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  1. Milton V. Elliot / Gerhard Pleiss collection

    The collection consists of five German bank notes and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Gerhard Pleiss, an officer in the Leibstandart SS Adolf Hitler, 1st Company, in Nazi Germany, as well as the experiences of Milton Verne Elliott, a soldier in the United States Army who discovered the album during World War II.

  2. Forced labor and Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the history and government of the Third Reich in Germany, 1933-1945.

  3. Erno Sternlicht and Hugo Pollak families collection

    The collection consists of four drawings, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Erno Sternlicht and his family and Hugo Pollak and his family in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  5. Zlota Gloger oral history interview and transcript

    Consists of one typed oral history transcript, approx. 53 pages, ca. August 28, 1988, and one videocassette tape of an oral history interview, ca. March 4, 1990. The transcript and the tape both contain testimony by Zlata Gloger, originally of Kostopol, Poland (now Kostopil, Ukraine). In the oral history, Gloger, describes her family's 1941 evacuation into the Soviet Union, and their lives in Kzyl-Orda (now Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan).

  6. Lewin and Levi family collection

    The collection consist of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Simon and Violet Lewin, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, who fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Project Second Wave collection

    Oral history interviews with individuals who were born between 1918 and 1935 in Germany or Austria and came to the United States at a young age as refugees from National Socialism.

  8. Marvin Glyder collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a pamphlet, and photographs relating to the experiences of Marvin Glyder as a soldier in the United States Army stationed near Dachau, Germany, after the war.

  9. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

    The collection consists of a handcrafted metal box and a suitcase relating to the experiences of Regina and Sam Spiegel after the Holocaust in Germany where they lived as displaced persons after their liberation from concentration camps. Also incldues photograph albums documenting the couple's postwar life. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Fritz P. Gluckstein collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David badges and documents relating to the experiences of Fritz P. Gluckstein and his parents, George and Hedwig, during and after the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany.

  11. Leo Arnfeld collection

    The Leo Arnfeld collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and a satirical pamphlet documenting the Arnfeld family in Warsaw, Sara and Leo Arnfeld in the Warsaw ghetto, Chaim Arnfeld in Vilnius, Kobe, and Shanghai, and Leo Arnfeld’s postwar life in Munich. The collection also includes cosmetics and pharmaceutical labels and sample from Chaim Arnfeld’s pharmacy in Warsaw as well as German and Chinese currency, Łódź ghetto scrip, and Japanese occupation currency.

  12. Fort Polk Historical Holding U.S. Army medical blanket collection

    The collection consists of 2 U.S. Army medical blankets.

  13. Maurine Grammer collection

    The collection consists of two cloth dolls with moveable arms and legs.

  14. Leo Pelkington collection

    The collection consists of seven pieces of scrip.

  15. Stefan Horn collection

    The collection consists of clippings, copy prints, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Stefan Horn as an interpreter at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II.

  16. Charles Gross collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Charles Gross during the Holocaust.

  17. Loewenstein family collection

    The collection consists of two passports, 36 documents, one photograph album, fifteen photographs, and a Star of David badge from the collection of Ernest and Guy Loewenstein.

  18. Edith Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of drawings, a velvet puch and a Suddur.

  19. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

    The collection consists of the Elizabeth Koenig papers of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the La Guespy children’s house in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; and a school report Elizabeth wrote and illustrated after arriving in America about France under the occupation. In addition, a sketchbook created by Elizabeth Kaufmann in Nazi-occupied...

  20. Gloria Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a leaflet and a Star of David badge.