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  1. John Fink collection

    The collection consists of a needlepoint wall hanging and a photographic postcard relating to the experiences of John Fink after the Holocaust when he was an AJDC aid worker in the Blankensee Children's Home and the Warburg Institute in Hamburg, Germany.

  2. Regina Wolbrom collection

    Collection of 5 documents, 67 photographs, 2 Poesie books, 1 siddurim, and 1 atlas relating to the Rotenberg and Wolbrom families and their experiences during the time period of the Holocaust

  3. Ephraim M. Robinson family collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk and photographs relating to the experiences of Ephraim M. Robinson and his family in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  4. Susan Hilsenrath Warsinger collection

    The collection consists of a HIAS identification tag and seven photographs relating to the experiences of Susi Hilsenrath and her family in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, before the Holocaust and to Susi Hilsenrath's emigration from France to the United States in 1941.

  5. Izy Freudenreich collection

    The collection consists of a cigarette holder and a necklace with a commemorative pendant and mezuzah relating to the experiences of Izy Freudenreich after his release from Kaufering VII slave labor camp in Landsberg, Germany, when he lived in Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany.

  6. Reichman and Weiss families collection

    Collection of documents, photographs and a religious medal relating to the Reichman and Weiss families experiences during the Holocaust. The silver religious medal shows Our Lady of Czestochowa and was worn by Sophie Richman (now Sophie Orfanos) [donor] while in hiding

  7. Michael Gorenstein family collection

    The collection consists of a drawing, a photograph, and a letter relating to the experiences of Dady Gorenstein and his parents, Moritz and Laura Gorenstein, during the Holocaust when Dady died in the Mogilev-Podolski ghetto, and after the Holocaust in Transnistria.

  8. Jack Ratz collection

    The collection consists of a HIAS pin, a ring made from a ring, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Isaak Racs during the Holocaust in Riga, Latvia, and Lenta, Stutthof, Burggraben, and Goddentow concentration camps, and after the Holocaust in Landsberg, Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower, and a wooden cover, metal box, toolbox, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszow ghetto and imprisoned Plaszow forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenburg concentration camp, after the war in a displaced persons camp, and a metal box, wooden cover, and poesie album relating to the experiences of Doba Drezner in an orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland. An accretion of documents, photographs, correspondence...

  10. Ruth Loewenstein collection

    Doll: handmade by Annie Loewenstein (donor's mother) in Munich, Germany. The Loewenstein family: Willy (donor's father) [b. 1894], Annie [b. 1904], Ruth (donor) [b. 1929], and Marianne (donor's sister) [b. 1932], were able to leave Germany in August 1939 for England. Ruth and Marianne were wearing thin gold bracelets on their wrists and each carried a doll. The German guard at the Dutch border tore off the bracelets, but did not pay any attention to the dolls. Upon arrival in New York on September 10, 1940, Annie took the heads off the dolls, in which she had hidden valuables. She sold the ...

  11. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Post-Holocaust oral history collection

    This is a supplemental interviewing project to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history project, RG-50.030, containing interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, war crimes prosecutors, and other witnesses to the events of the Holocaust. The focus of this collection, RG-50.549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre (Melbourne, Vic.)

    Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the Melbourne, Victoria, Australia area.

  13. Faces of the Holocaust oral history collection

    Contains oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, a child of Holocaust survivors and a German exchange student from the Dayton, Ohio, area

  14. Oral history interviews of the Flight and Rescue collection

    Contains oral history interviews with twenty Holocaust survivors and witnesses recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, "Flight and Rescue," which opened May 3, 2000. The interviewees discuss their experiences of their journey from Lithuania to Shanghai, China, via Japan

  15. Samuel Zisman collection

    The collection consists of an UNRRA patch, a leather notebook case, and archival papers including biographical materials, team records, drawings and maps, memoranda and reports, personal correspondence, photographs, and printed materials, relating to the experiences of Samuel Zisman as a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director of District 5 in Bavaria from 1945-1947.

  16. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains records captured by the Red Army around the end of World War II currently housed at the Russian State Military Archive, formerly the Osobyi archives. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections (CPHDC) and in 1999 The Russian Archives Committee merged the CPHDC into the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA) located next door. The RGVA contains prewar Soviet military documents. While the Osobyi is now a part of RGVA, the old Osobyi fond numbers for the various collections remain unchanged. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the...

  17. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.

  18. South Carolina Council on the Holocaust oral history collection

    Contains interviews with 39 Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators from S.C.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project recorded by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 26 interviews in this collection date from 1994 to1995.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, and other eyewitnesses, recorded by the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project throughout the 1980s and 1990s in the San Francisco, CA area