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  1. Zyzniewski family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor portrait, correspondence, documents, photographs, photo albums, and publications relating to the experiences of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which Wesley and his mother Janina were arrested for their political activities and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  2. Early 20th century Germany business equipment collection

    The collection consists of an AGFA Billy I automatic camera, a Kantorowicz liqueur bottle, a Reichspost W28 rotary phone, and a spring balance scale as examples of personal and business equipment that would have been in use in Germany in the early 20th century.

  3. Peter Dallos family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and postcards relating to the experiences of Erno and Maria Klein Deutsch and their son Peter in Hungary during the Holocaust and to Maria and Peter after the war.

  4. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of two artworks created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933.

  5. Erna and Otto Stein family collection

    The Otto and Erna Stein family collection includes a German Cross of Honor for World War I Combatants, biographical materials and correspondence documenting the Stein family, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and their relatives’ experiences under Nazi rule in Neustadt an der Haardt, Nieder-Olm, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim.

  6. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    The collection consists of a paint roller and stencil, two wallpaper samples, a plaque, a death certificate, and a Bible relating to the experiences of Franz Wohlfahrt and his family and their persecution as Jehovah Witnesses by the government of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945.

  7. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection

    The collection consist of a knife, documents, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther and Helen Mermelstein, sisters, before and during the Holocaust when they were deported from Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia, to Munkacs Ghetto, and then to a series of concentration camps until liberated in Bergen Belsen and after the Holocaust in Karlstad, Sweden.

  8. Henry Carter collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

  9. Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, identity paperwork, notes, photographs, and published material related to the experiences of Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson and their family before the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Lithuania and during and after the Holocaust in Lithuania and the United States, where they emigrated in 1940.

  10. David Klipp collection

    The collection consists of scrip relating to the experiences of David Klipp during and after the Holocaust during which he was imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto in Poland and Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps.

  11. Ernest Bergman collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, and envelopes, postcards, and philatelic material relating to experiences in Switzerland, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust and World War II.

  12. New Yorker magazine collection

    Two covers of The New Yorker magazine: one dated August 1, 1936 and the other dated June 10, 1939.

  13. Stanley Frosh collection

    The collection consists of 42 pieces of blank Nazi party letterhead.

  14. Samuel Kaufman collection

    The collection consists of 5 lids from cans used to house ashes of cremated victims from Buchenwald.

  16. Stanislaw Mambort collection

    The collection consists of currency, a map, and documents relating to the experiences of Stanislaw Mambort during World War II when he fought with the Armia Krajowa in the Warsaw Uprising, was held as a German prisoner of war, and upon liberation, joined the Polish Military in the West.

  17. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The collection consists of a rosary, St. Anthony statuette, bible, and a doll's suitcase relating to the experiences of Laura and Selma (Zofia) Schwarzwald in Lvov and other areas of Poland where they lived in hiding under assumed indentites as Catholics during and after the Holocaust.

  18. German poster collection

    The collection consists of anti-Semitic, advertising, and political posters, and a pair of shoes worn in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  19. Eiszyszki shoemaker's tools collection

    The collection consists of 2 shoemaker's tools.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Lausanne Collegiate School collection

    Interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by students of Lausanne Collegiate School.