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  1. Israel Haimovich collection

    The collection consists of a desk set and a pin relating to the experiences of Israel Haimovich while in a detention camp in Cyprus after the Holocaust.

  2. Collection of archives from Danish Jewish Museum

    This collection contains interviews, photo albums, and scrapbooks relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to Sweden and deportation to Theresienstad, as well as their return home to Denmark.

  4. Maryla Aleksandrowicz collection

    Collection of notes sent to Maryla Aleksandrowicz from her parents in the Płaszów concentration camp, sent while Maryla was in hiding. Inlcudes a photograph of Dr. Julian Alexandrowicz in his partisan uniform. The collection also includes a piece of a church bell used to hide circumcision by Dr. Julian Aleksandrowicz, while he was in hiding.

  5. Leo Solet collection

    Collection includes two drawings by Arthur Szyk. The first is untitled; watercolor and ink on paper. Matted and framed image depicting an old woman and a young boy. Both are wearing white armbands with a blue Star of David. She has a sack on her shoulder and the boy is carrying a cane or walking stick. Signed, "Arthur Szyk, London, 1940," in the upper right hand corner. Taped to the back is a piece of paper which reads, "To Mrs. Meeks with compliments of Arthur Szyk (signature), Washington, Jan. 1942." London, England. The second drawing is titled "Lebensraum" and depicts three figures on h...

  6. Joram Kagan collection

    The collection includes a Jewish police badge from Sosnowiec, Poland and a 100 zloty silver coin from Poland honoring Janusz Korczak.

  8. Lola Teitel collection

    Two slips, one worn by Lola Teitel, and the other by her sister Pearl Libatter, during hiding in the forests of Chodorow, Poland, for approximately one and a half years up until 1944-1945.

  9. Barry Kogan collection

    The collection includes a whip, as well as a letter written by Gerszmon Ronie, an inmate of the camp N1041 in Windsheim, in the American occupation zone in Germany. It is addressed to Mr. Trygvie Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, and requests that Ronie be taken from Windsheim camp and be allowed to live in Palestine.

  10. Harold B. Conlan collection

    The collection consists of a yarn doll, seven pieces of currency, a pennant, and a soap bar relating to the experiences of Harold B. Conlan, a soldier in the 701st Company D, US Army, which assisted in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.

  11. Claranne Bechtler collection

    Collection of Nazi pennants, banner and armbands.

  12. Carolyn Landau collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip.

  13. Arthur Scharfeld collection

    Collection of postage stamps.

  14. Urano S. N. Caranchini collection

    The collection consists of two blankets removed from Dachau after liberation by Staff Sargeant Urano S. N. Caranchini of the 260th Combat Engineers.

  15. Mimi Schwartzman collection

    Collection includes an armband from the Service de Liaison supres des Autorites Allemands and a Yellow Star of David badge marked "Juif"

  16. Alfred Ament collection

    Color drawing of a bust of a general created by Hans Ament (donor's brother), a young Jewish refugee, a Jewish refugee boy in a children's home; Drawing of flowers within a letter by a young Jewish refugee

  17. Shula Hamilton collection

    Contains a photograph as well as a letter and envelope (both laminated), addressed from Enrique (Herszek) Kagan, a Jewish refugee in Argentina, to his mother, Feiga Kagan, in Ostrolenka, Poland, sent August 29, 1939, but returned to Mr. Kagan in Argentina. The envelope contains a postmark from the German "Devisenschutz Kommando" in Warsaw. Also contains two examples of Polish currency from 1931. Written by Herszek Kagan (donor's father) to his mother in occupied Poland, August 1939.

  18. Pauline Kra collection

    The Pauline Kra collection consists of two knit scarves, in addition to a manuscript collection of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Bartkowski and Skornicki families from Łódź, their confinement in the Tomaszów Mazowiecki ghetto, Pauline's hidden Jewish identity in a Warsaw convent, and the family’s relocation to Caracas after the war and eventual immigration to the United States.

  20. Joel Elkes collection

    The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.