friedmann's position within the camp. Also includes immigration and naturalization correspondence and documents for Nisen Ganz, a survivor of Auschwitz, Melk, Ebensee, and Terezin, originally from Czechoslovakia. Olga Leitman (her maiden name). Also included are fourteen pillowcases and four sma...

  19. Paul Beller family collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, documents, copy prints, and lesson books relating to the experiences of Leo and Mina Beller and their son Paul before and during World War II in Vienna, and their separate journeys to the United States during and after the war.

  20. Stanley Apfelbaum collection

    Collection of 45 items: documents, coins, scrip purchased by collector and donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.