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  1. Nazi-issued propaganda magazines

    Nazi issued propaganda magazines entitled: Die Arbeitsmaid, Berlin; Ewiges Deutschland, circa July 1937; Freude und Arbeit, Berlin 1938; Freude und Arbeit, Berlin, 1938; Freude und Arbeit, Berling 1939; Deutshland, Germany 1934.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education collection

    Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education collection.

  3. Chana Pergerycht Wandersman collection

    The collection consists of a leather satchel, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chana Pergerycht Wandersman in Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, and in Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  4. Leon Scharff collection

    The collection consists of three pieces of scrip relating to the experiences of Lt. Leon Scharff, US Army Signal Corps, who was among the first wave of American troops to enter and liberate Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.

  5. Bernard Robinson collection

    Recorded interviews, notes, photographs, correspondence, copied documents, and other research material compiled, collected, or created by Bernard Robinson, the donor’s father, as well as Amalia Robins, the donor's mother, in the course of their extensive research on the topic of women who were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, and were forced on death marches toward the end of that war. The specific focus of much of the material are the two death marches that Amalia Robinson participated in between January and May 1945. Includes approximately 100 or more audiorecordings of interv...

  6. Oral history interviews of the Sender Shapiro and Abe Rabinowitz collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by Robert Moses Shapiro and Isaiah Kuperstein.

  7. Henrik Roth family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, pocket watch and stand, two copyprints, and three prayerbooks relating to the experiences of Henrik, Celina, and George (b. 1941) Rath (later Roth), during the Holocaust which they survived by living under assumed identities in Poland and after the war when they lived in Paris, France, from 1947-1951.

  8. The Gajer and Kauders-Kuhe families collection

    Identity cards, documents, certificates and scrip from before, during, and after the Holocaust for Bozena Grunhut (nee Belska) and Abraham Gajer (later Gayer) [donor's parents] and their first spouses Robert Israel Kauders-Kuhe (later Jaros) and Nelli Hammer, and Robert's mother Adrienne Kauders-Kuhe. In addition to identification paperwork, the collection contains DP camp materials, immigration and naturalization documents for Canada and USA, compensation claims, as well as correspondence concerning Nelli Gayer's treatment for PTSD related to her time in the concentration camps. Collection...

  9. Marianne Cohn Roberts collection

    The collection consist of a bank note, clippings, photographs, and a speech relating to the experiences of Marianne Cohn Roberts, who left Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, for the United States in 1939.

  11. Lester and Esther Suna Dulberg family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leiser Dulberg and Esther Suna (later) Dulberg before and during the Holocaust when they emigrated in 1939 from Łódź, Poland, to the United States.

  12. Pick family collection

    The collection consists of four watercolors created by Jo Spier while imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia and a brooch with charms representing aspects of daily life at Theresienstadt.

  13. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of over 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, toys and everyday household items decorated with depiction...

  14. Frederick Weinstein collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, diary, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fryderyk Winnykamien (later Frederick Weinstein) during and after the Holocaust when he escaped the Warsaw ghetto and survived in hiding, lived with his parents and wife in Duppel displaced persons camp before emigrating to the United States.

  15. Milton E. Dowse collection

    The collection consists of a Deutsche Arbeitsfront flag, copied documents, and two copies of a transcript and recorded interview relating to the experiences of Major Milton Evans Dowse, United States Army, after his liberation from a German prisoner-of-war camp, Oflag 64, during World War II and a 1984 interview of his wartime experiences.

  16. Four Freedoms poster collection

    The collection consist of four United States World War II war bonds posters featuring paintings by Norman Rockwell inspired by Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

  17. Liebschütz and Rozsa family collection

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, diaries, and other writings, related to the families of Elise (Lisa) Rozsa, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia, and her husband, Imre Rozsa, originally of Hungary, both of whom fled Europe during the Holocaust, living in exile in Iraq, Palestine, Uganda, and Kenya. The collection includes written memoirs from Lisa Rozsa and her mother, Selma Liebschütz, detailing their experiences during the war years, including Liebschütz's account of being deported to Auschwitz, her experiences in several subsequent camps as a forced laborer, escape from a death mar...

  18. Oral history interviews of the Transcending Trauma Project collection

    The Juliet Spitzer and Phil Wachs Archive of the Transcending Trauma Project collection, produced by the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia, PA, includes oral histories of three generations of Holocaust survivor families, focusing on how survivors coped following the war, the impact of their experiences on their children, and the varied legacies that they have passed on to their grandchildren.

  19. Marie Naples collection

    Collection consists of a portrait of Adolf Hitler and a signet ring.

  20. Michael J. Kraus collection

    The collection consists of two pieces of Theresienstadt scrip, correspondence, documents, memoirs, and three handwritten notebooks created from 1945-1947 relating to the experiences of Michal J. Kraus, (later Michael) who was interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Melk, and Gunskirchen concentration camps during the Holocaust.