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  1. Vladimir Brandwajn collection

    The collection consists of infant's clothing and a photograph relating to the experiences of Vladimir Brandwajn and his family in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp where he and his brother were born after the Holocaust.

  2. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Hanni Sondheimer, her parents, Moritz and Setty, and her brother, Karl, as they emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to Kaunas, Lithuania, and then to Shanghai, China, before and during the Second World War. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

  6. Kevin Mahoney collection

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

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. Der Baginen collection

    Two issues of a journal: Nr. 2 dated March 1945 and Nr. 3 dated May 1945 of Der Baginen. Tsaytshrift Di Yidishe Plitim in der Shvayts; in Hebrew.

  10. Jackie Deslauriers collection

    The collection consists of NSDAP (Nazi Party) newspapers published in Germany during the government of the Third Reich.

  11. Elysa Camozzo collection

    The collection consists of three books titled: "Die Juden," "Liturgie fuer die Einfsegnungsfeier in der Juedische Reform=Gemeinde," and "The University of Chicago Round Table: A Radio Discussion of the Jews."

  12. Morris Troper collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and clippings concerning the efforts of Morris Troper, European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in assisting more than 900 Jewish passengers aboard the MS St. Louis and his success in ultimately securing their safe refuge in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, and France. Also included in the collection are two 16 mm film reels of the Agro-Joint activity in Russia in 1936 that was shot by Morris Troper for the Joint Distribution Committee.

  13. German propaganda and publications collection

    The collection consists of World War II era artifacts, documents, and publications.

  14. Iris Avni-Menzer family collection

    The collection consists of tefillin with storage pouch and photographs relating to the experiences of Herta (Iris) Menzer and the Menzer and Steiner families in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, and the surrounding region during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Nazi government Jewish propaganda collection

    The collection consists of labels and postcards relating to restrictions regarding medical care and correspondence imposed upon Jews by the Nazi government, 1933-1945.

  16. Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz while living in Trembowla and in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.

  17. Bela Gondos family collection

    The collection consists of a drawing, three chemises, a doll, eyeglasses, food container, handkerchief, suitcase, wallet, wristwatch, documents, photographs, and writings relating to the experiences of Dr. Bela Gondos, his wife Anna, and their daughter Judit before the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary, during the Holocaust in Budapest, on the Kasztner train, in Bergen-Belsen, and Switzerland, and after the Holocaust in Switzerland and the United States.

  18. Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier and Erich Maier family collection

    The collection consists of a bar of soap, paper currency, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier, Erich Maier, and members of their families in Austria before World War II and in Europe and the United States during and after the war.

  19. Simon Gelbart collection

    The collection consists of shoemaking tools relating to the experiences of Simon Gelbart in Poland before the war and in Poland and the Soviet Union, including forced labor service with the Soviet Army, during World War II.

  20. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    The collection consists of boots, a dress, gloves, jacket, necktie, two purses, shoes, and a wardrobe trunk, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor and Fanny Bieder and their daughters, Frieda and Gertrude, in Vienna, Austria, and during their emigration to the United States via Palestine before and during the Holocaust.