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Consists of Wanderer family photographs, copies of the Biheller family tree, and restitution-related papers that primarily relate to the donor's mother, Ruth Wanderer Biheller (1935-2020) with some documentation capturing the Wanderer family's experience in the Aschau displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany after they survived the Holocaust in hiding in Brzeżany, Poland (currently Berez︠h︡any, ...

The collection consists of two wooden candelabra made for Paul Weber Jacobs by a displaced person.

Contains two death certificates for Elja Faiwus and two death certificates for Rochla Biednowicz, issued in the Landsberg Displaced persons camp in 1949.

The Machtinger family collection includes photographs of Sophie Machtinger, Paul Machtinger, and their daughter Ruth Machtinger in the Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) in 1946, as well as Sophie Machtinger's memoir "Recollections from my life's experiences" written in Polish in 1955 and translated into English in 1988.

Contains materials documenting the postwar experiences of Cyrus Bernstein working with displaced persons. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

Gertrude (Gussie) Jorisch (1923- ) was born Gusta Wechsler in Skałat, Poland (now Skalat, Ukraine) to Joseph and Pepa Wechsler. In October 1942, most of her family was rounded up, deported to Belzec and killed. Gertrude escaped deportation by hiding in a closet. She was forced into the Skałat ghetto and ended up in the Skałat labor camp with her boyfriend, Martin Jorisch, and her father. They escaped ...

Paya Rosenzweig (Paja, née Cwilich b. 1914) was born in Tyszowce, Poland to Mandel and Chana Cwilich. During the war Paya fled Poland to Siberia taking Russian passports. At some point, Paya ran into the forest and was one of 17 who survived and was sent to forced labor in Siberia doing maple sapping. After the war, in 1947, Paya married Naftali Rosenzweig (b. 1911) who was born in Zamosc, Poland to ...

Contains a photocopy of a typescript letter, dated 1945, from someone in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany, to the donor's aunt in May 1945.

Pfc. James M. Osman was captured on January 20, 1945 in the city of Nennig, Germany during a massive counterattack by the German Army trying to regain the city.

Consists of 71 photographs, some in duplicate, of the Libstug family's time in the Föhrenwald Displaced Persons camp, and one magazine in Hebrew, entitled "Bamidbar" (1947).