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  1. Cacilie and Stefanie Klarfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a plaque, correspondence, documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Cacilie Klarfeld and Stefanie Klarfeld, originally from Vienna, Austria, including during the Holocaust when Cäcilie was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  2. Levy and Weinschenk families collection

    The collection consists of a folding knife, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of the Levy family and Paul and Margot Weinschenk before, during, and after World War II in Germany and the United States.

  3. Seelinger, Bieber, and Groag families collection

    The collection consists of a traditional folk costume brought with Emmerich Laszlo Seelinger and Jolanthe Bieber Seelinger when the couple fled Austria for Uruguay in 1938. The collection also includes illustrated correspondence and poetry authored by Trude Groag sent in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the end of WWII in 1965. The letter and poems were sent to Eva Feitis Schmeichler and her family by Trude Groag, a fellow survivor from Olomouc. The poems were originally composed by Trude Groag shortly after arrival in Theresienstadt in 1942.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas oral history Project

  5. Kahn and Neuhaus families collection

    The collection consists of some correspondence and identification information related ot the Kahn and Neuhaus families, with objects such as a sketchbook and textiles, primarily relating to the donor's aunt, Ilse Neuhaus (1924-1942), in Hadamar and Hochspeyer, Germany, and in Amsterdam.

  6. Szabó family collection

    The collection consists of a figurine and two handkerchiefs recovered by the survivors of a family that had been deported from Transylvania. The items were kept by neighbors after deportation and given back upon the survivors' return.

  7. Ruth Olesker Geary collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, passports and tea set illustrating the experiences Osias and Seril Olesker in Vienna, Austria, and their children, Ruth and Martha, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria. The collection shows efforts to secure visas for all family members. Ruth and Martha were able to flee May 31, 1939, with the support of Henry Turkel, a cousin, and documents show he then tried to secure visas for Osias and Seril, who never left. They were deported to Opole, Poland in February 1941, where they were likely killed. Letters within collection indicate e...

  8. Sietsema and Zomer families collection

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of the Sietsema and Zomer families, originally from the Netherlands. Documents consist of two letters regarding the imprisonment of Pieterdina Sietsema and her daughters Katherine and Henrietta, all three American citizens, in Liebenau internment camp from 1942-1944. Objects consist of patriotic ribbon worn by Hilda Zomer after the Netherlands was liberated, and ten woven "trinkets" made at Liebenau by Pieterdina and her daughters Katherine and Henrietta: box, 2 napkin rings, 2 round pins, 1 bar pin, 2 hat pins, 1 hat, and 1 cluster of flowers.

  9. Herb Romerstein collection

    THe collection consists of a red “Winterhilfe” collections canister and postcard “Kämpfen Arbeiten Opfern” with image of worker and German soldier.

  10. Mark Talisman collection

    The collection consists of documents, framed art, wood and cloth model, identification cards, correspondence, ration cards, stamps issued or used in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Compilation of multiple victims interned in Theresienstadt illustrated within documents. Documents also include “Tagesbefehl” or Daily Bulletin from the Theresienstadt Council of Elders which details daily happenings in the ghetto and includes transports, postal service, regulations, “ghetto-court” judgements. Also included are three pieces of artwork created in Theresienstadt, one a ...

  11. Henry Rosenthal collection

    Documents, letters, photographs and prayer book documenting the experiences of Henry Rosenthal's family.

  12. Paul and Margit Rafford collection

    The collection consists of papers, photograph album, loose photographs and artwork relating to Paul and Margit (Lichter) Rafford

  13. Fekete collection

    Collection of ceramic decorations made by Béla Fekete and Éva Barta in their ceramics workshop. Béla Fekete, who was not Jewish, and his wife Éva Barta, who was Jewish, made these decorations by day and sold them to make a modest living. At night they forged identity papers with Béla creating the documents and Éva making the official looking stamps to go with them. Hundreds of people benefitted from their work, and in 2012 Béla Fekete was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.

  14. Hungarian and Polish poster collection

    The collection consists of three Hungarian posters and one Polish poster.

  15. Leah Goltzman collection

    An oral history interview and memoir detailing the wartime experiences of Leah Goltzman and her family

  16. Victoria J. Barnett collection

    Victoria J. Barnett's oral history interviews with Germans who were associated with the Confessing Church. Excerpts from these interviews were published in Barnett's book "For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler."

  17. Flusser family Chinese print collection

    The collection consists of seven Chinese prints that the Flusser family brought from Shanghai, China.

  18. Greek National Resistance Medals

    The collection consists of two bronze medals in their cases awarded "by the Greek State as a token of honor to those who fought against the conquerors (Germans, Italians, Bulgarians) during the Triple Occupation of 1941-1944."

  19. Szűz Mária Társasága collection

    The collection consists of a plate and missal relating to the experiences of the Nuns of the Order of the Virgin Mary and the orphanage they ran in Budapest, Hungary during World War II. The Order, under the leadership of Zsuzsanna Ván, managed an orphanage after the Arrow Cross takeover of 1944. The orphanage was located on Vörösmarty Street in Budapest, next to Arrow Cross headquarters. The nuns were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations in 1991.

  20. Eli Pfefferkorn collection

    Files containing the writings and research of Eli Pfefferkorn.