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  1. Nisha Holton collection

    Nisha Holton's audio recorded memoir of her experiences in Austria prior to the Holocaust and a hand-painted map of locations near her childhood home in Baden, Austria that she mentions in the memoir

  2. Oral history interviews of the Darby Linn collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded by Darby Linn in Boulder, CO

  3. Walt Rudy Horenstein collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Rudy Horenstein, born in 1923 in Grajewo, Poland, and who survived on false papers under the name Rudolf Budkis, of Russian descent. Includes false identification documents; postwar passports and identity papers; immigration paperwork compiled to support his coming to the United States after the war; restitution paperwork; correspondence and photographs. It also includes a metal prisoner tag.

  4. Susan Darvas collection

    The collection consists of prewar documents, a medallion and a silver make up case which belonged to Mano Herskovits.

  5. Jewish American ephemera and archival collection

    The collection consists of pins, poster stamps, illustrations, currency, photographs, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the American response and humanitarian campaigns in the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  6. Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets

    Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets: - Der Fuhrer und der Arbeiter - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 3 - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 4 - Der Fuhrer 1938 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1934 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1935 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer und Mussolini - Des Fuhrers kampf in Norwegen - Des Fuhrers kampf in Frenkreich

  7. Gerda Happ and Josef Stern collection

    Documents, photographs, manuscript of a family tree, and a prayer book illustrating Gerda Happ and her extended family and Josef Stern and his extended family. Gerda and Josef met and married in South Africa after they both fled there to escape Nazi persecution.

  8. Bela and Gisa Pless collection

    Documents and photographs related to Bela and Gisa Pless [donors' parents], Czechoslovakian Jews who survived Sered and Theresienstadt; also includes Bela Pless's memoir and a yellow star, as well as letters.

  9. Kovary and Neuhaus families collection

    The Kovary and Neuhaus families collection includes medals, ribbons, pins, a leather wallet, a leather portfolio, a set of silver ice cream spoons, and family papers documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Kovary family from Bratislava and the Neuhaus family from Hamburg.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Life After the Holocaust collection

    The Life After the Holocaust collection reveals the complexity of starting over for six Holocaust survivors whose journeys brought them to the United States following WWII.

  11. Soviet Jewish Veterans Video Interviews and Memory Project

    Interviews with Jewish Red Army veterans who fought with the Soviet Armed Forces against the Nazis in WWII, as well as partisans and Leningrad blockade survivors

  12. Albert and Angela Feldstein collection

    The collection conisists of World War II era buttons: "Halt Hitler" and "Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. Wings for Victory"

  13. Hirsch family collection

    The collection consists of a doll carried by Eva Hirsch when her family fled Germany via Switzerland and Portugal, arriving in the United States in 1939.

  14. Leon Hilersberg collection

    The collection consists of a letter received by Leon Hilersberg from the American Consulate in Vienna concerning his status on the US visa waiting list, his and his wife Henryka's German passports and a collection of German handbills.

  15. Tarjan family collection

    The collection primarily consists of wartime family correspondence between sisters Erzsébeth Steiner and Ágnes Steiner Takács in Budapest, Hungary and their parents Margit and Simon Steiner in Pécs, Hungary from 1941-1944. Some letters include transcriptions and translations provided by Erzsébeth and Tibor’s son Peter Tarjan. Also included in the collection are a personal narrative by Peter regarding his family’s Holocaust experiences, prewar family photographs, and a small amount of documents related to Ágnes. Included in the documents are a prewar address book related to Ágnes’s salon cli...

  16. Donald Norton Pitts collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Donald Norton Pitts, who served as a foreign service officer with the State Department in Warsaw, Poland in 1950. Included are notes, reports, and writings, primarily about the political climate in Poland; diary; correspondence; identification card; clipping; metal dish; and negatives taken while Donald was stationed there. Also included are copy negatives and prints documenting atrocities against Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.

  17. Leon Shear collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Leon Shear, his family, and his friends. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Anker family collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, postcards, documents, and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Georg and Gertrud Anker, their children, Eva and Hilde Anker (later Fogelson), Bertha Gottschalk, and Ursula and Paul Elgart in Germany and England before and during the Holocaust.

  19. David Farin collection

    The collection consists of five Allach porcelain figurines manufactured at Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  20. Oral history interviews of The Last Witnesses of Time collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded throughout the United Kingdom and South America