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  1. Mark Asch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and correspondence relating to the experiences of Mark Asch and his family in Kutno, Poland, and as they escaped to the United States during the Holocaust.

  2. Hanan Kisch collection

    The collection consists of ration coupons relating to the experiences of Hanan Kisch and his family and other inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  3. Karl Schlesinger collection

    The collection consists of a badge and eyeglasses, a photograph, and a postcard relating to the experiences of Karl Schlesinger in several concentration camps in Belgium, France, Germany, and Poland during the Holocaust and after the war in displaced persons camps in Germany. An accretion of post-war documents, certificates, identity card issued to Karl (Carl) Schlesinger. A second accretion of a pair of eyeglasses (broken) carried by Karl Schlesinger during WWII; identification cards and papers, correspondence, certificates, and documents relating to Karl and Eva Schlesinger during the Hol...

  5. Klaus Zwilsky family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Klaus Zwilsky and his family in Berlin, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Kato Ritter in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau concentration camps and Gyorgy Frankfurter in Hungary and forced labor battalions before and during the Holocaust, and of Kato and Gyorgy in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany until their immigration to the United States in 1951.

  7. Ray and Hersch Berman collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs documenting the experiences of Ray Golembiowski and Hersch Berman (donors) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes four published booklets.

  8. Louis de Groot collection

    Original film footage of pre war life in Holland; film shot by Meijer de Groot; documents, photographs and correspondence surrounding the de Groot family during the Holocaust, several of whom perished in Auschwitz. Includes letters from donor's sister Rachel, documents from the Red Cross about the fate of the de Groot family, and Rachel de Groot's homework notebook. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. John M. Steiner collection

    The papers and recordings of Dr. John Michael Steiner which include 1. correspondence, writings, transcripts and recorded interviews, questionnaires, printed material, and collected research materials documenting Steiner’s experiences during the Holocaust and his internment in several Nazi concentration camps, the immediate post-war years, and his career as a sociologist and a scholar who studied the Holocaust and its origins; 2. materials related to his interviews with former Nazis, in particular members of the SS and other Nazi officials, which include audio recordings, correspondence wit...

  10. Manfred Lewinnek collection

    The collection of consists of correspondence, documents, journals, and publications relating to the experiences of Manfred Lewinnek before and during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany as well as his experiences as a member of the United States Army while stationed at Camp Cooke, a prisoner of war camp in California, where he was responsible for the re-education of German POWs.

  11. Lola and Menachem Mozes collection

    THe collection consists of photographs, documents and blankets illustrating the experiences of Lola Rewitz, born in Katowice, Poland and Menachem Mozes, born in Goworowo, Poland. Lola was deported from Bochnia in 1943 with her mother and sent to Plaszow, Auschwitz, marched on foot and then transferred by train to Ravensbrueck then Malhoff. On a death march from Malhoff, they were liberated by Russian soldiers and transferred back to Łódź, Poland. In 1940, Menachem's family was deported to Archangelsk in Russia. They were then free to travel to Kutaisi, Georgia where they remained until 1945...

  12. Bernice, Morris, and Sarah Kirsch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Bronia and Morris Kirsch, and their daughter, Sarah, in a displaced persons camp after the Holocaust.

  13. Alona Frankel family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publication relating to the experiences of Gusta and Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family lived in hiding in the Lvov ghetto, and after the war in Krakow and following their emigration to Israel.

  14. Vera Lechtman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Vera and Marcel Lechtman, Georges Maringer, and Marc Hoffman as rescued children in Switzerland during the Holocaust.

  15. Martin and Sophie Keizer Waterman family collection

    The collection consists of a flashlight, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Meijer and Sophia Frederika Keizer Waterman, their daughter, Roosje, and other family members in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the Westerbork transit camp, and the Vittel internment camp in France before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Shevach Biegeleisen and Emanuel Stein family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the families of Shevach Biegeleisen and Emanuel Stein in Lwow and Krakow, Poland before and during the Holocaust and of Dr. Stein and his family during and after their emigration to the United States.

  17. Aliza Bar collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experience of Aliza Bar, who was a hidden child in Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Eugene Silver collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs associated with the history of the Nazi Party in Germany from approximately 1933-1945.

  19. Jacqueline Mendels Birn collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, baby books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ellen and Frits Mendels, and their children, Franklin, Jacqueline, and Manuela, before and during the Holocaust in France when the family lived in hiding. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Henry and Rose Basch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Henry and Rose Basch as Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, before, during, and after the Holocaust.