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  1. Wenk family collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Henriette Kieffer Wenk, her daughter Marion (born in Gurs) in France and in hiding. Also illustrated is Henriette's immediate family including her sister Emma, and Emma's family, who fled Germany.

  2. Mina Bernstein clothing collection

    Collection of baby clothes which belonged to Mina Bernstein born in 1923 who was murdered at age 18 during the Holocaust. The clothing was saved by her mother Rachel Bernstein (nee Yakira).

  3. Masha: Why Me?

  4. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  5. Arundel Antiques collection

    The collection consists of issues of Life magazine, Liberty magazine, Scribner's Commentator, St, Nicholas for Boys and Girls, and True Story magazine, dated 1937-1942, all containing issues related to the United States during World War II and regarding atrocities against Jews.

  6. Otto F. Hutter: copy personal papers

    Thes papers relate to the experiences of Otto Hutter, a former Kindertransportee from Vienna.

  7. Judge Ben Lindsey

    Judge Ben Lindsey speaking on the difficulty and importance of probate law and making a will. (filmed in studio)

  8. The Eternal Jew Poster for an anti-semitic film

  9. Jewish Agency for Palestine Council meeting materials

    Reports, pamphlets, and serial issues, relating to Jewish settlement in Palestine. Materials assembled for meeting in conjunction with the 16th Zionist Congress in Zurich, Switzerland.

  10. Oral history interviews of Project Eternity: The Holocaust Remembered

    Consists of 36 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.

  11. Oral history interview with Yankel Talis

  12. Oral history interview with Martin Baral

  13. Oral history interview with Marcel Rowan

  14. Stuttgart and Łódź school photographs

    Consists of six post-war photographs of children in the displaced persons camp schools in Stuttgart, Germany and Łódź, Poland.

  15. Liesel and Harry Rosenberg correspondence

    Consists of correspondence between Liesel and Harry Rosenberg. Harry Rosenberg is referred to as "Bobby" in the correspondence.

  16. Bruno and Jessie Korn collection

    The collection consists of baby shoes, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Bruno Korn and his wife Jetka (Jessie) before the Holocaust in Hindenburg and Breslau, Germany, and after the Holocaust in New York.

  17. "Hoelle, Tod und Teufel"

    Testimony, photocopied typescript, 122 pages, titled "Hoelle, Tod und Teufel," by Felix Bing, and written while he was at UNRRA camp in Philippeville, Algeria, 1945. Discusses German occupation of Netherlands, internment at Westerbork, and other issues.

  18. Boris Vaysbrod memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, five pages, by Vaysbrod (Weisbrod), of Brooklyn, NY, written in Russian, describing his experiences during German occupation in Lugansk, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

  19. Memoir

    Testimony, 18 pages, typescript, titled "My Experience in Nazi Times," written as letter to family in 1989. Describes childhood in Darmstadt during 1930s, persecutions of Jews, and family's immigration to U.S. (Los Angeles).

  20. Memoir

    Testimony, circa 40 pages, typescript, concerning author's experiences in Gleiwitz, Buchenwald, Auschwitz.