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  1. Joe Friedman collection

    The collection consists of a cane, patch, a woodcut, military records, occupation, military, and displaced persons camp life materials, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Joe Friedman and his work with displaced persons for the Third Army and Military Government and Holocaust memorial events held between 1978 and 1982.

  3. Hans Pauli collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a SS dagger, and an SA membership document.

  4. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    The collection consists of a paint roller and stencil, two wallpaper samples, a plaque, a death certificate, and a Bible relating to the experiences of Franz Wohlfahrt and his family and their persecution as Jehovah Witnesses by the government of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945.

  5. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection

    The collection consist of a knife, documents, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther and Helen Mermelstein, sisters, before and during the Holocaust when they were deported from Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia, to Munkacs Ghetto, and then to a series of concentration camps until liberated in Bergen Belsen and after the Holocaust in Karlstad, Sweden.

  6. Henry Carter collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

  7. Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, identity paperwork, notes, photographs, and published material related to the experiences of Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson and their family before the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Lithuania and during and after the Holocaust in Lithuania and the United States, where they emigrated in 1940.

  8. David Klipp collection

    The collection consists of scrip relating to the experiences of David Klipp during and after the Holocaust during which he was imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto in Poland and Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps.

  9. Ernest Bergman collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, and envelopes, postcards, and philatelic material relating to experiences in Switzerland, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust and World War II.

  10. New Yorker magazine collection

    Two covers of The New Yorker magazine: one dated August 1, 1936 and the other dated June 10, 1939.

  11. Stanley Frosh collection

    The collection consists of 42 pieces of blank Nazi party letterhead.

  12. Samuel Kaufman collection

    The collection consists of 5 lids from cans used to house ashes of cremated victims from Buchenwald.

  14. Stanislaw Mambort collection

    The collection consists of currency, a map, and documents relating to the experiences of Stanislaw Mambort during World War II when he fought with the Armia Krajowa in the Warsaw Uprising, was held as a German prisoner of war, and upon liberation, joined the Polish Military in the West.

  15. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The collection consists of a rosary, St. Anthony statuette, bible, and a doll's suitcase relating to the experiences of Laura and Selma (Zofia) Schwarzwald in Lvov and other areas of Poland where they lived in hiding under assumed indentites as Catholics during and after the Holocaust.

  16. German poster collection

    The collection consists of anti-Semitic, advertising, and political posters, and a pair of shoes worn in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  17. Eiszyszki shoemaker's tools collection

    The collection consists of 2 shoemaker's tools.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Lausanne Collegiate School collection

    Interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by students of Lausanne Collegiate School.

  19. Kielce, Poland collection

    The collection consists of an alarm clock, a butcher scale, a primus alcohol stove, and a Sphygmomanometer relating to Kielce, Poland, before and during the Holocaust.

  20. Greta Herensztat Wizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and photographs relating to the experiences of Greta Herensztat and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.