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  1. James A. Romberger collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of James A. Romberger, a soldier in the United States Third Army in France and Germany in World War II, during which he participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp.

  2. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    The collection consists of three handkerchiefs, a cloth case, three children's books, Jewish prayer books, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Mondschein and her family in Vienna, Austria, and as a Kindertransport refugee in the Netherlands with her younger brother before the Holocaust, as well as the family's separate journeys to the United States in 1939.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Oral history interviews and research material gathered by Dorit B. Whiteman for her books, The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy and Escape via Siberia: A Jewish Child's Odyssey of Survival.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust now living in Belgrade and the neighboring autonomous region of Vojvodinain in the Former Yugoslavia. Interviews include testimonies from former partisans and individuals who participated in Yugoslav resistance.

  5. Judith Kranzler collection

    The collection consists of a pair of sandals relating to the experiences of Lazar Horodetzky, a member of Mir Yeshiva, in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and copy prints and photographs documenting Jewish life in Vienna, Austria, Kobe, Japan, and Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.

  6. Vera Meisels collection

    The collection consists of a sculpture, The Lost Child, created by Vera Meisels in the postwar period and photographs relating to the experiences of Vera and her family in Presov, Czechoslovakia, and in Theresienstadt concentration camp before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Peretz Chorshati collection

    The collection consists of drawings created by Peretz Chorshati in the 1990s about his experiences as a soldier, forced laborer, and refugee in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Poland during the Holocaust, and his voyage to and detention in Palestine after the Holocaust.

  8. Edward Henry collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs relating to the experiences of Edward Henry, a chaplain in the United States Army during World War II in England and France, where his unit participated in the liberation of Paris.

  9. Steven Fenves collection

    The collection consists of a booklet, medallion, and photograph commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps on April 11, 2010, received by Steven Fenves, who was a child inmate at Buchenwald when it was liberated in April 1945.

  10. David C. Porter collection

    The collection consists of patches, pins, dog tags, a medal, boxes, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David C. Porter in the United States Army in Germany during World War II and after the war as a guard during the International Military Tribunal proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany.

  11. Peter R. Black research collection

    Consists of correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, memoir materials, and other research materials gathered by Peter R. Black in preparation for his 1981 Columbia University PhD dissertation, "Ideological Commitment and Personal Politics in the Third Reich: The Case of Ernst Kaltenbrunner." Also includes a bound copy of unpublished research papers written by Black in the early 1970s, including "The SS in Perspective" (a history and historiography of the SS), on "The Resistance that Never Was" (a study of the failure of any anti-Allied Nazi resistance movement), and the project proposa...

  12. Boris Schachnes family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Schachnes family in Berlin until 1938, in Warsaw between December 1938 and December 1939, Istanbul, Turkey and Palestine since March 1941. Three audio tapes: interview with Boris Uri Schachnes. Erna and Abram Schachnes joined their children Boris and Wladimir in Palestine c. 1942. Wladimir and Boris fought in the War of Independence in the Givati Brigade; Wladimir Zeev Schachnes was killed in action on May 13, 1948.

  13. Jewish Community of Thessaloniki collection

    The collection consists of two tombstone fragments from the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was destroyed in December 1942 during the German occupation.

  14. Baer family collection

    The collection consists of two gripper pliers, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a manuscript relating to the experiences of Berthold Baer, his family, and extended family in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Henri Engel collection

    The collection consists of posthumous award certificates and medals relating to the experiences of Henri Engel as a German Jewish resistance fighter in Lyon, France during World War II.

  16. Jamila Kolonomos collection

    The collection consists of medals, medallions, bar pins, cases, certificates, an oral history, documents, photographs and CDs with songs in Ladino relating to the experiences of Jamila Kolonomos and her family in Bitola, Yugoslavia before and during the Holocaust, her time as a partisan fighter, and of Jamila and her husband in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of eleven drawings created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) during and after the Holocaust as her eyewitness testimony of people and scenes she saw and experienced in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps.

  18. Anti-Hitler posters and Palestine recruitment pamphlet collection

    The collection consists of one anti-Hitler broadside, one pamphlet issued in Palestine by the World Union, Zion Workers, and one anti-Nazi movie poster, produced before and during World War II.

  19. Rappel family collection

    The collection includes documents, photographs and correspondence concerning Ingrid Rappel (donor's mother) and her parents Hersz and Recha Rappel in Germany and Ferramonti, Italy during and after WWII. It also includes a luggage tag. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Benesch and Herman families collection

    The collection consists of documents, scrip, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Franz Herman in Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia. Included is a postwar letter from Quito, Ecuador, four sets of Theresienstadt scrip (incomplete), certificates, and receipt issued by the Aeltestenrat der Juden [Jewish Council] in Prague, and a letter from 1943 with multiple authors. Booklet containing copies of Benesch family tree (donor's mother)