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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Oral history interviews of the Ukrainian Witnesses Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Ukrainian Witnesses Documentation Project

  2. Miriam Reinharz Klein collection

    The collection consists of photographs and two prayer books relating to the experiences of the Reinharz, Sturm, and Schech families before the Holocaust in Przemysl, Poland, and after the Holocaust in Sweden; photographs of the Banasiewicz family who hid Mr. and Mrs. Reinharz and their son Samek; and photographs of Berek Dov Klein, originally from Chrzanow, who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Dessayer family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Dessayer Family collection.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Latvia Documentation Project

    Contains testimonies of individuals in Latvia whom were not direct victims of the Holocaust, including perpetrators, witnesses, and collaborators.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Moldova Documentation Project

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

  6. Oral history interviews of the Romania Documentation Project

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

  7. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Serbia

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Serbia.

  8. Mark Hochman collection

    Documents illustrating and describing the experiences of Mark Hochman, born in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia [present-day Ukraine] who was interned in various forced labor camps during the Holocaust. Included are post-war affidavits of birth and employment in Podhorany, Czechoslovakia, Czech driver’s license and police document [potentially residential]. Also included in the collection is an application for reparations from the Claims Conference, dated 1993. Two cassette tapes, recorded interview with Mark Hochman, one labeled “Interview/Mark Hochman/Louis Rosenkranz/1989”.

  9. Zdenka Eismannova collection

    The collection consists of five watercolor paintings of camp life created by Zdenka Eismannova while she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  10. John Bole collection

    The collection consists of four drawings, a cap, a pouch, a finger ring, and documents relating to the experiences of Ivan Bole (later John Bole) during the Holocaust in Buchenwald concentration camp, and after the Holocaust in displaced persons camps in Italy and Germany.

  11. Carl Werner Lenneberg collection

    The collection consists of World War I medals, ribbons, and shoulder boards, currency, a DRL sports badge, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Carl Werner Lenneberg and his family before the Holocaust in Germany, during their voyage on the MS St Louis in 1939, and emigration to the United States in 1940.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Centro de Documentatión e Información sobre Judaismo Argentino "Marc Turkow" collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors living in Argentina, produced by Centro de Documentatión e Información sobre Judaismo Argentino "Marc Turkow," Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina-Communidad de Buenos Aires (AMIA).

  13. Moshe Matarasso collection

    The collection consists of three paintings, handcrafted woodlinks, a document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Moshe Matarasso during and after the Holocaust.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Croatia

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Croatia.

  15. Marianne Trompetter Dazzo collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts related to the Holocaust experiences of Maurits and Femma Trompetter and their children, Marianne and Sylvia, originally of the Netherlands. Includes identity cards for Femma Trompetter (including an identity card under her alias as a member of the underground resistance movement, Else Jansen), post-war documents authorizing Femma Trompetter to travel with her children, photographs of Auschwitz survivor Maurits Trompetter, photographs of Marianne and Sylvia Trompetter in hiding in the Netherlands, a Dutch Magen David, an armband owned issued...

  16. Alice and Peter Masters collection

    The collection consists of pajamas, an autograph book, correspondence, documents, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alice Ebserstark and her family during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Great Britain and after the war in Great Britain and the United States. It also contains documents on the German Army collected by Peter Masters when he served in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the UK and 3rd Troop 10th Commando in France and Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Boris Taslitzky collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Boris Taslitzky in Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  18. Izak and Marthe Weber collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and an oral history illustrating the experiences, primarily of Izak Weber, born in Skole, Poland in 1910, who studied medicine in Paris and remained there through WWII. Included in the collection are numerous documents surrounding Izak's medical education and intern work in Paris, his eventual internment in Drancy transit camp in December 1942 near Paris from which he escaped, marriage documentation and identification cards for Izak and his wife Marte, as well as documentation to practice medicine in Argentina after the war and correspondence from fami...

  19. Henry Himmelfarb collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner badge and copy and photographic prints relating to the experiences of Chaim (Henry) Himmelfarb before and after the war in Germany and as a concentration camp inmate in Germany during the Holocaust.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Herb Krosney collection

    Oral history interviews produced for use in the film Kovno Ghetto: A Buried History.