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  1. Èva Bán family collection

    The collection consists of an embroidered linen relating to the experiences of Gizella Weisz and a photographic print of Vilma Gonda and her daughter.

  2. Richard Schifter collection

    Correspondence, postcards, photographs, pins, patches, medallions, notebooks, and related documents and ephemera, related to the history of the Schifter family of Vienna, Austria, and the immigration of Richard Schifter to the United States in 1938 and his subsequent service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the Austrian Army during World War I, documents related to Paul Schifter's business ventures in the United States during the 1920s, school documents for Richard Schifter in Austria and...

  3. Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag family collection

    The collection consists of a Bible, with the Old and New Testament in one volume, and four Jewish prayer books relating to the experiences of the Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families in Germany before the Holocaust.

  4. Moses and Mania Leinwand family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, a manuscript, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Moses and Mania Pfeffer Leinwand before and during the Holocaust in and near Przemyslany, Poland, where they lived in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as a copy of a siddur written while in hiding by Moishe Boruchowicz (Borochovitch) of Dzelechov (likely Zelechow), Poland.

  5. Eva Hirschel collection

    The collection consists of an embroidered textile, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eva Hirschel, her mother and stepfather Hedwig and Max Hirschel, and brother Horst who fled Bresalu, Germany, for Shanghai, China, in 1940.

  6. Julien Bryan collection

    Collection consists of motion picture, still photographic materials, and colored glass slides and papers of Julien Bryan's visits to Poland, Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia during World War II. Also included in the collection are Julien Bryan's United States passport, scrapbook of newspaper clippings, announcements, and reviews of Julien Bryan's "Nazi Germany" traveling lecture, an envelope of duplicate newspaper clippings on "Siege" (of Warsaw), and a scrapbook of articles written on Julien Bryan's Siege of Warsaw film and book.

  7. Carl Atkin collection

    The collection consists of photographs, artwork, documents, a ribbon, and scrip relating to the experiences of Carl Atkin’s work after the Holocaust with the UNRRA and later at the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel.

  8. Max Wurzweiler collection

    The collection consists of documents, artifacts, journals, and photos illustrating Max Wurzweiler who was a high ranking Nazi party official.

  9. Josef Pistiner family collection

    The collection consists of badges, wallets, watercolors, correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials related to the experiences of Josef Pistiner and his family, including his parents, Aron and Taube, and brother, Max, before the Holocaust in Galicia, Bukovina, and Berlin and during the Holocaust in Berlin, their 1939 emigration via China to the United States, as well as documents from Josef Pistiner’s service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and restitution files from the 1960s-1970s.

  10. Szamek family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents and a drawing.

  11. Lányi family collection

    The collection consists of a bottle and cup, mess kit, pot, ribbon, spool of thread, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Lanyi family of Budapest, Hungary.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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...

  17. 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.

  18. Hans Landesberg collection

    The collection consists of a lapel pin, a cufflink, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Dr. Hans Landesberg, a member of the International Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.