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  1. Rappel family collection

    The collection includes documents, photographs and correspondence concerning Ingrid Rappel (donor's mother) and her parents Hersz and Recha Rappel in Germany and Ferramonti, Italy during and after WWII. It also includes a luggage tag. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Judith Ellis Glickman collection

    The collection consists of portrait photographs taken by Judith Ellis Glickman from 1992-1993 of eleven Danish citizens who rescued Jews in German occupied Denmark and a Jewish couple who were rescued through these efforts during the Holocaust.

  3. Romeo J. Fagiolo collection

    The collection consists of four prints of a set of maps depicting the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Trail relating to the experiences of Romeo J. Fagiolo as an infantry soldier in the United States Army, serving in combat in the European Theatre and present at the liberation of Dachau concentration camp during World War II.

  4. Renia Sperber Perel collection

    The collection consists of two blouses, a skirt, and a comb relating to the experiences of Renia Sperber in Malnow, Poland, and as a forced laborer in the Lampertsmuhle textile factory near Kaiserslautern, Germany, during the Holocaust and in displaced persons camps in Dunsen and Backnang, Germany, after the end of World War II.

  5. Maier Firnbacher family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Maier Firnbacher, his wife, Ida, their son, Manfred, and other family members in Straubing, Germany, before and during the Holocaust and following the family's emigration to the United States in 1939.

  13. Don Stanton collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Don Stanton as a soldier in the United States Army serving in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.

  18. Benesch and Herman families collection

    The collection consists of documents, scrip, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Franz Herman in Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia. Included is a postwar letter from Quito, Ecuador, four sets of Theresienstadt scrip (incomplete), certificates, and receipt issued by the Aeltestenrat der Juden [Jewish Council] in Prague, and a letter from 1943 with multiple authors. Booklet containing copies of Benesch family tree (donor's mother)

  19. Second Generation of Long Island oral history collection

    Interviews conducted by the Second Generation of Long Island as part of a project to document the testimonies of Holocaust survivors on Long Island, New York City, and Israel from 1982-1989