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  1. Richard Weilheimer collection

    The Richard Weilheimer collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, a watercolor booklet hand-made in Gurs, photographic materials and a prayer book documenting the Weilheimer, Wetzler, and Stern families from Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany. Documents reflect the families’ prewar lives in Germany, their deportation to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France in 1940, Richard and Ernst Weilheimer’s relocation to a children’s home and immigration to the United States in 1942, Kurt and Nelly Stern’s earlier immigration to the United States in 1937, and the memorializat...

  2. Bäecher family collection

    THe collection consists of a letter from the Movement for the Care of Children From Germany in London to Mrs. A. Baecher in Bronham, England concerning her son Ivan and his disposition. Dated July 3, 1940, signed by Barbara Winton. Metal tag usd in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Josef Fleischer, Ivan’s grandfather, who died in the camp in 1943. Tag was kept by Ivan’s Grandmother, Jenny who did survive but passed away in June 1945, after her liberation; Photographs of Ivan’s extended family-Aunts, Uncles, cousins who did not survive the Holocaust or survived in hiding.

  3. Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and a pair of youth soccer cleats pertaining to the experiences of the Blogier, Wides, and Wechselman families. Abraham Blogier and his sister Edith Blogier Wechselman were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and h...

  4. Signed testimonies of the Deaf Holocaust Experience collection

    Interviews and recorded programs and presentations featuring Deaf survivors of the Holocaust

  5. Yakob Langer collection

    Photocopies and transcripts from the collection of Yakob Langer (also known as Klaus Langer), originally of Essen, Germany. Includes color copies of pages of Yakob Langer's diary, a typed transcript of a letter written by his father between November 1941 and April 1942, and an audio recording in which he reads portions of his diary.

  6. Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary collection

    Sewing kit, manicure kit and two perpetual calendars which belonged to Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary and used by her after she arrived in England on the Kindertransport.

  7. Stella and Chester Szczesny collection

    Photographs documentating memorialization of Polish Roman Catholic Stanislawa and Czeslaw Szczesny, both survivors of multiple concentration camps and attempts to drown victims (some who survived) Thielbeck and Deutschland ships. Postwar identity card for Czeslaw and wallet in which all were kept.

  8. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, a newspaper, and artifacts related to Anatol and Alexandra Gorko who both survived the Holocaust and married after the war in Łódź, Poland.

  9. Dr. Arthur Kessler collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Arthur Kessler, originally of Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), including his imprisonment in the Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria and his efforts to treat and manage an outbreak of paralysis of fellow prisoners due to consumption of Lathyrus sativus. Included are artifacts, objects gifted to him, biographical materials, correspondence, research notes and samples related to Lathyrism, written testimony, writings, and a small amount of photographs. Also included is his unpublished memoir Ein Arzt im Lager (A Camp Physician).

  10. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper collection

    The collection consists of Identity documents and papers from Antoni Stefan Koper, postcards from POW camp, Sophie Koper's biography of Antoni and account of apartment raid in Warsaw; Antoni's written memories; also includes Antoni's insignias and Sophie's cap from the Polish First Armored Division; papers and certificate related to Antoni Stefan Koper being honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations; Warsaw telephone directory from 1939/1940 and miscellaneous publications. Also press kit from when Sophie was honored in Richmond, Virginia.

  11. George John Meade collection

    The collection consists of documents, illustrations, a Nazi patch, photographs, publication, negatives, and an oral testimony documenting the experiences of George John Meade in Germany as a United States soldier during and after World War II (1939-1945).

  12. Janet Beasley collection

    The collection consists of a bisque doll, a stuffed animal, a wooden toy, and a children's book relating to the experiences of Jutta Grybski (later Janet Beasley) before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, and after the Holocaust near Terezin in Czechoslovakia.

  13. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of a table knife and a religious medal relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek in the Warsaw ghetto and during her forced labor service in the assumed identity of a non-Jewish Polish person in Germany during the Holocaust.

  14. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    The collection consists of Honor and Iron Cross medals, buttonhole ribbon bars, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Kurt Schlesinger and his family in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  15. Elizabeth Trausel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, scrip, and a Star of David badge that relating to the experience of Elisabeth Trausel in Prague and Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp and her father Josef, and their family in Prague during the Holocaust.

  16. Oral histories of the Dimant family collection

    Audio and video testimonies of Ita Dimant and an audio recording of the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, including Simcha Dimant and others.

  17. Andrzej Bninski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the occupation of Warsaw, Poland, by Nazi Germany from 1939-1945.

  18. Hauptmann family collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ignaz, Etta, and Karolina Hauptmann, including their life in the Ulm displaced persons camp from 1946-1949, immigration to the United States in 1949, and testimony in the trial against SS Officer Friedrich Hildebrandt. Included are Ulm DP camp identification cards, Karolina’s report cards, affidavits and testimony about the family’s Holocaust experiences, restitution paperwork, declarations of intention and naturalization certificates, documents and correspondence related to Ignaz and Etta’s testimony during the Bremen county trial agains...

  19. Edward Boehm Collection

    Artillery leaflets produced by the United States Armed Forces shelled/dropped in Italy where Edward Boehm [donor's father] was assigned to the U.S. 5th Army and British 8th Army as combat liaison propaganda officer with purpose of creating leaflets targeting Germans behind enemy lines. Books entitled “P.W.B/Shell Leaflets [Psychological Warfare Branch] containing leaflets fixed within books. Newspapers entitled Frontpost dating December 1943 through June 1945. Propaganda Leaflets produced by Germany targeted at Allied troops collected by Boehm. Identification card issued to Boehm during the...

  20. Archives de la Communauté de Taizé collection

    Oral history interviews regarding the Taizé Community, an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France which aided a large number of refugees during WWII.