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  1. Maier family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts from the Maier family (Ludwig, Freya and Sonja), who were passengers on board the MS St. Louis: 2 women's handbags, a blue velvet ball gown, a shoe bag, a women's toiletries bag, and a tan blanket.

  2. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska collection

    The Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and writings documenting Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as well as her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski’s experiences in Nazi-annexed Poznań and as a displaced person in Germany. The collection also includes a wallet, several buttons and publications.

  3. Signed testimonies of the Deaf Austrians and National Socialism collection

    Videotaped interviews with Deaf eyewitnesses to WWII and the Holocaust

  4. Stanley Robbin collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, identification documents, writings, and newsclippings illustrating the experiences of Stanley Robbin (Samuel Rubinstein) as a physician during the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland, ghetto in Krakow, Płaszów concentration camp and Mauthausen concentration camp.

  5. Abram Bork collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, passport, identification card, photographs, translations, document holder documenting the immigration of Abram Bork to the United States from Lublin, Poland. Abram immigrated to his maternal grandparents in New York.

  6. Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg collection

    The Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers consist of the personal papers of the first post-Holocaust Chief Rabbi of Hesse and Frankfurt am Main. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, records relating to legal cases, writings, a nineteen-volume set of the Heidelberg Talmud, audio recordings, and a photograph album. The collection documents Weinberg’s work in reorganizing the surviving German Jewish community after the war and his examination of philosophical and ethical issues stemming from the Holocaust.

  7. Siedner family collection

    The collection consists of documents, citizenship certificates (and holders), photos, passport, family book, a Kennkarte (passport), and a phototopy of a personal testimony that documents the experiences of Kurt and Regina Siedner (donor's grandparents) and their daughters Rosemarie (donor's mother) and Ursula, from Flensburg, Germany, and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Jacob Yessenow collection

    The collection consists of photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (donor's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division. The collection also includes two cameras used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen conce...

  9. Pauline and Joseph Charatan collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Pauline Charatan (née Margulies), originally of Busk, Poland (Busk, Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust living in Gleisdorf, Austria under a false-identity, and Joseph Charatan, originally of Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), who escaped the Janowska concentration camp and survived hidden in a bunker until his liberation in 1944. The collection includes birth certificates, naturalization certificates, Pauline and Joseph’s marriage certificate, Pauline’s vaccination certificate, restitution paperwork, a commemorative booklet from the USS Gene...

  10. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    The collection consists of documents, a cookbook, and prayer books documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. Gluck family collection

    Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, two mezuzot, a US Army jacket, an army mess cup (with personal inscriptions), an army duffel bag, medals and insignias, and pieces of Irving's broken eyeglasses from the Battle of Anzio; Irving'...

  12. Dingfelder family collection

    The Dingfelder family collection contains identification papers, photographs, clippings, and a prayer book relating to the experiences of the family in pre-war Germany and in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Included are birth, bris, and marriage certificates; clippings of articles about their experiences in Nazi Germany and their new lives in the United States; and Siegfried Neu’s prayer book which he used while interned at Theresienstadt. The photographs include loose photographs of Sigbert and Elizabeth Dingfelder; the ship which carried the Sigbert, Elizabeth, and their son Justin to ...

  13. Henry Rosenthal collection

    The collection consists of six linens relating to the experiences of Henry Rosenthal and his mother, Hedwig Rosenthal, in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  14. Zdenka Steiner Novak family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a photo album, a cookbook, documents, sketches, correspondence, photographs, Zdenka's memoir, "Story of My Life," and her school records. The papers are part of a collection documenting Zdenka Steiner Novak and the Steiner family's experiences in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia) before, during, and after World War II.

  15. Shraga Weil family collection

    The collection consists of a diary, postcards, correspondence, poems, documents, permits, identification papers, receipts, photographs, a book of printed drawings, and an embroidered keepsake relating to the experiences of Shraga (Frantisek) Weil and the extended Weil family.

  16. Fischl and Gerstmann family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral histories relating to the experiences of Alice Fischl Gerstmann, Gerd Gerstmann, and their families in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  17. Walter Gumpert family collection

    The collection consists of an attache case, prayer book, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Walter and Erna Gumpert and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.

  18. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  19. Maljean and Totman family collection

    The collection consists of documents and artifacts documenting the experiences of Emile-Georges Maljean, Prefect of Police in Toulon and Marseille, and his family prior to and during World War II in France and Austria.

  20. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    The collection consists of books, documents, correspondence, photographs, and tefillin documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner Teich and her husband Maurice Teich during the Holocaust.