Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
  1. Israel Haimovich collection

    The collection consists of a desk set and a pin relating to the experiences of Israel Haimovich while in a detention camp in Cyprus after the Holocaust.

  2. Miriam Davenport Ebel collection

    Collection includes a hatbox, which Miriam Davenport Ebel (the donor) took to France with her in June 1938. At one point, she lived for five months using only what was packed in the box. Steamer sticker on box is that of the Companie Generale Transatlantique's SS Champlain. In addition, the collection includes a musical score written by Hans Sahl, 1938, Zurich, Switzerland and purchased by Miriam Davenport circa 1940 in Marseilles, France, as well as a book she purchased, also in Zurich. The collection also includes artwork and papers. The Miriam Davenport Ebel papers consist of corresponde...

  3. Pauline Kra collection

    The Pauline Kra collection consists of two knit scarves, in addition to a manuscript collection of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Bartkowski and Skornicki families from Łódź, their confinement in the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, Pauline's hidden Jewish identity in a Warsaw convent, and the family’s relocation to Caracas after the war and eventual immigration to the United States.

  4. Lee and Norma Stern collection

    Portfolio and catalogue published by Shorewood Publishers, Inc., New York, 1968. [Lithographs created by Salvador Dali, circa 1968.]

  5. Edwin Kulawiec collection

    Woodcut made by a child in Poland in 1978, and a paper craft made by a child at the Ben Gurion school in Israel.

  6. Maryla Aleksandrowicz collection

    Collection of notes sent to Maryla Aleksandrowicz from her parents in the Płaszów concentration camp, sent while Maryla was in hiding. Inlcudes a photograph of Dr. Julian Alexandrowicz in his partisan uniform. The collection also includes a piece of a church bell used to hide circumcision by Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz, while he was in hiding.

  7. Nazi Storm Trooper collection

    Collection including items worn by storm troopers: brown shirt, shirt pins, hat, necktie and necktie pin, belts and boots. The collection also includes a WWI wound badge.

  8. Mimi Schwartzman collection

    Collection includes an armband from the Service de Liaison supres des Autorites Allemands and a Yellow Star of David badge marked "Juif"

  9. Shula Hamilton collection

    Contains a photograph as well as a letter and envelope (both laminated), addressed from Enrique (Herszek) Kagan, a Jewish refugee in Argentina, to his mother, Feiga Kagan, in Ostrolenka, Poland, sent August 29, 1939, but returned to Mr. Kagan in Argentina. The envelope contains a postmark from the German "Devisenschutz Kommando" in Warsaw. Also contains two examples of Polish currency from 1931. Written by Herszek Kagan (donor's father) to his mother in occupied Poland, August 1939.

  10. Stovall collection

    The collection consists of two prints.

  11. Claranne Bechtler collection

    Collection of Nazi pennants, banner and armbands.

  12. Leo Solet collection

    Collection includes two drawings by Arthur Szyk. The first is untitled; watercolor and ink on paper. Matted and framed image depicting an old woman and a young boy. Both are wearing white armbands with a blue Star of David. She has a sack on her shoulder and the boy is carrying a cane or walking stick. Signed, "Arthur Szyk, London, 1940," in the upper right hand corner. Taped to the back is a piece of paper which reads, "To Mrs. Meeks with compliments of Arthur Szyk (signature), Washington, Jan. 1942." London, England. The second drawing is titled "Lebensraum" and depicts three figures on h...

  13. Charlene Schiff collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Charlene Schiff. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Andre Saupe collection

    The Andre Saupe collection comprise the Margaretha Rosenfeld papers as well as a Volksempfaenger DKE 38 radio, two books, a newspaper, and two lists of publications.

  15. Jack and Sonia Rubin collection

    Consists primarily of 24 photographs. Many have inscriptions in Yiddish, and include many pre-war images of Jack Rubin's family from Bransk, Poland. The donor, Jack Rubin, immigrated to the United States under the sponsorship of his Uncle, Arthur J. Sussel.; Mr. Sussel appears in some photographs while visiting relatives in Bransk before the war. The collection also includes Torah scroll fragments.