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  1. Julien Bryan collection

    Collection consists of motion picture, still photographic materials, and colored glass slides and papers of Julien Bryan's visits to Poland, Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia during World War II. Also included in the collection are Julien Bryan's United States passport, scrapbook of newspaper clippings, announcements, and reviews of Julien Bryan's "Nazi Germany" traveling lecture, an envelope of duplicate newspaper clippings on "Siege" (of Warsaw), and a scrapbook of articles written on Julien Bryan's Siege of Warsaw film and book.

  2. Carl Atkin collection

    The collection consists of photographs, artwork, documents, a ribbon, and scrip relating to the experiences of Carl Atkin’s work after the Holocaust with the UNRRA and later at the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel.

  3. Max Wurzweiler collection

    The collection consists of documents, artifacts, journals, and photos illustrating Max Wurzweiler who was a high ranking Nazi party official.

  4. Josef Pistiner family collection

    The collection consists of badges, wallets, watercolors, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials related to the experiences of Josef Pistiner and his family, including his parents, Aron and Taube, and brother, Max, before the Holocaust in Galicia, Bukovina, and Berlin and during the Holocaust in Berlin, their 1939 emigration via China to the United States, as well as documents from Josef Pistiner’s service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and restitution files from the 1960s-1970s.

  5. Szamek family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents and a drawing.

  6. Lányi family collection

    The collection consists of a bottle and cup, mess kit, pot, ribbon, spool of thread, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Lanyi family of Budapest, Hungary.

  8. Felix Kaszub collection

    The collection consists of a passport holder, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Felix Kaszub, originally of Krośniewice, Poland, during and after the Holocaust, when he was imprisoned in Krośniewice ghetto, and Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps, as well as his postwar travel and immigration to the United States.

  9. László Rosenthal collection

    The collection consists of two wooden boxes owned by László Rosenthal.

  10. Fela and Chaim Perelman collection

    The collections consists of medals, correspondence, documents, memoirs, newspaper clippings, publications, and videocassettes relating to the experiences of Drs. Fela and Chaim Perelman, before, during, and after the war in Belgium where they were active in the Jewish underground and then in the care of refugees and postwar emigration to Palestine, and later ardent supporters of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The collection also includes oral history interviews with Fela Perelman, which were conducted by Jean-Philippe Schreiber between 1984 and 1989.

  11. Esther Rada collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Jan Marie Schoffelen who was born July 14, 1921 in Heerlen, Netherlands and worked along with his wife Ingrid Koke-Schoffelen during WWII as a Dutch resister in Sittard, Netherlands and surrounding areas. Jan's account is included and identifies their work mainly responsible for "transporting, hiding, and freeing" allied pilots shot down and in the area of Sittard. As an active resister, Jan was arrested, released and followed by the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging [NSB], Dutch collaborators, as well as Germans. Eventually, he went into hiding an...

  12. Denes and Janos Adler family collection

    The collection consists of a World War I medal, scrip and currency, a Star of David badge, a tablecloth, albums, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a publication related to the experience of brothers Denes and Janos Adler, originally of Szeged, Hungary, and members of their extended families, as well as the family of Eva Timar Adler before, during, and after the Holocaust, when Denes emigrated before the war and Eva and Janos survived forced labor camps and emigrated to the United States following the war.

  13. Ernst and Johanna Weihs collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ernst and Johanna Weihs, both originally of Vienna, Austria. Included are identification documents of Ernst and Johanna, certificates of Ernst and Johanna certifying that they were prisoners of Auschwitz and eligible for benefits in Vienna, and an identification document certifying that Ernst was a prisoner at Dachau. The collection also includes two pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip.

  14. Larry Gladstone family collection

    The collection consists of three wallets, currency, scrip, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ladislav Glattstein (later Larry Gladstone) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  15. Jean Jones collection

    The collection consists of wooden toys, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and booklets relating to the experiences of Jean Jones in Iowa, who received them from her German pen pal, Irmgard Richter, whose parents were teachers in Berlin.

  16. Magdolna Schrieber collection

    The collection consists of two SS Standart Kantine Buchenwald Außenkommando scrip relating to the experiences of Magdolna Schrieber who was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  17. Joseph Strip family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, currency, flier, patches, correspondence, diaries, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the Holocaust when they fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France, and, after a year, for the United States, as well as for Joseph's US Army service in Germany beginning in 1944.

  18. Veronika Pártos Lakatos family collection

    The collection consists of a doll and an envelope relating to the experience of Veronika Pártos and her family in prewar Hungary and during World War II when Veronika lived in hiding.

  19. 19th century antisemitic print collection

    The collection consists of five nineteenth century lithographs depicting scenes of antisemitism.