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  1. Oral history interviews of the Lieberman/Goldman family collection

    Oral history interviews with Daniel Goldsmith, Donald Greenbaum, and Ernest Gross

  2. Dave Fox art collection

    Artwork by Dave Fox with images from his memories of Vienna from his childhood. Dave Fox was born in Vienna in 1920, where he lived until shortly after the annexation of Austria in 1938. He escaped via the German-Belgian border, seeking refuge in Belgium. He arrived in the U.S. in December 1939 and settled in Los Angeles. During WWII he served in the US Army in the Philippines and Japan. Returning to the US, he studied at art school and was a painter and printmaker for over 60 years. He married Senta Salomons of Dortmund, Germany, who was also a refugee. They had two children, Rabbi Karen F...

  3. Maria Rivka Chowles Lichtenfeld collection

    The collection consists of two prayerbooks used by Maria Rivka Chowles Lichtenfeld while she was living in hiding under an assumed identity as a Polish Christian during the Holocaust.

  4. Robert L. Tumler collection

    The collection consists of wartime and postwar photographs, postcards, a typed report on Ebensee (Mimeograph copy) and a German map on which Tumler drew the route his unit took ending in Ebensee. The photographs include some images of the Ebensee camp taken shortly after liberation. Robert L. Tumler (1911-1980) served as a medic in the US Army during WWII. His unit landed in Normandy six weeks after D-day and followed the Advancing Troops across Europe. As camps were liberated, they provided a basic level of medical care - the last camp was at Ebensee.

  5. Joshua Heilman collection

    The collection consists of a camera used by Joshua Heilman and pre-war photographs he took of Lubaczow using this camera, which he assembled into an album which he took with him to British Mandate Palestine in 1939.

  6. Baruch family collection

    Artifacts and documents from the Baruch family including a set of china (EPIAG/Czechoslovakia) owned by the donor's grandmother Astro (Elias) Baruch; a set of silverware owned by the donor's mother, Rachel (Zadick) Baruch; an amulet; a mezuzah pendant engraved with floral motifs; a shell motif pendant; Greek documents for David Baruch; British gold coins (3); a U.S. silver dollar; a British one penny coin; and photographs.

  7. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection

    The collection consists of a handmade vest and correspondence relating to the experiences of Sara Lamhaut, Chana Goldwasser Lamhaut, and Riiha Goldwasser in Łódź, Poland, and Brussels, Belgium, during the Holocaust.

  8. Cohen family collection

    The collection consists of postcards sent to Morris Cohen (donor's paternal grandfather) primarily from his sister-in-law Esther Feyge (Fagel)regarding their family in Rutki Kossaki, Poland, 1939-1940; postcard sent to Morris Cohen from family friend in Rutki Kossaki regarding the murder of family members in 1942; Also included in the collection are two (2) leather wallets.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society collection

    Oral history interviews, presentations, and remembrance programs with Holocaust survivors and witnesses to WWII from the archive of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society.

  10. Ungar, Hammerschlag and Breuer family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs of the Ungar, Hammerschlag and Breuer family of Vienna. Also drawings either by or collected by Dora Breuer.

  11. Max and Lotte Wertheim collection

    The collection documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration to the United States in 1937. Documents consist of identification and family papers including birth and marriage certificates, German passports, a family book (Stammbuch), Lotte’s autograph book, and immigration papers. Photographs include depictions of prewar family life, portraits, vacations, and Stanley’s childhood. The collection also includes a silver cup.

  12. Walter Peiser artwork collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Walter Peiser-Preisser ("Prei"). One woodcut print that is part of a series of 12, created in the Neustadt/Holstein DP camp, circa 1946. Seven prints (one hexagon and six trapezoids) depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz-Monowitz, Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and general scenes of commemoration that include names of camps, prisoner numbers and markings, with small holes punched around the entire border of each page.

  13. Nacht family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, drawings, photos, passports, notebook and additional materials relating to and documenting the experiences of Max Nacht, his wife Elfriede (nee Kamm), sons Edward and Felix, Elfriede's parents Alfred and Amalie Kamm and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany, Shanghai, and the Dominican Republic.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Brad Zarlin collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded by telephone.

  15. Rattner and Breindler families collection

    The Rattner and Breindler families collection consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting the families of Beno Rattner and Edith Breindler in Vienna, the couple’s lives and marriage in England, and their parents’ unsuccessful efforts to emigrate. Biographical materials include Beno’s German passport, two of Edith’s British passports, birth and registration records, Beno’s World War II military papers, and certificates documenting the deportation of Beno’s parents. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Beno and Edith in England from their parents in Vienna. The lett...

  16. Bernard Berthold Bock collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter in case held by belt, Stammbuch, siddur, price list for Bernard Berthold Bock's (donor's grandfather) tool factory, catalogs for factory items all having belonged to Bernard Berthold Bock.

  17. Lore Anthes Schwarz family collection

    The collection consists of a jewelry box, a postcard, and several documents relating to the experiences of Regina Hess in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust and the family of Julius Bentheim in Germany during the Holocaust, which were kept hidden by Georg, Elise, and Lore Anthes in Germany during World War II.

  18. Signed testimonies of the Ma'agalei Shema Association collection

    Video interviews with Deaf Holocaust survivors, produced by the Ma'agalei Shema Association

  19. Oral history interviews of the Gili Ronen collection

    Interviews with members of the Rubicsek/Ronen family and with Jucika Rehakova née Farkas, the daughter of rescuers.

  20. Collin and Reis families collection

    The collection consists of material related to the Collin and Reis families including photographs, correspondence, documents, passports, identification papers, diary and transltion, pamphlets, notebooks, school book and magazines and medal.