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  1. Alexander Gleis papers

    The Alexander Gleis papers consist primarily of Gleis' firsthand accounts of his experiences surviving the Stanisławów ghetto, hiding in an underground shelter at the home of a Polish Catholic named Staszek Jackowski, being liberated, and moving to Israel. The papers also include retellings of the Jackowski story by Ruth Gruber and in clippings, biographical materials documenting Gleis and his wife, maps of Stanisławów, photographs of Gleis and his family before and after the war, and two letters to Gleis from the Bayerisches Landesentschädigungsamt.

  2. Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers

    The Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration files, photographs, and restitution files documenting their lives in Břeclav, Vienna, Brno, and Tel Aviv; their emigration from Czechoslovakia to Palestine in 1939 with their daughter Judith; and their efforts to recover their property and receive restitution after the war. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and health certificates; school records; and identification and military papers documenting Josef, Josefine, and Judith Schmitz along with correspondence and forms documentin...

  3. Tallit atarah

    Tallit atarah from the collection of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Commission [JCR]. This atarah was acquired in New York City, bearing a metal tag which states "JCR" in a star of David on one side and Hebrew initials in star of David on the other. The atarah was part of a large collection of Judaic "cultural treasures" that was "heirless" after the end of World War II, identified and distributed appropriately.

  5. Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans received by a soldier

    Handbill received by Sergeant Donald Schaufelberger while serving in the US Army in Germany in May 1945. Issued by the US Army, the handbill uses an image of piled rows of concentration camp corpses discovered at Mauthausen concentration camp to remind soldiers not to fraternize with German civilians.

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  9. Łódź ghetto scrip, 5 mark note

  10. Nina Gitler poem

    Consists of one typed poem, dated February 1942, entitled "Kadysz," written by Nina Gitler in the Warsaw Ghetto. In the poem, Gitler, who was sixteen-years-old, complains of hearing that American Jews are saying Kaddish for the Jews of Europe, though they are still alive and suffering. The poem was collected and identified by Simon Weber, the long-serving editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, and was published in the Forward.

  11. Book

    Family tree of aryan descent (ahnenpass) issued by the Nazi Party.

  12. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  13. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  14. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin

    20 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  16. Black leather belt with Nazi eagle insignia

  17. Oval warrant badge for the Staatliche Kriminalpolizei

    Oval identification tag (warrent badge) for the Staatliche Kriminalpolizei, or Kripo, was the criminal police force of the security police in Germany during the Third Reich.

  18. Oral testimony of Irene Raab Epstein

  19. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  20. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 2nd Class Order, Silver Cross

    The Mother's Cross was instituted by the Nazi Party in 1938. It was first awarded in 1939 to some 3 million mothers as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy.