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  1. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    The collection consists of four paintings relating to the experiences of Judith Evan Goldstein in Poland, Latvia, and Germany during the Holocaust.

  2. Oral history interviews of the "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII" documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII"

  3. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    The collection consists of document cases, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fred Loy (born Alfred Löwenstein), Lola Stern Loy, Julius Loewenstein, and their families in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and China before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  4. Schatz and Bonder families collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and documents pertaining to the Schatz and Bonder families previously of Berlin and Warsaw. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through the marriage of Henry Schatz and Rischa Bonder when the couple were married in the United States. The collection also includes teffilin and embroidered teffilin bag belonging to Jacob Schatz prior to the Holocaust. The teffilin was given to Henry Schatz by his father Jacob and kept through interment at Ferramonti.

  5. Shirley R. Hyman art collection

    Collection of artwork created by multiple artists including Karl Schwesig and other artists in various French internment camps including St. Cyprien and Les Milles; dated c. 1940-1941

  6. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    The collection consists of an armband, ghetto scrip, Star of David badges, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Benjamin Marx and the Marx family in Germany before and during the Holocaust, in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  7. Zehngut and Weiss families collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs concerning the Zehngut and Weiss families in Europe; papers concerning the emigration of Inge and Kitty Weiss among the 50 Children rescued from Vienna by Brith Sholom and Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus as well as the emigration of their parents Stella Zehngut Weiss and Leon Weiss; and related materials from their lives in the United States including school records, government documents, a draft of a memoir written by Inge, and a Camp Ray-Oot swimming medal.

  8. Signed testimonies of the Simon Carmel collection

    Interviews and recordings featuring Deaf survivors of the Holocaust

  9. Renee Kann Silver family collection

    The collection consists of a camera with case, a medal, documents, oral testimony, and photographs related to the experiences of Renee Kann (later Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland, including their imprisonment in Gurs internment camp, during the war, and in Switzerland, France, and the United States after the war.

  10. Maria de Kornfeld collection

    Oral history interview with Maria de Kornfeld

  11. Erna Weyl and Walter Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of American Army uniforms, correspondence, copies of documents, and a photograph relating to Erna and Walter Rothschild.

  12. Hugo Ostreich collection

    Collection belonging to Hugo Ostreich including wooden box purchased in Shanghai, China, Jewish prayer books, textbook for citizenship, tallis and tallis bag, photographs and documents that illustrates donor's [Paula Berg] great uncle's experiences fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany in 1939 with his younger brother Alfred, leaving behind Hugo's wife, Erna Baer and extended relatives. Hugo and Alfred survived WWII in Shanghai, immigrating to the United States in the late 1940s.

  13. Zajaczkowska family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to Sweden notifying Basia that her brother, Leon Zajaczkowski, in a Polish Army camp, and that her husband is in Italy. It also includes pre and post war photographs, vaccination cards, baggage claim...

  14. Gelb and Heiser family collection

    Consists of identity papers, correspondence, photographs, genealogical material related to the pre-war lives, emigration, and families of Charlotte Kuhlfas (also Hochheiser, Heiser) and Martin Gelb. Charlotte emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1937 and Martin in 1940; they married soon after his arrival. Includes letters he wrote to her in March 1940 as he was preparing to emigrate; family photographs, the machzor Martin purchased and inscribed after arriving in the United States; their identity cards and naturalization papers; family tree information for the Gelb and Heiser families; Charlot...

  15. Henry Weil collection

    Documents issued for Heinz Weil (donor), born September 22, 1935 in Vienna, Austria and fled to the United States in 1939. Document portfolio in which documents were kept.

  16. Michael Kutz collection

    Collection includes photographs, documents, negatives and scrip as well as a memoir. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Fritz Grünberg collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Fritz Grünberg, originally of Rheine, Germany, including his involvement with the Jewish Council and the Contact Afdeling (Contact Division) of the Westerbork transit camp. The collection consists of biographical materials, including identification papers, correspondence, and immigration documents; photographs; and material related to Westerbork including prisoner and deportation lists, administrative papers, post-war investigation papers regarding the Contact Afdeling, and a testimonial narrative about the Contact Afdeling and Weste...

  18. Ita Rozenczwajg Dimant collection

    Diary: written by Ita Rozenczwajg (donor's mother) during her forced labor on a farm in Germany, 1943-1945 on parchment paper she stole from the German owners of the farm. Collection of photographs (40), pre- and post-war; false documents; wartime correspondence from Ita's rescuer's family, Brust, pre and post-war correspondence; transcript of the Polish language diary; English memoir written by Ita Dimant based on her diary; Hebrew translation of the memoir. Fake tooth that contained cyanide which was installed in the mouth of Ita Rozenczwajg by members of the Polish underground. Ita was a...

  19. Neu family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, books, and artifacts relating to the experiences of Richard and Hedwig Sanders Neu and their daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Lange family collection, featuring testimonies from sisters Ilse Carlsen and Edith Lindner who discuss their family's flight from Upper Silesia to the Philippines and then New York.