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  1. Marek Watnicki collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform cap, jacket, and pants, and Łódź ghetto coin relating to the experiences of Mieczyslaw (Marek) Watnicki during the Holocaust when he was in Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland.

  2. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    The Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection contains sound recordings, objects, microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, but mainly music, poetry, art, and theater in the concentration camps during World War II. Kulisiewicz compiled the small archive of music, poetry, literature, photographs, and sound recordings d...

  3. Dr. Willy Katz collection

    The Dr. Willy Katz collection consists of ten medical instruments used by Dr. Katz in his medical practice in Dresden (reflex hammer, two forceps, otoscope, clippers, forceps, caliper, curette, medical scissors and case, acidimeter, and instructions for the acidimeter); four Star of David badges; and a collection of archival papers including biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Dr. Katz’s medical service during World War I; his first wife, their child, and his second wife; and his work as the head of the Jewish health care cen...

  4. Ana and Frank Skopec collection

    The collection consists of four bars of RIF soap issued by the German Authority for Civilian Supplies to a shopkeeper, grandfather of Frank Skopec, in the Sudetenland region in German annexed Czechoslovakia.

  5. Milton L. Shurr collection

    The collection consists of unused concentration camp prisoner badges relating to the experiences of Milton L. Shurr, an officer with the United States Army, Civilian Affairs Unit, attached to the 1st Army, sent to provide aid to the inmates of the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.

  6. Anna Walinska collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Anna Walinska before and during the Holocaust.

  7. Joyce and William Becker collection

    The collection consists of Nazi Party artifacts: an armband, a badge, a banner, and a belt buckle relating to the experiences of a United States soldier in Europe near the end of World War II.

  8. Cecil Welch collection

    The collection consists of a chessboard and a wooden box.

  9. Leslie Meisels collection

    The collection consists of cutlery and an identification card relating to the experiences of Laszlo (Leslie) Meisels in Hungary, Austria, and Germany during and after the Holocaust.

  10. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of seventy-two drawings created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen collection

    Oral history interviews of the Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen collection

  12. Giza and Leon Falik and Mildred Stern collection

    The collection consists of three US Army woman's uniform jackets, one matching cap, a bag of loose military buttons, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mordche Lieb (Leon Falik), his wife Giza Sternchuss (later Falik), and Giza's sister Mildred Stern [Malka Sternchuss] in Poland before and during the Holocaust, when Leon fled Poland for the Soviet Union and Giza fled Tarnopol and became a partisan. Mildred left for the United States before the war where she joined the US Women's Army Corps.

  13. David Rose collection

    The collection consists of courtroom art and posters relating to the Klaus Barbie trials in Lyon, France.

  14. Roza Lustgarten collection

    The collection consists of a silver napkin holder and tray given to Roza Lustgarten in 1947.

  15. Augustów Forest partisan collection

    The collection consists of a jacket and belt worn by Partisans in the Augustów Forest, near the Kovno Ghetto.

  17. William Rule collection

    The collection consists of a tolerance gage and 2 aluminum bolts and nuts found in the tunnels at Nordhausen.

  18. Bea Kandell collection

    Consists of an audio file, with typed transcript, of an oral history interview with Bea Bernheimer Kandell, originally of Goeppingen, Germany. In the interview, which was conducted by Brad Zarlin on December 10, 2013, Ms. Kandell describes her memories of pre-war life in Germany, immigrating to the United States with her younger sister in July 1938, the arrival of her parents and youngest sister in 1939, and her wartime and post-war life in the United States. Includes a copy of a photograph of Ms. Kandell.

  19. Jiri Lauscher collection

    The collection consists of small wooden pendants and plaques, a cut metal brooch, and a cut metal pendant relating to the experiences of Jiri Lauscher in Prague, Czechoslovakia, before, during, and after the Holocaust, and in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust.

  20. Fritz and Thea Lowenstein Klestadt family collection

    The collection consists of two drawings, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Thea Löwenstein Klestadt and Fritz Fred Klestadt before the Holocaust in Dusseldorf, Germany, and the United States where the couple emigrated in October 1937.