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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Alexander Bogen collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Alexander Bogen during the Holocaust depicting his experiences in the ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania (Vilna, Poland) and as a member of a partisan unit in the nearby forests.

  2. Jackie Deslauriers collection

    The collection consists of NSDAP (Nazi Party) newspapers published in Germany during the government of the Third Reich.

  3. Adolphe and Raechel Dikker collection

    The collection consists of a postcard and a pillowcase relating to the experiences of Adolphe and Raechel Dikker during World War II when Adolphe, a Dutch civilian, was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in Java.

  4. Adolph Blau family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Adolph Blau and his family in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust and in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in the postwar period.

  5. Morris Rosen collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experience of Morris Rosen in New Palestein displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria, after the Holocaust. Oral history interview accreted to collection in October 2014.

  6. Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a logbook, and photographs relating to the experiences of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger during his service in the 5th Mountain Corps in German-occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.

  7. Vladimir Brandwajn collection

    The collection consists of infant's clothing and a photograph relating to the experiences of Vladimir Brandwajn and his family in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp where he and his brother were born after the Holocaust.

  8. Elja Heifecs collection

    The collection consisting of a two prisoner badges, a commemorative pin, a poster, correspondence, documents, photographs, and sheet music relating to the experiences of Elja Heifecs who was imprisoned in Riga ghetto, Kaiserwald, Muhlgraben, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Riga, Latvia, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  9. Fridl and Lea Kufert collection

    The collection consists of a pair of child's red shoes and a photograph relating to the experiences of Fridl Kufert and her daughter Lea who perished during the Holocaust.

  10. Lou Dunst collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag issued to Lou Dunst in Mauthausen concentration camp during the Holocaust and an identification card issued after the end of World War II.

  11. Anna (Golden) Gordon family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anna and Riva Gordon (Golden) and their family in Svencionys and Vilna, Lithuania, before, during, and after 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 Ariel Baron collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors of the Holocaust born or living in Italy.

  14. Yasinow and Wurtz family collection

    The collection consists of signs, an armband, documents, and newspapers relating to the experiences of Dr. J. Benjamin and Rose Kaplan Yasinow in the United States and Alexander Wurtz in the United States Army during and after World War II.

  15. Gerald Schwab collection

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

  16. Oral history interviews of the Greece Documentation Project

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

  17. Henry Baigelman collection

    The collection consists of three musical instruments: two violins with fitted cases and a saxophone with a fitted case, as well as instrument accessories, relating to the experiences of Henry Baigelman and his family before and during their incarceration in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland, prior to their deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that toured displaced persons camps after the war.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project

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

  19. Norman Fellman collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner identification tag, dog tags, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Norman Fellman, soldier, Company B, 275th regiment, 70th Infantry Division, United States Army, as well as documents from other US soldiers, who, like Norman, were held as German prisoners of war in Stalag IX-B and Berga slave labor camp from January to April 1945.

  20. Phonograph player with accessories and phonograph records

    Phonograph player with accessories (crank and needles) and 24 post-war phonograph records. Nechama Zelikovna Shulman (nee Figlin) [donor's aunt] took the phonograph player and some of these records with her when she was evacuated from Gomel (Belarus) to Chkalovsk district in summer 1941.