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  1. Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American soldier and Edith, a survivor of Auschwitz. Also includes a large spiral bound book of scans, descriptions, and narrative of the collection and DVDs of film footage which Nathan Litvin produc...

  2. Nestor Winters collection

    The collection consists of an armband and two documents relating to the experiences of inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during and after the Holocaust.

  3. Schläfrig family collection

    Recipe book written in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Frederick and Fannie Schläfrig [donor's grandparents] who were deported from Austria and liberated in Theresienstadt. Photographs surrounding WWII and identification card for their daughter Marie [donor's mother] who fled to the UK. Letter from David Boder at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to Mary Frotten in Windsor, Ontario; dated circa 1947-1948; in English

  4. Raul Hilberg collection

    The collection consists of ten piece of Łódź Ghetto scrip, 2 commemorative stamps, and an envelope relating to the experiences of Dr. Raul Hilberg as a scholar of the Holocaust as well as one piece of Theresienstadt scrip given to him by Frank Petschek, who had to flee Czechoslovakia after its annexation by Germany in fall 1938.

  5. Militaerhistorisches Museum Dresden collection

    The collection consists of a V2 rocket booster and a V2 rocket gyroscope manufactured in Nazi Germany.

  6. Herbert Kalter collection

    The collection conists of a pocketknife and a bar of soap acquired by Herbert Kalter at Buna concentration camp in 1944.

  7. Lovari clothing and tools collection

    The collection consists of items owned by a Lovari family.

  8. Rachela Frydman collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip.

  9. Erna Meier Schlesinger Summerfield collection

    The collection consists of a pouch and passport relating to the experiences of Erna Meier Schlesinger (later Summerfield) in Germany and en route to the United States before World War II.

  10. Romani encampment collection

    The collection consists of three blacksmithing tools and two drinking troughs used in a Romani encampment during the Hololcaust.

  11. Prewar German travel camera and tabletop radio collection

    The collection consists of a wood encased Reisekamera and an AEG 28W tabletop radio manufactured in Germany.

  12. Masha Rolnikaite collection

    The donation of 2006 consists of: 1 notebook [poetry and song lyrics composed by Masha Rolnikaite, in Yiddish, while in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto] Provenance: After her liberation from the Strasdenhof concentration camp, Masha found a notebook in the house in which she was recuperating and wrote the songs she had composed from memory. The collection also includes an oral history interview conducted with Masha on July 16, 2006 by Bret Werb and Vadim Altskan. In the interview, which is in Russian, Masha discusses the notebook with song lyrics, her Holocaust experiences in Vilnius and in Stra...

  13. Hamy Gal and Holocaust related documentation

    The collection consists of illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal; photographs of Atlit detainee camp created during the Holocaust; photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw; a Treblinka extermination camp testimony; manuscript drafts of poetry by Itzhak Katzenelson; documents related to Jewish detainees in camps in Kenya and Eritrea; and Anti-Semitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera, United States.

  14. Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, boxed typewriter ribbon, broadsides, correspondence, leaflets, serial publications, and a typescript related to the role of Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay in leading the protest against the planned camp of the German-American Bund in Southbury, Connecticut in 1937.

  16. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    The Bagriansky-Zerner family collection consists of a commemorative silver basket and plaque, a medal, and papers relating to the experiences of Rosian Bagriansky Zerner and her parents, Paulius and Gerta Bagriansky, before and during the Holocaust in Lithuania and after the Holocaust in Italy and the United States. The Lyda Bagriansky Geist and Edwin Geist collection of papers and sound recordings relate to the experiences of the composer Edwin Geist and his family before and during the Holocaust in Lithuania.

  17. Ehrenhaft family collection

    Consists of marriage, schooling, immigration, and employment documentation and correspondence related to the family of Bruno Benjamin Ehrenhaft and Anne Polacek Ehrenhaft, who were originally of Czechoslovakia but lived in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. Includes extensive pre-war documentation related to both Bruno and Anne and documents related to their emigration with sons George and Peter from Vienna to Czechoslovakia in 1938, to London in 1939, and to New York in 1940. Includes Bruno Ehrenhaft's wartime employment documents, documents related to his parents, David and Olga Ehrenhaft, and...

  18. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    The collection consists of two pouches, a presentation box with six medals, a wallet, currency vouchers, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Felix and Flora Cohen Levi (later Van Beek) before the Holocaust in the Netherlands, during the Holocaust in hiding in Amersfoort, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the United States.

  20. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of twelve original illustrations by William Sharp for John Hersey's The Wall.