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  1. Book

  2. Wachs family collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henry Wachs and his family before the Holocaust in Mrotschen (today Mrocza, Poland) and 1916 in Berlin, Germany. and during the Holocaust in Belgium, Great Britain, Australia, Palestine, and the United States.

  3. Nazi banner acquired by a US soldier

    Nazi banner retrieved by American Soldier during or immediately following WWII.

  4. Bracelet found by an American soldier

    Bracelet found by GI during tour of duty.

  5. Rubin and Huntly families collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative pin-back button, commemorative materials, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Rubin and Huntly families in Hungary, Poland, and the United States before during, and after the Holocaust.

  7. Oral history interview with Sioma Zubicky

  8. Archief van de gemeente De Wijk

    De gemeente De Wijk is in 1998 met de gemeenten Zuidwolde, Ruinerwold en een groot deel van de gemeente Ruinen opgegaan in de nieuwe gemeente De Wolden. Het gemeentearchief van De Wolden beschikt op dit moment uitsluitend over dossier-inventarissen.

  9. Oral histories from the WXXI, Channel 21 (Rochester) collection

    The interviews document the stories of some of the 982 Holocaust survivors, from 18 countries, whom were interned at the Fort Ontario Army Camp in Oswego, NY for 18 months from August 1944 to December 1946.

  10. Oral history interviews of the Ehrlich-Schwarz Family collection

    Testimonies of members of the extended Ehrlich and Schwarz families, documenting the history and experiences of various members from Austria and Galicia during the Holocaust era, including their experiences in immigration to various countries.

  11. Oral history interview with Melvin Goldfarb

  12. Łódź Ghetto ration cards

    Consists of two ration cards: no 907 issued to the donor, Hanna Poznanska; and no. 02411, issued to Felicja Poznanska, the donor's mother, in the Łódź Ghetto.

  13. Oral history interview with Stanley Dabrowski

  14. Ilona Winograd Barkal collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Ilona Winograd Barkal and her parents, Bella and Marcus Winograd, in Łódź, Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust during which they were separated and deported to different concentration camps.

  15. Kristallnacht

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, titled "Kristallnacht," recounting author's experience of this event, from arrest at his home in Braunschweig, imprisonment in local jail then state penitentiary, deportation to Buchenwald, then return after a couple of weeks to Braunschweig.

  16. Juedische auswanderung: korrespondenzblatt fuer auswanderungs- und siedlungswesen, 1936-1938

    Publications: "Juedische Auswanderung," two publications, dated September 1936 and Summer 1938, subtitled "Korrespondenzblatt fuer Auswanderungs- und Siedlungswesen," published by the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland.

  17. Rachel Ilana Sheena collection

    Contains a four-page memoir containing Rachel Ilana Sheena's description of the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust and her own grandfather's experiences in the Neuengamme concentration camp.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Winnipeg Second Generation Group collection

    Interviews from the Winnipeg Second Generation Group oral history collection contain oral testimonies with 53 Holocaust survivors from the Winnipeg, Canada, area conducted from 1988 to 1989.

  19. Milton L. Shurr collection

    The collection consists of unused concentration camp prisoner badges relating to the experiences of Milton L. Shurr, an officer with the United States Army, Civilian Affairs Unit, attached to the 1st Army, sent to provide aid to the inmates of the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.

  20. Letter addressed to the Jewish Central Information Office

    Letter addressed to the Jewish Central Information Office from Hans Grabowski of the Jüdische Gemeinde, Herford, detailing the fate of the town's Jewish communityGerman