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  1. United States Department of Agriculture ARS Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Lab collection

    The collection consists of two United States Army issued insecticide dusters of the type used in the concentration camps immediately following liberation during and after World War II.

  2. Bella and Henry Tovey collection

    The collection consists of one Łódź ghetto note, two West German banknotes, a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Bella Jacbubowicz (alter Tovey) and her family and Henry Tovey in Łódź, Poland, and Germany during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Medical anatomy chart collection

    The collection consists of two medical anatomy skeleton charts, with one chart showing an anterior skeleton and the other showing a posterior skeleton.

  4. Robert L. White collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and copy prints of photographs relating to the history of the Holocaust.

  5. Martin Spett collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a brooch, soap, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Monek (Martin) Spett and his family in Tarnow, Poland, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust, and in Belgium after the Holocaust.

  6. Joseph Vinnitsky collection

    The collection consists of a reproduced drawing, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Joseph Vinnitsky while serving in the Soviet Army during World War II.

  7. Judith de Leeuw Schavrien and Maier De Leeuw family collection

    The collection consists of a book and photographs relating to the experiences of the family of Meier de Leeuw and Judith de Leeuw Schavrien during and after the Holocaust when they lived in hiding in the Netherlands.

  8. Third Reich propaganda collection

    The collection consists of a banner, a pair of gaiters, a poster, documents, publications, and prints relating to life in Germany under the Third Reich, from 1933-1945.

  9. Raymond Fadner collection

    The collection consists of a poster and photographs relating to the experiences of Raymond Fadner when he worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Washington, DC, after World War II.

  10. Renée Schwalb Fritz collection

    The collection consists of two trunks relating to the experiences of Renee Schwalb and her mother Sima and their emigration to the United States from Belgium after World War II.

  11. John Wachtel collection

    The collection consists of a marriage certificate and a spoon relating to the experiences of Jan (later John) Wachtel during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  12. Michael Greenburg collection

    The collection consist of 5 pieces of scrip.

  13. IBM-DEHOMAG tabulating machine collection

    The collection consists of a three part Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] tabulating system: a Dehomag D11 tabulating machine, sorter, and puncher, four punch card facsimiles, and three user manuals of the type used by the Nazi regime in Germany to tabulate census data.

  14. Maria Sporrer collection

    The collection consists of a 50 kronen note from the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp.

  15. Nancie Furgang collection

    The collection consists of one London News Agency photograph of Nordhausen concentration camp at liberation and two hardbound collections of the British edition of "Yank," a weekly magazine published during World War II by the United States Army.

  16. Collection of posters and propaganda leaflets

    Group of posters and leaflets with anti-Semitic propaganda. Printed in black ink on off-white paper

  17. Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology collection

    The collection consists of books and lantern slides that were used for eugenic studies at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology in Berlin, Germany.

  18. Maurice Chazot collection

    The collection consists of sabots and a wool sample relating to the experiences of Madame Maurice Chazot on France during World War II.

  19. Gyorgy Antos collection

    Collection consists of 17 photographic postcards of scenes of Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics; 1 calling card listing the false identity for Pallos, Klara; 1 photograph of Jozska Lustig wearing a star patch, with verso inscription (in Hungarian) stating the the photo is a form of identity allowing her to work outside the ghetto; 1 typed document posted after the war, searching for Antos, Laszlo; 3 reels of film shot by Laszlo Antos in Berlin, 1936

  20. Genya Markon collection

    The collection consists of two books: a prayer book published by National Jewish Welfare Board for Jewish soldiers in the US Armed Forces, dated 1945, in English and Hebrew; and a book by Heinrich Heine entitled "Memoiren," dated 1884.