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  1. David Frohman collection

    Correspondence written by David S. Frohman (donor's father), a member of the 89th Infantry Division, Third United States Army ["Patton's Own"]. Included in the correspondence are two sets of letters from David in Camp Roberts, California and Fort Benning, Georgia, and from Germany and post-war Austria. Letters describe David's experiences in the military and overseas as an American Jewish soldier. First set of letters written to David's parents in Chicago area. Second set of letters written to family friend Leandro Pastorelli in Chicago area. The collection also includes an 89th Infantry Di...

  2. Paul Mayer collection

    The collection consists of diaries, artwork, books, documents, clippings, and correspondence pertaining to the experiences of Paul Mayer and his family, formerly of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and later of the United States.

  3. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman collection

    Documents and photographs related to Marsha G. Kreuzman (nee Grunberg) and Robert Kreuzman. Also includes Marsha's spoon from the Jewish Hospital in Krakow; and Robert Kreuzman's leather bracelet with metal prisoner number ID tag (#86778) from Mauthausen.

  4. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, scrip, publications, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland.

  5. Hersz Berlinski collection

    Collection of documents, certificates, correspondence, wallet, tag, receipt and other papers documenting the experiences of Hersh (Herz) Berlinski, b. March 20, 1921 in Łódź, Poland who survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz (prisoner # 95325) and Kaufering where he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. After the war he recuperated in Bad Wörishofen hospital. He immigrated to the United States in January 1951 with the assistance of the International Refugee Organization under the US Displaced Persons Act.

  6. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of military items of Orban Wales Peters, Jr. including uniform jacket, two hats, a helmet; “After Action Report” of the 914th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes; selected copies of “The Rolling.” Correspondence from Margarete Lang Schweidler, from Germany, to her daughter Gretel Schweidler Holzer in the U.S. Her daughter, Anna Margarete Holzer married Orban Wales Peters, Jr. They are the parents of the donor.

  7. Jiří Lauscher collection

    The Jiří Lauscher collection consist of reports, albums, artwork, writings, photocopies, photographs, copyprints, and diary entries documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde's work related to emigration and job training in Prague; the administration, history, and culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. The collection also includes a Star of David badge and postage stamps. Lauscher collected the materials during his internment in Theresienstadt from 1942-1945 and acquired many of them from friends and acquaintances as they were deported to killing centers.

  8. The Jewish Community of Cluj collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book stand from the Neologist Synagogue of Horea Street, and a wooden cabinet from the Chancellery of the former local Jewish High School.

  9. Stephen Mize collection

    Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer issued to Polish youth (Wasyl Nowodejki?)in 1944; Antisemetic Notgeld coupon from Brakel, Germany; dated March 1, 1922

  10. Heinemann family papers

    Contains naturalization certificates, birth certificates, correspondence, and oral history interviews and edited films related to the Heinemann family.

  11. Hyman Kirsh collection

    The Hyman Kirsh papers includes photographs of the Kirszenewajg family taken in Poland prior to World War II, and a fragment of an engagement announcement for Golda Kirszenewajg and Chaim Berenzweig, circa 1912-1914. The collection also includes a prayerbook found in a Jewish home after liberation.

  12. Frances Doniger collection

    Photographs, correspondence, documentation and drawing surrounding the experiences of the Abusch and Pick families during the Holocaust and of siblings Frances and Max Abusch who fled Vienna, Austria on the Kindertransport. Their parents were able to travel to New York, where Frances soon joined them. Max eventually made his way to Toronto, ON, Canada. The collection also follows the Pick family, relatives of Frances's mother. Her cousin Josef Pick was able to escape, but the rest of his family was killed.

  13. Stephen Kornreich collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, papers, ephemera, photographs, and a leather travel documents pouch related to Stephen Kornreich [donor's father], a Hungarian Jew who left for Palestine in 1933 and later immigrated to the United States in 1939. Additional materials are donor's audio-recorded interview with her father Stephen Kornreich, from 1981-1984, and a partial transcript of the interview. Also includes a memoir that Stephen Kornreich's brother Beno Korda wrote for, and gave to, the donor.

  14. Ohringer and Weil family collection

    Documents, correspondence and journal illustrating the experiences of Inge Ohringer [nee Weil] and her husband Sigmund Ohringer and their extended families. Inge, her father Arthur and step-mother Anneliese left Germany in 1939 on the MS St. Louis, disembarked in England, and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1941. Sigmund Ohringer had fled Nazi Germany earlier, arriving in the US in the late 1930s, as did his three brothers. Also included in the collection are letters from Camp de Gurs from Anneliese's parents, Julius and Klara Weil, who did not survive, as well as photographs,...

  15. Marek and Bronislawa Redner collection

    Documents for Marek and Bronislawa Redner (nee Shrenzel); papers related to the ownership of property in Lvov; Marek Redner's armband from the Lvov Ghetto where he was a medical doctor; Marek Redner's "W" patch; photo of Bronislawa Redner; document for Benjamin-Hersch Lustig (copy).

  16. Werner Meyerstein and Ruth Echt collection

    The collection consists of newspaper clippings, documents, photographs, butcher's certificate, identification cards, immigration documents and passport documenting the experiences of Werner Meyerstein and his family in Germany and Sosua. The collection also includes documentation, passport, immigration papers and other identification from Germany and Shanghai belonging to Ruth Echt. In addition, the collection includes a glazed ceramic cup with handle.

  17. Rottenberg family collection

    Documents and photographs related to Robert Rogers (originally Robert Rottenberg) and his parents Elias David (Eddy) Rottenberg and Bertha (Berkelhammer) Rottenberg, all of who jumped from Transport XX en route to Auschwitz. Also includes the shirt that Robert was wearing when he jumped from the train and was shot.

  18. Sophia Chatov collection

    Artwork: “In Memoriam” To the lost Jewish Community of Amsterdam – 1945; dated 1995, copper, oil and mixed media on canvas; created by the donor; Written testimony: “Our Lives In The Netherlands Before, During and After the Holocaust” given by the donor on May 3, 1995 at the Anne Frank In The World Exhibition in New York; in English

  19. Lisbeth Modley Kornreich collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, papers, magazine clippings and photographs related to William and Augusta (Lipiner) Modley and their daughter Lisbeth (Modley) Kornreich [donor's mother]. Also includes Augusta's recipe book and fashion sketches, and Lisbeth's leather travel documents pouch. Additional materials from other relatives includes letters (with English translations) from Karl Linder and letters and a selection of wartime diary entries from Hans Zehetner, who survived the war in Vienna. Also includes the donor's audio recorded interview w/her mother Lisbeth (Mo...

  20. Stekler family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, receipts, report cards pertaining to the families of Walter Stekler and Gisela Schrott Stekler of Vienna, Austria and later of the United States. Also includes a mazchor, as well as tefillin (with protective bag and embroidered initials) and tallit belonging to Walter Stekler.