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  1. Oral history interviews of the Marcia Horn collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, veterans, a rescuer, a witness, and the child of a Holocaust survivor produced by Dr. Marcia Horn.

  2. David Diamant collection

    The David Diamant collection includes papers documenting members of the French Resistance, a poster, and a printing press.

  3. Baer family collection

    The collection consists of two multi-volume sets of Jewish prayer books and a photograph relating to the experiences of Lore Baer, her parents Hellmuth and Hedwig, and her brother Max in Germany, France, Shanghai, Britain, and Australia before and during the Holocaust.

  4. US Anti-Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of three postcards, two posters, a flier, and a pamphlet produced in America, protesting the Nazi regime in Germany.

  5. Imre Amos collection

    The collection consists of a set of prints of linocuts, Zsido Unnepek [Jewish Holidays] created by Imre Amos, a Hungarian Jewish artist, and published during the Holocaust during which he perished in Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany.

  6. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    The collection consists of an Israeli flag, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Paul Taylor as part of his duties as an aide to the mayor of New York City, charged with arrangements for visiting dignitaries in the 1950s.

  7. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a coat, vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David and Lisa Eizenberg before and after the war in Germany when David worked with the Joint Distribution Committee and HIAS assisting displaced persons in Germany and Palestine.

  8. Albert Hutler collection

    These materials concern Albert A. Hutler and his experiences as a soldier in the United States Army during and after World War II. Most materials concern his work with displaced persons after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Segen family collection

    The Segen family collection consist of biographical materials, resettlement and immigration papers, restitution papers, correspondence, photographs, childrens clothing and artifacts documenting the experiences of Berta and Moses Segen in the Borszczów and Radom, Poland ghettos; their time in resettlement camps in Germany; and their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  10. Pressel family collection

    Consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Joseph and Miriam Pressel, who, with son Philip, were originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in 1939 and survived the war in Marseille, Lyon, and Paris. Includes wartime letters from the Pressels to Eli Schwerner, an uncle of Miriam in New York, requesting help to escape. Also includes similar wartime letters to Susi Pantzer, niece of Joseph Pressel, who lived in London, as well as letters to and from other family members....

  11. Antiques USA collection

    The collection consists of three issues of Life magazine, dated November 21, 1938; September 18, 1939; and September 25, 1939.

  13. Douglas Smith collection

    The collection consists of unrelated records containing correspondence, documents, photograph albums, and a copy of a book relating to the pre-war, wartime, and postwar Jewish life.

  14. Stanley Apfelbaum collection

    Collection of 45 items: documents, coins, scrip purchased by collector and donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  15. International Red Cross labels

    Collection of labels printed and used by the Red Cross during the Holocaust.

  16. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute lantern slide collection

    The collection of lantern slides and boxes is from the holdings of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. This Institute for anthropology and genetics was one of many centers used for the study of eugenics during the Third Reich. Aside from ordering sterilization and other eugenic "procedures," medical experiments originating in euthenasia killing centers and concentration camps were also evaluated at the Institute. Such names as Von Verschuer, Fischer, and Mengele are associated with the Institute. The slides contained in the boxes were probably used for teaching purposes. The slid...

  17. Polish Government presentation set collection

    The collection consists of a presentation case and two spoons recovered after the war near Belzec killing center in Poland.

  18. United We Win poster collection

    The collection consists of two United We Win posters produced by the United States during World War II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front.

  19. Paul Beller family collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, documents, copy prints, and lesson books relating to the experiences of Leo and Mina Beller and their son Paul before and during World War II in Vienna, and their separate journeys to the United States during and after the war.

  20. Henry F. Kahn collection

    The collection consists of an MS St Louis demitasse spoon, envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials collected between approximately 1945 and 1985 by Henry F. Kahn, who fled Nazi Germany in January 1939 for the United States.