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  1. Boris Taslitzky collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Boris Taslitzky in Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors collection

    Oral history interviews with Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Gerald Schneiderman collection

    Oral history interviews with Poles who later in life discovered they have Jewish roots.

  4. Theresa Flaherty collection

    Consists of one musical score for piano, entitled "Chopin-Auswahl: dreissig Klaviercompositionen von Friedrich Chopin fur den Unterricht progressiv geordnet und herausgegeben von Karl Zuschneid" published in 1930 in Berlin and containing markings designating it as part of the holdings of the prisoner library in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Also includes one identity card for Sylvia Apfelbojm as a forced laborer in Drohobycz in 1944, including a photograph. The work pass identifies her hometown as Boryslaw and her occupation as pianist.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Dessayer family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Dessayer Family collection.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project

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

  7. Oral history interviews of the Herb Krosney collection

    Oral history interviews produced for use in the film Kovno Ghetto: A Buried History.

  8. Lori Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a pillowcase and a photograph relating to the experiences of Lori Kohn in Bucharest, Romania, during the Holocaust.

  9. Gerald Schwab collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Gerald Schwab

  10. Tom Hardisty collection

    The collection consists of a poster, correspondence, and documents relating to the activities and administration of the Nazi Party in Germany and photocopied correspondence from Hermann Göring and Hans Frank while on trial for War Crimes at Nuremberg after World War II.

  11. Abraham Rijksman collection

    The collection consists of five drawings relating to the experiences of Abraham Rijksman while living in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  12. Marion Kaufman Cassirer family collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase and key, audio tapes, documents, newspaper clippings, and prayer book relating to the experiences of Marion Kaufmann and her mother Lina in the Netherlands and the United States after the Holocaust, during which they fled Germany and lived in hiding separately in the Netherlands. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Bosnia

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Bosnia.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Serbia

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Serbia.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Croatia

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Croatia.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Slovenia

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Slovenia.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Skopje, Macedonia Project

    Oral histories from Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters whom now reside in Skopje, Macedonia

  18. Oral history interviews of the Greece Documentation Project

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

  19. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees.

  20. Izak and Marthe Weber collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and an oral history illustrating the experiences, primarily of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents surrounding Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris, his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942 near Paris from which he escaped, marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte, as well as documentation to practice medicine in Argentina after the war and correspondence from fami...