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  1. Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American soldier and Edith, a survivor of Auschwitz. Also includes a large spiral bound book of scans, descriptions, and narrative of the collection and DVDs of film footage which Nathan Litvin produc...

  2. Herman Schloss family collection

    The collection consists of scrip. tefillin, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Herman Schloss, from Sugenheim, Germany, who fled Nazi rule for the United States in 1938.

  3. Hadassah Rosensaft collection

    The collection consists of several series of anti-Nazi satiric prints.

  6. Barry Perlman collection

    The collection consists of seven pieces of scrip of the type issued in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during World War II and four French currency exchange coupons of the type issued during World War I.

  8. Schläfrig family collection

    Recipe book written in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Frederick and Fannie Schläfrig [donor's grandparents] who were deported from Austria and liberated in Theresienstadt. Photographs surrounding WWII and identification card for their daughter Marie [donor's mother] who fled to the UK. Letter from David Boder at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to Mary Frotten in Windsor, Ontario; dated circa 1947-1948; in English

  10. Muzeum Okregowego w Koninie collection

    The collection consists of 3 bullet shells recovered from a tree.

  11. Ignatz Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a tallit and 3 pieces of Theresienstadt scrip.

  14. Fred Mittler collection

    The collection consists of 7 banners used by a Boy Scout troop in Shanghai, China during World War II.

  15. Paul Tauchner collection

    The Paul Tauchner collection includes a numbered badge from a concentration camp prisoner's uniform, a Buchenwald concentration camp badge, a Russian army propaganda leaflet, documents regarding restrictions on Rosa Block (1867-1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard to someone interned at Theresienstadt, picture postcards depicting Adolf Hitler, and a form documenting Johanna Meisinger’s Aryan descent.

  18. Nestor Winters collection

    The collection consists of an armband and two documents relating to the experiences of inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during and after the Holocaust.

  20. Foterek Sperling collection

    The collection consists of two bars of soap gifted to Helen Sperling and relating to the experiences of Czeslaw Foterek during the Holocaust in Stutthof labor-concentration camp.