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  1. Anna Levendel family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Gizela Levendel and their children, Anna, Lea, and Zvi who lived in hiding in German occupied Belgium during the Holocaust.

  2. Bertha Loret de Mola family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts associated with the 1939 voyage of the MS St Louis acquired by Bertha Loret de Mola from her parents, Luis Loret de Mola and his wife, Maria Luisa Bettencourt, in Havana, Cuba.

  3. Daisy Brand collection

    The collection consists of prewar photographs and postwar sculptures created by Daisy Schweiger Brand relating to her experiences of life of pre and postwar Czechoslovakia and in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaiserwald, Dondagen II, Libau, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  4. Oral history interviews of the "Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans" documentary film collection

    Collection consists of video recordings and supporting documents related to interviews with Jewish underground fighters who fought in the forests of Poland, Lithuania, and Belorussia between 1941 and 1945, gathered for the film "Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans." Supporting documentation includes interview lists, newspaper articles, research and production notes, shooting logs, correspondence, resistance fighter files, photos of film crew and interviewees, copies of PBS honors, project proposals, and program descriptions.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Netherlands Documentation Project

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

  6. Charles Byron Smith, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of a banner and a cigarete album relating to the experiences of Charles Byron Smith, Jr. when he served in the United States Army, European Theatrer, during World War II.

  7. Max Wachtel and Herbert Wolf family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Wachtel and his family and Herbert Wolf and his family in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust, as well as items related to Hans Wachtel and his service in the United States Army during World War II.

  8. Debra Hiett collection

    The collection consists of three filmstrips produced by the Reich Propaganda Office of the government of Nazi Germany during World War II.

  9. Oral history interviews of the Sophie Caplan collection

    Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Australia before and after the war. Collection includes supporting documentation about interviewees and outlines of each testimony, as well as supporting personal documents such as letters, newspaper clippings, and memoirs.

  10. Yahad-in Unum oral history collection

    Oral history interviews conducted in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus by Yahad-in Unum.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Eyewitness Project collection

    Oral history interviews produced by the Holocaust Eyewitness Project.

  12. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, a duvet cover, a glass slide projector, glass slides, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ephraim Robinson and his family as refugees during the Holocaust, as residents of Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, and as immigrants to the United States in the postwar period.

  13. Doriane Kurz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Doriane Kurz following her liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and her postwar life in Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and during her journey to the United States.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Sy Rotter collection, RG-50.596

    Oral history interviews, edited films, B-roll footage and interview outtakes, and supporting documentation produced for educational television documentaries by Sy Rotter, founder of the Foundation for Moral Courage. Films include: The Other Side of Faith (1990); Zegota: A Time to Remember (1992); Rescue in Scandinavia (1994); A Time to Gather Stones Together (1994); A Debt to Honor (1995); One Day in the Life of Oni (1996); It Was Nothing...It Was Everything (1997); Zegota: Council for Aid to Jews in Occupied Poland (1996); Treason or Honor: German Rescuers of the Holocaust (1998); Making C...

  15. Emily Heyser collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative medal and a book relating to the history of Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  16. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of 147 drawings, 47 oil paintings, and 135 mixed material pieces of artwork created by Halina Olomucki based upon her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner and death march survivor of Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  17. Raoul Cohen-Addad collection

    The collection consists of a military cap, epaulets, an armband, a rubber stamp, a hammer head, and correspondence, documents, and a copy print relating to the experiences of Raoul Cohen-Addad in Algiers during World War II.

  18. Wanda Stoops Collection

    Collection of artwork including 11 framed pictures (etchings and lithographs), 2 unframed etchings, and one portfolio of 10 prints.

  19. Life magazine collection

    Three issues of Life Magazine with articles about the film "March of Time," the destruction of the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw, and antisemitic propaganda; issues dated January 31, 1938, March 29, 1938, and May 13, 1940.

  20. Margaret Murphy collection

    The collection consists of labels, a Red Cross patch, and an SS armband and patch, notebooks, and a pass relating to the experiences of Margaret Murphy as a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, during and after World War II, including service at the liberated Dachau concentration camp.