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  1. Remember The Children: Hadasah Zehman Video Collection of Face to Face Presentations

    Oral history interviews with 24 Holocaust survivors and one retired U.S. Soldier.

  2. Peter Sharlitt collection

    The collection consists of a cigarette case, an autograpgh album and 2 stamp albums.

  3. French propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of 3 French propaganda posters.

  4. David Schneider collection

    The collection consists of scrip, an identification tag, and three identification cards.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Kenneth Jacobson collection

    Oral history interviews gathered for the book, Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity Through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors

  6. Greta Fischer collection

    The Greta Fischer collection consists of biographical materials about Fischer's UNRRA career; concentration camp materials including a map and a ration card; photographs of children and employees at the D.P. children's centers at Kloster Indersdorf, Prien, and Gstadt; printed materials, reports, memoranda, and speeches about UNRRA's work with displaced children; and souvenirs from the children's centers, an UNRRA badge, a napkin, and a coaster.

  7. Hana Vosatka collection

    Hana Vosatka collection consists of photographs of Hana before and after her internment in Theresienstadt, a photograph of her family's memorial, a postcard from Pavel Vosatka (Paul Dixon) to his mother in Theresienstadt, and worker identification cards, ration cards, passes, scrip, and medical records documenting Hana's internment and work activities at Theresienstadt.

  8. Bella and Benjamin Herson collection

    The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, a plaque, an identification tag, and reference materials documenting Bella and Benjamin Herson, the Herszon, Sztajnhorn, and Rys families, Bella's experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Birmbäumel, and Benjamin's imprisonment in prisoner of war camps Oflag XI A - Osterode and Oflag II C - Woldenberg.

  9. Zachary Gruzin collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard and a photograph of Zachary, Edward, and Charles Gruzin and their mother, Dora Gruzin in Kovno, Lithuania, a pass issued to Zachary Gruzin authorizing him to return to Lithuania from Landsberg, Germany, and a cloth prisoner identification badge embroidered with 13268.

  10. Jack Erdfarb collection

    Consists of fourteen photographs related to Jack Erdfarb 's (Jakub Erdfarb) residence in Landsberg displaced persons camp and a suitcase.

  11. Yona Wygocka Dickmann collection

    The collection consists of a comb and pocket knife relating to the experiences of Yona Wygocka as a prisoner in a salve labor camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  12. Steve Bennett collection

    The collection consists of a letter and key.

  13. Hedy Epstein collection

    The collection consist of documents, photographs, and a towel.

  14. Shirley Sternberg collection

    The collection consists of postage stamps.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Survivor and Veteran Experience Team collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, witnesses to Nazi atrocity, and members of the armed forces who served in the Pacific.

  16. Oral history interviews of the Ehrlich-Schwarz Family collection

    Testimonies of members of the extended Ehrlich and Schwarz families, documenting the history and experiences of various members from Austria and Galicia during the Holocaust era, including their experiences in immigration to various countries.

  17. Oral history interviews of the Nicole Cohen-Addad collection

    Oral history interviews with Algerian Jews and with participants in resistance against the French Vichy regime in order to help the Allies land in Algiers during the November, 8, 1942 Operation Torch.

  18. Judith Taylor collection

    The collection consists of two figurines dreated by defendants awaiting trial at Nuremberg.

  19. Krynski family collection

    The collection consists of three postwar Polish passports issued to Abraham and Sarah Krynski, and family photographs of the Krynski family, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto and later immigrated to the United States. Also included is an inscribed and signed print of The State of Israel by Arthur Szyk. The print is inscribed “To Sarah and Abraham with my compliments, Arthur Szyk, New Canaan, 1948.” Also included are 13 audio cassettes of testimony from Abraham and Sarah Krynski.

  20. Bernard Michel collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Borish (Bernard) Michel prior to his deportation from Luxembourg in 1942 to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.