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  1. Leslie and Eva Aigner collection

    Consists of an oral history interview conducted by the University of Oregon with Leslie (Les) and Eva Aigner. The Aigners both grew up in Budapest, Hungary; Eva spent the last year of the war in the ghetto in Budapest, while Les was deported to Auschwitz, transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and ultimately liberated from Dachau. They met and married after the war. Also includes photocopies of documentation from the Auschwitz and Dachau memorials related to Les Aigner and a copy of a postcard he sent from Auschwitz.

  2. Walter Fiebelman collection

    The Walter Feibelman papers consist of biographical materials, subject files, and objects documenting the Feibelmann family’s life in Berlin, immigration to the United States, and postwar search for their lost relatives.

  3. Eugen Czinner oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Eugen Czinner collection

  4. Bruce Neuburger oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Bruce Neuburger collection

  5. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    The collection consists of five German cap badges, correspondence, documents, and a photograph album relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Alfred, Maria, and Hans Hirschfeld, originally of Breslau, Germany.

  6. Yugoslavian Partisan collection

    The collection consists of certificates, identification papers, medical records, photographs, medals, and guns relating to the experiences of Dudo Montiljo, Vladimir Carin, and Dr. Lavoslav Kadelburg with Yugoslavian partisans during World War II.

  7. Oral history interviews of the "There Once Was a Town" documentary film collection

    Video recordings and supplementary paper material (transcripts and film logs) produced for the documentary film "There Once Was a Town."

  8. Aleksander Rebbe photograph collection

    Photographs of Aleksander Rebbe and oral history testimonies of mother and grandmother (Israel Farber)

  9. David Klein collection

    The collection consists of stamps, stamped envelopes, scrip, correspondence, receipts, etc. to/from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz Birkenau, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Mauthausen Natzweiler, and internment camps in Mauritius and Westerbork, and official post-war documents from Bergen-Belsen and Feldafing displaced persons camps.

  10. Fred Lindheim family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, memoirs, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Fred (Horst) Henry Lindheim, his parents, Berthold and Hertha, and his extended family in prewar Frankfurt, Germany, and during the Holocaust when Fred Lindheim was sent on a Kindertransport to Belgium until his parents were able to obtain visas for the family to emigrate to England and then the United States.

  11. RuSHA racial science posters collection

    The collection consists of two lithographed wall charts produced by The Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) to teach racial hygiene in Nazi Germany.

  14. Cornelia Heise collection

    The collection consists of a banknote and papers documenting the experiences of Cornelia Heise during her service with UNRRA child services in Germany after World War II (1939-1945).

  15. Zaiband family collection

    Oral history interview with Morris Zaiband. Oral history interview with Ruth Finder Zaiband and Morris Zaiband.

  16. Muller family collection

    Oral history interviews with Louis and Eva Muller

  17. Anholt and Joosten families collection

    Postcard written by Herman Joosten who was from Zaltbommel, Netherlands to his sister upon his imminent deportation to the Westerbork internment camp in The Netherlands. From there he was eventually deported to the Malapane slave labor camp in Poland. Additional documents, surrounding the Anholt and Joosten families, a cigar box and scrip.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Aaron and Esther Cohen collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Aaron Cohen and Esther Cohen in Mexico City, Mexico.

  19. Salomon family collection

    Photographs illustrating pre-war and post-war life of Alexander Salomon, born in Satu-Mare, Romania and his wife Amalia (nee Rosenbaum) born in Tiszaferegy Haza, in what is today Czech Republic, and their children Michael, Morris and Elizabeth born between 1939-1941 in Satu-Mare, Romania. The family remained in Satu-Mare in hiding during the Holocaust and lived in Bindermichl and Ebelsberg displaced persons camps in Linz, Austria after the war. Materials also include oral and written testimonies that discuss the experiences of the Salomon family and their family friend Livia Szabo.

  20. Ze’ev Raveh Werba collection

    The Ze’ev Raveh Werba collections consist of a tablecloth, documents, awards, certificates, manuscripts, and photographs documenting Ze’ev Raveh Werba in prewar Maniewicze, Poland (Manevychi, Ukraine), as a partisan during the war, and after the war in the Adriatic displaced persons camp in Italy and then in Israel. Documents recognize Werba for his participation as a partisan and in the Israeli Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel. The manuscripts describe Werba’s experiences during and after the Holocaust. Photographs depict the Werba family in Maniewicze before the war; Werba as a partisan ...