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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Sabina Heller collection

    The collection consists of a dress and photograph relating to the experience of Sabina Heller as a hidden child in Poland during the Holocaust.

  2. Kevin Mahoney collection

    The collection consists of four Army Talks magazines, 6 Life magazines, and 1 negative of an image of Nuremberg Stadium

  3. Eugene and Rose Lowell family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eugene and Rose Lowenstein (later Lowell) to assist family and friends in Europe to emigrate to the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust, a blanket relating to the experiences of Marie Odenheimer in Gurs internment camp in France, and materials relating to Eugene Lowenstein's service in the German Air Force during World War I.

  4. Reha Abraham Sokolow family collection

    The collection consists of a scarf, a clothes and a hair brush, documents, a letter and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth and Walter Abraham, their daughter, Reha, and other family members in Berlin, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust, including two years spent living in hiding.

  5. Mark Markov-Grinberg collection

    The collection consists of photographic prints of life in the Soviet Union created by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and war correspondent during World War II.

  6. Meyerstein family collection

    Papers document the expereinces of Meyerstein family before and during World Warr II. Included in the papers is a marriage license issued to Hilda Schickler and George Meyerstein Ellen Cohen's parents in Milan, Italy on May 18, 1935; a driver's license issued to George Meyerstein in Gotha Germany; an entry ticket for a bullfight that Hilda and George Meyerstein attended in 1941 while refugees living in Spain; a passanger's list for the Marqus de Comillas that included the Meyerstein family; newspaper clippings and a newspaper that mentions Ellen Meyerstein [Ellen Cohen]; a testimony written...

  7. Cafe Beylier collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experience of the French resistance and Oeuvre des Secours Aux Enfants in the Cafe Beylier, in Chateau-Chervix, France, during the German occupation in World War II.

  8. Hanna Marx family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experience of Hannelore (Hanna) Simons Marx and Helmut Marx in Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  9. William Beck collection

    The collection consists of an anti-Hitler pendant and a publication relating to the experiences of William Beck, while serving as a soldier in the United States Army during World War II.

  10. Alice and John Morawetz collection

    The collection consists of a drawing, documents, and photographs from the 1920s to the 1940s relating to the experiences of Alice Tauscher and Hans Morawetz and their families in Vienna, Austria, of the Tauscher family in Trinidad, and of both families following their immigration to the United States during the Holocaust.

  11. Fernand Brunetti collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a book relating to the experience of Fernand Brunetti during the Holocaust.

  12. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Feld and Raisa Steinberg in Germany and Poland before the Holocaust and in France with their daughter, Esther, during and after the Holocaust.

  13. Morris Troper collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and clippings concerning the efforts of Morris Troper, European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in assisting more than 900 Jewish passengers aboard the MS St. Louis and his success in ultimately securing their safe refuge in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, and France. Also included in the collection are two 16 mm film reels of the Agro-Joint activity in Russia in 1936 that was shot by Morris Troper for the Joint Distribution Committee.

  14. Mark Rumple collection

    The collection consists of two Nazi propaganda magazines: Der Untermensch, published in 1942, and Ein Volk/Ein Reich/Ein Fuhrer, published in Mar./Apr. 1938. Also included are two post-World War II newspaper clippings from Allegemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung, dated Sept. 1, 1961, and Nord-Amerika, dated July 21, 1949

  15. Henri Bomblat collection

    The collection consists of packaging ribbon, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Henri Bomblat and his family in France before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Margot Hamburger family collection

    The collection consists of three World War I medals and documents relating to the experiences of Margot Joseph, her parents Salli and Martha Danziger Joseph, and her brother Bernard in Germany and Palestine before, during, and after World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Laja Grad Iarchy collection

    The collection consists of a spinning wheel and photographs relating to the experiences of Laja Grad Iarchy, her son, Jean, and their family in Belgium before and during the Holocaust.

  18. Francois Szulman collection

    The collection consists of an ink drawing, La Barricade De Belleville, created by Francois Szulman and a 1988 book about the artist.

  19. Bertha Lurey Elston collection

    The collection consists of a US military badge for the "Stars and Stripes" and a Nazi armband.

  20. Polish inmates in Ravensbrueck collection

    The collection consists of one doily and two drawings created by Polish prisoners in Ravensbrueck concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.