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  1. John Honig collection

    The collection consists of an accordion and case, music book, patches, issues of Boy Scout journals, commemorative Boy Scout stamps, Boy Scout diaries and pamphlets, and writings related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  2. Wolf and Zofia Paszko collection

    The collection consists of photographs, medals, and oral history tapes documenting the experiences of Wolf and Zofia Paszko before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  3. Thermos and pot found in the territory of the former Brest Ghetto

    Traditional copper thermos used for Shabbat by Jewish families, and copper pot used by a Jewish family before WWII and most likely during internment in the Brest Ghetto.

  4. Ilona Nagy collection

    Two fabric pictures created by Ilona Nagy, whose husband had them framed in the shop owned by the Jewish family of Mór Pécsi and his son-in-law Gábor Anhalzen. Pécsi was murdered in Auschwitz along with his wife, daughter and other members of the family. Anhalzen is believed to have survived the war. He was in the forced labor service.

  5. Weil family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, tefillin, and tallit bag that had belonged to Walter Weil (donor's uncle).

  6. Agi Geva collection

    The collection consists of family documents, photographs, and handmade lace doilies.

  7. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Digital copies of the audio, film, and paper components of the Archives of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg. The original materials include: 1,942 cut gramophone discs of audio recordings of the hearings of the IMT; 37 rolls of 35mm nitrate films used as evidence during the trial; and 269,093 pages of documents (exhibits submitted to the Tribunal; trial briefs; minutes; lists).

  8. Doernberg family collection

    The collection consists of a set of Rosenthal china that Carl and Hede Doernberg brought to the US when they fled from Germany to Portugal in 1939, and eventually brought to the United States in 1941.

  9. Sprung and Braksmajer families collection

    Documents, photographs, an oral testimony, and correspondence illustrating the Sprung and Braksmajer families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Sisters Frieda and Blanche Sprung, born in Poland, lived in Rawa Ruska before the war, managed to secure false documents in the names of Tatiana Osemek and Katharina Lazar/Antonia Osymak respectively, and survived in several slave labor camps. Also documented is Schol Braksmajer whom married Frieda Sprung in 1947 after they met in Eschwege displaced persons camp in Germany.

  10. Hans and Hertha Steinberg collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Hertha and Hans Steinberg and their children Ernst Dieter [donor] and Martin in Hamburg, Germany, Italy and the United States. Hertha and sons left Germany in 1936 for Palestine, stopping in Italy for more than two years And eventually emigrating from Italy to the United States in 1939. Hans never joined, passing away in Germany in 1936. Included are birth and death records, family tree, letters of recommendation, Ketubah, marriage certificates, books, including Talmud and correspondence and report cards.

  11. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection

    The Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection relates to the wartime and postwar experiences of Rachel and Dina Mutterperl, Harvey Goldfarb, and a family friend, Berel Rostein. The collection consists of identification and naturalization documents for Dina Mutterperl and Rachel Mutterperl, 1945-1947, 1953; Red Cross documents relating to the fate of Shlomo Mutterperl, 1994; a transcript, in Hebrew, of an oral history interview with Dina Mutterperl, undated; correspondence and transcripts of speeches given at the commemoration of the 60th year of the liberation of the Wiesengrund concentration c...

  12. Marcel Janco artwork collection

    The collection consists of four original drawings depicting the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust by Romanian artist Marcel Janco. Janco immigrated to Israel in 1941, shortly after his brother's murder during the Bucharest Pogrom. The drawings were created during the 1940s.

  13. Singer family collection

    The collection consists of a brick from the wall around the synagogue in Celldömölk, Hungary which was bombed down by the Germans and a curtain embroidered by Ilona Waldhauser which she took to the ghetto in Csorna and was taken from her there by locals. Ilona's daughter saw it in a window in Csorna after the war and it was returned to her.

  14. Hauer and Honig families collection

    Photographs, documents and prayer books related to the Hauer and Honig families in Berlin, Shanghai, and the United States.

  15. Fleischmann family collection

    Trunk brought from Czech Republic with Sonia Fleischmann, who fled Prague to the United Kingdom in 1940. Eva and her sister, Milena Fleischmann, were sent ahead of their parents from Czechoslovakia on Kindertransport, or, a children’s transport to the United Kingdom, in 1939. Backpack used and worn by Eva Fleischmann. Tag worn by Eva while traveling to the UK., photographs of Eva, Milena and the Radcliffe Family who cared for the girls once They arrived in the UK., Identification for “Seina Fleischmannova” and luggage tag, documenting Sonja’s voyage through Oslo, Norway to Liverpool, UK and...

  16. Mikhail Lev collection

    The collection contains the literary archives of Soviet Yiddish writer and journalist Mikhail Lev.

  17. Ninetta Feldman Sound Collection

    Contains liturgical recitations from the repertoire of the Romaniote Jewish community of Ioannina, Greece, as well as Ms. Feldman's translations of texts to "Greek-Jewish Musical Traditions."

  18. Friedrich Haas collection

    The collection consists of a lighter and an identification card relating to the experiences of Friedrich Haas in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  19. Jacob Reimer and Gustawa Zabramna Tenenbaum collection

    The collection consists of letters sent to Jacob Reimer from parents in Europe. Jacob Reimer had immigrated in December 1939. Also includes a recording, tag, documents related to mother's cousin Gustawa Zabramna Tenenbaum and photographs.

  20. Zyroff family collection

    Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Sonia Zyroff recorded in 1986; a video recording of Sonia Zyroff's presentation to students, ca. 1987; and video recording of her return to Ukraine in 1992