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  2. Peter Vanlaw collection

    Photographs, a diary, correspondence, artwork, documentary film, and oral testimony depicting the lives of the Vanlaw (Weinlaub) and Natzler families in prewar Germany.

  3. Forrest James Robinson, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of a poster stamp and photographic print of an Associated Press photo.

  4. Arthur and Meta Grunebaum Schmitt collection

    The collection consists of military artifacts and documents, photographs, correspondence, documents, and a dictionary relating to the experiences of Arthur (Abraham) Schmitt and Meta (Miriam) Grunebaum Schmitt and their families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  5. Jim Robinson collection

    The collection consists of pin-back buttons, pamphlets, advertisements, handbills, and similar materials relating to American interest groups, organizations, and institutions expressing support or opposition to American involvement in World War II and a range of associated political and social groups.

  6. Oberlender family collection

    The collection consists of documents and DP era scrip pertaining to the experiences of Martin and Betty Oberlender, both Survivors of the Holocaust.

  7. Halina Peabody collection

    The collection consists of a makeup compact and beaded bag that belonged to donor’s aunt who perished during the Holocaust.

  9. Bund family collection

    The collection consists of travel documentation, correspondence, and luggage tags relating to the Bund family's immigration to the United States in 1938.

  10. Bellows family collection

    Photographs and an oral testimony from Marvin Bellows who served with the US Army during WWII and was present at the rededication of the synagogue in Bad Nauheim, Germany following the end of the war

  11. Jewish community in Częstochowa and German propaganda collection

    The collection consists of photographs and postcards documenting the life of the Jewish community in Czestochowa between 1946-1949, and a propaganda poster propagating a thesis about the military threat faced by a disarmed Germany published in 1934.

  12. John L. Spanier family collection

    The collection consists of a fraternity medallion, correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lothar (John L.) Spanier and his family in Berlin, Germany, before and during the Holocaust, and of John after his emigration to the United States in 1939.

  13. Kurt Fisch collection

    The collection consists of archival papers and three rubber stamps captured from the Hermann Goering Division in Italy.

  14. Annette and Franz R. Hollo collection

    Consists of two videotaped oral histories with Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austira, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. Also includes short descriptions of the wartime experiences of Franz Robert Hollo, originally of Vienna, Austria, and Annette Drechsler Hollo, originally of Paris, France. The Hollos both spent part of the war in hiding--Franz in Hungary in 1944 and Annette in France from 1942-1944--as well as a photograph of Franz and his sister Veronica in 1939 and a copyprint of Annette, ca. 1941.

  15. Robert Alden collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Robert Alden as a soldier in the United States Army during World War II when he participated in the liberation of concentration camps in Germany.

  16. Eva Biro Slott family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and a memoir relating to the experiences of Eva Biro Slott and her family during the Holocaust in the ghetto and in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, as well as two identification tags relating to the experiences of her cousin, Arie Kadar, as a prisoner of war in a German stalag.

  17. Edith Hamberg Tarcov collection

    The collection consists of textiles (dinner napkins) entrusted to Edith Hamberg Tarcov, the donor’s mother, by her grandparents during the Holocaust when she emigrated from Hannover Germany.

  18. Young German Order collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album, documents, and artifacts related to the "Young German Order."

  19. Oral history interviews of the "Heaven in Auschwitz" documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews produced for the documentary film "Heaven in Auschwitz"

  20. Miriam Lieber collection

    The collection consists of a child-size, toy horse and carriage and photographs of children with the toy and a group of men relating to the experiences of Miriam (later Lieber) and Heskel Kagan and their parents, Raja and Berl Kagan, in Lithuania during the Holocaust, and in Italy after World War II.