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  1. James D. Newton collection

    The collection consists of two identification badges found postwar at Dachau concentration camp.

  2. Stanislaw Szosinski collection

    The collection consist of 2 fish knives used in the Warsaw ghetto.

  3. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    The collection consists of unused prisoner identification badges from Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp in Germany which were found by Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Ottoman, United States Army, after the liberation of the camp by American forces, who captured all camp records intact, and which were presented in evidence at the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, War Crimes Trials, in Dachau, Germany, after the war.

  4. Bernhard Press collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform and four family trees.

  5. Carl Ebert collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and a satirical French flier relating to the experiences of Carl Ebert as a US army soldier in the Signal Corps in Europe during World War II.

  6. Ester Guissin collection

    The collection consists of a Russian Medal of Heroism and an accompanying certificate.

  7. Simcha Dimant collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi insignia, two prisoner badges, a German mine warning pennant, and two documents relating to the experiences of Symcho Dymant during the Holocaust in Buchenwald concentration camp, and after the Holocaust in Fulda displaced persons camp in Germany.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Steven Frank collection

    Oral history interviews of the Steven Frank collection.

  9. Joyce and William Becker collection

    The collection consists of Nazi Party artifacts: an armband, a badge, a banner, and a belt buckle relating to the experiences of a United States soldier in Europe near the end of World War II.

  10. Cecil Welch collection

    The collection consists of a chessboard and a wooden box.

  11. Leslie Meisels collection

    The collection consists of cutlery and an identification card relating to the experiences of Laszlo (Leslie) Meisels in Hungary, Austria, and Germany during and after the Holocaust.

  12. William Sharp collection

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

  13. Oral history interviews of the Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen collection

    Oral history interviews of the Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen collection

  14. Giza and Leon Falik and Mildred Stern collection

    The collection consists of three US Army woman's uniform jackets, one matching cap, a bag of loose military buttons, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mordche Lieb (Leon Falik), his wife Giza Sternchuss (later Falik), and Giza's sister Mildred Stern [Malka Sternchuss] in Poland before and during the Holocaust, when Leon fled Poland for the Soviet Union and Giza fled Tarnopol and became a partisan. Mildred left for the United States before the war where she joined the US Women's Army Corps.

  15. David Rose collection

    The collection consists of courtroom art and posters relating to the Klaus Barbie trials in Lyon, France.

  16. Roza Lustgarten collection

    The collection consists of a silver napkin holder and tray given to Roza Lustgarten in 1947.

  17. Augustów Forest partisan collection

    The collection consists of a jacket and belt worn by Partisans in the Augustów Forest, near the Kovno Ghetto.

  19. William Rule collection

    The collection consists of a tolerance gage and 2 aluminum bolts and nuts found in the tunnels at Nordhausen.

  20. Bea Kandell collection

    Consists of an audio file, with typed transcript, of an oral history interview with Bea Bernheimer Kandell, originally of Goeppingen, Germany. In the interview, which was conducted by Brad Zarlin on December 10, 2013, Ms. Kandell describes her memories of pre-war life in Germany, immigrating to the United States with her younger sister in July 1938, the arrival of her parents and youngest sister in 1939, and her wartime and post-war life in the United States. Includes a copy of a photograph of Ms. Kandell.