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  1. Liesl Joseph Loeb collection

    The collection consists of an MS St. Louis ship plan, a child's drawing, an evening dress, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Joseph and Lily Joseph and their daughter Liesl before the Holocaust, when they left Germany on the MS St. Louis, their arrival in England, and their immigration to the United States.

  2. Middlebury College Language Schools oral history collection

    Consists of oral history interviews conducted by the Middlebury College Language Schools.

  3. Isaac Kraicer collection

    The collection consists of a trophy and photographs relating to the experiences of Icek Krajcer (Isaac Kraicer) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Zychlin and the ghetto in Gostynin, Poland, and to Icek's experiences after the Holocaust in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany and then in Palestine. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Toby Ticktin Back oral history collection

    Interviews on audiocassette conducted by Toby Ticktin Back in Israel in 1986.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Steven Pressman collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus"

  6. Mark Talisman collection

    The collection consists of drawings, correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting life in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Walter H. Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of German postage stamps and two revolvers relating to the experiences of Walter Rothschild as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.

  8. Sidney Bruskin collection

    The collection consists of a sign relating to the experiences of Sidney Bruskin as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II. Also includes a photograph and document. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Mary Cook and Nita Howton collection

    Oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps, work camps, and factories, and interviews with other wartime eyewitnesses, including former POWs, GIs, and medical aid workers. Also included is supplementary paper material (photos, correspondence, and publications).

  10. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    The collection consists of pins, an audiotape, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Yvonne Rothschild Klug and her family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the United States as well as correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude Fraenkel and her family before and during the Holocaust in France and Poland and her postwar emigration to the United States. Collection also includes a portrait of Yvonne Redgis (Rothschi...

  11. Oral history interviews of the Kempler family collection

    Oral history interviews with Tosca Kempler and Ignatz Kempler.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Larry Papier collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in the Washington, D.C. area

  13. Marion Strauss Sapir collection

    Documents, correspondence, books and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Strauss (b. 1898) and spouse Margarit Wolff Strauss (b. 1902) both from Marburg, Germany and their children Marion (b. 1925) and Karl-Heinz (b. 1929) in Frankfurt, Germany. Letters between extended family who fled Nazi occupation and Strauss family who fled Germany for the Netherlands where they were arrested and interned in Westerbork. From there, they were deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz. Margarit and Karl-Heinz did not survive. Siegfried and Marion survived and immigrated to the United ...

  14. Oral history interviews of "The Red Orchestra" collection

    Video interviews with family and members of the Berlin-based resistance group which the Nazis labeled as "Red Orchestra."

  15. Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, booklets, clippings, documents, and propaganda materials relating to the experiences of Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum, before, during, and after World War II (1939-1945), during which Edward, a 1st Lieutenant in the OSS and the US Army, was the first American officer to enter Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation, a participant in the liberation of Ohrdruf, and author of the Buchenwald Report. His father, Joseph Tenenbaum, was one of the organizers of the early boycott against Nazi Germany.

  16. Leopold Guttman collection

    The collection consists of three military medals, metal tags, and a medal attached to a Magen David necklace, documents, a photograph album, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leopold Guttman, before, during, and after World War II, during which he served in the Belgian Army and was imprisoned in a German stalag. as a member of the Belgian army.

  17. Arthur R. Myers collection

    The collection consists of a League of German Girl's uniform jacket and a Hitler Youth jacket relating to the experiences of Arthur R. Myers, an American soldier who served in combat with the US Army in Europe during World War II.

  18. Kovno ghetto collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, documents, and scrip relating to life in the Kovno (Kaunus) ghetto in Lithuania before and during the Holocaust.

  19. Forrest James Robinson, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of a poster stamp and photographic print of an Associated Press photo.

  20. Enger family collection

    Oral history interviews with Horace J. Enger (né Horst Joachim Enger) produced by the Enger family