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  1. Hedy Epstein collection

    The collection consist of documents, photographs, and a towel.

  2. Shirley Sternberg collection

    The collection consists of postage stamps.

  3. Regina and Halina Goldwag collection

    The collection consists of a pin badge, a Rentenmark note, two luggage tags, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Regina Zak Goldwag and her daughter Halina in Poland and Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Survivor and Veteran Experience Team collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, witnesses to Nazi atrocity, and members of the armed forces who served in the Pacific.

  5. 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.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Nicole Cohen-Addad collection

    Oral history interviews with Algerian Jews and with participants in resistance against the French Vichy regime in order to help the Allies land in Algiers during the November, 8, 1942 Operation Torch.

  8. Judith Taylor collection

    The collection consists of two figurines dreated by defendants awaiting trial at Nuremberg.

  9. Adam and Helen Gawara collection

    Collection of certificates, correspondence and photographs documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivors Adam Gawara and Helen Hercberg Gawara along with their friends and family in the years following their liberation. Primarily comprised of materials from the Loheide, Feldafing and Bergen Belsen displaced persons camps as well as correspondence regarding their applications for compensation of victims of National Socialism; dates 1945-1954; in German and English. Adam Gawara was persecuted as a Pole. He met Helen Hercberg while in the displaced persons camp, and they were married afte...

  10. Krynski family collection

    The collection consists of three postwar Polish passports issued to Abraham and Sarah Krynski, and family photographs of the Krynski family, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto and later immigrated to the United States. Also included is an inscribed and signed print of The State of Israel by Arthur Szyk. The print is inscribed “To Sarah and Abraham with my compliments, Arthur Szyk, New Canaan, 1948.” Also included are 13 audio cassettes of testimony from Abraham and Sarah Krynski.

  11. Forced labor and Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the history and government of the Third Reich in Germany, 1933-1945.

  12. Frank Morris collection

    The collection consists of artifacts acquired by Frank Morris during his service in the United State military in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.

  13. Bernard Michel collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge relating to the experiences of Borish (Bernard) Michel prior to his deportation from Luxembourg in 1942 to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  14. 230th Field Artillery collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi flag, a Nazi Party hand stamp, and two childrens' books relating to the experiences of members of the 230th Field Artillery, 71st Division, United States Army, who captured the flag during World War II and signed it in 1992.

  15. Parole der Woche poster collection

    The collection consists of broadsides and posters from the Parole der Woche [Slogan of the Week) series of propaganda posters issued by the Nazi Party in Germany from 1936-1943, and one postwar poster.

  16. Anti-Nazi movement in the US broadside collection

    The collection consists of four flyers distributed in the United States by four different organizations to mobilize support against Fascism and the Nazi Party and in support of human rights.

  17. NSDAP poster collection

    The collection consists of twenty-one posters produced by the Nazi Party in Germany, 1933-1945.

  18. Ita Lew Bullard collection

    The collection consists of a Sonderkommando tag, a ketubah, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Lewenkron and Korn families before and during the Holocaust in France.

  19. Lewin and Levi family collection

    The collection consist of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Simon and Violet Lewin, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, who fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.

  20. Frank Reisz collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Frank Reisz based upon his experiences as an inmate at the Meslay du Maine internment camp in France during the Holocaust.