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  1. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

    The collection consists of a handcrafted metal box and a suitcase relating to the experiences of Regina and Sam Spiegel after the Holocaust in Germany where they lived as displaced persons after their liberation from concentration camps. Also incldues photograph albums documenting the couple's postwar life. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Fritz P. Gluckstein collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David badges and documents relating to the experiences of Fritz P. Gluckstein and his parents, George and Hedwig, during and after the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany.

  3. Leo Arnfeld collection

    The Leo Arnfeld collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and a satirical pamphlet documenting the Arnfeld family in Warsaw, Sara and Leo Arnfeld in the Warsaw ghetto, Chaim Arnfeld in Vilnius, Kobe, and Shanghai, and Leo Arnfeld’s postwar life in Munich. The collection also includes cosmetics and pharmaceutical labels and sample from Chaim Arnfeld’s pharmacy in Warsaw as well as German and Chinese currency, Łódź ghetto scrip, and Japanese occupation currency.

  4. Fort Polk Historical Holding U.S. Army medical blanket collection

    The collection consists of 2 U.S. Army medical blankets.

  5. Maurine Grammer collection

    The collection consists of two cloth dolls with moveable arms and legs.

  6. Leo Pelkington collection

    The collection consists of seven pieces of scrip.

  7. Stefan Horn collection

    The collection consists of clippings, copy prints, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Stefan Horn as an interpreter at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II.

  8. Charles Gross collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Charles Gross during the Holocaust.

  9. Loewenstein family collection

    The collection consists of two passports, 36 documents, one photograph album, fifteen photographs, and a Star of David badge from the collection of Ernest and Guy Loewenstein.

  10. Edith Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of drawings, a velvet puch and a Suddur.

  11. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

    The collection consists of the Elizabeth Koenig papers of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the La Guespy children’s house in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; and a school report Elizabeth wrote and illustrated after arriving in America about France under the occupation. In addition, a sketchbook created by Elizabeth Kaufmann in Nazi-occupied...

  12. Gloria Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a leaflet and a Star of David badge.

  13. Remember The Children: Hadasah Zehman Video Collection of Face to Face Presentations

    Oral history interviews with 24 Holocaust survivors and one retired U.S. Soldier.

  14. Peter Sharlitt collection

    The collection consists of a cigarette case, an autograpgh album and 2 stamp albums.

  15. French propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of 3 French propaganda posters.

  16. David Schneider collection

    The collection consists of scrip, an identification tag, and three identification cards.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Kenneth Jacobson collection

    Oral history interviews gathered for the book, Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity Through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors

  18. Greta Fischer collection

    The Greta Fischer collection consists of biographical materials about Fischer's UNRRA career; concentration camp materials including a map and a ration card; photographs of children and employees at the D.P. children's centers at Kloster Indersdorf, Prien, and Gstadt; printed materials, reports, memoranda, and speeches about UNRRA's work with displaced children; and souvenirs from the children's centers, an UNRRA badge, a napkin, and a coaster.

  19. Hana Vosatka collection

    Hana Vosatka collection consists of photographs of Hana before and after her internment in Theresienstadt, a photograph of her family's memorial, a postcard from Pavel Vosatka (Paul Dixon) to his mother in Theresienstadt, and worker identification cards, ration cards, passes, scrip, and medical records documenting Hana's internment and work activities at Theresienstadt.

  20. Bella and Benjamin Herson collection

    The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, a plaque, an identification tag, and reference materials documenting Bella and Benjamin Herson, the Herszon, Sztajnhorn, and Rys families, Bella's experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Birmbäumel, and Benjamin's imprisonment in prisoner of war camps Oflag XI A - Osterode and Oflag II C - Woldenberg.