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  1. Helmut Rosendahl collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David Badges, Westerbork scrip, testimony, and a speech relating to the experiences of Helmut Rosendahl during and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and Germany.

  2. Harold Lehman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, drawings, sketches, publications, prints and photographs relating to the artist Harold Lehman and his experiences in the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  3. Bernat Berk collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book with loose inserts, a pair of tefillin with covers and pouch, a Tallis with a bag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernat Berk as a displaced person in Germany, Switzerland, and Australia after the Holocaust.

  4. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    The collection consists of opera glasses, buttons, textiles, petticoats, a Rorschach ink blot test, and a composition book, relating to the experiences of Leopold and Herta Schwartzbart Stoer and their family in Austria before the Holocaust and in Austria, Belgium, Poland, and the United States during the Holocaust.

  5. Elizabeth Walsh collection

    Censored envelopes sent to Victor Gibbs (donor's uncle) from his mother who escaped to England, and other friends and family in Germany; written testimony of Steffi Aghassi (friend of donor's mother) regarding her experiences during the Holocaust; sound recordings of various Yom HaShoah commemorative events, memorial programs, testimonies, and a school presentation by Herman Haller (donor's father)

  6. Hoexter family collection

    Consists of photographs, postcards, documents, and glass slides related to the Holocaust experiences of Herbert Hoexter, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Includes pre-war and wartime family photographs, information about his internment in Dachau in 1938, his emigration to England, where he was imprisoned in the Kitchener internment camp from August 1939-April 1940, and information regarding his work in the United States from 1940-1942. Also includes photographic negatives and glass slides and an oral history interview with Herbert Hoexter.

  7. Berthold Meier collection

    The collection consists of a key attached to dog tags, a prayer book, certificates, documents, Deutsches Reich Reisepass, German Kennkarte, and US Army papers relating to the experiences of Berthold Meier in Germany before World War II and in the United States Army during and after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Andor Andrasi collection

    Interviews about the rescue activities of Pastor Gábor Sztehlo, a Lutheran Pastor in Budapest, Hungary who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis and Hungarian collaborators and organized Gaudiopolis, a self-administered children's' town in Budapest following the war.

  9. Rabbi Georg and Martha Wilde collection

    The collection consists of a monogramed tablecloth and napkin rings relating to the experiences of Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde and his wife Martha in Germany, before and during the Holocaust.

  10. Leonie Roualet collection

    The collection consists of artwork, Catholic devotional objects, household objects, luggage, scrip, shoes, stamps, and documents relating to the experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.

  11. Forrest James Robinson Jr. collection

    Collection of American poster stamps, which include remembrances of Poland; the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, designed by Arthur Szyk; Greek War Relief; America First; war bond drives; Pearl Harbor; V for Victory; and related subjects.

  12. Johnson and Levi family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, correspondence, documents, and clippings relating to the experiences of the Jonassohn (later Johnson) and Levi families in Germany, Cuba, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Mania Baghdadi collection

    The collection consists of one doll and a photograph relating to the experiences of Mania Kleinburd as a young child in a displaced persons camp after World War II.

  14. Hedwig E. Stern family collection

    Photos, documents, letters, table linens, baby bibs and other original materials related to Hedwig (Hedi) Eichengrün Stern.

  15. Stanislaw Kozler family collection

    The collection consists of a fork, spoon, and a commemorative photograph relating to the experiences of Stanislaw Kozler and his family, originally of Kryłów, Poland, after World War II when they were liberated by the United States military from a forced labor camp in Schwarzburg, Germany.

  17. Otto Pankok collection

    The collection consists of five Sinti woodcut portaits created by Otto Pankok in postwar Germany.

  20. Eastern European sewing equipment collection

    The collection consists of six sewing machines, treadle tables, and a scale used in Poland before, during, and after World War II.