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  1. Kőszeg brick factory collection

    The collection consists of two broken tiles and four bricks from a local brick factory relating to events in the area of Kőszeg, Hungary, during the Holocaust

  2. Margolies and Zetterberg Nuremberg collection

    Contains photographs, correspondence, newspaper articles, speeches, briefs, and two badges pertaining to Daniel Margolies and Harriet Zetterberg's role on the prosecution team during the Nuremberg Trials. Includes: briefs regarding the history of various defendents, written by Harriet Zetterberg for the Trials; numerous post-war articles and speeches by Daniel Margolies regarding the Trials; identity cards and Tribunal entry passes; large photographs showing Margolies and Zetterberg in the Trials.

  3. Nachmias and Ezratty family collections

    Spanish passport issued by Consul General of Spain in Greece to donor's aunt Esther Ezratty Brudo on may 26, 1943 and valid until May 1944; Passport valid for transit for Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, France and Italy. Passport enabled donor to find refuge in Barcelona, Spain. Pillow case and small end table cover embroidered by grandmother Reina Ezratty in Saloniki. Handwritten list by Haim Exratty of Spanish nationals that were in Bergen Belsen with him during the war. Cloth #195 worn by donor's mother, Jeanne (Jenny) Exratty on her chest in Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Certificate of ...

  4. Kirschenbaum and Mosak family collection

    Concentration camp uniform jacket. Accretion: Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Leah (Lonia) Kirschenbaum and Uscher Mossak (Mosak) and surrounding their internment in concentration camps and displaced persons camps in Poland, Austria

  5. Kessler family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and film illustrating the experiences of Alice and Jakob Kessler and their son, Hans Otto, who was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Baden, Austria. Their experiences fleeing to the United Kingdom in 1939 and then immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s, as well as the experiences of the extended family is also documented in the collection.

  6. Allerhand and Wohlfeiler families collection

    Photographs: depicting the Allerhand family before the war in Krakow; students in the elementary school Alexander attended in 1935/1936; portraits of family members sent to Leopold Allerhand imprisoned in Oflag IIc Wollenberg and postwar images of the family. Photographs of Wohlfeiler family before the war in Katowice and in Krakow after the war; wedding photograph of Olek and Krysia Allerband in Krakow on July 15, 1951. Cloth sack the donor and her mother used in Brünlitz concentration camp used to gather food on liberation day, May 1945; 2 stones: one from Umschlagplatz in Warsaw ghetto (...

  7. German bunker envelope collection

    The collection consists of envelopes found in a German bunker by an American soldier while serving in Europe.

  8. Irene Bourla Modianot collection

    Watch face worn and used by Riquetta (nee Simha) Bourla and through her hiding experience in Athens, Greece with her husband Isaac. Photographs of Isaac and Riquetta Bourla, dated early 20th century, and a photgraphic portrait mounted on porcelain.

  9. Gustav Rauner collection

    The collection consists of a sewing machine and accessories relating to the experiences of Gustav Rauner and his family, originally from Germany, during the Holocaust when they lived under assumed identities in France, and after the Holocaust when they emigrated to the United States in 1946.

  10. Haas family collection

    Photographs and letter illustrating the experiences of the Haas family surrounding the Holocaust: pre-war images of Semi Haas and his wife Frieda Steinberger Haas and their children Walter, Ilse and Ernst (donor) in Neumarkt, Germany and after 1938 in Fürth. Also included are pre-war photographs of extended family members and post-war photographs of Ernst in Germany after his liberation from Riga and Stutthof concentration camps. Letter to Walter in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 from Semi, Frieda, Ernst and Ilse and Fürth, Germany. Frieda, Semi and Ilse did not survive. Post-war documents issu...

  11. Jacques Schweitzer collection

    Photographs, documents, class notebook related to Jacques Schweitzer (originally Jacques Swiczarczyk). Also includes his beret and pants from his service in the Forces Navates Francaises Libres and wartime French currency.

  12. Shlomo Garber family collection

    The collection consists of a Hebrew typewriter, a ketubah, and photographs relating to the experiences of Shlomo Garber and Stella Feidel before and after the Holocaust when they married in Pocking displaced persons camp in Germany.

  13. Ernest Fiedler collection

    The collection consists of dog tags, patches, documents, a photograph album, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Ernest Fielder, before the war in Breslau, Germany, which his family left for the United States in 1938, and during his service in the United States Army Counterintelligence Corps during and after World War II.

  14. Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book, correspondence, documents, photographs, and sheet music relating to the experiences of the Morgenstern and Merkur families in Austria, England, France, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Switzerland before the war, in those nations, Czechoslovakia, and many concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Austria and Australia after World War II.

  15. Barbara Gramaska collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge and a portrait photograph relating to the experiences of Barbara Gramaska during World War II.

  16. Charlotte Zagorska Pogel collection

    The collection consists of prisoner badges, a Star of David patch, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Charlotte (Lotte) Zagorska during the Holocaust in German occupied Poland when she was imprisoned in Wolta-Gabersdorf forced labor camp, and after the war.

  17. Isidor Muschel collection

    The collection consists of a fur sewing machine, furrier’s tools, and a set of scale weights relating to the experiences of Isidor Muschel and his wife, Ida, and daughter, Dorit, in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Anschluss, and in the United States before World War II.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Grünfeld/Heimann Family collection

    Oral history interviews with members of the Grünfeld/Heimann family who discuss their escape from Nazi Germany and experiences as refugees in Shanghai, China.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

  20. Schwarz and Rosenwald families collection

    The collection consists of a bank note, a framed poem, correspondence, documents, a photograph album, and video tapes related to the experiences of extended family members of Richard Schwarz and Bertha Rosenwald Schwarz and their emigration from Nazi Germany to the United States, made possible by the financial assistance of Julius Rosenwald.