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  1. Pauline Kra collection

    The Pauline Kra collection consists of two knit scarves, in addition to a manuscript collection of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Bartkowski and Skornicki families from Łódź, their confinement in the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, Pauline's hidden Jewish identity in a Warsaw convent, and the family’s relocation to Caracas after the war and eventual immigration to the United States.

  3. Joel Elkes collection

    The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.

  4. Jacques Stambul collection

    The collection consists of an identity card issued to Jacques Stambul (donors' husband and father), December 1953. Jacques Stambul had been arrested in November 1943 in France and deported to Buchenwald where he was interned from 17 November 1943 to April 1945.. It also includes a badge and a prisoner patch worn by Jacques Stambul in Buchenwald.

  5. Shirley Sternberg collection

    Stamps acquired in Europe by an American soldier returning to the U.S. from active duty in Germany after WWII.

  6. Felicia Olzsewska collection

    The collection consists of two identification badges and a pin with a prisoner number.

  7. Bernard Fleming collection

    The collection consists of a cigarette case created in the Łódź Ghetto and given as a gift to Bernard Fuchs (later Fleming), a hand-made case for an I.D. card which was also given to Bernard Fuchs from members of his labor unit in the Łódź ghetto, and a Jewish calender printed by the Jewish Council in Łódź.

  8. Israel (Miedzyrzecki) Nahari collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin and a tefillin pouch used by Israel Miedzyrzecki (later Nahari) before the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Israel.

  9. Fred Sherman collection

    The collection consists of two examples of anti-Jewish propaganda printed between the false covers of an American dollar bill.

  10. Max Nussbaum collection

    The collection includes two pieces of scrip.

  12. Kallia Bokser collection

    Parokhet (curtain for Torah ark) found hidden after WWII by survivors of the Holocaust in Lviv.

  13. Beate Steigner collection

    The collection consists of a lottery ticket from the German Red Cross, a pamphlet titled "Gehl: German History in Keywords", a flier issued by the race-politics office of the NSDAP, and a magazine: NS-Frauen-Warte, Issue 15, Year 6.

  14. Helmut Eschwege collection

    Collection of anti-Semitic film and propaganda posters, broadsides and other materials.

  15. Tana Gelfer collection

    Collection of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard issued at Theresienstadt to be used by inmates to send to relatives back home. The only space open to be filled in was Dear ______ , I thank you and am in receipt of your package of __________ (date) and signature _______.

  16. Ellis Gordon collection

    Invitation Card to a Gala Concert to aid the Danish Refugees in Sweden at the Metropolitan Opera House held on Thursday evening, February 17th, 1944. Lists participating artists, prices, special guests, contact for tickets. "There are about 11,000 Danish Refugees in Sweden who have fled Gestapo terror, they must be fed, clothed, housed until Denmark is free again. Denmark is not yet in the Nation-wide National War Fund Drive, as this unfortunately was closed before the latest tragedy to our country occurred, therefore this Benefit Concert has been arranged by Lauritz Melchior to help reliev...

  17. Goldschmidt Family collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Ludwig Goldschmidt (donor's uncle and brother of Elise Schapira), January 1939, Germany. The drawing is an image of the synagogue of Brückenau in the lower Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Ludwig Goldschmidt was sixteen at the time. He was later deported to Dachau where he died. The collection also includes the Elise Schapira papers, which consists of correspondence to Elise in New York from her parents in Frankfurt, photographs of her parents and brother before the Holocaust and of her family in the United States, and two versions of her...

  18. Selma Abensohn collection

    Collection of prayerbooks originally owned by Adolph and Bertha David (donor's parents), Dügenheim, Germany. Given to Anna Lellig (donor's former neighbor) by Bertha David (donor's mother), 1942, Düngenheim, Germany. Hidden by Anna Lellig, 1942-1945, Düngenheim, Germany. Given to Selma Abensohn by Anna Lellig after the war, Germany.

  19. Roman Vishniac collection

    Portfolio containing twelve photographs, reproduced from the original negatives. The original photographs were taken prewar by Roman Vishniac (donor's father) in 1938. The catalog of the work is titled "A Vanished World," (published by Witkin-Berley, Ltd.).

  20. Hans Levi collection

    Collection consisting of an election poster for Adolf Hitler, and a poster instructing Germans to boycott Jewish businesses, which was removed from the wall of father's factory by Hans Levi, 1933, Stuttgart, Germany.