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Accession 2000.244 Nancy Ruhl Collection, Ca. 1945
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 326
This collection contains reports about typhus outbreaks in occupied Germany,
specifically in Bergen-Belsen, as well as information about refugee transit centers.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Nancy Ruhl.
Languages: English
3 folders
Accession 2000.248 Henry Alter Papers, 1862–1994
This collection contains originals and photocopies of Alter family documents;
correspondence; photo prints; newspaper clippings; Austro-Hungarian, German, and
Austrian bank notes; personal files of Henry C. Alter and Martin F. Herz; reports of the
Film, Theatre, and Music Section of the U.S. Military Government in Berlin; and
material about the United States Forces in Austria, Information Service Branch, 1945–
1946, in which Mr. Alter served.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Andrew C. Alter.
Languages: English, German, and Italian
1 box
Restrictions: On reproduction and publication
Accession 2000.355 The Abraham Slowes Collection, 1940–1991
This collection contains photocopies of correspondence relating to Abraham Slowes‘
efforts to save his parents, Moshe Dow and Malka Slowes, as well as other members of
his family, by bringing them out of Nazi-occupied Vilna. Also included is a photocopy of
the Slowes and Weil family history, which was created by Mrs. Simone Weil Slowes.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Abraham Slowes. The originals are housed at the
Ghetto Fighters‘ House (Beit Lohamei HaGhetaot), Israel.
Languages: English, Hebrew, and Yiddish
80 items and 29 photographs
Finding Aids: Item-level list
Accession 2000.403 The Lisa Williams Collection, 1939–1946
This collection includes records of Hedwig Goldmann‘s internment in Theresienstadt
(Terezin) and the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as a letter from the
Austrian Red Cross regarding her postwar search for family members.