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  1. Gert Wollheim collection

    The collection consists of four drawings and one painting relating to the experiences of Gert Wollheim, originally from Germany, during the war when he was held in Vierzon, Ruchard, Gurs, and Septfonds internment camps in France.

  2. Horace S. Berry collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor and a publication related to the experiences of Horace S. Berry, a soldier in the United States Army, 71st Infantry Division, which liberated Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria in May 1945.

  3. Alice Lok Cahana and Surpik Angelini collection

    The collection consists of collages related to the experiences of Alice Lok Cahana and her family in Hungary, Germany, and Sweden before, during, and after the Holocaust, as well as the larger experiences of the Jewish community during the Holocaust captured by Cahana and Surpik Angelini.

  4. Muzeum Okregowe w Konine collection

    The collection consists of concrete, a map, utensils, clothing accessories, and other small personal artifacts recovered from the site of Chelmno killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.

  5. Edward Kaluski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Edward Kaluski during his service as a soldier in the United States 3rd Army in Germany, including the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in spring 1945.

  6. Dr. Irmgard Nippert collection

    The collection consists of artifacts used at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, the Berlin center for racial experiments and research in Nazi Germany.

  7. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    I’M AN AMERICAN premiered in 1940 on the eve of WWII. The NBC radio broadcast was spearheaded by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Labor to foster a “deeper consciousness of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship and more tolerance for fellow american of all birthplaces”. The weekly program featured distinguished foreign-born citizens discussing their naturalization process, the meaning of “democracy” and reminding all Americans of the value/privilege of U.S. citizenship. Sound recordings of I’M AN AMERICAN are available from the NBC Radio Coll...

  8. Wallach family collection

    Letters, documents, family photographs and handwritten books primarily illustrating the experiences of Margot Wallach and her mother Hildegard, and Hilde's husband Karl in Germany, Belgium and France (French internment). Also included is Leni Appel's information and her daughter Ellen's who were with Margot and Hilde in Belgium and whose husband Joseph was in internment. The collection also includes Belgian stamps with images of the Belgian royal family.

  9. Julius Simon family collection

    The collection consist of artifacts, clippings, correspondence, documents photograph prints and album relating to the experiences of Julius and Gerda Bundheim Simon and their daughter Lore before the Holocaust in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in the United States after their 1939 emigration.

  10. Victor Borden collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Rywen Bornsztein and Mina Flattau, originally from Łódź, during the Holocaust in Poland, the USSR, and Uzbekistan, where they joined the Polish Army and then travelled to Palestine, and in 1951, to the United States.

  11. Alfred and Meta Mayer Levy family collection

    The collections consists of medals, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences Alfred Levy and Meta Mayer Levy and their children Marie-Louis and Theo Levy, and their extended family before the Holocaust in Germany. [Accretion: pair of silver candlesticks given to Alfred Levy by the Jewish Community of Saarbrucken after the war as a gift for his tenure as president; Shabbat lamp; Framed family portrait of Siesel family, Framed portrait of Alfred Levy; Framed drawing of Simon Levy; Film reel (to go to Film & Video); photo album of Marcel, a member of the resistance who was ex...

  12. Marcelle Faust collection

    The collection consists of a pencil, a juicer, and documents relating to the experiences of Emma Muller, originally from Austria, who was imprisoned in La Bastide de Bousignac and Gurs internment camps in southern France, released in 1941, and then emigrated to the United States.

  13. Wilhelm Bauman collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and newspapers related to the experience of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents before and during the Holocaust in Austria, and Wilhelm's emigration to the United Kingdom in 1939, and deportation to Australia in 1940, and his subsequent release from interment camps and emgration to the United States. The colletion also includes artwork.

  14. AnyTime Antiques collection

    The collection consists of an issue of Liberty magazine (January 18, 1941), of Life magazine (June 26, 1944) and Popular Mechanics magazine (March 1942).

  15. Alice Goldberger collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, drawings, and paintings relating to Alice Goldberger and the orphaned children survivors of concentration camps in her care in Lingfield, England, after the Holocaust.

  16. Roma Laks Kaplan collection

    The collection consists of two self portraits created by Roma Kaplan in 1966.

  17. The American magazine collection

    The collection consists of twelve issues of American magazine, published 1942-1943.

  18. Cabot Mill Antiques collection

    Consists of posters, sheet music, newspapers, and magazines, dated 1933-1945, published in the United States and containing articles or artwork related to World War II and to the Holocaust. Includes copies of "American," "American Observer," "American Rifleman," "Collier's," "Foreign Service," "Free World," "Judge," "Liberty," "Look," and "Woman's Day," magazines, as well as issues of "Social Justice," the "Townsend National Weekly," the "Bangor Daily News," the "Boston Daily Record," and "The Boston Traveler," and "Yank" newspapers. Also includes posters, "I Gave a Man," "A Word of Thanks,...

  19. Jewish paper based ephemera

    Robert Edward Edmondson anti-Semitic broadsides: Six broadsides, issued by the Edmondson Economic Service, under the following titles and dates: "'Invisible Government:' The Hidden Autocratic Minority Menace to American Democracy" (18 May 1934); "Prof. Felix Frankfurter" (4 July 1934); "Are You a Communist, Mr. Dickstein?" (15 December 1934); "Justice Brandeis Unfit?" (15 March 1935); "Jews Off Gold?" (10 August 1937); "The Jewish Hymn Onward Christian Soldiers--To Make the World Safe for Communistic Jewry!" (10 January 1939). Announcement of protest against the Jewish boycott of Germany, B...

  20. Wilhelmina Juhlin collection

    The collection consists of an overnight bag, correspondence, 8mm film, copy prints, and photographs relating to the experiences of the de Kadt and Swaap families before, during, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the United States.