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  1. Anna Cheszes collection

    Contains photographs and documents pertaining to Anna Cheszes' experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust

  2. Shlomo Solly Perel collection

    Collection of black and white photographs, textbook, postcard and copies of letters and an article. Textbook from the Hitler Youth Academy title, "Die Stimme der Ahnen" (The Voice of the Ancestors), 59 pages, hardbound cover with paper book jacket dated 1937; in German; Berlin, Germany. Collection of 224 pictures showing the history of the Nazi Party with descriptive text on verso, dated circa 1933; in German. Personal correspondence between Solly Perel (donor) and Henriette von Shirach, one postcard, copies of three letters and newspaper article, dated circa 1991; in German and English.

  3. Gaston Schmir collection

    The collection consists of two children's books, "Mon Petit Trott" and "Contes et Légendes Du Grand Siècle," taken by Gaston Schmir from a school library in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, in Apr. 1943. Gaston Schmir left the books in Haute-Savoie, France, before crossing into Switzerland, and he returned and recovered them after World War II.

  4. Moses Schulstein collection

    The collection consists of one typewriter with Yiddish type in a metal case, a pencil sketch, and documents relating to the experiences of Moses Schulstein, a Yiddish poet.

  5. Ariege collection

    Contains a copy of Vichy registration of Jews in Ariege, twelve copyprints, and oral history interviews with Jeanne Rogalle, Claude Delpla, and G. Ane.

  6. Margo and Rudolf Selby family collection

    The collection consists of a bar of soap, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Rozsahegyi and Zelmanovics families in Hungary before and after the Holocaust and in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  7. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949.

  8. Ida Weiss collection

    The collection consists of a steamer trunk and a passport relating to the experiences of Ida Weiss before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and during her emigration to the United States in 1938.

  9. Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD collection

    Collection of newsletters, newspaper clippings, black and white negatives and photographs, documents, glass slides, magazine, Star of David patch, postcards, calling card and 16 mm film reels. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Al Kooper collection

    The collection consists of money, 3 scrip notes and 2 coins, from the ghetto in Łódź, Poland

  12. Henry Kis collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief holder and correspondence relating to the experiences of Heinz (later Henry) Kis who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1936 and the Kis family in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Anne Weil Wascou family collection

    The collection consists of two suitcases, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Anne Weil Wascou and her family during the Holocaust and to the postwar efforts of Anne Wascou to obtain restitution.

  14. Rose Kfar Rose collection

    The collection consist of books relating to the experiences of Rose Kwar in Krakow, Poland, after the Holocaust when she continued to live under an assumed Christian identity.

  16. Howard Zar collection

    The collection consists of pastels created by Leon Target depicting a French post-war ballet about the Holocaust.

  17. Moszek Brycman collection

    The collection consists of posters and a flier advertising Zionist and Socialist events in post-war France as well as a commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

  18. Leo Haas collection

    The collection consists of eleven artworks created by Leo Haas, some created during World War II when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps, and some after the war when he was a satirical cartoonist in Berlin, East Germany.

  19. Les L. Salter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ludwig Salzer as a refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  20. Stanley Becker collection

    The collection consists of 4 framed drawings (black ink and graphite) on paper by Arthur Szyk.