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  1. Brant famly collection

    The collection consists of clippings and newspapers from Cedar Falls, Iowa and Des Moines, Iowa.

  2. Edith B. Ziegler Lowe collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Edith Ziegler who went to the United Kingdom with the Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria. The collection includes documents, correspondence, photographs, publications (3 miniature English-German/German-English dictionaries) and a handmade item in the shape of a key.

  3. Tenzer family collection

    The collection consists of a document holder, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Samuel Tenzer and his parents, Melvin and Lillian (Telerman) Tenzer in Poland before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  4. Menczel, Kahn and Reichnitzer family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, books, and a textile relating to the holocaust-era experiences of Shulamith Ziv's family. This includes a Deutsches Reisepasse belonging to Szmil and Adele Menczel, prewar photographs of the donor's maternal and paternal grandparents and cousins, transportation passes, announcement of PhD ceremony for the donor's mother, Fanny Menczel Kahn, and other documents. Also, a poetry book written by and a cookbook belonging to Frieda Reichnitzer, the donor's mother-in-law, an autograph book belonging to Fanny Menczel, two friendship books belonging...

  5. Oral history interviews of the Lebow family collection

    Oral history interviews with Hildegard Lebow

  6. Annie Windschauer Spegal collection

    Consists of letters written to Annie Windschauer Spegal from her parents and brother, a letter from her then boyfriend Fred Marot who was interned at Bourg-lastic, a portrait of Fred Marot by Felix Kalischer, and photos. Also includes other correspondence.

  7. Grubman family collection

    Oral history interview and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Sara Grubman

  8. Mrs. Cyrus J. Janover collection

    The collection consists of seven Der Stürmer newpapers.

  9. Harry Markowicz collection

    The Harry Markowicz photograph collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and copyprints of Harry Markowicz and his family in Widawa, Poland; Berlin, Germany; and Brussels, Belgium from 1920-1949. It also includes one framed hand-painted photograph of Harry Markowicz that was made after his family was reunited. It further includes a bracelet inscribed "Henri Vanderlinden" entrusted to Harry Markowicz immediately following the WWII by the family with whom he hid.

  10. Oral history interviews of the “Nuremberg Remembered” documentary film collection

    Oral history interviews with participants in the Nuremberg trials (1945-1949 ) who served in a variety of roles, including members of the legal team for the prosecution and a journalist who reported on the events for the press

  11. Wladislaw and Jozefa Misniakewicz collection

    The collection consists of books recovered from a burned synagogue, in Dubiecko, Poland, in September 1939, by Wladislaw and Jozefa Misniakewicz.

  12. Michael W. Barnes collection

    The collection consists of a Waffen SS knife bayonet and a scrip receipt from Westerbork, Netherlands, transit camp used during World War II in Europe.

  13. Elen Chajet Murad collection

    The collection consists of a doll and photograph relating to the experiences of Helene Chajet during the Holocaust when she lived in hiding in Arleuf, France.

  14. Arthur Mendel collection

    The collection consists of Jewish prayer books owned by a prisoner at Gurs concentration camp in France.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Michael Schwartz collection

    Oral history interviews with Edgar Ansten and Marian Ansten

  16. Sue Elder collection

    The collection consists of federal documents, ID cards, trial booklets, clippings, stamps, currency, and other ephemera documenting the experiences of Sue Elder, who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials from 1946-1948.

  17. Leonard Greenblatt collection

    The collection consists of a silk escape map, a letter, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leonard Greenblatt as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.

  18. Leo Haas collection

    The collection consists of a publication, 12 puvodnich litografii z německych koncentracnich taboru Leo Haas, a set of lithographs created by Leo Haas about the concentration camps where he was imprisoned during World War II, that was published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1947.

  19. Adrienne Friede Krausz collection

    The collection consists of Buchenwald scrip, news clippings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adrienna Matyas (Krausz) as a prisoner in Altenburg and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust and her subsequent role as a witness during the postwar trial of a war criminal. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. William G. Justis Jr. collection

    The collection consists of two pieces of 1 RM Buchenwald scrip and typed testimony from 2013 relating to the experiences of William (Bill) G. Justis, Jr., a soldier in the 5th Ranger Battalion during World War II, who was stationed as a guard at the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.