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  1. Margo and Rudolf Selby family collection

    The collection consists of a bar of soap, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Rozsahegyi and Zelmanovics families in Hungary before and after the Holocaust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  2. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949.

  3. Ida Weiss collection

    The collection consists of a steamer trunk and a passport relating to the experiences of Ida Weiss before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and during her emigration to the United States in 1938.

  4. Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD collection

    Collection of newsletters, newspaper clippings, black and white negatives and photographs, documents, glass slides, magazine, Star of David patch, postcards, calling card and 16 mm film reels. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Al Kooper collection

    The collection consists of money, 3 scrip notes and 2 coins, from the ghetto in Łódź, Poland

  7. Henry Kis collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief holder and correspondence relating to the experiences of Heinz (later Henry) Kis who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1936 and the Kis family in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Anne Weil Wascou family collection

    The collection consists of two suitcases, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Anne Weil Wascou and her family during the Holocaust and to the postwar efforts of Anne Wascou to obtain restitution.

  9. Rose Kfar Rose collection

    The collection consist of books relating to the experiences of Rose Kwar in Krakow, Poland, after the Holocaust when she continued to live under an assumed Christian identity.

  11. Howard Zar collection

    The collection consists of pastels created by Leon Target depicting a French post-war ballet about the Holocaust.

  12. Moszek Brycman collection

    The collection consists of posters and a flier advertising Zionist and Socialist events in post-war France as well as a commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

  13. Leo Haas collection

    The collection consists of eleven artworks created by Leo Haas, some created during World War II when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps, and some after the war when he was a satirical cartoonist in Berlin, East Germany.

  14. Les L. Salter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ludwig Salzer as a refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  15. Stanley Becker collection

    The collection consists of 4 framed drawings (black ink and graphite) on paper by Arthur Szyk.

  16. Donald H. Harter family collection

    The collection consists of a megillah and a print relating to the experiences of Harry and Lenore Hirschberg and their children who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1938.

  17. Elizabeth Margosches family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, design artwork, buttons, coins, pencils, sewing materials, wallets, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, documents, photographs, books and other printed materials, and immigration, restitution, and subject files relating to the experiences of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United States, and Brazil before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Marion Sapir collection

    The collection consists of a set of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip issued to Marion Sapir who was an inmate in the camp during the Holocaust.

  19. Steven Schuyler collection

    Postcards, black and white images from Israelitsches Kinderheim Koln; almanac, gray cover with Star of David image, title "Kulturbund Deutscher Juden Almanach 1934-1935"; book, cardboard cover with image of two flowering trees, title "Die Haggadah des Kindes"; calendar, for 1938-1939, pages for each month attached to yellow cardboard backing, photographic imges of children on backing, issued by Israelitsches Kinderheim Koln.

  20. Betty Willdorff collection

    The collection consists of two spoons made of coins. There is a coin on each end with a twisted metal handle. The spoons were made of coins to be used instead of currency in the Netherlands during World War II.