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  1. Irving Newman collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner's badge, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Irving Newman before and during the Holocaust when he was deported from Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, to Stutthof and Buchenwald concentration camps and after the war when he and his family lived in displaced persons camps in West Germany.

  2. Lucie Dattner Kopec collection

    The collection consists of handwritten sheet music by Lucie Dattner, a musician, while she was imprisoned in Cavallon, France, (near Avignon) in 1943-1944, while the French police were trying to force her to disclose the hiding place of her mother Marie Goldstein Dattner and an identification card issued by Belgian authorities to Lucie Dattner, born July 25, 1924 in Antwerp. The ID is marked with two red ink stamps which idenify her as "Jood Juif" [Jew] and registered in the Jewish community; issued December 23, 1940; in Flemish.

  3. Siegmund Raszkin collection

    Consists of photographs, post-war identity papers, and restitution papers related to Siegmund (Zygmunt) Raszkin, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. The photographs are portraits given to Siegmund by friends; the post-war identity papers consist of reissued birth certificates, identity cards, travel permits, and naturalization papers; and the restitution papers document his extensive efforts to document his experiences for the purpose of reparations. The collection also includes an oral history from 1978 at Forrest High School.

  4. Izak Rosenblat collection

    The Izak Rozenblat papers contain photographs and documents relating to Izak “Izy” Rosenblat, a Polish tailor who lived in the Radom ghetto and whose wife and child were deported to Treblinka in 1942. Izy continued to work forced labor for the Germans until his liberation in 1945. Included in the collection are photographs, identification papers, and documents related to restitution from the German government.

  5. Przedecki family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Przedecki family collection.

  6. Jadwiga and Kazimierz Dubicki collection

    The collection consists of documents and a publication relating to the experiences of Jadwiga and Kazimierz Dubicki, Roman Catholics, originally from Poland, who were slave laborers for the Nazi regime during World War II.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme collection

    Oral history interviews of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme collection

  8. Charles Phillip Sharp collection

    The majority of the Charles Phillip Sharp collections concerns the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Sharp’s records give first hand account of what he saw at the camp, and the immediate goals the British Army had in trying to save the survivors. This is further told in the Story of Belsen by Captain A. Pares, which gives the official military report on the camp. Also included are lecture notes that Sharp gave well after his time with the Army, detailing his exxperience in liberating Bergen-Belsen. Other documents include various items related to Sharp’s stay in the army, ...

  9. David and Lucinda Pollack collection

    The collection consists of American, French, Hungarian, and German propaganda, war bonds, recruitment, and election posters produced during World War II.

  10. Sidney Lindenheim family collection

    The collection consists of a pin, documents, a notebook, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Siegfried (later Sidney) Lindenheim and other family members before and during his immigration to the United States in 1939.

  11. Alec Tulkoff collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documenets, numismatics, maps, photographs, and publications relating to the history of the Jews and of the Holocaust in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Germany.

  12. US propaganda buttons, pins, and realia collection

    The collection consists of twenty-four US World War II propaganda buttons, pins, and realia.

  13. Hans Drabinowski collection

    The collection consists of a crocheted pillowcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Drabinowski (later Hanan Arnon) during and after the Holocaust in Denmark and Israel.

  14. Gerhard and Ursula Naumann Maschkowski collection

    The collection consists of scrip, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gerhard Maschkowski before the Holocaust in Elbing, Germany, and during the Holocaust in Neuendorf and Auschwitz concentration camps, and of documents, correspondence, and photographic postcards relating to the experiences of Ursula Naumann (later Maschkowski) and her family during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt, and to both Gerhard and Ursula after the war in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, where they met, and in the United States where they later settled.

  15. Spector family collection

    Consists of identity papers documenting the post-war life of Clara (Klara) and Morris (Mauriczu) Silberman (later Spector), both Holocaust survivors. Includes copies of the birth certificate for their son, Steven (Schloma), born in 1948 while they were in the Zehlendorf displaced persons camp in Berlin, Clara's naturalization papers, restitution papers, and a DVD, entitled "Mrs. Clara Specter: What Can I Tell You?" [sic] containing video of Clara giving a presentation about her wartime experiences to a group of students.

  16. World War II American poster collection

    The collection consists of nine World War II propaganda and War Bond posters produced in the United States during World War II.

  17. Bob Levitan collection

    Consists of documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, and an oral history related to Hyman Robert (Bob) Levitan, a World War II veteran who became the captain of the SS Ben Hecht and illegally transported a group of refugees, mainly Holocaust survivors, to Palestine in 1947. The ship was intercepted by British warships and the passengers and crew were imprisoned. The crew was released after six months, while the refugees were eventually allowed into Palestine. The collection includes photographs taken on the ship and in prison, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and documents relat...

  18. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    The collection consists of a five piece silver cutlery set, a miniature ivory penknife, a silver locket, a miniature mother of pearl compass, an autograph book, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, photographs, printed materials, and school records relating to the experiences of Elizabeth M. Ornstein (later Orsten) and her family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and the Ornstein family’s immigration to the United States.

  19. Laurie Mitchell Billowitz collection

    The collection consist of two labels of the type mandated for use by Jewish physicians during the Nazi regime in Germany, 1933 - 1945.

  20. Rapoport family collection

    Photographs of Aaron and Feiga Rapoport and their children Malka, Bola, Chana and Benzion who were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, then Liebenau and Titmoning internment camps in Germany, and finally, the Vittel internment camp in France. Additionally, there is evidence that Aaron, Malka, and Bola were imprisoned in Pawiak in Warsaw. The family, all born in Poland, survived and immigrated to the United States in 1946. Accretion: 2 oral history cassettes of interview with Benzion Jacob Rapoport.