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  1. Erika Rybeck collection

    The collection consists of a drawing, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Erika Schulhof and her family in Vienna, Austria, and Erika's experience as a Kindertransport refugee in the United Kingdom before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Olga and Werner Leszynski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Olga and Werner Leszynski and their daughter, Ruth, in Berlin, Germany, and Prague, Czechoslovakia, and their emigration to the United States before the Holocaust.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Posters

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

  10. Adolf Fingrut collection

    The collection consists of a field camera, tripod, and attachments: lens, remote shutter release, 3 wooden film holders, and metal tripod attachments relating to the experiences of Adolf Fingrut before, during, and after the Holocaust in Rembertow, Poland, where he owned a successful photography studio, then in Warsaw, Praga, and Opole where he survived under a fasle identity and with the help of his future wife Michalina Jarowszewska.

  12. Norman Naftali Silver collection

    The collection consists of a briefcase, wallet, coin, and photograph relating to the experiences of Norman Naftali Zylberminc (later Silver) after the Holocaust in Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany.

  14. Renee Lisse Sachs family collection

    The collection consists of a doll, documents, an oral history, and photographs relating to the experiences of Renee Lyszka and her family in prewar, wartime, and postwar Poland, France, and the United States.

  15. Michael D. Zentman collection

    The collection consists of American anti-Hitler, anti-Axis, and anti-Stalin propaganda materials, including pins, postcards, toys, advertisements, envelope, and other ephemera.

  16. Stars and Stripes on Nuremberg Trials collection

    The collection consists of a Stars and Stripes newspaper from September 30, 1946, Index to the rulings of the Tribunal consisting of 133 pages, and other documents in a folder marked "Rulings of the Tribunal"

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.