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  1. Hans Posner collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Hans Posner. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Bluma Fischer collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the family of Bluma Fischer. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Simon Schweitzer collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Simon Schweitzer during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Arnold Kronfeld collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Herbert E. Kronfeld, Arnold Kronfeld's father. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Gaston Crouzet collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Gaston Crouzet. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Gantman family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Gantman family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Fränkel family collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of the extended Fränkel family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Franz and Lili Reisz family collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Franz and Lili Reisz. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Melvin Goldfarb collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Melvin Goldfarb and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Ernst Reiter collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Ernst Reiter during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Shkolnik family collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Shkolnik family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Chayele Rosenthal sound recordings

    Sound recordings relating to the musical career of Chayele Rosenthal, a Yiddish singer and actress who performed in the Vilna ghetto.

  13. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    Songs included in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's web exhibition, "Music of the Holocaust" https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/music/. Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe. While popular songs dating from before the war remained attractive as escapist fare, the ghetto, camp, and partisan settings also gave rise to a repertoire of new works. These included topical songs inspired by the latest gossip and news, and songs of personal expression that often concerned the loss of family and home. Classical music—instrument...

  14. Steve S. Goldberg collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the family of Steve S. Goldberg. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Kormes family collection

    The collection consists of immigration papers and other documents, as well as a child's red dress, an Israeli flag, and a prewar German prayer book documenting the donor's parents' and sister’s experiences in prewar Germany, surviving the Patria bombing, their detainment in Atlit (or Athlit) clearance camp, living in Tel Aviv, and their immigration to the US in 1946.

  16. Anna Pastor Winkler collection

    Contains material donated by Anna Pastor Winkler, documenting her family's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Hennie and Max Sauer collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Hennie and Max Sauer. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Fred Israel Morgan collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, documents, and identity cards relating to the experiences of Israel Morgenstern (later Fred Morgan) before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and during the Holocaust in the United States, following his family’s 1939 emigration to New York.

  19. Leopold Lowy collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Leopold Lowy and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Martin Lewin collection

    Contains materials compiled and donated by Martin Lewin. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.