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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. US Army newspaper collection

    The collection consists of multiple issues of newpapers: Grapevine, Stars and Stripes, and Yank, published during World War II by the United States Army.

  2. Jakob and Maria Winkler collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase and wooden crate that belonged to the family of Jakob (Jack) Winkler and Maria (Margie) Winkler.

  3. Adler family collection

    The collection consists of sets of tefillin and Jewish prayer books, relating to the experiences of Otto Adler and his parents, Serena Fell Adler and Mihail Adler, in Romania and Poland during and after the Holocaust.

  4. Marian Rokacz collection

    The collection consists of nine pieces of Łódź ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Marian Rokacz as a detainee in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland, during the Holocaust.

  5. Arzt family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photograph albums, family histories and genealogies, notebooks, a wallet, textile-covered box, small bottle, and souvenirs relating to the experiences of the Arzt family who fled Berlin, Germany for the Dominican Republic.

  6. H. Arnold Strauch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents related to the experience of H. Arnold Strauch during and after World War II.

  7. Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection

    The collection consists of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard relating to the experiences of Ursula Lenneberg and her family in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust and of photographs relating to the family of her stepfather, Siegmund Bruenell, in prewar Germany and in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  8. George Ogurek Zimmerman family collection

    The collection consists of a wrist watch, a rubber stamp, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Jerzy Ogurek and his family during the Holocaust, including their imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and after the war as displaced persons in Germany.

  9. Bernhard Groeschel collection

    The collection consists of two batim from a set of tefillin and a tefillin storage pouch relating to the experiences of Bernhard Groeschel in Forchheim, Germany, before and after the Holocaust.

  10. German political and military propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the political and propaganda activities of the Nazi Party in Germany before and during World War II.

  11. Rafal Imbro collection

    The collection consists of three boxes, a wallet, documents, identification cards, and receipt books relating to the experiences of Jewish people living in Łódź and Kielce, Poland, before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Betti Blaugrund collection

    The collection consists of a baby doll, and infant and doll clothing relating to the experiences of Betti Blaugrund in Belgium before and during the Holocaust when, as an infant, she was placed in hiding with Louise and Udile Ceulemans-Gryson, and of her cousin, Aline Klajn, who was deported and killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  17. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Kato Ritter in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau concentration camps and Gyorgy Frankfurter in Hungary and forced labor battalions before and during the Holocaust, and of Kato and Gyorgy in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany until their immigration to the United States in 1951.

  18. Asna Hirschman Lutwak and Max Lutwak Collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Asna Hirschmann, born 1922, Pinsk, Belarus and Max Lutwak born 1922 in Dortmund, Germany. Collection documents their individual experiences during and after the Holocaust. Asna was interned in the Kovno Ghetto, the Vaivara camp in Estonia in August 1943, then Stutthof concentration camp in Poland, and liberated January 1945. After the War, Asna pursued her medical degree, earning it June 1948. Max studied in Rennes, France and moved to Marseilles to study in 1940. He immigrated to...