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  1. Kurt Fisch collection

    The collection consists of archival papers and three rubber stamps captured from the Hermann Goering Division in Italy.

  2. Annette and Franz R. Hollo collection

    Consists of two videotaped oral histories with Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austira, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. Also includes short descriptions of the wartime experiences of Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austria, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. The Hollos both spent part of the war in hiding--Franz in Hungary in 1944 and Annette in France from 1942-1944--as well as a photograph of Franz and his sister Veronica in 1939 and a copyprint of Annette, ca. 1941.

  3. Robert Alden collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Robert Alden as a soldier in the United States Army during World War II when he participated in the liberation of concentration camps in Germany.

  4. Eva Biro Slott family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and a memoir relating to the experiences of Eva Biro Slott and her family during the Holocaust in the ghetto and in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, as well as two identification tags relating to the experiences of her cousin, Arie Kadar, as a prisoner of war in a German stalag.

  6. "Here We Live Again" documentary film collection

    The collection consists of a documentary film, interview outtakes, and related documentation about the production, participants, and stories featuring a number of Holocaust survivors who settled in Rhode Island after the Holocaust.

  7. Sue Elder collection

    The collection consists of federal documents, ID cards, trial booklets, clippings, stamps, currency, and other ephemera documenting the experiences of Sue Elder, who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials from 1946-1948.

  8. Saliba Sarsar collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to Dr. Salbia Sarsar's research into postwar refugee emigration to Palestine. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Walter Wharton collection

    The collection consists of a cigarette holder, handheld heating device, and miniature sandals relating to the experiences of Walter Wharton, a British Army medic who was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp and concentration camp during World War II.

  10. Michael W. Barnes collection

    The collection consists of a Waffen SS knife bayonet and a scrip receipt from Westerbork, Netherlands, transit camp used during World War II in Europe.

  11. Elen Chajet Murad collection

    The collection consists of a doll and photograph relating to the experiences of Helene Chajet during the Holocaust when she lived in hiding in Arleuf, France.

  12. Oral history interviews of the “Nuremberg Remembered” documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews with participants in the Nuremberg trials (1945-1949 ) who served in a variety of roles, including members of the legal team for the prosecution and a journalist who reported on the events for the press

  13. Aberbach family collection

    The collection consists of papers, documents, identity cards, passports, a photograph and newspapers relating to Adolf and Anna Aberbach's emmigration from Germany aboard the MS St. Louis.

  14. Herman Fayman collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform cap, jacket, and pants, a menorah, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Fayman in Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

  15. Hubert John Placey collection

    The collection consists of two miniature "button books" issued for charitable contributions by the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes and a pamphlet acquired by Hubert John Placey while serving overseas in the U.S. Army during WWII.

  16. Herman Silbiger collection

    The collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, a luggage tag and label, and Herman Silbiger's scrapbook within a school exercise book that features materials from his family's journey through France, Spain, Jamaica (Camp Gibraltar), and Curaçao from 1942-1945. It also includes the tin cigar box within which he kept the ephemera prior to compiling it into the scrapbook.

  17. Algava family collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs of pre- and postwar life, predominantly in Greece, and the recorded testimonies of Allegra and Henricos Algava, which were conducted by the donor, their son Andreas Algava, a child survivor.

  18. Wladislaw and Jozefa Misniakewicz collection

    The collection consists of books recovered from a burned synagogue, in Dubiecko, Poland, in September 1939, by Wladislaw and Jozefa Misniakewicz.

  19. Harry Markowicz collection

    The Harry Markowicz photograph collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and copyprints of Harry Markowicz and his family in Widawa, Poland; Berlin, Germany; and Brussels, Belgium from 1920-1949. It also includes one framed hand-painted photograph of Harry Markowicz that was made after his family was reunited. It further includes a bracelet inscribed "Henri Vanderlinden" entrusted to Harry Markowicz immediately following the WWII by the family with whom he hid.

  20. Degen family collection

    The collection contains cassette tapes of interviews between the donor's mother, Helen Degen [Degenfisz] Cohen and her parents, Blima [Bluma] and Josef Degen [Degenfisz] after the War as well as with her rescuer, Maria Szumska. It also includes postwar letters written between Helen and Maria. There is also a booklet likely used after the War inscribed with Hebrew and Polish [appears to be educational], likely kept in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp.