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  1. Joseph Trost collection

    The collection consists of a Sonderkommando badge and a piece of scrip from Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland

  2. Joel Forman collection

    The collection consists of coins, currency, scrip, and stamps from various European countries, ghettos, concentration camps, prisoner of war (POW) camps, and displaced persons (DP) camps before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  4. Faliero Lucaccini collection

    The collection consists of a film projector with case, transformer and 11 film strips used by the Hitler Youth found by Faliero Lucaccini in a school house in Germany while he was serving in the US Army.

  5. Benny Guinossar collection

    Consists of one metal and plastic watch belonging to the donor's brother, Alfred Ginzburg; 30 photographs of the donor in hiding, in Hachshara training, and in Hamburg, Germany; and documents received in Port de Bouc, France.

  6. Alex Hochauser collection

    Contains twenty-four family photographs, one negative, five copyprints, a commemorative pin from Ebensee, pin from Jewish brigade, and a metal stick pick of NSDAP. The papers also include photocopies of articles pertaining to the donor's history with Maccabi, one brochure from Dachau, Certificat from ORT, KZ bill from Auschwitz, six pages from a manuscript written in Zilnia, Slovakia, (1942-1943), a protective certificate from the Hungarian army, and one letter (1938) from sports teacher

  7. Dr. Alfred Beck collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi banner and a Nazi armband bearing swastikas

  8. Artur Shmuel Zygielbaum collection

    Group of photographs, photograph album and 2 change purses relating to Artur Shmuel Zygielbaum and dated circa 1921-1984

  9. Erwin Bensdorf collection

    Brown leather-like pencil case with 3 graphite pencils, 2 fountain pens, 4 colored pencils and 1 eraser recieved by Erwin Bensdorf in Germany before he emigrated to England in 1939 and used in England. One photogragh album compiled by Max Haybrook, who assisted children from Nazi-occuped Europe through the Kindertransport (4 loose photos inside), 3 photographs (one framed), one document with compilation of notes written in gratitude from KT to Max Haybrook and one typed report compiled by Haybrook concerning events surrounding arrival and care of refugee children in England.

  10. Augusta F. Kaplan collection

    Consists of artifacts and documents relating to Augusta Feldhorn's childhood in Vienna, Austria; later as a hidden child in the convent Les Soeurs du St. Coeur de Marie, Malaise-La Hulpe, Belgium; and after emigrating to the United States in 1949.

  11. Blumenstein family collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the experiences of the Blumenstein family in Vienna, Austria, on board the MS St. Louis, in hiding in Holland, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. Includes a photograph of the donor's father in Sosua, Dominican Republic and a photograph taken in a Quaker camp for refugees in Havana, Cuba.

  12. Simon Jeruchim collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Simon Jeruchim and his family in France during and after World War II, when he lived as a hidden child in Normandy and then in foster homes near Paris.

  13. Samuel Flecker collection

    The collection consists of one German bank note and six pieces of scrip in 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Kronen denominations from Theresienstadt (Terezin), Czechoslovakia.

  14. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, children's drawings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Charles A. Weingarten and his family in prewar and wartime France where he lived as a hidden child, and after the war while he recuperated in Switzerland, and then returned to France. Charles Albert Weingarten is the son of Margarethe (Marguerite) Weingarten and Rudolph Gelb. He was born on Jan. 13, 1941, in Nice, France. In 1943 when the Germans invaded the area, Margarethe hid with Charles in the basement of a building in rue Verdi in Nice. In July 1943 Margarethe and Charl...

  15. Marvin Benn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to Jewish life in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Jaša and Enica Frances Altarac families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Jaša Altarac and his family before and during the war in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (later Serbia,) and during the Holocaust in Skopje, Macedonia, Pristina, Kosovo, and Albania and two photographs relating to the experiences of Enica Frances and her family in Albania during the Holocaust.

  17. Steffa Horowitz Mairanz collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Steffa Horowitz Mairanz and Tadek Mairanz before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  18. Antal Pal collection

    The collection consists of a bracelet that was worn by Antal Pal from Tîrgu-Mureș, Romania, while he was imprisoned in Melk concentration camp and a piece of cloth from the pocket of a uniform that belonged to a friend of Antal Pal.

  19. Gerard Fields family collection

    The collection consists of a microscope and accessories, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences Gerard Blumenfeld (later Fields) and his family in France and Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Esia Baran Friedman collection

    Collection of black and white photographs, letters, documents, pins and a book relating to Esia Baran Friedman's family before the war in Vilna and after the war in DP camps in Germany and Austria.