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  1. Liliane S. Dockett collection

    The collection contains a memoir about Liliane S. Dockett's childhood years in a Paris suburb, the German army's occupation of France, and Liliane S. Dockett's hiding in a village near Beauvais. It also contains a Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center.

  2. Mary Mills oral history collection

    The collection contains oral history interviews from the Mary Mills collection.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Lithuania Documentation Project

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

  4. Tillman Neuner collection

    The collection contains 14 pieces of scrip and a stamp from Theresienstadt.

  5. Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges oral history collection

    Contains fifty-eight soundcassettes of interviews, files for the nineteen institutions that employed refugee scholars, photocopies, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets

  6. Oral histories from the Louis Cavagnaro collection

    Contains eighteen sound cassettes of oral history interviews conducted with liberators and Louis Cavagnaro's notes for his unfinished manuscript about concentration camps

  7. Research Project of Jewish Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps affiliated with the Volkswagen Corporation collection

    Contains eleven interviews regarding slave labor experiences in Nazi concentration camps affiliated with the Volkswagen Corporation

  8. Shmuel Zygielbojm collection

    Newspaper articles about Shmuel Zygielbojm and a reel tape.

  9. Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial in Richmond, Virginia

    Contains photocopies of documents relating to the history of the Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, correspondence, speeches, clippings, invitations, program brochures and booklets containing the names of Holocaust victims, and a video recording of the November 7,1999 Kristallnacht Memorial Service at the Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial.

  10. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

    Contains testimonies written by concentration camp liberators during the 1981 International Liberators Conference held in Washington, D.C., in October 1981. The testimonies describe liberation experiences at various Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe at the end of World War II. Also included are letters from Miles Lerman and Elie Wiesel to the liberators describing the International Liberators Conference. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Alex and Boots Kertesz family collection

    The collection consists of five antisemitic posters published in Nazi Germany.

  13. Isaac Bitton collection

    Consist of materials concerning the situation of Portuguese Jews during and after the Holocaust. Among the topics covered are emigration to Palestine, the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and the Nahariya memorial to Jewish refugees. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Mordecai E. Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of armbands, a card, and drawings by Alfred Glück relating to the experiences of Mordecai E. Schwartz during his wartime service in the United States Army and after the war when he served as Area Director for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) from 1945 to 1948 and then as Area Director for the International Refugee Organization in Germany.

  15. Oral history interviews of the University of California, Los Angeles Holocaust Testimonies Project

    Contains interviews with 59 Holocaust survivors in the Los Angeles, California area recorded by the University of California, Los Angeles Holocaust Testimonies Project in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Christian Rescuers Project

    Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel

  17. Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo oral history collection

    Contains interviews with 96 Holocaust survivors, liberators, resistance fighters, and Righteous Gentiles in the Buffalo, N.Y. area

  19. Oral history interviews of the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies

    Contains interviews with 31 Holocaust survivors in the Dallas, TX area

  20. Jacqueline Pollen collection

    The collection consists of a Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip and a Westerbork transit camp voucher.