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  1. Langer family collection

    Documents and recordings pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Robert Langer and his parents Igantz and Stefanie Langer, including their emigration from Vienna, Austria to Shanghai, China after the German annexation of Austria in 1938, and post-war immigration to the United States.

  2. Bondy, Feldman, Kafka, and Loewenbach families collection

    The collection consists of a pin, correspondence, documents, photographs, and published materials relating to the experiences of the Bondy, Feldman, Kafka, and Loewenbach families.

  3. Arie Eshkoli collection

    Consists of the manuscript, entitled "In Memory of Arie Eshkoli: The War Stories," by Daphne Kaufman, which is based on taped interviews with Mr. Eshkoli, her grandfather. Arie Eshkoli, born Leon Grappa, originally of Ostrów Mazowiecki, Poland, worked for the underground before being arrested in 1939 and shipped to a Russian labor camp. He was released in late 1940 and fought with the Polish Red Army. He participated in the liberation of the Majdanek concentration camp and worked for the post-war Zionist movement before immigrating to Israel in 1947. Also includes audiotapes of the origina...

  4. John Butzke family collection

    The collection consists of a teddy bear, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans (later John) Butzke and his parents Julius and Netty before and during the war in Vienna, Austria, and in Panama and the United States following their 1940 immigration.

  5. Uki Goni collection : The Real Odessa research material

    Contains the research materials collected by Uki Goňi, author of "The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina." In course of his research for this book, Mr. Goňi collected relevant documents over a period of 20 years in various archives worldwide, including in Argentina, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Uki Goňi shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican...

  6. Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives collection

    Oral history interviews of The Memory Archives, recollections of survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants recorded by students from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the International Media Center (IMC) at HAW Hamburg.

  7. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    The collection consists of three china plates, tefillin and pouch, a tallit pouch, a kippah, correspondence, documents, an oral testimony, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of the Kurt Rosenbaum (later Goldsmith) and his family in Schonungen, Germany, before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Gabi Rosberger collection

    Consists of photographs of the Lederer and Bruck families ca. 1938-1940, including photographs of Nina Lederova, whose watercolor is featured in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." Also includes documentation for Mr. Kurt Reitler, who emigrated from Prague to Shanghai, and a 1940 Czech passport, receipts, Chinese identity cards, and other vaccination certification; including four multi-colored telegrams in Czech sending familial greetings. Also contains film reels of b&w and color Kodachrome with home movies of the Lederer and Bruck families in Prague, Plana Nad Luznici, Pacov, and Stechov...

  9. irn601528

    The collection consist of one poster issued by the French Government Seine-et-Oise department in 1941, 112 paintings created by Zenek Maor, a Holocaust survivor originally from Poland, the Elkan family papers, from 1941-1946, and a typed manuscript with a list of Polish refugees from the immediate postwar period.

  10. Benjamin Meed collection

    The collection consists of ten pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Benjamin Miedzyrzecki (later Benjamin Meed), when he lived in Łódź, Poland, after leaving liberated Warsaw, where he had been a resistance member in the ghetto and while living in hiding.

  11. Elizabeth Walsh collection

    Censored envelopes sent to Victor Gibbs (donor's uncle) from his mother who escaped to England, and other friends and family in Germany; written testimony of Steffi Aghassi (friend of donor's mother) regarding her experiences during the Holocaust; sound recordings of various Yom HaShoah commemorative events, memorial programs, testimonies, and a school presentation by Herman Haller (donor's father)

  12. Hoexter family collection

    Consists of photographs, postcards, documents, and glass slides related to the Holocaust experiences of Herbert Hoexter, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Includes pre-war and wartime family photographs, information about his internment in Dachau in 1938, his emigration to England, where he was imprisoned in the Kitchener internment camp from August 1939-April 1940, and information regarding his work in the United States from 1940-1942. Also includes photographic negatives and glass slides and an oral history interview with Herbert Hoexter.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Andor Andrasi collection

    Interviews about the rescue activities of Pastor Gábor Sztehlo, a Lutheran Pastor in Budapest, Hungary who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis and Hungarian collaborators and organized Gaudiopolis, a self-administered children's' town in Budapest following the war.

  14. Johnson and Levi family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, correspondence, documents, and clippings relating to the experiences of the Jonassohn (later Johnson) and Levi families in Germany, Cuba, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  15. Mania Baghdadi collection

    The collection consists of one doll and a photograph relating to the experiences of Mania Kleinburd as a young child in a displaced persons camp after World War II.

  16. Harold Lehman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, drawings, sketches, publications, prints and photographs relating to the artist Harold Lehman and his experiences in the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  17. Forrest James Robinson Jr. collection

    The collection consists of 33 American WWII era poster stamps, which include images commemorating Poland and France, Peace for America, the National Recovery Administration, the Council against Intolerance in America, V for Victory, and other subjects.

  18. Hedwig E. Stern family collection

    Photos, documents, letters, table linens, baby bibs and other original materials related to Hedwig (Hedi) Eichengrün Stern.

  19. Emanuel Scherer collection

    The collection consists of a badge, scrip, correspondence, documents, negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Emanuel Scherer as a member of the Bund in Warsaw, Poland, and of Jewish people in Germany and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.

  20. Berthold Meier collection

    The collection consists of a key attached to dog tags, a prayer book, certificates, documents, Deutsches Reich Reisepass, German Kennkarte, and US Army papers relating to the experiences of Berthold Meier in Germany before World War II and in the United States Army during and after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.