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  1. Stefan Horn collection

    The collection consists of clippings, copy prints, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Stefan Horn as an interpreter at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II.

  2. Charles Gross collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Charles Gross during the Holocaust.

  3. Loewenstein family collection

    The collection consists of two passports, 36 documents, one photograph album, fifteen photographs, and a Star of David badge from the collection of Ernest and Guy Loewenstein.

  4. Edith Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of drawings, a velvet puch and a Suddur.

  5. Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig collection

    The collection consists of the Elizabeth Koenig papers of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the La Guespy children’s house in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; and a school report Elizabeth wrote and illustrated after arriving in America about France under the occupation. In addition, a sketchbook created by Elizabeth Kaufmann in Nazi-occupied...

  6. Gloria Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a leaflet and a Star of David badge.

  7. Remember The Children: Hadasah Zehman Video Collection of Face to Face Presentations

    Oral history interviews with 24 Holocaust survivors and one retired U.S. Soldier.

  8. Peter Sharlitt collection

    The collection consists of a cigarette case, an autograpgh album and 2 stamp albums.

  9. French propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of 3 French propaganda posters.

  10. David Schneider collection

    The collection consists of scrip, an identification tag, and three identification cards.

  11. Zlota Gloger oral history interview and transcript

    Consists of one typed oral history transcript, approx. 53 pages, ca. August 28, 1988, and one videocassette tape of an oral history interview, ca. March 4, 1990. The transcript and the tape both contain testimony by Zlata Gloger, originally of Kostopol, Poland (now Kostopil, Ukraine). In the oral history, Gloger, describes her family's 1941 evacuation into the Soviet Union, and their lives in Kzyl-Orda (now Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan).

  12. Oral history interviews of the Kenneth Jacobson collection

    Oral history interviews gathered for the book, Embattled Selves: An Investigation into the Nature of Identity Through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors

  13. Milton V. Elliot / Gerhard Pleiss collection

    The collection consists of five German bank notes and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Gerhard Pleiss, an officer in the Leibstandart SS Adolf Hitler, 1st Company, in Nazi Germany, as well as the experiences of Milton Verne Elliott, a soldier in the United States Army who discovered the album during World War II.

  14. Greta Fischer collection

    The Greta Fischer collection consists of biographical materials about Fischer's UNRRA career; concentration camp materials including a map and a ration card; photographs of children and employees at the D.P. children's centers at Kloster Indersdorf, Prien, and Gstadt; printed materials, reports, memoranda, and speeches about UNRRA's work with displaced children; and souvenirs from the children's centers, an UNRRA badge, a napkin, and a coaster.

  15. Hana Vosatka collection

    Hana Vosatka collection consists of photographs of Hana before and after her internment in Theresienstadt, a photograph of her family's memorial, a postcard from Pavel Vosatka (Paul Dixon) to his mother in Theresienstadt, and worker identification cards, ration cards, passes, scrip, and medical records documenting Hana's internment and work activities at Theresienstadt.

  16. Bella and Benjamin Herson collection

    The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, a plaque, an identification tag, and reference materials documenting Bella and Benjamin Herson, the Herszon, Sztajnhorn, and Rys families, Bella's experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Birmbäumel, and Benjamin's imprisonment in prisoner of war camps Oflag XI A - Osterode and Oflag II C - Woldenberg.

  17. Zachary Gruzin collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard and a photograph of Zachary, Edward, and Charles Gruzin and their mother, Dora Gruzin in Kovno, Lithuania, a pass issued to Zachary Gruzin authorizing him to return to Lithuania from Landsberg, Germany, and a cloth prisoner identification badge embroidered with 13268.

  18. Jack Erdfarb collection

    Consists of fourteen photographs related to Jack Erdfarb 's (Jakub Erdfarb) residence in Landsberg displaced persons camp and a suitcase.

  19. Yona Wygocka Dickmann collection

    The collection consists of a comb and pocket knife relating to the experiences of Yona Wygocka as a prisoner in a salve labor camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  20. Steve Bennett collection

    The collection consists of a letter and key.