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  1. Hochbaum family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing relating to the experiences of Jeffrey, Leon, and Blanka Hochbaum in Vienna, Austria, after the Holocaust.

  2. Wolf family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, passports, a WWII diary, and some military medals and insignia that belonged to the Wolf family, namely Eric W. Wolf who was a German refugee who served in the U.S. Military in the Signal Corps.

  3. Schulz family collection

    The collection consists of a Torah Scrol from synagogue in Altona, Germany, carried when the Schulz family were forced to emigrate from Nazi Germany to Switzerland in 1939 as well as identification cards, passports, and correspondence documenting the Schulz family in Altona [Hamburg], Germany and their efforts to flee Nazi Germany.

  4. Moses and Posen families collection

    The collection consists of materials such as documents, photographs and correspondence, as well as embossed or inscribed books and some objects, like a game and bib, that all document the experiences of Lotte Moses Grunwald (1915-2001) and members of the Moses and Posen families. There are also some documents related to the Grunwald family.

  5. Eisenberg family collection

    The collection consists of identification documents, correspondence, a tallit, and an oral history with Henry Eisenberg all relating to the Eisenberg family's experiences during the war in the Starachowice camp and in Displaced Persons camps.

  6. Grzegorz Meisler collection

    The collection consists of photographs and objects related to HIAS Chairman Grzegorz (Gregory) Meisler.

  7. Leonard Greenblatt collection

    The collection consists of a silk escape map, a letter, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leonard Greenblatt as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.

  8. Leo Haas collection

    The collection consists of a publication, 12 puvodnich litografii z německych koncentracnich taboru Leo Haas, a set of lithographs created by Leo Haas about the concentration camps where he was imprisoned during World War II, that was published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1947.

  9. Adrienne Friede Krausz collection

    The collection consists of Buchenwald scrip, news clippings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adrienna Matyas (Krausz) as a prisoner in Altenburg and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust and her subsequent role as a witness during the postwar trial of a war criminal. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. William G. Justis Jr. collection

    The collection consists of two pieces of 1 RM Buchenwald scrip and typed testimony from 2013 relating to the experiences of William (Bill) G. Justis, Jr., a soldier in the 5th Ranger Battalion during World War II, who was stationed as a guard at the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

  11. Gustav Steiner collection

    The collection consists of a set of toys relating to the experiences of Gustav Steiner who was deported from Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, and killed during the Holocaust, and to the postwar experiences of his cousin, Maud Michal Beer.

  12. Oral history interviews of the 20th Anniversary National Tour collection

    Oral history interviews conducted during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary National Tour

  13. Voces de la Shoá oral history collection

    Interviews of the Voces de la Shoá oral history collection produced by Fundación Memoria Viva.

  14. Graphic materials from British ruled Palestine collection

    The collection consists of a military recruitment poster, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Jewish people in British controlled Palestine before, during, and after World War II and German-occupied Europe during the Holocaust.

  15. Werner and Inge Berg Katzenstein family collection

    The collection consists of a pin relating to the experiences of Inge Berg and her family in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Holocaust, and of cards, envelopes, stamps, and postcards relating to the experiences of Werner Katzenstein in prewar Germany and during and after the war in the United States.

  16. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection

    The collection consists of six games, two composition books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anneliese Centawer and her family before the Holocaust in Nuremberg, Germany, and during and after the Holocaust in the United States, after leaving Germany in July 1938.

  17. Lodz ghetto metalwork collection

    The collection consists of a bracelet and a worked metal piece created in the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust.

  18. Concentration camp uniform and ID card collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform cap, jacket, and pants and an identification card from Trausdorf, Germany.

  19. Gretchen Passig Rasmus collection

    The collection consists of five handmade dolls, including three female dolls and two male dolls, made by Displaced Persons staying at the home of the donor’s maternal grandmother, Gretchen Passig Rasmus (1874-1964), at Landweg 85, Hademarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

  20. Harry L. Konar collection

    The collection consists of a set of Old Testament scriptures given to Harry Konar by an unidentified elderly woman in 1945 in Stuttgart, Germany.