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  1. Kallia Bokser collection

    Parokhet (curtain for Torah ark) found hidden after WWII by survivors of the Holocaust in Lviv.

  2. Hans Levi collection

    Collection consisting of an election poster for Adolf Hitler, and a poster instructing Germans to boycott Jewish businesses, which was removed from the wall of father's factory by Hans Levi, 1933, Stuttgart, Germany.

  3. Fred Sherman collection

    The collection consists of two examples of anti-Jewish propaganda printed between the false covers of an American dollar bill.

  4. Barry Ziff collection

    The collection consists of a letter and a photograph. The letter was written by Barry Ziff to his parents on April 9, 1945 while serving in the United States Army in Germany. In the letter, Barry wrote about his experiences touring the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation and speaking to survivors. The photograph of Barry was taken in London on March 22, 1944. The collection also includes a Nazi flag captured by Barry Ziff on April 3, 1945, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The flag was captured from the flagpole in front of the German army headquarters in Frankfurt. Barry Ziff was in the ...

  5. Goldschmidt Family collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Ludwig Goldschmidt (donor's uncle and brother of Elise Schapira), January 1939, Germany. The drawing is an image of the synagogue of Brückenau in the lower Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Ludwig Goldschmidt was sixteen at the time. He was later deported to Dachau where he died. The collection also includes the Elise Schapira papers, which consists of correspondence to Elise in New York from her parents in Frankfurt, photographs of her parents and brother before the Holocaust and of her family in the United States, and two versions of her...

  6. Rudy Appel collection

    The collection consists of a medal, certificate, poster, photographs, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Rudy Appel, his parents, Julius and Rose Appel, and caretaker, Juliette Usach, in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  7. Anthony Frank collection

    The collection consists of four bullet shells picked up by American military personnel in Germany during the Second World War.

  8. Tana Gelfer collection

    Collection of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard issued at Theresienstadt to be used by inmates to send to relatives back home. The only space open to be filled in was Dear ______ , I thank you and am in receipt of your package of __________ (date) and signature _______.

  9. Martin Edelmuth collection

    The collection consists of a piece of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip (50 kronen note) and a Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp food ration coupon used by a female inmate.

  10. Allied propaganda collection

    The collection consists of an R.A.F. flier dropped on France, a picture book, distributed by the American military, urging resistance, a copy of a newspaper ("Combat"), and three French war propaganda posters.

  11. Ignac Reiss collection

    The collection consists of documents containing information about the testimony provided to West German authorities by Ignaz (or Ignatz) Riess concerning life in the Przemysl ghetto and alleged crimes committed there by Josef Schwammberger and Rudulf Bennewitz. The collection also includes an identification pin attached to a piece of concentration camp uniform. The pin was issued to Ignac Reiss at the Görlitz concentration camp.

  13. Rudolf Kovacs collection

    Two adhesive labels used with medicines prescribed exclusively for Jews. The labels were given to the donor by his brother Leo Kovacs.

  14. Joel Elkes collection

    The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.

  15. Arthur Scharfeld collection

    Collection of postage stamps.

  16. Tasia Jolly collection

    Consists of material related to the life of Tassia (Tasia, Taisiya) Jolly (born Taisia Hlamionok, later Tchernoff), originally of Polotsk, Soviet Union.

  17. Lola Teitel collection

    Two slips, one worn by Lola Teitel, and the other by her sister Pearl Libatter, during hiding in the forests of Chodorow, Poland, for approximately one and a half years up until 1944-1945.

  18. Carolyn Landau collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip.

  19. Collection of archives from Danish Jewish Museum

    This collection contains interviews, photo albums, and scrapbooks relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to Sweden and deportation to Theresienstad, as well as their return home to Denmark.

  20. Edward Smolarz collection

    The collection consists of a handmade belt and a tefillin set and pouch relating to the experiences of Idek (later Edward) Smolarz during the Holocaust in Auschwitz I concentration camp and after the Holocaust in Wels, Austria.