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  1. Fred Vendig family collection

    The collection consists of wartime drawings, a pocket calendar, correspondence, papers, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Ernst and Charlotte Vendig, their sons Fritz (Fred) and Heiner (Henry) and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany, during their unsuccessful 1939 voyage on the M.S. St. Louis, their internment in French detention camps and escape to Switzerland, and their emigration to the United States after the war.

  2. Henry Morgenthau family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, extensive personal and official correspondence, documents, photographs, research notes, audiotapes, books, and a DVD copy of home movies related to the experiences of the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and Armenian genocide, the family's long relationship with the Roosevelts, the Treasury Department, and the pre-war, wartime, and post-war lives of members of the family as well as family history research, collected documents, and transcripts of oral histories created and compiled by Henry Morgenthau III.

  3. Paul Weber Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of two wooden candelabra made for Paul Weber Jacobs by a displaced person.

  4. Gerda Ehrenberg family collection

    The collection consists of a print of the Breslau synagogue and a report card relating to the experiences of Gerda Ehrenberg and her family in Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust.

  6. Kurt Weiler collection

    The collection consists of two Waffen SS fezzes and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Kurt Weiler, a refugee from Nazi Germany before World War II, who served in the US Army in Europe during the war.

  7. Alexander Kuechel collection

    The collection consists of tefillin, a tefillin bag, and a tallit katan relating to the experiences of Alexander Keuchel in Belgium and several concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  8. Benjamin Meed collection

    The collection consists of ten pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Benjamin Miedzyrzecki (later Benjamin Meed), when he lived in Łódź, Poland, after leaving liberated Warsaw, where he had been a resistance member in the ghetto and while living in hiding.

  9. Johnson and Levi family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, correspondence, documents, and clippings relating to the experiences of the Jonassohn (later Johnson) and Levi families in Germany, Cuba, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  10. Hoexter family collection

    Consists of photographs, postcards, documents, and glass slides related to the Holocaust experiences of Herbert Hoexter, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Includes pre-war and wartime family photographs, information about his internment in Dachau in 1938, his emigration to England, where he was imprisoned in the Kitchener internment camp from August 1939-April 1940, and information regarding his work in the United States from 1940-1942. Also includes photographic negatives and glass slides and an oral history interview with Herbert Hoexter.

  11. Ruth Rappaport collection

    The collection consists of a shoulder patch, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ruth Rappaport before the war in Leipzig, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, during the war in Seattle, Washington, and after the war in the United States, Palestine, Israel, and Japan.

  12. Ira Schobel collection

    The collection consists of 2 drawings created by a liberated inmate from Dachau concentration camp.

  13. George Zielezinski collection

    The collection consists of two published art portfolios with prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski in the immediate postwar period depicting scenes of daily life as a prisoner in German concentration camps.

  14. Auschwitz concentration camp uniform badge collection

    The collection consists of two identification badges from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  15. New York Times newspaper collection

    The collection consists of four issues of the New York Times daily newpaper, published the week of Kristallnacht.

  16. Peter Kubicek collection

    The collection consists of three pieces of Theresienstadt scrip valued at 1, 10, and 20 kronen.

  17. Yaffa Eliach Shtetl collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Yaffa Sonenson and her family in Ejszyszki, Poland (Eisiskes, Lithuania) and the Radun ghetto (Belarus) before and during the Holocaust when, as a child, she lived in hiding, and also artifacts collected by Dr. Eliach relating to Jewish life in the shtetl before the war.

  18. Medical instrument collection

    The collection consists of a variety of medical instruments including syringes, clamps, scissors, medicine bottles, and stethoscopes used during the Holocaust.

  19. Nicole Widerman family collection

    The collection consists of a Corps Auxilliaire Volontaire Feminin uniform jacket, booklets, documents, photographs, and videotapes relating to the experiences of Nicole Widerman and her family in France before, during, and after World War II and in the United States after their postwar immigration.

  20. Ferenc Csato collection

    Consists of materials documenting the efforts of a Hungarian farmer, Ferenc Csato, to save persecuted Jews in 1944. Includes two photographs showing Mrs. Csato and Jewish women wearing the yellow star badge; a 1948 letter testifying about Mr. Csato's 1944 activities; and an audiotaped interview conducted by Istvan Csato with his grandfather, Ferenc Csato, about the events of 1944.