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  2. Eugene Lorant collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and two prayer books relating to the experiences of Eugene Lorant and his emigration to the United States after the Holocaust.

  3. Andries Roos family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a tallit and pouch, and a book relating to the experiences of Andries Roos, and his son Leo Roos, before and during the Holocaust in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during which Andries was executed for his resistance activity and Leo and other family members lived in hiding.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Belarusian Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Belarusian Witnesses Documentation Project

  5. Testimony oral history collection

    Contains oral histories interviews with 32 Holocaust survivors from the United States

  6. Jasenovac oral history project

    Oral history interviews with ten Jasenovac concentration camp survivors recorded as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jasenovac oral history project.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto collection

    Contains oral history interviews with sixteen Holocaust survivors recorded in preparation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, "Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto," which opened in Nov. 1997. Collection includes interviews with: Brigitte Altman, Miriam Gershwin, Eta Hecht, Henry Kellen, Tamar Lazerson, David Levine, Jacob Lewin, Esther Lurie, Ted Pais, Avraham Pnina, Abraham Rodstein, Ivar Segalowitz, Avraham Tory, Helen Yermus, Celia Yewlow, and Berel Zisman. The interviewees discuss their experiences of living in the ghetto in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, during the...

  8. American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history collection

    Contains oral history interviews with 157 Holocaust survivors recorded during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Washington, D.C., in Apr. 1983. The interviews contain information about persecution, life in the ghettos and concentration camps, and concentration camp liberation during World War II.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

    Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors and liberators in the greater Chicago, IL area

  10. Bozenna M. Urbanowicz-Gilbride oral history collection

    Contains interviews with 16 Polish Holocaust survivors, witnesses, rescuers, and liberators living in Poland

  12. Oral history interviews of the Slovak Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Slovak Witnesses Documentation Project.

  13. Laurie Zell collection

    The collection consists of two phonograph record sets featuring works created by American artists to protest the actions of Adolf Hitler and the threat of Nazi Germany.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Czech Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Czech Witnesses Documentation Project

  15. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 where he and his family were held after the ship on which they sailed from Romania to Palestine was captured by the British Navy.

  16. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal, some relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 and others on biblical themes or Jewish culture and his life in Israel.

  17. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket, a pin, a pouch, a towel, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Franka Rosenblum and Julian Hirshfeld and their families in Poland and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and in a displaced persons camp in Paris, France, where they married after the end of World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation project recorded by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 383 interviews in the collection date from 1991 to 2000 with two new additions in 2011, and as an ongoing project, additional interviews will be added. The interviews are recorded in a variety of languages including Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.

  19. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    The collection consists of German military uniform clothing and accessories: dress jacket, four hats, helmet, two canteens, belt, and nine shoulder boards relating to the experiences of Bernard B. Cohen, as a soldier in the United States Third Army, European Theater of Operations, during World War II.

  20. Michael C. Lanham collection

    The collection consists of two rings related to membership in the Nazi Party and the German military.