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  1. Francis Fife collection

    The collection consists of a bouquet of paper flowers hand made by unknown concentration camp prisoner out of German stationery/forms given to 1st Lt. Francis Fife, a member of the US Army 4th Infantry Division during their liberation of Haunstetten, a sub-camp of Dachau, in late April 1945; Copy prints and images of 1st Lt. Francis Fife during his military service during WWII.

  2. Otto Feuer collection

    THe collection consists of a striped concentration camp uniform jacket and pants, and brown corduroy jacket marked "KLB" with a prisoner number patch, worn by Otto Feuer while a prisoner in multiple concentration camps including Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Buchenwald where he was liberated on April 11, 1945 and a white reading "Jnformation" [sic] originally worn by Otto Feuer on the sleeve of the brown corduroy jacket.

  3. George Salton artwork collection

    The collection consists of artwork photoreproductions created by George Salton documenting his experiences during the Holocaust. The images were produced to illustrate his memoir "The 23rd Psalm."

  4. Eliyahu and Ninette Cohen collection

    Collection of photographs, identity photos, and photo torn from identity card that document Eliyahu Cohen, his wife Ninette (nee Arish), their family and friends in Tunis, Marseille, and Israel primarily after the Holocaust; dated circa 1948-1950s. Cobbler’s last used by Eliyahu Cohen in Tunis, Tunisia when he began as an apprentice shoemaker after liberation.

  5. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, a passport with case, books, an album, a set of tefillin, and tallit relating to the experiences of Ruth Abraham, her parents, Ilse and Horst Abraham, her grandparents, Hedwig and Isidor Brilling, and her aunt, Hildegard Brilling, in Germany and Ecuador before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Bier family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, identification in wallet, papers and photographs illustrating the Bier family who resided in Berlin and family that fled from Nazi Germany. Particularly documented is Siegfried Bier (donor's husband's uncle) who fled to France and then the UK where he was interned as an enemy alien, and eventually then to the US.

  7. Isle of Man collection

    Illustration of one of the detention camps in Douglas., Isle of Man. Stenciled leaf, hand colored. dated in print "Douglas, 1940" at the bottom of the leaf is a handwritten dedication by two brothers whose surname is Gartner - former detainees at the Central Camp in Douglas; in English; dated 1940 Postcard, printed and hand colored for Chanukah, printed at the Mooragh detention camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 1940. On recto is an illustration of an eight branched menorah (not a hanukkiah) surrounded with rays of light, in a light blue frame with Stars of David on the corners and the caption "Lig...

  8. Juan Jorge and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts relating to the experiences of Juan Jorge Schäffer (b. Vienna) and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer (b. Mannheim), both of whom fled Nazi occupation and immgrated to Uruguay. The collection includes photographs of the extended Schäffer family, school documents, restitution papers as well as a clock brought to Uruguay by a German Jewish refugee and a pre-war Viennese dance card.

  9. Tom Schaumberg collection

    Documents, photographs, artifacts and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Ernst Schaumberg born 1906 in Kircheim, Germany, his wife Gertrude “Pollo” Schaumberg, [neé Leda] born 1911 in Oldenburg, Germany and their son, Tom, born 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1943, family was deported to Westerbork transit camp in Netherlands and then in February 1944, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. From there, in April 1945, they were transported towards the east, and, almost two weeks in to the journey, were liberated in Troebitz, Germany. Includes a photograph album.

  10. Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia collection

    Doors and windows from the Monopol tobacco depot in Skopje, Macedonia

  11. Susanne Berglind collection

    Six works of art created by artist Susanne Berglind (donor's mother) illustrating her experiences during the Holocaust. Susanne Zimmerman was born in Miskolic, Hungary and was interned in the ghetto there. Susanne was deported to a series of concentration camps with her sister and mother, including Auschwitz, Plaszow and Bergen Belsen. Her mother died at liberation in Bergen-Belsen. The six works of art, which are watercolor on tissue or pastel on paper, document these experiences. Susanne was taken to Sweden after liberation on June 28, 1945 on the Kastleholm, where she recuperated.

  12. Pollatschek family collection

    The collection consists of a toy bus and correspondence relating to the Pollatschek family in Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  13. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    The collection consists of patches, scrip, stamps, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry and Irene Silberstein Frank and their relatives in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany and the United States after World War II.

  14. Abinew Dubensky Collection

    Material pertaining to the service of the donor's father, Lt. Abinew Dubensky, in the 80th Infantry Division. Includes photographs of concentration camps taken by Lt. Dubensky, as well as photographs acquired from German soldiers showing public humiliation of rabbis by German soldiers in Poland. Documents include a pamphlet entitled, "Pocket Guide to Germany," and a flyer entitled "Retreat on All Fronts." Small leather cases with photos of a dog and a young woman. Postage stamps with Hitler's image.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Weiss family collection

    Oral history interviews with Sofie Doernberg and Gretel Weiss.

  16. Bespaloff family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial objects, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Nisson Bespaloff, his associates, and his extended family in Estonia, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  17. Teaching record set

    Teaching set of six records recorded and produced as part of the revival of Jewish education in Germany after the rise of the Nazi Party. Six records, six transcripts of the talks in Hebrew, six study booklets for each of the records with the talks in phonetic transcription in Latin characters and the meaning in German; index cards for study and repitition. Initiator of the project, Asher Plevner, was impressed by the popular teaching booklet "Ivrit LeOlim" by scholar and author Rabbi Emil Cohen and turned to the owner of a records manufacturing company, Otto Sperlin, who at the time produc...

  18. Hendel and Weissman families collection

    The collection consists of a Girl Scout pin and sash, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Hendel and Weissman families in Yugoslavia before the Holocaust and as refugees in Croatia, Italy, and Fort Ontario, New York during and after the Holocaust.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Avi Dobrysh collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors in Estonia.

  20. Professor David Bloch collection

    Archive of Professor David Bloch, musicologist, founder and director of the Terezin Music Memorial Project, and Israeli institute devoted to the documentation and study of music and music making at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia and at other localities under German occupation during the Second World War.