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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Bosnia

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

  2. Theresa Flaherty collection

    Consists of one musical score for piano, entitled "Chopin-Auswahl: dreissig Klaviercompositionen von Friedrich Chopin fur den Unterricht progressiv geordnet und herausgegeben von Karl Zuschneid" published in 1930 in Berlin and containing markings designating it as part of the holdings of the prisoner library in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Also includes one identity card for Sylvia Apfelbojm as a forced laborer in Drohobycz in 1944, including a photograph. The work pass identifies her hometown as Boryslaw and her occupation as pianist.

  3. Oral history interviews of the Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors collection

    Oral history interviews with Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors.

  4. Julie Lando collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and publications relating to the family of Julie Lando who emigrated from Bamberg, Germany, to the United States in 1936.

  5. Harry C. Abeles collection

    Correspondence: received by Harry C. Abeles (Heinz Abeles) [donor's father] born in Munich, Germany on December 6, 1922. The letters were written by his parents Margarete Grete Lewy Abeles and Eugenie Abeles in Munich after their son's emigration to the USA in 1937. Prayer book: received by Harry Abeles on the occassion of his Bar Mitzvah on December 14, 1935, presented to him by the Jewish Community of Munich.

  6. Lori Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a pillowcase and a photograph relating to the experiences of Lori Kohn in Bucharest, Romania, during the Holocaust.

  7. Amalia Reisenthel collection

    The collection consists of a German newspaper, a photograph, and a sketch relating to the experiences of the Bren family and Artek Schneider and friends from the Zionist Youth movement before, during, and after World War II in Poland.

  8. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    This collection consists of materials originally donated to the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in Springfield, MA.

  9. Antoni Czerniewski collection

    Documents: relating to Antoni Czerniewski (donor's late father) a graduate of the Wilno (Vilnius) University and Warsaw Academy of Arts; Lieutenant in the Polish Army taken POW and imprisoned in Oflag XI B in Germany; his older brother, Dr. Aleksander Czerniewski was executed by the Soviets in April 1941 in Katyn. The collection includes a notebook Antoni Czerniewski kept during his imprisonment; sketches of the altar in Wilno, documents and photographs from before the war and after the war; documents relating to his immigration to the US in December 1946 and a letter from Czeslaw Milosz, c...

  10. Oral history interviews of the Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project, Slovenia

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

  11. Oral history interviews of the Skopje, Macedonia Project

    Oral histories from Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters whom now reside in Skopje, Macedonia

  12. Feiga Scheer collection

    The collection consists of a dress, a book, and documents relating to the experiences of Feiga Moszkowicz Scheer and her family in Poland before and during the Holocaust which they survived by living in hiding and after the Holocaust in Poland, France, Canada, and the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. John J. Truty collection

    The collection consists of six uniform patches, a map, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of John J. Truty as a medic with the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps) under General Walker, United States Third Army during combat in Europe during World War II.

  14. Ruth Salzberg Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a trunk, typewriter with lid, and child's skirt, bonnet, ribbon, and dress. The collection also includes documents, photographs, and correspondence, as well as drawings created by the donor as a child.

  15. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Project with David Boder Interviewees.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Gerald Schneiderman collection

    Oral history interviews with Poles who later in life discovered they have Jewish roots.

  17. Gustav J. Meyer collection

    The collection consists of three Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp notes, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gustav (Gus) Meyer in prewar Germany and during his journey on a Kindertransport to Great Britain.

  18. Martin Dannenberg collection

    The collection consists of a Minox B camera, an identification badge and holder, a wallet with credentials, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Martin Dannenberg during World War II, when he served in the Counter Intelligence Corps in the US Army.

  19. Tom Hardisty collection

    The collection consists of a poster, correspondence, and documents relating to the activities and administration of the Nazi Party in Germany and photocopied correspondence from Hermann Göring and Hans Frank while on trial for War Crimes at Nuremberg after World War II.

  20. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of a billfold, currency, documents, oral history compact discs, photographs, and postcards relating to the experiences of Shlamke and Shanke Orlinsky Minuskin, their two young sons, Henikel (Harold) and Kalmanke, and their extended families in prewar Zhetel, Poland, in the Zhetel ghetto and the surrounding forests with the partisans during the Holocaust, and as refugees in Germany and then the United States after the war, and a billfold, day planner, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lew Minuskin who was in Siberia during the war.