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  1. Nathan D. Weiss collection

    The collection consists of items found postwar at Dachau concentration camp.

  2. Stefan Petri collection

    The collection consists of a workbench and over forty tools, machines, and machine parts, relating to the experiences of Stefan Petri, who with his first wife, Janina, concealed a Jewish family, Kaufman, Ela, and their sons Marek and Jerzy Szapiro, in two hiding places he built in his home in Warsaw, Poland, from spring 1942 to September 1944.

  3. Joseph Wardzala collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph Wardzala, a Roman Catholic who was deported from Poland to a forced labor camp in Germany during World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Menachem and Ita Blinbaum Konkowski families collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, armbands, medals, a ribbon bar, cufflinks, certificates, correspondence, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Menachem and Ita Blinbaum Konkowski and their families before the war in Poland, in the Jewish resistance and in hiding in Belgium during the war, and supporting the Jewish underground army in Palestine after the war.

  5. Annette Fry collection

    The Annette Fry collection includes photographic material, correspondence, art objects, and publications documenting Varian Fry’s work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around Europe.

  6. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of drawings created by William Sharp. Associated with PM (New York, N.Y.) newspaper, printed between 1940 and 1948.

  7. Poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: one is a French propaganda poster and the other is an anti-Nazi poster created by Ben Shahn protesting the decimation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia.

  8. Marilyn and Sefton Tallman collection

    The collection consists of four medals.

  9. Carl and Flora Wertheim collection

    The collection consists of 2 suitcases used by Carl and Flora Wertheim when they emmigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938.

  10. Kevin Williams collection

    The collection consists of Nazi party pins, a Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, and a leaflet.

  11. Egon J. Salmon collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk with three hangers relating to the experiences of Egon J. Salmon and his family before and during the Holocaust, when they were passengers on the ill fated voyage of the MS St. Louis, and later left Belgium for the United States in 1940.

  12. Edith Bredhoft collection

    The collection consists of 3 charcoal drawings.

  13. Ernst and Hildegard Israel collection

    The collection consists of a passport, and identification card, a photograph, an invoice, buttons, and a marriage certificate from Shanghai, China.

  14. Max Haber collection

    The collection consists of 2 tallitot.

  15. Malcolm Vendig collection

    The collection consists of 2 badges found by Malcolm Vendig at Dachau concentration camp post-war.

  16. Muzeum Okregowego W Koninie collection

    The collection consists of two paintings from the Kolo synagogue and six tombstone fragments from the Turek Jewish cemetary.

  17. Warsaw City Authority collection

    The collection consists of a manhole cover and housing from the center of Warsaw, Poland, in the area that served as a ghetto from October 1940 to May 1943.

  18. Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen collection

    The collection consists of a hair color chart and storage case used as part of anthropological race studies during the Eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.

  19. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Amichai Heppner and his family before the Holocaust in Germany, before and during the Holocaust in Germany and the Netherlands, when Max and his parents, Dr. Albert and Irene Heppner, lived in hiding, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the United States. Object include 5 handmade maps, 10 printed maps, 2 Voice-O-Graphs, blanket, book, handbell, handkerchief, knife, leather wallet, mechanical pencil, ordnance box, rucksack, sewing basket, shaving kit, sketchbook, star of David badg...

  20. Gluck family collection

    THe collection consists of Theresienstadt scrip in the denomiaations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 kronen.