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  1. Nadia Meshorer collection

    The collection consists of a Polish army uniform that belonged to Ester Leah (Lola) Szafran, nee Witkowska when she was a nurse with the Polish Army during the Holocaust. Also included are a set of dog tags, a business card and 26 black and white photographs.

  2. Jack Goldman collection

    The collection consists of Łódź ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Jack Goldman in Poland after the Holocaust.

  3. Dr. Kasriel Eilender collection

    The collection consists of one ration card and three publications relating to the experiences of Kasriel Eilender at Fohrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust during which he had been imprisoned in Mogilev, Majdanek, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau concentration camps.

  4. Randolph Braham collection

    The collection consists of research material collected by Randolph L. Braham, the world renowned expert on the Holocaust in Hungary. Includes materials relevant to the Holocaust and its aftermath in Eastern Europe in general, and in Hungary and Romania in particular, trials against suspected war criminals, the revival of extreme right ideologies, and biographical information pertaining to the donor. Organized into 17 series: Series 1: Hungarian Records Relating to the Holocaust, 1944; 184 microfilm reels; Series 2: Records Relating to the Béla Berend (Albert Bruce Belton) Cases against Rand...

  5. Mara Vishniac Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a German commemorative coin and publications relating to the experiences of Mara Vishniac in Berlin, Germany, prior to and during the Holocaust.

  6. Neuengamme and Auschwitz concentration camps letters

    Group of letters from Neuengamme and Auschwitz concentration camps dated 1943 and 1941. Also includes one printed map, a poster, an article and two books.

  7. J. George Mitnick collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of J. George Mitnick before and during his tour of duty as a Captain in the US Army, 65th Infantry Division, in Europe where his unit liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany and assisted in the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and after the war in the United States.

  8. Oral history interviews with Roma Survivors from the Daniel Riesenfeld collection

    Contains interviews with Polish Roma survivors, conducted by Daniel Riesenfeld in Warsaw, Bielsk, and Bialstok in April 1990. Survivors interviewed are Kazimierz Michej, Zofia Lakatus, Waleria Rutkowska, and Marianna Marcinkiewicz.

  9. Edith Simon Rosenthal collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Edith Simon Rosenthal and her family in Leipzig, Germany, prior to their emigration to the United States in 1937.

  10. Frank and Edith More families collection

    Collection consists of prayer book, an identification booklet, and a photograph that relates to the families of Frank and Edith More during the time surrounding the Holocaust.

  11. Arno Nadel collection

    The collection consists of two artworks created by Arno Nadel, a Jewish artist and musicologist in Berlin, Germany, before the Holocaust.

  12. Alfred Moritz collection

    The collection consists of artwork, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Moritz and his family in Germany and while living in hiding in France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  13. Cayla DuChene Houston collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the history of the Nazi party in Germany during the Third Reich.

  14. Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein collection

    Consists of a diary: written by "Deborah" in the Warsaw ghetto, wrapped in a Polish newspaper, dated 11 July 1945; Deborah (last name unknown) was killed by a bomb in Warsaw during the Polish uprising in 1944. Lusia Hornstein (donor's mother and a friend of Deborah's) retrieved the diary in the Spring of 1945 from a burned out home where she was living under false papers

  15. William G. Allan collection

    The collection consists of military insignia and photographs relating to the experiences of William G. Allan as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army, 99th Infantry Brigade, during his service in Germany during World War II.

  16. Renee Konstandt Lang collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Renee Konstandt Lang and her family in Vienna, Austria, before, during, and after World War II and in various concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  17. Jakob Glantz collection

    The collection consists of a painting, correspondence, documents, and identity cards related to the experiences of Jakob Glantz, originally of Szaszvar, Hungary, who fled Vienna Austria after Kristallnacht with his wife and daughter, to Shanghai, where he passed away in 1948.

  18. Ross Baker family collection

    The collection consists of a camera, currency, a flag, a poster, a songbook, stamps, toy figurines, correspondence, a diary, documents, film, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ross and Helen Baker and their five sons, Phillip, Porter, Frederick, Stanley, and Raymond, in Vienna, Austria, before World War II.

  19. Hans Praschkauer collection

    The collection consists of artifacts (two pins and one armband), composition books, correspondence, documents, publications, and scrapbooks related to the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Hans (Heinz) Praschkauer, in Breslau, Germany, Shanghai, China, and the United States.

  20. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    The collection consists of six handcrafted metal artifacts, documents, a memory book, and a scrapbook album related to the experiences of Margaret Gruenbaum and her children, Marietta and Michael, in Czechoslovakia before and during the Holocaust. The collection also includes a photocopy of a Terezin diary written in German by an unknown woman and a two-page description of a transport to Theresienstadt. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.