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  1. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    The collection consists of two luggage tags, a trunk, documents, an oral history compact disc, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ryfka Tewel before the Holocaust in Bartkowka, Poland, and the United States, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  2. Bruno and Jessie Korn collection

    The collection consists of baby shoes, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Bruno Korn and his wife Jetka (Jessie) before the Holocaust in Hindenburg and Breslau, Germany, and after the Holocaust in New York.

  3. Levy and Weinschenk families collection

    The collection consists of a folding knife, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of the Levy family and Paul and Margot Weinschenk before, during, and after World War II in Germany and the United States.

  4. Cacilie and Stefanie Klarfeld family collection

    The collection consists of a plaque, correspondence, documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Cacilie Klarfeld and Stefanie Klarfeld, originally from Vienna, Austria, including during the Holocaust when Cäcilie was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  5. Walter Gumpert family collection

    The collection consists of an attache case, prayer book, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Walter and Erna Gumpert and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas oral history Project

  7. Agi Geva collection

    The collection consists of family documents, photographs, and handmade lace doilies.

  8. Mark Talisman collection

    The collection consists of documents, framed art, wood and cloth model, identification cards, correspondence, ration cards, stamps issued or used in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic. Compilation of multiple victims interned in Theresienstadt illustrated within documents. Documents also include “Tagesbefehl” or Daily Bulletin from the Theresienstadt Council of Elders which details daily happenings in the ghetto and includes transports, postal service, regulations, “ghetto-court” judgements. Also included are three pieces of artwork created in Theresienstadt, one a ...

  9. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    The collection consists of books, documents, correspondence, photographs, and tefillin documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner Teich and her husband Maurice Teich during the Holocaust.

  10. Kahn and Neuhaus families collection

    The collection consists of some correspondence and identification information related ot the Kahn and Neuhaus families, with objects such as a sketchbook and textiles, primarily relating to the donor's aunt, Ilse Neuhaus (1924-1942), in Hadamar and Hochspeyer, Germany, and in Amsterdam.

  11. Donald Norton Pitts collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Donald Norton Pitts, who served as a foreign service officer with the State Department in Warsaw, Poland in 1950. Included are notes, reports, and writings, primarily about the political climate in Poland; diary; correspondence; identification card; clipping; metal dish; and negatives taken while Donald was stationed there. Also included are copy negatives and prints documenting atrocities against Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.

  12. Joseph Polzer collection

    The collection consists of notebooks, written by Joseph Polzer, in 1940 and 1941 in Chateau du Chaumont, France in a children’s home, and sketchbook also used in France with detached and additional drawings. Photographs of pre-war Austria, where Joseph was born in 1929. Along with his mother Mirrha, Jewish and originally Russian and father Karl Polzer, non-Jewish and Austrian, the family fled to France in 1938. By 1940, Joseph was placed at Chateau du Chaumont, a chateau used by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants that housed thousands of Jewish children. The Polzer family was able to leave b...

  13. Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets

    Miniature Nazi Propaganda booklets: - Der Fuhrer und der Arbeiter - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 3 - Des Fuhrers kampf im Osten 4 - Der Fuhrer 1938 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1934 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer 1935 macht Geschichte - Der Fuhrer und Mussolini - Des Fuhrers kampf in Norwegen - Des Fuhrers kampf in Frenkreich

  14. Gluck family collection

    Documents, datebooks, correspondence, V-mails, photograph albums, loose photos, maps, scrip, souvenir materials (including a "Heidelberg" letter opener), notebooks, reparations and restitution papers related to Irving Gluck and his family; also includes a wooden box made by a German POW who he was guarding; Irving Gluck's embroidered tefillin pouch and pair of tefillin, a scroll of Esther, dog tags, two mezuzot, a US Army jacket, an army mess cup (with personal inscriptions), an army duffel bag, medals and insignias, and pieces of Irving's broken eyeglasses from the Battle of Anzio; Irving'...

  15. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska collection

    The Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and writings documenting Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as well as her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski’s experiences in Nazi-annexed Poznań and as a displaced person in Germany. The collection also includes a wallet, several buttons and publications.

  16. Susan Darvas collection

    The collection consists of prewar documents, a medallion and a silver make up case which belonged to Mano Herskovits.

  17. Nisha Holton collection

    Nisha Holton's audio recorded memoir of her experiences in Austria prior to the Holocaust and a hand-painted map of locations near her childhood home in Baden, Austria that she mentions in the memoir

  18. Zdenka Steiner Novak family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a photo album, a cookbook, documents, sketches, correspondence, photographs, Zdenka's memoir, "Story of My Life," and her school records. The papers are part of a collection documenting Zdenka Steiner Novak and the Steiner family's experiences in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia) before, during, and after World War II.

  19. David Farin collection

    The collection consists of five Allach porcelain figurines manufactured at Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  20. Albert and Angela Feldstein collection

    The collection conisists of World War II era buttons: "Halt Hitler" and "Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. Wings for Victory"