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  1. Dr. Lawrence Warick collection

    Consists of documents, motion picture playbills, and composition books from the post-war collection of Lova Warszawczyk, now Dr. Lawrence Warick. Dr. Warick lived in the Neu Freimann and Stuttgart displaced persons camps from 1946-1949, when he and his family immigrated to the United States on the General Omar Bundy. Includes identification paperwork, school composition books, filmbills of American films released in Germany, and documents regarding his immigration to the United States. Also contains one oral history audiotape of Dr Warick's memories of his wartime and post-war experiences, ...

  2. Samuel Kaufman collection

    The collection consists of 5 lids from cans used to house ashes of cremated victims from Buchenwald.

  3. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    The collection consists of a paint roller and stencil, two wallpaper samples, a plaque, a death certificate, and a Bible relating to the experiences of Franz Wohlfahrt and his family and their persecution as Jehovah Witnesses by the government of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945.

  4. Charles and Hana Bruml family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, Star of David badges, clothing, drafting tools, a drawing, Theresienstadt scrip, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Charles (Karel) Bruml and Hana Mueller Schiff Sukova Bruml in prewar Prague, Czechoslovakia, and in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp and several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia and the United States after the Holocaust.

  5. David Klipp collection

    The collection consists of scrip relating to the experiences of David Klipp during and after the Holocaust during which he was imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto in Poland and Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps.

  6. Ira Nestle collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi armband, an Iron Cross 2nd class medal, and certificate.

  7. Stanley Frosh collection

    The collection consists of 42 pieces of blank Nazi party letterhead.

  8. Abraham Saifer collection

    The collection consists of a propaganda book containing stereooptic glasses and 120 double imaged photographs to be viewed with the glasses.

  9. Henry Carter collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

  10. Zaro Calabrese collection

    The collection consists of Nazi badges.

  11. Luba Krugman Gurdus collection

    The collection consists of two drawings relating to the experiences of Luba Krugman Gurdus and her son Robert Michael (Bobus), who perished, age four, during the Holocaust in Poland.

  12. Shlomo Flam collection

    The collection consists of one Litzmannstadt ghetto scrip and a public notice relating to the administration and history of the Jewish ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) in German occupied Poland.

  13. Mortimer Schaffer collection

    The collection consists of Nazi propaganda slides.

  14. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The collection consists of a rosary, St. Anthony statuette, bible, and a doll's suitcase relating to the experiences of Laura and Selma (Zofia) Schwarzwald in Lvov and other areas of Poland where they lived in hiding under assumed indentites as Catholics during and after the Holocaust.

  15. German poster collection

    The collection consists of anti-Semitic, advertising, and political posters, and a pair of shoes worn in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  17. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap and two publications relating to the experiences of Jakob Lewkowicz in forced labor camps and Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and Schörzingen concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  18. Edgar Rauner collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings. Correspondence from Edgar Rauner (donor's brother) to his parents Neddy and Aron in New York. Edgar, a member of the United States 7th Army was a refugee of Nazi Germany, arrived in the United States before WWII and was drafted into the US Army where he was stationed at Fort Ritchie in Maryland before being sent overseas to Europe during the war. Also included in the collection are photographs taken in Europe, depicting the American Army and many captured German propaganda images.

  19. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss collection

    The collection consist of a knife, documents, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Esther and Helen Mermelstein, sisters, before and during the Holocaust when they were deported from Cinadievo, Czechoslovakia, to Munkacs Ghetto, and then to a series of concentration camps until liberated in Bergen Belsen and after the Holocaust in Karlstad, Sweden.

  20. Ullrich Remak collection

    The collection consists an animal bone souvenir, correspondence, documents, drawings, and newsletters related to experiences of Ullrich Remak during the Holocaust when he emigrated from Breslau, Germany, to Scotland on a Kindertransport in 1939, his subsequent life at the Birkenward Hostel in Skelmorlie, Scotland, and efforts by his mother, Nanni Remak, to emigrate from Germany to Palestine.