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  1. Romanian Roma collection

    The collection consists of items used by Romanian Roma.

  2. Rudniki Forest collection

    The collection consists of tree trunks from the Rudniki Forest, a site of partisan resistance during the Holocaust.

  3. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, a wooden box, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski and his family in Torun, Gdynia, and Warsaw, Poland, Breslau, Germany, Majdanek concentration camp, and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  4. Anne Lehmann collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase and a blouse used by Anne Lehmann on a Kindertransport in December 1938.

  5. Herbert Kaufman collection

    The collection consists of a 1936 Olympics medal and a National Socialist German Worker's Party membership card.

  6. Diana Mara Henry research material regarding Natzweiler-Struthof

    Consists of research material gathered by Diana Mara Henry related to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Includes oral history interviews with survivors of the camp, including footage of survivor Boris Pahor showing a group of French school children around the camp; recordings of presentations about the camp; the memoirs of Eugene Marlot; copies of her own research and writings regarding the camp's history, and an interview with camp survivor Philip Maisel.

  7. Monya Adam collection

    The collection consists of a medal and box honoring Israel's 20th anniversary.

  8. Rolland Pearce collection

    The collection consists of 2 bars of soap, cigarette papers, and razor blades relating otthe experiences of Rolland G. Pearce, a United States airman held as a prisoner of war by the German in Stalag Luft IV.

  9. Max Epstein collection

    The collectionconsists fo 5 drwaings created by Max Epstein while in hiding in the Netherlands.

  10. Mort Eckhaus collection

    The collection consists of 7 drawings in a series drawn by Mort Eckhaus depicting Nazi brutality in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  11. Emil Singer collection

    The collection consists of two etchings created by Emil Singer in prewar Vienna, Austria.

  12. Emilie Boit collection

    The collection consists of items made and used at the Gurs internment camp.

  13. Marek Watnicki collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform cap, jacket, and pants, and Łódź ghetto coin relating to the experiences of Mieczyslaw (Marek) Watnicki during the Holocaust when he was in Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland.

  14. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    The Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection contains sound recordings, objects, microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, but mainly music, poetry, art, and theater in the concentration camps during World War II. Kulisiewicz compiled the small archive of music, poetry, literature, photographs, and sound recordings d...

  15. Dr. Willy Katz collection

    The Dr. Willy Katz collection consists of ten medical instruments used by Dr. Katz in his medical practice in Dresden (reflex hammer, two forceps, otoscope, clippers, forceps, caliper, curette, medical scissors and case, acidimeter, and instructions for the acidimeter); four Star of David badges; and a collection of archival papers including biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Dr. Katz’s medical service during World War I; his first wife, their child, and his second wife; and his work as the head of the Jewish health care cen...

  16. Ana and Frank Skopec collection

    The collection consists of four bars of RIF soap issued by the German Authority for Civilian Supplies to a shopkeeper, grandfather of Frank Skopec, in the Sudetenland region in German annexed Czechoslovakia.

  17. Milton L. Shurr collection

    The collection consists of unused concentration camp prisoner badges relating to the experiences of Milton L. Shurr, an officer with the United States Army, Civilian Affairs Unit, attached to the 1st Army, sent to provide aid to the inmates of the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.

  18. Anna Walinska collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Anna Walinska before and during the Holocaust.

  19. Joyce and William Becker collection

    The collection consists of Nazi Party artifacts: an armband, a badge, a banner, and a belt buckle relating to the experiences of a United States soldier in Europe near the end of World War II.

  20. Cecil Welch collection

    The collection consists of a chessboard and a wooden box.