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  1. Heinemann and Graetz families collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the Heinemann and Graetz families in Nazi-occupied Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  2. Shoshana Neuman collection

    The collection consists of two paintings created by Shoshana Neuman around 2007 depicting scenes from her childhood in the Bershad ghetto in Transnistria, Romanian occupied territory, during the Holocaust.

  3. World War II antisemitic and anti-Nazi poster collection

    The collection consists of four posters, two Serbian antisemitic posters, one Nuremberg Trial poster, and one Polish film poster, that are relevant to the history of the Holocaust.

  4. Alkis Keramidas collection

    This collection consists of three drawings, one watercolor painting and one oil painting created by Alkis (Alkiviades) Keramidas immediately after World War II, depicting German retaliation aktion in Greece.

  5. Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families collection

    The collection consists of a medal, correspondence, and documents relating to the Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany, and the United States where several family members emigrated to escape persecution.

  6. Herman Neudorf collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner patch, documents, testimony, and publications relating to the experiences of Hermann Naidorf (later Neudorf) and his family members before and during the Holocaust in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and Łódź, Poland, during which Hermann was imprisoned in Riga Ghetto and Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when he emigrated to Paris, France, Colombia, and finally the United States.

  7. Posters

    2 posters: Rescue and Refuge: United States Committee for the Care of European Children Work to Keep Free. War Production Board, dated 1943

  8. Evelyn Neufeld collection

    Collection of documents relating to Willy and Dora Neufeld during the Holocaust in Hamburg, Germany, 1939-1945. Postwar documents relating to the community activity of Willy Neufeld and the Neufeld family emigration to the US in 1951; Star of David badge which Willy Neufeld was forced to wear during the war years. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Philip Sherman collection

    The collection consists of three newspapers published in the United States: the Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter and the Free American. dated November 30, 1939; The Free American and Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, dated May 16, 1940, and Father Coughlin's Social Justice, dated January 16, 1939; the first two promote German identity in the US and downplay Nazism, while the third last was promoted by a patriotic populist individual.

  10. Kurt Zimmerman collection

    The collection consists of a documents, books, cigarette albums, newspapers, magazines and clippings relating to the experiences of Kurt Zimmerman while he was serving with the US Army in Germany with the Counter Intelligence Corps, following World War II. Kurt Zimmerman was one of the Ritchie Boys and was in charge of Ludwigsburg intermnent camp for German prisoners of war.

  11. Anholt family collection

    Collection consisting of material relating to the experiences of Marius Anholt as a child during the Holocaust, and the experiences of his parents, Solomon and Elsje Joosten Anholt. The collection also includes a Purim megillah that belonged to the donor's nephew (his mother's sister's son), Meyer van Thyn.

  12. US war information publications collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers and five Office of War Information pamphlets published in the United States circa 1941-1945.

  13. Samuel Klehr collection

    The collection consists of three Yank Magazines.

  14. Polish inmates in Ravensbrueck collection

    The collection consists of one doily and two drawings created by Polish prisoners in Ravensbrueck concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  15. Herbert H. Gould collection

    The collection consists of a photograph and a publication. Booklet: publication printed on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Jewish Commerce Gymnasium in Kovno, Lithuania, dated 1936; in Yiddish. Included in publication, page 26 bottom, are only known two survivors from class including donor (1st row, third from right). Photograph of staff (mainly survivors of Dachau concentration camp) in Landsberg am Lech, Germany; dated circa 1945-1946 (image printed in reverse). Also includes a chronology written by survivors in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Some of these materials ma...

  16. Adolphe and Raechel Dikker collection

    The collection consists of a postcard and a pillowcase relating to the experiences of Adolphe and Raechel Dikker during World War II when Adolphe, a Dutch civilian, was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in Java.

  17. Kevin Mahoney collection

    The collection consists of four Army Talks magazines, 6 Life magazines, and 1 negative of an image of Nuremberg Stadium

  18. Paul and Sally Comins Edelsberg family and Kurt Clark collection

    The collection consists of a doll, a child’s dress and ankle boots, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Zelda Kamieniecki (later Comins) and Pinkus Edelsberg after the war in displaced persons camps in Germany, and of the Bebczuk/ Kamieniecki family, and of their friend Kurt Clark before, during and after the Holocaust.

  19. Mark Rumple collection

    The collection consists of two Nazi propaganda magazines: Der Untermensch, published in 1942, and Ein Volk/Ein Reich/Ein Fuhrer, published in Mar./Apr. 1938. Also included are two post-World War II newspaper clippings from Allegemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung, dated Sept. 1, 1961, and Nord-Amerika, dated July 21, 1949

  20. Sheva Alszuld Zilberberg collection

    The collection consists of a prenuptial agreement for Marjem Alszuld donor's aunt, documents relating to the donor's family, a letter written by the donor's cousin, 15 photographs of images of the donor and her family before, during, and after World War II, and a Megilat Ester. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.