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  1. Documents of rescue of Jews by Vaad Hatzalah

    Invoices, in binder, for money sent from U.S. Jewish organization to Europe via Jewish aid groups.

  2. Peter Fischer collection

    The collection consists of manuscript material and three-dimensional objects relating to Peter Fischer and is wife, Gertrude Adler's, experiences in concentration camps in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland during the Holocaust and after liberation.

  3. Goldberger family photograph

    Consists of a photograph of the Goldberger family taken in Tiszalok, Hungary, in 1935. Pictured are Celia, Miklos, Livia, and Ervin Goldberger.

  4. Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz while living in Trembowla and in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.

  5. Helen Kirshner family collection

    Photocopied correspondence, primarily related to efforts of Isidore Kirschner of Philadelphia, to help people in Austria and elsewhere in German-occupied Europe get visas to immigrate to the United States.

  6. Oral history interview with Mendel Nudel

  7. Hersz Hanfling papers

    Genealogy and brief vita, describing Hersz Hanfling's experiences during the occupation of Poland. Also included are copy prints of vintage photos from his hometown of Rozwadow.

  8. Leon Bitner papers

    Testimony, 1 page, typewritten, along with photocopies of list of family members, and of photographs of Bitner. Brief description of life in Warsaw Ghetto and of period when he was hidden outside ghetto.

  9. A memoir

    Testimony: Manuscript, three pages, describing a woman's experiences, first in an unnamed ghetto in Poland, then in Tarnopol, and then--posing as a non-Jewish Polish laborer, in Elbing and later in the Harz Mountains.

  10. Ruth L. Love family collection

    Collection contains 32 original letters written by Ruth L. Love's great-grandmother, Flora Kleinmann, and other letters relating to her family.

  11. List of occupants who resided in Sumy, arranged according to streets, 1941-1943

    List of occupants who resided in Sumy, arranged according to streets, 1941-1943

  12. Various orders and dispositions

    Various orders and dispositions regarding forced labor of Jews. Lists of Jews to be mobilized for forced labor. Requests for craftsmen and laborers.

  13. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Jacket belonging to Chaim Smitskovitz from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  14. Book

  15. Ring

  16. Victoria J. Barnett collection

    Victoria J. Barnett's oral history interviews with Germans who were associated with the Confessing Church. Excerpts from these interviews were published in Barnett's book "For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest Against Hitler."

  17. Susie and Margarete Wiesner collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, cigarette case with pin, doll, cloth pouch and coins and currency used, carried by Susie Marie Wiesner Metzger and her mother Margarete Wiesner who survived the Holocaust; 3 videocassette tapes.

  18. Documentation of the Oberpostdirktion II (Post Directorate II) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Oberpostdirktion II (Post Directorate II) in Hamburg

  19. Signed testimonies of the Ma'agalei Shema Association collection

    Video interviews with Deaf Holocaust survivors, produced by the Ma'agalei Shema Association

  20. Book

    Book of poems given as wedding gift.