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  1. Gene Selig family collection

    The collection consists of a Haggadah, a certificate, and photographs relating to the experiences of Siegfried and Hildegard Selig and their ten year old son Gert (Gene) during the Holocaust when they fled Frankfurt, Germany, and traveled on the trans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.

  2. Janie Frank collection

    The collection consists of a complete set of 52 issues of Der Stuermer newspapers published in 1927.

  3. Lenczycki family collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Simon Lenczycki, his wife Sara Glatter Lenczycki and their son Henryk [donor] in the displaced persons camps in Feldafing and Fuerth, Germany: included are drivers licenses and identity cards for Fuerth, and an identity card issued to Simon who was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landshut and Muhldorf concentration camps. Documents illustrating the immediate post-war experiences of Mania Fiedler, Sara’s sister: included are a "civilian internee” identity card issued in post-liberation Mauthausen concentration camp as...

  4. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers: "Das Schwarze Korps" published by the SS in Berlin, Germany, dated December 8, 1938 and December 15, 1938.

  5. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    The collection consists of a metal shard, military patches, and a wallet, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fanny Dominitz in Germany and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and of Leo Englard in Palestine and the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II.

  6. Otto Schick collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Otto Schick and his family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and the experiences of Otto Schick in the United States following his emigration in 1940.

  7. Bernard M. Fishman collection

    The collection consists of a table knife and filmstrips relating to the experiences of Bernard Fishman while serving as a member of the United States Army stationed in Ulm, Germany, in the immediate postwar period.

  8. Chester C. Boone collection

    The collection consists of two welding torches and associated parts related to the experiences of Chester C. "Jack” Boone of the United States Army at the Dora Mittelbau V2 rocket factory during and after World War II.

  9. Diane Keeley collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and published materials relating to the experience of Diane Keeley in Germanywith the US occupation forces after World War II.

  10. Bernard Kupferman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a POW tag, a pince-nez, and a ribbon bar, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Bernard Kupferman during and after World War II as a soldier in the United States Army including when he was held as a prisoner of war of Germany.

  11. Marta Hafner collection

    The collection consists of clippings, documents, photographs, and a medallion relating to the experiences of Marta Hafner in Romania during the Holocaust during which she was deported to Transnistria and during the postwar period when she worked for the United States Army. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Malka Weinapple collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and a photograph relating to the experiences of Malka Weinapple in France and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  13. Walter Spitzer collection

    The collection consists of 9 intaglio etched prints created by Walter Spitzer based upon his experiences during the Holocaust as an inmate in Blechhammer and Buchenwald concentration camps.

  14. Hans Reinhardt collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Rosenberg (Reinhardt) and his family in Germany and the United States before the Holocaust.

  15. Daniel T. O'Connell collection

    The collection consists of a judicial robe and a photograph relating to the experiences of Justice Daniel Theodore O'Connell who was a presiding judge at the Race and Resettlement Office (RuSHA) main trial in Nuremberg, Germany, from October 20, 1947, to February 17, 1948.

  16. Susan Gitlin collection

    The collection consists of filmstrips and a selection of manuals produced by the Hitler Youth Leadership to instruct and indoctrinate Hitler Youth members in the ideology of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

  17. Steven W. Simon collection

    This collection consists of artifacts, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Steven Simon and his family in France when they lived in hiding during the Holocaust and after the war when they returned to Paris and then emigrated to the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The collection consists of 5 finger rings recovered by Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum near a mass grave site for Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Bus'k, Ukraine.

  19. Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs relating to the experiences of Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld in the Vilna ghtto and Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. United States Army patch and booklet collection

    The collection consists of four patches: two war photographer, one 12th Army Group, and one 4th Cavalry Group, and three booklets relating to the history of units of the United States Army active during World War II.