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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Louis Ranciato collection

    The collection consists of a portrait painting by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), clippings, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Louis Ranciato, Staff Sergeant in the United States Army and a liberator of Dachau concentration camp in Germany during World War II.

  4. Walter and Gretel Kleeblatt collection

    The collection consists of two pillowcases, documents, photographs, and photograph albums owned by Walter and Gretel Kleeblatt (née David), originally from Germany.

  5. Lester and Esther Suna Dulberg family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leiser Dulberg and Esther Suna (later) Dulberg before and during the Holocaust when they emigrated in 1939 from Łódź, Poland, to the United States.

  6. Terna family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Frederich Taussig, born 1923 in Vienna, Austria and raised in Prague, Czech Republic and survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. Materials also illustrates his mother [d. 1932] and father, Lona and Jochanan Taussig, younger brother Thomas [the latter two whom did not survive] as well as his first spouse Stella [also survivor of Auschwitz]. Paintings and artwork; postwar art that reflects and illustrate Frederick’s experiences surrounding the Holocaust. Included is a har...

  7. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    This collection consists of two metal signs posted by the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto. One is for the Statistical Department and the other is for the two white enameled metal signs with black text: One is from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt / Zentral-Einkaufsstelle" [Main Purchasing Agency of the Łódź ghetto Jewish Council]; Łódź, Poland; dated 1944; in German The other sign (accreted to the collection in 2016) reads "Der Aelteste Der Juden / in Litzmannstadt / Statische Abteilung"

  8. Gerald Kaiser family collection

    The collection consists of a knit bag and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard, Cesia, and Jurek (Gerald) Kaiser and their family before and during the Holocaust in Kielce Ghetto, Chlewice, Lipnica labor camp, and Sosnowiec, Poland, and in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war and of the Wlodek family in Lvov and Wegleszyn, Poland. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Cohen and van Bever families collection

    Two stamp albums, owned by the donors' maternal grandfather, Emanuel van Bever, and retrieved by the donors' mother after the family returned to their apartment in Amsterdam following the end of World War II, which they had survived by living in hiding. These albums were among the very few belongings still left in their apartment. Collection also includes two photographs of Emile Cohen as a boy, including one of him taken while in hiding during the war.

  10. Henrik Roth family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, pocket watch and stand, two copyprints, and three prayerbooks relating to the experiences of Henrik, Celina, and George (b. 1941) Rath (later Roth), during the Holocaust which they survived by living under assumed identities in Poland and after the war when they lived in Paris, France, from 1947-1951.

  11. Braun and Rosenfeld families collection

    The collection consists of a linen and photographs relating to the experiences of the parents and family of Dina Rosenfeld in Munkacs, Dej Orhei, and Bystrica, Hungary, and Romania.

  12. Mann family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, correspondence, documents, memoir material, photographs, and photographic negatives, and artwork relating to the experiences of Dr. Ignacy (Igor) and Erika Schoenbaum Mann and their family before, during, and after World War II, in Istanbul, Palestine, Rhodesia, and Kenya.

  13. Four Freedoms poster collection

    The collection consist of four United States World War II war bonds posters featuring paintings by Norman Rockwell inspired by Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

  14. Juanita Carmi collection

    Photographs of the exended family of Juanita Carmi (nee Chmielnicki), including pre-World War II photos from Poland, post-war photographs of her step-father, Markus Kavior, and the latter's naturalization (United States) certificate. Also include is material related to a historical research project conducted by Carmi in the 1992, for a university class, in which she interviewed four Holocaust survivors about their experiences as displaced persons in the immediate aftermath of World War II. This material includes four audiocassette recordings of the interviews, a typed list of questions, and...

  15. Löwenstein family collection

    The collection includes a passport issued to Elfriede Löwenstein (donor's mother), stamped with red letter "J"; dated August 19, 1938, and correspondence from Berta Saalberg Löwenstein (b. April 11, 1884) [Elfriede's mother] and Irma (b. August 19, 1912) [her sister] in Flacht and later in Frankfurt am Main. Both women were deported in 1942. Elfriede Löwenstein left Germany on November 24, 1938 for the US. The collection also includes a leather pouch in which Elfriede kept her family's letters and never showed them to her daughter. Diana found them years later.

  16. Erwin Tepper collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, and writings related to the experiences of Erwin Tepper and his parents, Juda Ber and Schifra Tepper, originally from Vienna, Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1939.

  17. Levai and Balint families collection

    The collection consist of two hats, a muff, and a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Ilona Lévai and a tea kettle, sugar jar, fork, spoon, and coal iron used by the Bálint family during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary.

  18. Alison Owings collection

    Correspondence, transcripts, audiorecordings, clippings, reviews, and other research and editorial materials created and/or collected by Alison Owings, during the research, writing, and publication of her book "Frauen: Women in the Third Reich" (Rutgers University Press, 1993). Collection includes transcripts of interviews and interview notes; audiorecordings; correspondence with interviewees, scholars, and others who were involved with or advised on the research; and correspondence, reviews, and other material related to the publication of the book.

  19. Chana Pergerycht Wandersman collection

    The collection consists of a leather satchel, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chana Pergerycht Wandersman in Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, and in Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  20. Arthur Szyk and the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, Inc. collection

    The collection consists of a set of four lithograph reproductions of Arthur Szyk drawings created and distributed by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, Inc., in 1944.