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  1. Ariel S. Cardoso collection

    The Ariel S. Cardoso collection includes an Italian Labor Service armband, a Łódź ghetto scrip ten mark note, and identification papers, military papers, and photographs documenting Cardoso’s wartime hiding in Rome, postwar emigration to Palestine, and military service in the Jewish Brigade.

  2. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Rose Galek, originally from Poland, who was a forced laborer for Germany during the Holocaust.

  3. James Edward Kirkebo collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: badges, foreign currency, a jacket, maps, posters, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of James Edward Kirkebo in the United States Army in Europe during World War II, including the liberation of Gusen and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  4. Esther Lurie collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Esther Lurie before the Holocaust in Latvia, Palestine, and Western Europe, during the Holocaust when she was imprisoned in the Kovno (Kaunus) Ghetto in Lithuania, Stuthoff concentration camp and Leibitsch forced labor camp in Germany, and after the Holocaust during and after her return journey to Israel.

  5. Arthur Szyk collection

    The collection consists of an anti-Fascist political cartoon created by Arthur Szyk in London in 1939.

  6. Zofia Chorowicz Burowska collection

    The collection consists of a doll, teddy bear, book, postcard, letter, and three photographs relating to the experiences of Zofia Chorowicz and her parents Isydor and Rachela before and during the Holocaust in Krakow and Wolbrom, Poland, and of Zofia after the war when she returned to Krakow following her liberation from slave labor.

  7. Joseph and Romana Koplowicz collection

    The collection consists of a metal box carried by Joseph Koplowicz and an identity card belonging to Romana Koplowicz.

  8. Edith Jacobson collection

    The collection conists of scrip from the Buchenwald and Theresienstadt concentraton camps.

  9. Jacob Rutstein collection

    The collection consists of 13 coins and a hand-made tobacco pouch found at Dachau concentration camp post-liberation.

  10. Arthur and Mary Kleinhandler collection

    The collection consists of a handmade spoon, knife, and comb.

  11. Marion Davy collection

    The collection consists of a filmstrip projector, case, accessories, and 11 Nazi propraganda filmstrips.

  12. Deutsches Hygiene Museum in der DDR collection

    The collection consists of educational materials relating to education and the teaching of racial science in Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.

  13. Richard and Bertha Heumann Hirschfelder family collection

    The collection consists of currency, a frame, an album, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Richard Hirschfelder and Bertha Lisa Heumann and their extended family in prewar Stuttgart, Germany, and their emigration in 1938.

  14. Alfred and Meta Mayer Levy family collection

    The collections consists of medals, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences Alfred Levy and Meta Mayer Levy and their children Marie-Louis and Theo Levy, and their extended family before the Holocaust in Germany. [Accretion: pair of silver candlesticks given to Alfred Levy by the Jewish Community of Saarbrucken after the war as a gift for his tenure as president; Shabbat lamp; Framed family portrait of Siesel family, Framed portrait of Alfred Levy; Framed drawing of Simon Levy; Film reel (to go to Film & Video); photo album of Marcel, a member of the resistance who was ex...

  15. Fred Levinson collection

    The Levinson and Stern family papers primarily contain biographical materials and photographs related to the Levinson family of Homburg, Saarland, Germany and the Stern family of Kassel, Germany in the 1920s and 1930s prior to immigrating to the United States in 1935. Biographical materials include birth and death records, identification papers, a diary of Ann Stern Levinson, genealogy notes, marriage certificates and two ketubahs. Photographs include numerous identified family members in Germany as well as three photograph albums. The collection also includes a prayerbook, a WWI Iron Cross...

  16. Wilhelmina Juhlin collection

    The collection consists of an overnight bag, correspondence, 8mm film, copy prints, and photographs relating to the experiences of the de Kadt and Swaap families before, during, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the United States.

  17. Paul and Herbert Ripp family collection

    The collection consists of an eating utensil and documents relating to the experiences of Paul Ripp and his son Herbert during the Holocaust when Paul was held in Gurs internment camp in France and Herbert fled Germany for the United States and then served in the United States Army.

  18. Joseph Gilmore Rowley collection

    The collection consists of armbands worn in Europe during the Holocaust.

  19. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The collection consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany. It also contains additional documents, a wallet and a badge.

  20. Alice Goldberger collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, drawings, and paintings relating to Alice Goldberger and the orphaned children survivors of concentration camps in her care in Lingfield, England, after the Holocaust.