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  1. Juanita Carmi collection

    Photographs of the exended family of Juanita Carmi (nee Chmielnicki), including pre-World War II photos from Poland, post-war photographs of her step-father, Markus Kavior, and the latter's naturalization (United States) certificate. Also include is material related to a historical research project conducted by Carmi in the 1992, for a university class, in which she interviewed four Holocaust survivors about their experiences as displaced persons in the immediate aftermath of World War II. This material includes four audiocassette recordings of the interviews, a typed list of questions, and...

  2. Levai and Balint families collection

    The collection consist of two hats, a muff, and a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Ilona Lévai and a tea kettle, sugar jar, fork, spoon, and coal iron used by the Bálint family during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary.

  3. Dr. Emanuel Tanay collection

    Papers of Dr. Emanuel Tanay, consisting of photographs, documents, correspondence, audiovisual media, and patient case files, among other materials. Much of the material relates to the history of Dr. Tanay's family in pre-Holocaust Europe, as well as his own experiences as a Holocaust survivor in displaced persons camps following World War II. Also includes case files of patients, chiefly Holocaust survivors, whom he examined in support of their Holocaust-era restitution claims, and in relation to his own research as a psychiatrist on the effects of post-traumatic stress on Holocaust surviv...

  4. Mann family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, correspondence, documents, memoir material, photographs, and photographic negatives, and artwork relating to the experiences of Dr. Ignacy (Igor) and Erika Schoenbaum Mann and their family before, during, and after World War II, in Istanbul, Palestine, Rhodesia, and Kenya.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Carole Ann Fer collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors of the Holocaust.

  6. Jakob and Fania Heifetz family collection

    Documents, photographs, correspondence, and oral testimonies illustrating the experiences of Jakob Chajfec born in Lachwa, Poland and Fania Luczki born in Pohost Zagorodskiy.

  7. Neu family collection

    Deutsches Reich Reisepass, passport, issued to German Jewish man, Erich Neu, Born May 8, 1912 in Strasbourg, France, first page, inside cover, stamped with red letter "J" which is dated October 14, 1938, passport dated September 5, 1938, Offenburg, Germany, in German, issued French transit visa in Karlsruhe, Germany and United States immigration visa in Stuttgart, Germany on January 12, 1939. The collection also contains correspondence illustrating the experiences of Clementine and Emil Neu, living in Offenburg, Germany and their children Erwin, Alice and Erich. Alice and Erich immigrated t...

  8. Samuel and Lazar Krum collection

    The collection consists of five limited edition prints from the series "Holocaust" created by Lazar Krum in 1967-1968 and correspondence relating to the experiences of his father Samuel Krum in France, dated mid 1940s-early 1950s.

  9. Bertha and Isak Melchior family collection

    The collection consists of a brooch, document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isak and Bertha Melchior in Vienna, Austria, and their sons Norbert and Hugo who were sent for safety to Great Britain, by their parents, who did not survive.

  10. Donald Hershey collection

    The collection consists of an SS patch, correspondence, documents, and motion picture critiques of his photography relating to the experiences Donald Hershey as a Signal Corps photographer who witnessed the liberation of Dachau concentration camp during World War II.

  11. Joseph Goetz collection

    The collection consist of two wallets, documents, writings, photographs, ephemera, and photographic postcards relating to the experiences of Joseph Goetz, a Holocaust survivor, and his experiences as a displaced person in Italy following World War II.

  12. War propaganda posters and ephemera collection

    The collection consists of two posters and a full page advertisement produced in the United States during World War II.

  13. Joseph W. Eaton collection

    The collection consists of a Jewish Police armband, a Theresienstadt scrapbook, correspondence, documents, leaflets, photograph albums, discs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph W. Eaton, a German prewar émigré who served as an American soldier in the Psychological Operations Division during World War II.

  14. Michel Shadur family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Michel Schadur and his family as they escaped from Nazi Germany to Belgium, then to France, Spain, Portugal, and finally the United States during the Holocaust.

  15. Alfred Fabian collection

    The collection consists of two prisoner patches, a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Fabian during the Holocaust in Germany and Czechoslovakia and after the Holocaust in Germany.

  16. Joseph and Rosalie Holler Collection

    Contains two German children's books titled, "Die Fahrt ins Gluck" by A. Gaber and Alpentragodie written by Richard Voss, one children's game, one autograph book (Poesie), and one cardboard construction with children's theatre pasted inside along with family. Also contains papers including biographical materials, correspondence, reparation files, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Hollers' lives in Stettin, Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939.

  17. Harold Fishbein collection

    The collection consists of a Torah-style scroll, correspondence, a manuscript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Harold Fishbein, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's (UNNRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, after the war.

  19. Louis Ranciato collection

    The collection consists of a portrait painting by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), clippings, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Louis Ranciato, Staff Sergeant in the United States Army and a liberator of Dachau concentration camp in Germany during World War II.

  20. Irving Newman collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner's badge, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Irving Newman before and during the Holocaust when he was deported from Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, to Stutthof and Buchenwald concentration camps and after the war when he and his family lived in displaced persons camps in West Germany.