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  1. Kurt Zimmerman collection

    The collection consists of a documents, books, cigarette albums, newspapers, magazines and clippings relating to the experiences of Kurt Zimmerman while he was serving with the US Army in Germany with the Counter Intelligence Corps, following World War II. Kurt Zimmerman was one of the Ritchie Boys and was in charge of Ludwigsburg intermnent camp for German prisoners of war.

  2. Heinemann and Graetz families collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the Heinemann and Graetz families in Nazi-occupied Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  3. Shoshana Neuman collection

    The collection consists of two paintings created by Shoshana Neuman around 2007 depicting scenes from her childhood in the Bershad ghetto in Transnistria, Romanian occupied territory, during the Holocaust.

  4. World War II antisemitic and anti-Nazi poster collection

    The collection consists of four posters, two Serbian antisemitic posters, one Nuremberg Trial poster, and one Polish film poster, that are relevant to the history of the Holocaust.

  5. Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families collection

    The collection consists of a medal, correspondence, and documents relating to the Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany, and the United States where several family members emigrated to escape persecution.

  6. Arthur Kerdemann collection

    The collection consists of documents, a memoir, and publications relating to the experiences of Arthur Kerdemann during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp, as well as materials he collected after the war.

  7. Herman Neudorf collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner patch, documents, testimony, and publications relating to the experiences of Hermann Naidorf (later Neudorf) and his family members before and during the Holocaust in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and Łódź, Poland, during which Hermann was imprisoned in Riga Ghetto and Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when he emigrated to Paris, France, Colombia, and finally the United States.

  8. Michael D. Zentman collection

    The collection consists of American anti-Hitler, anti-Axis, and anti-Stalin propaganda materials, including pins, postcards, toys, advertisements, envelope, and other ephemera.

  9. Norman Naftali Silver collection

    The collection consists of a briefcase, wallet, coin, and photograph relating to the experiences of Norman Naftali Zylberminc (later Silver) after the Holocaust in Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany.

  11. Renee Lisse Sachs family collection

    The collection consists of a doll, documents, an oral history, and photographs relating to the experiences of Renee Lyszka and her family in prewar, wartime, and postwar Poland, France, and the United States.

  12. Alkis Keramidas collection

    This collection consists of three drawings, one watercolor painting and one oil painting created by Alkis (Alkiviades) Keramidas immediately after World War II, depicting German retaliation aktion in Greece.

  13. Posters

    2 posters: Rescue and Refuge: United States Committee for the Care of European Children Work to Keep Free. War Production Board, dated 1943

  14. Ardie Wickers collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner and flag pole finial relating to the experiences of Ardie Wickers, a US soldier, during the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany on April 4, 1945.

  15. 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.

  16. Raoul Wallenberg Unit, B'nai B'rith International, Melbourne, Australia collection

    Postage stamps from Australia, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg. Included is a block of four stamps, a first day cover, and special display edition of a 70 cent commemorative stamp issued by Australia Post in October 2015, honoring Raoul Wallenberg, who had been made an honorary citizen of Australia posthumously, in 2013. The first day cover and commemorative display also include the two other stamps issued in this series, which honored Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, as humanitarians who were officially recognized as such by the government of Australia, along with Wallenberg. Also included...

  17. Breznik and Zylberglajt families collection

    Two limestone sculptures done by Arie Breznik (donor’s maternal cousin) from Boremel, Ukraine; one of the sculptures is symbolic grave for his family; Ink Drawing: done by Moshe Breznik (Arie’s 10-years-old brother), depicting Theodor Zeev Herzl. Arie kept it throughout the war in USSR. Correspondence: letters and postcards from Zylberglajt family in Warsaw, where Jankel Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal grandfather) was an owner of toy company at 51 Nowolipie Street; dated: 1936-1941 in Yiddish and Polish; other letters and postcards are from Zeev Zylberglajt’s friends and relatives, before th...

  18. Leon Fierer collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, leaflets, clippings and publications relating to the experiences of Leon Fierer during his military service with the 79th Infantry Division, United States Army, in Europe during World War II.

  19. Herman and Ethel Berger family collection

    The collection consists of a boy's suit, trousers, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Ethel Berger and their son family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland when they lived in hiding as well as their immigration to Bolivia in the early 1950s.

  20. 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.