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  1. 19th century antisemitic print collection

    The collection consists of five nineteenth century lithographs depicting scenes of antisemitism.

  2. Joseph Strip family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, currency, flier, patches, correspondence, diaries, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the Holocaust when they fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France, and, after a year, for the United States, as well as for Joseph's US Army service in Germany beginning in 1944.

  4. Ralph M. Kopansky collection

    The collection consists of a camera, camera accessories, tobacco pipes, silk maps, an armband, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ralph Kopansky in the United States Army before, during, and after World War II, including the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, where he carried his Leica camera.

  5. Calvin Seddelmeyer collection

    Collection of glass slides and newspapers.

  6. Julien Bryan collection

    Collection consists of motion picture, still photographic materials, and colored glass slides and papers of Julien Bryan's visits to Poland, Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia during World War II. Also included in the collection are Julien Bryan's United States passport, scrapbook of newspaper clippings, announcements, and reviews of Julien Bryan's "Nazi Germany" traveling lecture, an envelope of duplicate newspaper clippings on "Siege" (of Warsaw), and a scrapbook of articles written on Julien Bryan's Siege of Warsaw film and book.

  7. Julie Lando collection

    The collection consists of books, notebook, raffia craft kit, baby clothing, carried out of Nazi-occupied Germany by the donor, who was born in Bamberg Germany in 1920 and fled in 1936.

  8. Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag family collection

    The collection consists of a Bible, with the Old and New Testament in one volume, and four Jewish prayer books relating to the experiences of the Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families in Germany before the Holocaust.

  9. Maureen Graney collection

    The collection consists of one book on Konzentrationslager Oranienenburg and one War Department issued German phrase booklet.

  10. Joseph and Ruth Rosenberg collection

    The collection consists of a comb, scrip, tags, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Josef Rosenberg and Ruth Wolman, both born in Poland and interned in Łódź ghetto, various concentration camps, and liberated in Bergen-Belsen, where they met, married and had their daughter Bella.

  11. Esther Rada collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Jan Marie Schoffelen who was born July 14, 1921 in Heerlen, Netherlands and worked along with his wife Ingrid Koke-Schoffelen during WWII as a Dutch resister in Sittard, Netherlands and surrounding areas. Jan's account is included and identifies their work mainly responsible for "transporting, hiding, and freeing" allied pilots shot down and in the area of Sittard. As an active resister, Jan was arrested, released and followed by the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging [NSB], Dutch collaborators, as well as Germans. Eventually, he went into hiding an...

  12. Carl Rosner Collection

    The collection consists of one Łódź ghetto note, one Buchenwald coupon, a purse, a ribbon, an autograph album, documents, and photographs related to the experience of Carl Rosner in prewar Germany, in Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust, and in Sweden after the war, as well as to the experiences of his wife Frieda Zeidshnur in Łódź, Poland.

  13. Szamek family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents and a drawing.

  14. Susan Meisner collection

    Collection consists of photographs, publications and a first aid kit box.

  15. Izak and Rywa Manski and Gitl Rozenzweig families collection

    The collection consists of a fork, knife, spoon, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Izak and Rywa Manski and their three children during the Holocaust when they left Lida, Poland, and via Japan, finally reaching Seattle, Washington, on May 7, 1941, and documents, a photograph, and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Gitl Rozenzweig in Lida, Poland, and Israel.

  16. Elfriede Toch collection

    The collection consists of a purse, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elfriede Toch, originally of Austria, who was one of the fifty children selected and sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to come to the United States in 1939.

  17. Robert I. Kaplan collection

    The collection consists of an armband, currency, flags, insignia, ration stamps, silhouette, correspondence, clippings, documents, fliers and ration cards relating to the experiences of Robert I. Kaplan, a captain and medic in the United States Army, Company D, 110th Medical Battalion, who served overseas during World War II.

  18. Myron Halpern collection

    The collection consists of a captured German flag, correspondence, documents, and photographs and negatives relating to the experiences of Myron Halpern, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The flag was signed by his fellow soldiers of the 75th Infantry Division who captured the flag in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge.

  19. Max Wurzweiler collection

    The collection consists of documents, artifacts, journals, and photos illustrating Max Wurzweiler who was a high ranking Nazi party official.

  20. Magdolna Schrieber collection

    The collection consists of two SS Standart Kantine Buchenwald Außenkommando scrip relating to the experiences of Magdolna Schrieber who was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.