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  1. Dash family collection

    The collection consists of scrip, copy prints, documents, ID cards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Paula and Sol Dash and their daughter Lilly in Poland and Germany, during and after the Holocaust.

  2. Hendla Dzialoczynska (Anna Green) collection

    Postwar photographs of Hendla Dzialoczynska (later Anna Green) [donor's mother; Ruchla Dzialoczynska (nee Dztajnberg) [donor's grandmother], and Chaya Dzialoczynska Kretchmer (later Helen Herman) [donor's aunt], all of whom survived the Łódź Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. Also includes Hendla's needles wrapped in fabric and wince and placed in a small glass vial from Bergen Belsen (either concentration camp or displaced persons camp) as well as a photographic Jewish New Years card for the year 5740 (1949) from the Bergen Belsen DP camp.

  3. Goldschmied (Gilbert) Family Collection

    THe collection consists of family papers of Albin Goldschmied and Louise Ohs Goldschmied, their daughter Renée, and their parents Leopold and Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a notebook, a silk textile fragment, a cardboard box and related materials. Date range is late 19th century to the 1960s. Majority of the papers concern the emigration of Albin, Louise, and Renée Goldschmied from Prague through the efforts of Waitstill and Martha Sharp and their experiences as new ...

  4. Pentcho collection

    Consists of photographs depicting the voyage of the S.S. Pentcho and the internment of passangers at Rhodes and Ferramonti. The collection also includes two commemorative ribbons from 1980 with images of the Pentcho.

  6. Helen and Harry Berger collection

    Collection contains scrip and documents related to Helen Berger (nee Blum) and Harry Berger (aka Chaim David Berger); includes Helen's wartime documents under the name Helen Borciszewska. It also contains a cigarette case taken from the home of an SS soldier and family that Helen Blum worked as a nanny for.

  7. Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection

    Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection, which includes interviews with Israel Weinbaum (Izrael Wajnbaum); video footage of the Wine family trip to the village of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, which features conversations with Catholic Poles who hid the donor's father Albert Weinbaum (Adash Wajnbaum) and his parents Israel Weinbaum and Leah Weinbaum (Lola Orzech); and a report about the life of Leah Orzech Weinbaum produced by her great-granddaughter Jodie Cohen.

  8. Max Krause collection

    The collection consists of two drawings and a woodcut created by Max Krause in Dresden, Germany, during the Holocaust.

  9. Museum für Deutsche Geschichte collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters related to the activities of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s.

  10. Rashel and Haim Eshaya collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David button and four photographs relating to the experiences of Rashel and Haim Eshaya before the Holocaust in Burgas, Bulgaria, during the Holocaust in Gradeshnitsa, where Haim was a forced laborer, and after the Holocaust in Burgas.

  11. Benjamin B. Ferencz collection

    The collection consists of the personal papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen at the Nuremberg Trials. Papers include biographical information pertaining to Ferencz and materials relevant to the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust-related restitution and indemnification issues, war crimes justice, his activities in the formation of the International Criminal Court in The Hague; his teaching, research, and speaking activities, in particular as director of the Pace Peace Center, but also more generally in the subject areas of world peace, crimes a...

  12. Handcrafted artifacts from prewar Poland collection

    The collection consists of artifacts handcrafted in Poland from 1920-1941.

  13. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    The collection consists of two change purses relating to the experiences of Johanna Hirsch following her deportation from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs internment camp in France during the Holocaust.

  14. Łódź ghetto hand tools collection

    The collection consists of a variety of shoe and garment-making tools of the type used in Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race exhibition collection

    Oral history interviews with twelve Holocaust survivors recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race."

  16. Oral history interviews of the Paul Polansky collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by Paul Polansky with Roma and other subjects in Serbia/Vojvodina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Istanbul, featured in his three volume book series "One Blood, One Flame: The oral histories of the Yugoslav gypsies before, during, and after WWII."

  17. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: armbands, a badge, a leaflet, military insignia, a pennant, a ring, and scrip relating to the experiences of Harold Goldberg as a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

  18. Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family collection

    The collection contains correspondence, immigration papers, residence permits, identification papers and other related documentation regarding the immigration of Alexander and Sima Shalit, and their son Larry, from Berlin, Germany to the United States in 1934. Also included is earlier documentation from Russia (their country of origin), photographs, and correspondence and immigration documents from other relatives in Europe. Additionally, there is correspondence between Larry Shalit and his parents while he served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. The collection also includes a ...

  19. Eugene Goldfield collection

    The collection consists of two German American Bund posters and a photograph of a drawing.

  20. Ney and Grundmann families collection

    Correspondence, documents, autograph books, printed material, audiovisual recordings, and other related materials, documenting the history of the families of Herbert Ney (Neu), originally of Munich, Germany, and his wife, Hannelore (née Grundmann), originally of Essen, Germany, relating to their emigration from Germany due to anti-Semitic persecution, as well as documenting their lives in pre-Holocaust era Germany, and following their immigration to the United States.