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  1. Frank Magid collection

    The collection includes German documents, a flier printed by the French resistance movement, the anti-American propaganda book "Verruchte Neue Welt" by Ernst Machek, and photographs and copy prints taken in Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation recvied from Frank Magid, a Staff Sergeant with the 516 EVAC Hospital Unit of the 7th Army that liberated Dachau.

  2. Erika Rybeck collection

    The collection consists of a knapsack and a suitcase used by Erika Schulhof when she was sent from Vienna, Austria, to Great Britain in 1938 on the Kindertransport.

  3. Meir Baum and Issachar Ilan collection

    The collection consists of a drawing and documents relating to the experiences of Issachar Ilan and his brother, Meir Baum, during and after the Holocaust.

  4. Isaac Kornowski family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Paul and Pnina Kornowski and their families as German-Jewish immigrants to France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  5. US Army newspaper collection

    The collection consists of multiple issues of newpapers: Grapevine, Stars and Stripes, and Yank, published during World War II by the United States Army.

  6. Jakob and Maria Winkler collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase and wooden crate that belonged to the family of Jakob (Jack) Winkler and Maria (Margie) Winkler.

  7. Adler family collection

    The collection consists of sets of tefillin and Jewish prayer books, relating to the experiences of Otto Adler and his parents, Serena Fell Adler and Mihail Adler, in Romania and Poland during and after the Holocaust.

  8. Arzt family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photograph albums, family histories and genealogies, notebooks, a wallet, textile-covered box, small bottle, and souvenirs relating to the experiences of the Arzt family who fled Berlin, Germany for the Dominican Republic.

  9. Bernard Feingold collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Brigadier General Bernard Feingold during World War II.

  10. Lawrence and Stelly Levy Kirsch collection

    The collection consists of seven pieces of scrip of the type issued in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czecoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  11. Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities collection

    The collection consists of three broken tombstones recovered from a desecrated Jewish cemetery on Sevastopol Street in Bucharest, Romania, that was destroyed during World War II.

  12. Bruno Lambert collection

    The collection consists of calipers, a stethoscope, a retinoscope, an electrotherapy machine, and documents relating to the experiences of Bruno Lambert, who left Germany in 1937 for the United States and later served in the Army Medical Corps and with the 123rd Infantry during World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Taubner-Kovacs family collection

    The collection consists of a Swiss schutzpass issued to Zoltan Taubner and Jozsa Kovacs Erika Gold's parents, 1 certificate for a work camp, Shell Koolaj R.T., issued to Zoltan Taubner, 1 certificate for a work camp issued to Jozsa Kovacs and Erika Gold, and 1 laminated dollar bill carried by Zoltan Taubner in the heel of his shoe while working for Shell Koolaj R.T.

  14. Anna Leist collection

    The collection consists of a handmade portfolio and five books relating to the experiences of Anna Zajac and her sister Lydia in the Ahawah Children's Home in Berlin, Germany, from 1936-1938 and her subsequent journey to Great Britain as a Kindertransport refugee in December 1938.

  15. Robert Holland collection

    The collection consists of two drawings and photographs relating to the experiences of Robert E. Holland during his service in the United States Army, 20th Armored Division, at the Dachau prisoner of war camp after the end of World War II.

  16. William Begell collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Wilhelm, Ferdinand, and Liza Beigel in prewar Vilna, in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust, and Wilhelm in the Dillingen an der Donau displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  17. Nazi Germany memorabilia collection

    The collection consists of a Berlin medical association circular, an SA kepi, two books, and a box of 46 glass slides relating to the history of the Nazi regime in Germany, 1933-1945.

  18. French propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of 5 French posters and a pair of shoes.

  19. Harry Goldsmith collection

    The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period

  20. Sam Klasner collection

    The collection consists of a pair of shoes, calipers, a certificate, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Sam Klasner during the Holocaust when he was a forced laborer in the factory owned by Oskar Schindler in German occupied Czechoslovakia and after the Holocaust when he lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.