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  1. Isidor Urbach family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor Urbach and his family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  2. Ignatz Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a tallit and 3 pieces of Theresienstadt scrip.

  5. Harry E. Norman collection

    The collection consists of a belt and a collectin of lantern slides.

  6. Claude Maly collection

    The collection consists of five newspapers published in France as the war in Europe was ending; four of them are VE Day issues.

  7. Deadly Medicine poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: "Mendelian chart" and "Ausmerzung des Kranken und Schwachen in der Natur"

  8. Robert Adelman collection

    The collection consists of an antisemitic NSDAP poster and to pieces of concentration camp scrip.

  9. Herman Schloss family collection

    The collection consists of scrip. tefillin, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Herman Schloss, from Sugenheim, Germany, who fled Nazi rule for the United States in 1938.

  10. Henryk Hechtkopf collection

    The collection of consists of four postwar drawings, an invitation and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Henryk Hechtkopf, following his return to Warsaw, Poland, after the war during which he was imprisoned in a Soviet slave labor camp. -Łódź, Poland

  11. Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American soldier and Edith, a survivor of Auschwitz. Also includes a large spiral bound book of scans, descriptions, and narrative of the collection and DVDs of film footage which Nathan Litvin produc...

  12. Nestor Winters collection

    The collection consists of an armband and two documents relating to the experiences of inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during and after the Holocaust.

  13. Krakow, Poland collection

    The collection consists of clothing irons, a coffee mill, a meat grinder, and a scale relating to Krakow, Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  14. Mortimer Schaffer collection

    The collection consists of Nazi propaganda slides.

  15. Erna Bernat collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt scrip relating to the experiences of Erna Bernat who was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  16. Max Schmeidler family collection

    The collection consists of a pin, six pieces of currency, correspondence, documents, newspapers, negatives and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.

  17. Ina R. Friedman collection

    Consists of research files, oral history interviews, transcripts, and notes produced by Ina R. Friedman during her research for her books on the Holocaust. Collection also includes original documents and identity cards for Dr. Richard Kahn and Ida Stern Kahn, originally of Berlin, Germany, as well as information about Cato Bontjes Van Beek, a member of the Resistance.

  18. Charles and Hana Bruml family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, Star of David badges, clothing, drafting tools, a drawing, Theresienstadt scrip, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Charles (Karel) Bruml and Hana Mueller Schiff Sukova Bruml in prewar Prague, Czechoslovakia, and in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp and several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia and the United States after the Holocaust.

  20. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and overcoat relating to the experiences of a Jehovah's Witness imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps in Germany before and during the Holocaust.