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  1. Heymann and Frank families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, and other materials primarily relating to the Heymann and Frank families before, during, and after the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Collection includes, but is not limited to: pre-war documents, ration cards, cookbook, poesie book, certificates, report cards, notes, correspondence, identity documents, passport, prayer books, small portfolio, a family book, and a booklet.

  2. Baruch and Cila Knaster collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, a pair of earrings, a skirt, hand-embroidered linens, a doily, handknit baby clothing, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Baruch and Cila Hausman Knaster and their families in Poland before and during the Holocaust, and relating to their and their daughter Mirka's experiences in a displaced persons camp in Italy after the war.

  3. Paul Shapiro collection

    Antisemitic Romanian pamphlet illustrated with cartoon characters and coupon for mandatory donation to help pay for the integration of Bukhovina and Transnistria into Greater Romania.

  5. Hidden Child Foundation records

    The collection consists of documents, media, correspondence, and a piece of Theresienstadt scrip, relating to the Hidden Child Foundation (a part of the Anti-Defamation League), in New York after the Holocaust.

  6. Lubran family collection

    The collection consists of a wedding dress, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and clippings relating to the experiences of Walter Lubran and his sister Alice Lubran Plocki before, during, and after the Holocaust in Europe and the United States.

  7. Arie Torner collection

    The collection consists of a belt, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Arie Torner in the Netherlands and Poland before World War II, in several forced labor camps and in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust, and in the Netherlands and the United States after the war.

  8. Jecheskiel and Gertrude Rottholz Steinfink collection

    Photograph of Klara Steinfink (donor's paternal grandmother); photograph of Klara Steinfink's tombstone in Vienna, Austria; photograph of clothing store that belonged to donor's paternal grandfather. They are pictured in front of the store with their sons Owen (donor's father) and Alan; a prayer book from November 13, 1920 from a Bar Mitzvah that was saved by Owen.

  9. Peter Masters collection

    Material pertaining to the experiences of Peter Masters (donor's husband) [nee Arany] a Viennese Jewish refugee who served in the British commandos: Album with material documenting his service in 3 Troop of the British Commandos which contains photographs of various servicemen, documents and shoulder patches; Peter Masters's Solder's Service Pay Book; Precis on Military Law; Maps of Germany used in Peter Masters's military service; Confiscated service card from German POW; Correspondence from other members of 3 Troop, their families, and historians; Information about the fate of Peter Giles...

  10. Oral history interviews of the documentary film "Under the Sky" collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Under the Sky," which features Jewish refugees who escaped the Second World War by way of Portugal.

  11. Ernest Weiss collection

    The collection consists of documents, papers, photographs, interrogation reports, publications, broadsides (German and American), maps, and books related to Ernest Weiss's service in the U.S. Army Intelligence. Also includes documents related to Eva Hausen Feuerman Weiss.

  12. Susi Traumann Lewinsky collection

    The collection consists of children’s illustrated books, documents, photographs, a prayerbook, news articles and periodicals relating to Susi Traumann Lewisnsky.

  13. Dr. Carl W. Bordas Collection

    The collection consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence from former prisoners at Ebensee concentration camp, U.S. army documents, and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Dr. Carl W. Bordas in Austria and the United States during and after World War II.

  14. Henry Landman collection

    Collection contains correspondence, documents, photographs, leaflets, postcards, and related materials, including a yarmulke, which document the immigration of Joseph and Regina Landman, and their son Henry (Heinz), originally of Augsburg, Germany, to the United States as a result of anti-Semitic persecution in Germany. Includes biographical documents about Joseph and Regina, sports awards received by Henry in Augsburg, prior to emigration; correspondence with relatives of Regina Landmann, including the Aretz family; documents and ephemera related to Henry's service in the United States Arm...

  15. Thomas Rehfisch collection

    Letters sent to donor's father Thomas Rehfisch (later Rey) from family in Germany and friends. Thomas Rehfisch immigrated to the UK from Germany in 1934. Also included in the collection are a slide rule and a first aid booklet sent to him from his mother in Germany (the slide rule was secondhand), and educational certificates.

  16. Lucie Steinhagen collection

    The collection consists of photographs, song lyrics, a Star of David, scrip, and a document relating to the experiences of Lucie Steinhagen and her friend Rita Rosenberger in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Vienna, and Freiberg during the Holocaust.

  18. Violet Dattner collection

    The collection consists of handwritten notes of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial written by Violet Dattner as well as photographs, documents, and newsaper clippings of and from the trial. The collection also includes three maps of concentration camps and other materials relating to the Holocaust experiences of Wilhelm and Violet Dattner.

  19. Gaon family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, folk objects, coffee pots, a bowl, a tray, a bottle and a pair of socks that relate to the experiences of Mencham, Lottie, and Izzica Gaon and Esther Mussafia before, during and after the Holocaust.

  20. Ernst and Hildegard Israel Collection

    The collection contains a painting done by Ernst Israel, dated c. 1951, that depicts China where he was during the Holocaust, and an interview to Susan G. Decker.