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  1. Simcha Dimant collection

    The collection consists of Buchenwald concentration camp canteen scrip, a concentration camp uniform jacket, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Symcho Dymant before the Holocaust in Czestochowa, Poland, during the Holocaust in Buchenwald concentration camp, and after the Holocaust in Fulda displaced persons camp.

  2. Hanna Poznanska-Linde collection

    The collection consists of a one piece of Łódź ghetto scrip, and two Soviet bank notes relating to the experiences of Hanna Poznanska-Linde, a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, and her husband, a soldier in the Russian Army during World War II.

  3. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket and pants relating to the experiences of Matthaeus Pibal, who was imprisoned in Germany for being a Jehovah’s Witness after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

  5. Winter family collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, and certificate illustrating the experiences of Marianne Winter, a refugee from Nazi occupied Austria, who fled with her parents Max and Anna and her brother Stephan. Included are letters to Jane Bomberger in Reading, PA who was Marianne's pen pal since 1935 and whose parents assisted the Winters in immigrating to the United States. Also included are pre-war images of Winter's family, report cards for Marianne, materials documenting Marianne's participation in competitive swimming for Hakoach.

  6. Hadassah Rosensaft collection

    The collection consists of several series of anti-Nazi satiric prints.

  7. Foterek Sperling collection

    The collection consists of two bars of soap gifted to Helen Sperling and relating to the experiences of Czeslaw Foterek during the Holocaust in Stutthof labor-concentration camp.

  10. Paul Tauchner collection

    The Paul Tauchner collection includes a numbered badge from a concentration camp prisoner's uniform, a Buchenwald concentration camp badge, a Russian army propaganda leaflet, documents regarding restrictions on Rosa Block (1867-1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard to someone interned at Theresienstadt, picture postcards depicting Adolf Hitler, and a form documenting Johanna Meisinger’s Aryan descent.

  11. Isidor Urbach family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor Urbach and his family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  12. Ignatz Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a tallit and 3 pieces of Theresienstadt scrip.

  15. Harry E. Norman collection

    The collection consists of a belt and a collectin of lantern slides.

  16. Claude Maly collection

    The collection consists of five newspapers published in France as the war in Europe was ending; four of them are VE Day issues.

  17. Deadly Medicine poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: "Mendelian chart" and "Ausmerzung des Kranken und Schwachen in der Natur"

  18. Robert Adelman collection

    The collection consists of an antisemitic NSDAP poster and to pieces of concentration camp scrip.

  19. Herman Schloss family collection

    The collection consists of scrip. tefillin, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Herman Schloss, from Sugenheim, Germany, who fled Nazi rule for the United States in 1938.

  20. Henryk Hechtkopf collection

    The collection of consists of four postwar drawings, an invitation and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Henryk Hechtkopf, following his return to Warsaw, Poland, after the war during which he was imprisoned in a Soviet slave labor camp. -Łódź, Poland