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  1. Krakow, Poland collection

    The collection consists of clothing irons, a coffee mill, a meat grinder, and a scale relating to Krakow, Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  2. Mortimer Schaffer collection

    The collection consists of Nazi propaganda slides.

  3. Erna Bernat collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt scrip relating to the experiences of Erna Bernat who was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  4. Max Schmeidler family collection

    The collection consists of a pin, six pieces of currency, correspondence, documents, newspapers, negatives and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.

  5. Ina R. Friedman collection

    Consists of research files, oral history interviews, transcripts, and notes produced by Ina R. Friedman during her research for her books on the Holocaust. Collection also includes original documents and identity cards for Dr. Richard Kahn and Ida Stern Kahn, originally of Berlin, Germany, as well as information about Cato Bontjes Van Beek, a member of the Resistance.

  6. Charles and Hana Bruml family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, Star of David badges, clothing, drafting tools, a drawing, Theresienstadt scrip, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Charles (Karel) Bruml and Hana Mueller Schiff Sukova Bruml in prewar Prague, Czechoslovakia, and in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp and several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia and the United States after the Holocaust.

  8. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and overcoat relating to the experiences of a Jehovah's Witness imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  9. Zyzniewski family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor portrait, correspondence, documents, photographs, photo albums, and publications relating to the experiences of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which Wesley and his mother Janina were arrested for their political activities and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  10. Early 20th century Germany business equipment collection

    The collection consists of an AGFA Billy I automatic camera, a Kantorowicz liqueur bottle, a Reichspost W28 rotary phone, and a spring balance scale as examples of personal and business equipment that would have been in use in Germany in the early 20th century.

  11. Peter Dallos family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and postcards relating to the experiences of Erno and Maria Klein Deutsch and their son Peter in Hungary during the Holocaust and to Maria and Peter after the war.

  12. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of two artworks created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933.

  13. Erna and Otto Stein family collection

    The Otto and Erna Stein family collection includes a German Cross of Honor for World War I Combatants, biographical materials and correspondence documenting the Stein family, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and their relatives’ experiences under Nazi rule in Neustadt an der Haardt, Nieder-Olm, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim.

  14. Klara Stempler Greif family collection

    The collection consists of booties, silverware, tablecloths, a table runner, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Klara Stempler Greif and her sons Maximilian and Ignatz, and Ignatz’s wife, Izi, before and during the Holocaust in Romania, and after the Holocaust in Romania and the United States.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Gabrielle Tyrnauer collection

    Oral history interviews with Roma and Sinti survivors of Nazi concentration camps

  16. Medizin und Pharmaziehistorisches Museum Wismar collection

    The collection consists of periodicals and medical instruments used at the Sachsenberg Psychiatric Asylum in Schwerin, Germany.

  17. Hermanowski family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a badge, an envelope with commemorative stamps, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Wojciech Hermanowksi and his family in Poland, Germany, and Sweden during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Diana Treister collection

    The collection consists of a rubber stamp, and an employment book, or Arbeitsbuch, issued to Anton Wilda, a Polish worker of German ancestry in Katowice, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  19. Oral history interviews of the Diane Plotkin collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by Dr. Diane Plotkin for her graduate dissertation research and book Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust.

  20. Wacław Głouszek collection

    The collection consists of scrip, correspondences, diaries, copy prints, sheet music, and publications relating to the experiences of Waclaw Glouszek during the Holocaust, when he was interened as a non-Jewish political prisoner in several concentration camps and after the Holocaust when he lived in displaced persons camps.