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  1. Arthur Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of photographs, a watercolor painting, and a shadowbox display relating to the experiences of Arthur Jacobs in the United States and Germany during and after World

  2. Bamivchan advertisement poster collection

    The collection consist of four advertisement posters for Bamivchan bulletin, HaNo'ar HaLomed beEretz Israel Movement - Hamachanot HaOlim, issues 24-27.

  3. Elena Boguslavsky Zondowicz collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, Polish report cards, a Catholic prayer book, and a picture of the Virgin Mary relating to the experiences of Elena Boguslavsky Zondowicz while in hiding during the Holocaust as well as her subsequent immigration to Mexico.

  4. Bernhard Wiesenfeld Collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs from Bernhard Wiesenfeld (father of donor) and his family, dating from his youth in Galicia, through his years in Austria, his immigration to England, and his subsequent immigration to the United States. Documents include letters sent while he was interned at Camp Kitchener in England in 1939, and designs for inventions he created in the United States after his immigration in 1940. The collection also includes a cigarette lighter and a compact that he invented.

  5. Oral testimonies of the Voces del Holocausto en México collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in México

  6. Isidor Muschel collection

    The collection consists of a fur sewing machine, furrier’s tools, and a set of scale weights relating to the experiences of Isidor Muschel and his wife, Ida, and daughter, Dorit, in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Anschluss, and in the United States before World War II.

  7. Elfriede Gerson Hillelsohn collection

    The collection consists of a skirt, passport, and documents relating to the experiences of Elfriede Gerson before and during the Holocaust in Hamburg, Germany and her immigration to the United States.

  8. Barbara Gramaska collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge and a portrait photograph relating to the experiences of Barbara Gramaska during World War II.

  9. Brest Gravestones

    Four gravestones from Brest

  10. Abraham Spiegel collection

    Consists of one pre-war and wartime file of papers gathered and used by Abraham Spiegel, originally of Munkács, Czechoslovakia, to establish himself as a Hungarian citizen. Includes scrip from both the Theresienstadt and Litzmannstadt ghettos and official documents and paperwork for the Spiegels once they arrived in the United States, including passports. The paperwork focuses on Abraham Spiegel and his wife, Edita Rosenwasser Spiegel.

  11. Rosenwald and Stahl families collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, postcards, photographs, and a book related to the experiences of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, who emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1936, as well as papers relating to members of their extended family.

  12. Jacques Schweitzer collection

    Photographs, documents, class notebook related to Jacques Schweitzer (originally Jacques Swiczarczyk). Also includes his beret and pants from his service in the Forces Navates Francaises Libres and wartime French currency.

  13. Shlomo Garber family collection

    The collection consists of a Hebrew typewriter, a ketubah, and photographs relating to the experiences of Shlomo Garber and Stella Feidel before and after the Holocaust when they married in Pocking displaced persons camp in Germany.

  14. Kőszeg brick factory collection

    The collection consists of two broken tiles and four bricks from a local brick factory relating to events in the area of Kőszeg, Hungary, during the Holocaust

  15. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers collection

    The collection consists of a charm bracelet, handkerchief, wooden jewelry box, a patch, napkin holder, and ORT key award, correspondence, documents, identity papers, and photographs related to the experiences of Ruth Engelhardt Spivack (later Meyers) and her mother Helene Engelhardt, during and after the Holocaust when Ruth lived in Montmorency OSE home in France prior to being sent on a September 1941 USCOM transport to the United States, where she lived with the Spivack family in Cleveland.

  16. Jerold F. Majerus collection

    The collection consists of military scrip, documents, autobiographical text, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Jerold F. Majerus, during his service with the U.S. Army, in the 6827th Military Detachment, as part of the stenographic support staff of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946.

  17. Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive

    The collection consists of poster stamps and a letter relating to the United States and Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Kessler family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and film illustrating the experiences of Alice and Jakob Kessler and their son, Hans Otto, who was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Baden, Austria. Their experiences fleeing to the United Kingdom in 1939 and then immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s, as well as the experiences of the extended family is also documented in the collection.

  19. Irene Bourla Modianot collection

    Watch face worn and used by Riquetta (nee Simha) Bourla and through her hiding experience in Athens, Greece with her husband Isaac. Photographs of Isaac and Riquetta Bourla, dated early 20th century, and a photgraphic portrait mounted on porcelain.

  20. Leika and Moisei Akkerman collection

    Abacus and washboard that initially belonged to Leika and Moisei Akkerman (donor's parents). The items were left behind in their family home when they escaped to Tashkent in the summer 1941. When they returned to Edinet in 1948, they found their home occupied by locals. The house had been looted and many of their belongings were found in the posession of neighbors who lived a two houses down and claimed that they had "bought" these items during the war. Among the few items that remained in their home were this washboard and the abacus which was used by Moisei who worked as an accountant at ...