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  1. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket and pants relating to the experiences of Matthaeus Pibal, who was imprisoned in Germany for being a Jehovah’s Witness after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

  2. Isidor Urbach family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor Urbach and his family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  3. Prewar German travel camera and tabletop radio collection

    The collection consists of a wood encased Reisekamera and an AEG 28W tabletop radio manufactured in Germany.

  4. Irving Heymont collection

    The collection consists of a paperweight, correspondence, documents, photographs, a publication, reports, and a videocassette relating to the experiences of Irving Heymont, then a Major, 5th Regiment, 71st Infantry, during and after World War II in Germany, including the liberation of Gunskirchen concentration camp and his administration of Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany, as well as continuing educational and commemorative activities.

  5. Henryk Hechtkopf collection

    The collection of consists of four postwar drawings, an invitation and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Henryk Hechtkopf, following his return to Warsaw, Poland, after the war during which he was imprisoned in a Soviet slave labor camp. -Łódź, Poland

  6. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    The collection consists of two pouches, a presentation box with six medals, a wallet, currency vouchers, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Felix and Flora Cohen Levi (later Van Beek) before the Holocaust in the Netherlands, during the Holocaust in hiding in Amersfoort, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the United States.

  7. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    The Bagriansky-Zerner family collection consists of a commemorative silver basket and plaque, a medal, and papers relating to the experiences of Rosian Bagriansky Zerner and her parents, Paulius and Gerta Bagriansky, before and during the Holocaust in Lithuania and after the Holocaust in Italy and the United States. The Lyda Bagriansky Geist and Edwin Geist collection of papers and sound recordings relate to the experiences of the composer Edwin Geist and his family before and during the Holocaust in Lithuania.

  8. Hanna Poznanska-Linde collection

    The collection consists of a one piece of Łódź ghetto scrip, and two Soviet bank notes relating to the experiences of Hanna Poznanska-Linde, a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, and her husband, a soldier in the Russian Army during World War II.

  9. Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, boxed typewriter ribbon, broadsides, correspondence, leaflets, serial publications, and a typescript related to the role of Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay in leading the protest against the planned camp of the German-American Bund in Southbury, Connecticut in 1937.

  10. Raul Hilberg collection

    The collection consists of ten piece of Łódź Ghetto scrip, 2 commemorative stamps, and an envelope relating to the experiences of Dr. Raul Hilberg as a scholar of the Holocaust as well as one piece of Theresienstadt scrip given to him by Frank Petschek, who had to flee Czechoslovakia after its annexation by Germany in fall 1938.

  11. Hamy Gal and Holocaust related documentation

    The collection consists of illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal; photographs of Atlit detainee camp created during the Holocaust; photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw; a Treblinka extermination camp testimony; manuscript drafts of poetry by Itzhak Katzenelson; documents related to Jewish detainees in camps in Kenya and Eritrea; and Anti-Semitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera, United States.

  12. Harry E. Norman collection

    The collection consists of a belt and a collectin of lantern slides.

  13. Joe Friedman collection

    The collection consists of a cane, patch, a woodcut, military records, occupation, military, and displaced persons camp life materials, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Joe Friedman and his work with displaced persons for the Third Army and Military Government and Holocaust memorial events held between 1978 and 1982.

  14. Masha Rolnikaite collection

    The donation of 2006 consists of: 1 notebook [poetry and song lyrics composed by Masha Rolnikaite, in Yiddish, while in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto] Provenance: After her liberation from the Strasdenhof concentration camp, Masha found a notebook in the house in which she was recuperating and wrote the songs she had composed from memory. The collection also includes an oral history interview conducted with Masha on July 16, 2006 by Bret Werb and Vadim Altskan. In the interview, which is in Russian, Masha discusses the notebook with song lyrics, her Holocaust experiences in Vilnius and in Stra...

  15. Ehrenhaft family collection

    Consists of marriage, schooling, immigration, and employment documentation and correspondence related to the family of Bruno Benjamin Ehrenhaft and Anne Polacek Ehrenhaft, who were originally of Czechoslovakia but lived in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. Includes extensive pre-war documentation related to both Bruno and Anne and documents related to their emigration with sons George and Peter from Vienna to Czechoslovakia in 1938, to London in 1939, and to New York in 1940. Includes Bruno Ehrenhaft's wartime employment documents, documents related to his parents, David and Olga Ehrenhaft, and...

  16. Herbert Kalter collection

    The collection conists of a pocketknife and a bar of soap acquired by Herbert Kalter at Buna concentration camp in 1944.

  17. Erna Meier Schlesinger Summerfield collection

    The collection consists of a pouch and passport relating to the experiences of Erna Meier Schlesinger (later Summerfield) in Germany and en route to the United States before World War II.

  18. Robert Adelman collection

    The collection consists of an antisemitic NSDAP poster and to pieces of concentration camp scrip.

  19. Ervin Abadi collection

    The collection consists of eighty-six artworks created by Ervin Abadi while hospitalized after his liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.

  20. Simcha Dimant collection

    The collection consists of Buchenwald concentration camp canteen scrip, a concentration camp uniform jacket, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Symcho Dymant before the Holocaust in Czestochowa, Poland, during the Holocaust in Buchenwald concentration camp, and after the Holocaust in Fulda displaced persons camp.