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  1. James Edward Kirkebo collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: badges, foreign currency, a jacket, maps, posters, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of James Edward Kirkebo in the United States Army in Europe during World War II, including the liberation of Gusen and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  2. Richard and Bertha Heumann Hirschfelder family collection

    The collection consists of currency, a frame, an album, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Richard Hirschfelder and Bertha Lisa Heumann and their extended family in prewar Stuttgart, Germany, and their emigration in 1938.

  3. Ferenc Csato collection

    Consists of materials documenting the efforts of a Hungarian farmer, Ferenc Csato, to save persecuted Jews in 1944. Includes two photographs showing Mrs. Csato and Jewish women wearing the yellow star badge; a 1948 letter testifying about Mr. Csato's 1944 activities; and an audiotaped interview conducted by Istvan Csato with his grandfather, Ferenc Csato, about the events of 1944.

  4. Dorothy L. Jones Miller collection

    The collection consists of documents relating to Dorothy Jones [donors' mother] (b. July 17, 1914) who on July 1, 1945 began to work as Assistant Welfare Officer of UNRRA in US zone in Germany and left in September 1948 as Chief Welfare Officer. The documents include different reports, passports, lists, correspondence, UNRRA publications, and others. Two UNRRA uniforms (2 jackets and 3 skirts), sweaters, dolls, UNRRA patches, name bracelet, metal pins, dolls, doilies, other woven and embroidered items, wooden boxes, pewter set, silver pins and spoon - gifted to Ms. Jones or purchased by her...

  5. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Rose Galek, originally from Poland, who was a forced laborer for Germany during the Holocaust.

  6. Nicole Widerman family collection

    The collection consists of a Corps Auxilliaire Volontaire Feminin uniform jacket, booklets, documents, photographs, and videotapes relating to the experiences of Nicole Widerman and her family in France before, during, and after World War II and in the United States after their postwar immigration.

  7. Gertrude Winter collection

    Gertrude Winter collection of drawings, documents, notebooks, correspondence. Gertrude Winter was born on February 28, 1905. She was a first-and second grade teacher for girls at the "Volksschule der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien," which was located in the Castellezgasse in Vienna. The school was closed in the summer of 1941. The content of the collection includes drawings, poems and essays. There are also nine notebooks with between 22-48 pages of writing. In addition there are 11 photographs of the students and teacher. Altogether 35 of the children can be identified by their names. ...

  8. Oral history interviews of the Esther Toporek Finder collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors from the Las Vegas, NV area about their post-Holocaust experiences.

  9. Magazines

    THe collection consists of copies of "Life" magazine, dated between 1937-1941, and issues of the Pathfinder newsletter, dated 1941.

  10. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The collection consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany. It also contains additional documents, a wallet and a badge.

  11. Fred Levinson collection

    The Levinson and Stern family papers primarily contain biographical materials and photographs related to the Levinson family of Homburg, Saarland, Germany and the Stern family of Kassel, Germany in the 1920s and 1930s prior to immigrating to the United States in 1935. Biographical materials include birth and death records, identification papers, a diary of Ann Stern Levinson, genealogy notes, marriage certificates and two ketubahs. Photographs include numerous identified family members in Germany as well as three photograph albums. The collection also includes a prayerbook, a WWI Iron Cross...

  12. Arundel Antiques collection

    The collection consists of issues of Life magazine, Liberty magazine, Scribner's Commentator, St, Nicholas for Boys and Girls, and True Story magazine, dated 1937-1942, all containing issues related to the United States during World War II and regarding atrocities against Jews.

  14. Otto Pankok collection

    The collection consists of five Sinti woodcut portaits created by Otto Pankok in postwar Germany.

  17. Eastern European sewing equipment collection

    The collection consists of six sewing machines, treadle tables, and a scale used in Poland before, during, and after World War II.

  18. Edmund Graf collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform, soap, a sweater, and a shirt relating to the experiences of Edmund Graf after he was deported from Poland to Flossenburg and Altenhammer concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  19. Paul Weber Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of two wooden candelabra made for Paul Weber Jacobs by a displaced person.

  20. Gerda Ehrenberg family collection

    The collection consists of a print of the Breslau synagogue and a report card relating to the experiences of Gerda Ehrenberg and her family in Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust.