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  1. Jacob Barosin collection

    The collection consists of artwork, a Star of David badge, documents, and photographic materials relating to the experiences of Jacob Barosin during and after World War II when he was a prisoner in Gurs internment camp and Langlade forced labor camp and lived in hiding in Paris, France.

  2. Hugo Jaeger collection

    The collection consists of camera equipment, glass slides, and documents relating to the experiences of Hugo Jaeger, who was a personal photographer for Adolf Hitler during World War II.

  3. Mevrouw Moulijn family collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Eleazer Eijl and Mevrouw Moulijn and her family in the Netherlands before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  4. Menia Awret-Back collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a medal, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Menia Awret-Back as a pediatric nurse for several charitable organizations in Poland and Belgium before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  5. Louise Lawrence-Israel's family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and books relating to the experiences of donor's family in Haarlem and Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and during the Holocaust, including two years spent living in hiding.

  6. Sophia Appel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents related to the experiences of Sophia Jungheim Appel and her family in Germany before the Holocaust and during her immigration to the United States in 1938.

  7. Alfred J. Kahn collection

    The collection consists of a letter and a DVD interview with Luba Paltseva.

  8. William A. Nelson collection

    The collection consists of German election posters relating to the experiences of William A. Nelson as a young American tourist in Germany in 1934.

  9. Alice and Paul Paulus collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, oral histories, and photographs relating to the experiences of Aaltje (Alice) and Paul Paulus and Michel and Saartje (Selly) Nathans, who lived in hiding in the Paulus’ home, in Ermelo, Netherlands, during and after the Holocaust.

  10. Anthony Acevedo collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a palm leaf cross, a prayer missal, a diary, a document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anthony Acevedo while serving as a medic in the United States Army, Company B, 275th regiment, 70th Infantry Division, and as a prisoner of war (POW) in Berga an der Elster slave labor camp in Germany during World War II.

  11. Eve and Richard Przemyski collection

    The collection consists of an armband, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ewa Lada (Eve Przemyski) in Poland and prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war camp in Germany during the Holocaust and England and the US after the Holocaust, and of Maria Lada and friends in Poland before and after the Holocaust.

  12. Gabriella Mueller Fogel collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, a tablecoth, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Irena and Ignác Mueller and their children, Erich, Gabriella, and Tibor, in Czechoslovakia before and after the Holocaust during which Irena, Gabriella, and Tibor were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp, Ignác in Buchenwald concentration camp, and Erich was a slave laborer.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Łódź Ghetto collection

    Interviews conducted for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Łódź Ghetto" exhibition.

  14. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Irena Ehrlich vel Sluszny (now Urdang de Tour) and her family in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria, after the Holocaust.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Belarus Documentation Project

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

  16. Oral history interviews of the Corfu, Greece Documentation Project

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

  17. Oral history interviews of the Czech Roma Documentation Project

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

  18. Oral history interviews of the Estonia Documentation Project

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

  19. Gerry van Heel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Gerry and Molly van Heel, Dutch resistance members who hid two young sisters, Elise and Judith Kann, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

  20. Friedrich Kauf collection

    The collection consists of three Nazi propaganda posters or leaflets relating to laws of the Hitler Jugend and to appropriate behavior of youth while in public.