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  1. Herbert Kalter collection

    The collection conists of a pocketknife and a bar of soap acquired by Herbert Kalter at Buna concentration camp in 1944.

  2. Lovari clothing and tools collection

    The collection consists of items owned by a Lovari family.

  3. Rachela Frydman collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip.

  4. Erna Meier Schlesinger Summerfield collection

    The collection consists of a pouch and passport relating to the experiences of Erna Meier Schlesinger (later Summerfield) in Germany and en route to the United States before World War II.

  5. Romani encampment collection

    The collection consists of three blacksmithing tools and two drinking troughs used in a Romani encampment during the Hololcaust.

  6. Prewar German travel camera and tabletop radio collection

    The collection consists of a wood encased Reisekamera and an AEG 28W tabletop radio manufactured in Germany.

  7. Masha Rolnikaite collection

    The donation of 2006 consists of: 1 notebook [poetry and song lyrics composed by Masha Rolnikaite, in Yiddish, while in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto] Provenance: After her liberation from the Strasdenhof concentration camp, Masha found a notebook in the house in which she was recuperating and wrote the songs she had composed from memory. The collection also includes an oral history interview conducted with Masha on July 16, 2006 by Bret Werb and Vadim Altskan. In the interview, which is in Russian, Masha discusses the notebook with song lyrics, her Holocaust experiences in Vilnius and in Stra...

  8. Hamy Gal and Holocaust related documentation

    The collection consists of illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal; photographs of Atlit detainee camp created during the Holocaust; photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw; a Treblinka extermination camp testimony; manuscript drafts of poetry by Itzhak Katzenelson; documents related to Jewish detainees in camps in Kenya and Eritrea; and Anti-Semitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera, United States.

  9. Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, boxed typewriter ribbon, broadsides, correspondence, leaflets, serial publications, and a typescript related to the role of Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay in leading the protest against the planned camp of the German-American Bund in Southbury, Connecticut in 1937.

  11. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    The Bagriansky-Zerner family collection consists of a commemorative silver basket and plaque, a medal, and papers relating to the experiences of Rosian Bagriansky Zerner and her parents, Paulius and Gerta Bagriansky, before and during the Holocaust in Lithuania and after the Holocaust in Italy and the United States. The Lyda Bagriansky Geist and Edwin Geist collection of papers and sound recordings relate to the experiences of the composer Edwin Geist and his family before and during the Holocaust in Lithuania.

  12. Ehrenhaft family collection

    Consists of marriage, schooling, immigration, and employment documentation and correspondence related to the family of Bruno Benjamin Ehrenhaft and Anne Polacek Ehrenhaft, who were originally of Czechoslovakia but lived in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. Includes extensive pre-war documentation related to both Bruno and Anne and documents related to their emigration with sons George and Peter from Vienna to Czechoslovakia in 1938, to London in 1939, and to New York in 1940. Includes Bruno Ehrenhaft's wartime employment documents, documents related to his parents, David and Olga Ehrenhaft, and...

  13. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    The collection consists of two pouches, a presentation box with six medals, a wallet, currency vouchers, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Felix and Flora Cohen Levi (later Van Beek) before the Holocaust in the Netherlands, during the Holocaust in hiding in Amersfoort, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the United States.

  15. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of twelve original illustrations by William Sharp for John Hersey's The Wall.

  16. Joe Friedman collection

    The collection consists of a cane, patch, a woodcut, military records, occupation, military, and displaced persons camp life materials, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Joe Friedman and his work with displaced persons for the Third Army and Military Government and Holocaust memorial events held between 1978 and 1982.

  18. Hans Pauli collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a SS dagger, and an SA membership document.

  19. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    The collection consists of a paint roller and stencil, two wallpaper samples, a plaque, a death certificate, and a Bible relating to the experiences of Franz Wohlfahrt and his family and their persecution as Jehovah Witnesses by the government of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945.

  20. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection

    The collection consist of a knife, documents, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther and Helen Mermelstein, sisters, before and during the Holocaust when they were deported from Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia, to Munkacs Ghetto, and then to a series of concentration camps until liberated in Bergen Belsen and after the Holocaust in Karlstad, Sweden.