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  1. Oral history interviews of the Greece Documentation Project

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

  2. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees.

  3. Izak and Marthe Weber collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and an oral history illustrating the experiences, primarily of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents surrounding Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris, his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942 near Paris from which he escaped, marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte, as well as documentation to practice medicine in Argentina after the war and correspondence from fami...

  4. Oral history interviews of the Latvia Documentation Project

    Contains testimonies of individuals in Latvia whom were not direct victims of the Holocaust, including perpetrators, witnesses, and collaborators.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Moldova Documentation Project

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

  6. Oral history interviews of the Romania Documentation Project

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

  7. Oral history interviews of the Ukrainian Witnesses Documentation Project

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

  8. Oral history interviews of the Harrisburg Jewish Community Oral History Project

    Oral testimonies, presentations, Holocaust observances, and WWII commemorations from the Harrisburg, PA Jewish Community Oral History Project.

  9. Mandel family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Yehuda and Ella Mandel and their son Emanuel [Manny]. Collection documents their lives in Riga, Latvia where Manny was born in 1936, and their move to Hungary, where Yehuda was Chief Cantor of the Rombach Street Synagoge in Budapest until 1944, their flight from Budapest on a transport of 1600 Jewish Hungarians [arranged by Rudolph Kastner and the Aid and Rescue Committee] to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and general materials illustrating Yehuda's post-war Cantorial career in the United Stat...

  10. Arthur J. Mainzer collection

    War diary of U.S. Air Force combat cameraman Arthur Manizer (about 40 pages) and one 16mm original kodachrome film documenting Arthur Manzer's wedding to Germaine Giradot on June 30, 1945 in a suburb of Paris, France (Montreuil Sous Bois).

  11. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The collection consists of a doll, luggage tags, artifacts, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther Rosenfeld who was sent by her parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain in June 1939.

  12. Seth Goldberg collection

    The collection consists of a program for a Nazi propaganda film and three periodicals relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  13. Bruno Einstein family collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Einstein and their son Dieter when they fled Germany for the United States in 1939.

  14. Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, documents, oral testimonies, and photographs relating to the experiences of Beate Ada Oppenheimer in Lauenforde, Germany, and the United States and Ernest Oppenheimer in Mannheim, Germany, and the United States and of members of their extended families who escaped Germany or were imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  15. David Steiner family collection

    The collection consists of two prewar photographs and a 1948-1949 Hebrew calendar book relating to the experiences of David Steiner and his family in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia), where he survived in hiding during the Holocaust.

  16. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    The collection consists of audio recordings, artifacts, documents, and photographs collected by Dr. Dorit Whiteman for her work as an author and clinical psychologist researching and writing books about the Holocaust.

  17. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of two Russian ruble coins and a HIAS pin relating to the experiences of Shanke (Sonia) Minuskin, her husband Shlamke, and their two children, Henikel and Kalmanke, while living in hiding in Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus during the Holocaust and in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  18. Fred and Kay Zeidman collection

    The collection consists of King Christian X commemorative pins produced in Denmark and worn as symbols of patriotism during the occupation by Nazi Germany from 1940-1945.

  19. Hannah Messinger collection

    The collection consists of a series of drawings done around 1970 by Hannah Messinger based upon her experiences as a prisoner in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Sackisch concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Czechoslovakia immediately after the end of the war.

  20. Helena and Lewis Victor Koves collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Helena Fuchs in Vienna, Austria, and London, England, and of Victor Koves in London during the Holocaust.