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  1. Lisa Murik photograph collection

    The collection consists of four family photographs that include scenes from Łódź, Poland, beside a monument to martyrs of the Warsaw ghetto, a phototgraph of Edith Poliszuk and her brother Mark Zilist in Łódź, Poland, in 1945, a photograph of the community synagogue in Ostrug, Poland,before the war, and a family photogrpah of Tina Davis, Abraham Murik, Edmond Davis, Lisa Murik, and Ann Murik in 1945.

  2. Albert Newman collection

    A photograph of Chateau Viellesegure, attached to a page with handwritten song lyrics addressed to American soldiers that indicates when the soldiers leave they should "always remember those who work for Palestine."

  3. Le chancre qui a rongé la France

    Consists of a handbill entitled "Le chancre qui a rongé la France."

  4. Livret matricule

    The certificate identifies a militant in the Organisation Juive de Combat and was issued to all members who fought for the liberation of France.

  5. Rabbi Marc S. Sack photograph collection

    The collection consists of thirteen copy prints of Dachau concentration camp at liberation. Series shows camp architecture, corpses, liberated prisoners, and American soldiers.

  6. David Jakubowski papers

    The papers consist of documents and letters relating to Dr. David Jakubowski's time in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, where he was a physician before and during the uprising and also relating to his time of medical service with several refugee aid agencies after World War II.

  7. Frances Grün papers

    The papers consist of a Certificate of Discharge from Buchenwald concentration camp issued to "Jude Leopold Grün" (donor's brother); a letter written by William N. Fraleigh, American Vice Consul in Naples, Italy, to Leopold Grün regarding the German quota waiting list; and a letter written by the Grün children to their parents [envelope included with letter].

  8. Carl H. Knuemann photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten images of Carl H. Knuemann during and after World War II. Also included in the collection is an image of a former professor of Carl H. Knuemann, Dr. Steinhaeuser, and an image of Alboin Gunther, the sales director of the firm Kirst and Sons that supplied ovens to the Oranienburg concentration camp, and his family.

  9. Bjørn Bunkholdt photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of concentration camp scenes.

  10. Irving Levin photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of corpses at Ohrdruf concentration camp at liberation.

  11. Photograph

    Black and white image of two young men posed next to each other. Both men are wearing dark suits, white shirts, and ties. The photograph is of Isak Weinstein and Shimon Weinstein, both of whom were killed on the front during World War II. The photograph was probably taken in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.

  12. Zygmunt Jastrzębski postcard

    Zygmunt Jastrzębski wrote the postcard in Buchenwald concentration camp addressed to his sister, Hania Jastrzębska. In the postcard he writes that he is well and asks for news.

  13. Con Sellers photograph collection

    Contains 15 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp during and after liberation.

  14. Simon Preizler papers

    The papers consist of a citizenship certificate from the Hungarian Royal Interior Ministry and a newspaper article from "Magyar Nemzet."

  15. Rose Greenbaum papers

    The papers consist of a postcard written by William Sternberg to F. Epschtein [relative of donor's husband] in Litzmannstadt ghetto and a photograph of the townspeople of Ćmielów, Poland, in 1942.

  16. Michal Glinicki photograph collection

    The seven slides depict rabbis attending to the individual reburial of bodies found in an exhumed mass grave. The grave, located near Gibalskiego Street in Warsaw, Poland, contained approximately 300 bodies of Poles and Jews who were murdered between 1940 and 1944.

  17. Schweitzer family papers

    The papers consist of correspondence after the Holocaust between Max Schweitzer in Romania to his sister, Esther Williams, in the United States informing her of his deportation and their parents' deaths in Mohyliv-Podilśḱyi (Mogilev Podolski), Ukraine.

  18. Diamant Burzminski family papers

    The papers consist of photographs of and identification papers for the Josef Diamant Burzminski [donor] and members of the Diamant family before and during the Holocaust. The papers also include a page of 6 portraits that the donor sketched of the people with whom he was hiding.

  19. Jewish songbook

    The songbook is entitled, "Quaderno di Osser, David," and is a compilation created by David Osser (donor's father) in Italy of songs sung in displaced persons camps.

  20. Teddy Greenbaum photograph collection

    Contains two photographs depict the people's kitchen of the Jewish community in the ghetto in Ćmiełów, Poland.