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  1. United States Army patch and booklet collection

    The collection consists of four patches: two war photographer, one 12th Army Group, and one 4th Cavalry Group, and three booklets relating to the history of units of the United States Army active during World War II.

  2. United States Army division shoulder sleeve insignia badge collection

    The collection consists of thirty-five United States Army Division shoulder sleeve insiginia badges issued for Divisions active in the European theater during World War II.

  3. Ursula Klau family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, prayer books, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ursula Klau and her family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and after the Holocaust as well as contemporary photographs from the 1950s and later.

  4. Life magazine collection

    Three issues of Life Magazine with articles about the film "March of Time," the destruction of the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw, and antisemitic propaganda; issues dated January 31, 1938, March 29, 1938, and May 13, 1940.

  5. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the history of the Holocaust and the occupation of Denmark by Germany during World War II.

  6. Herbert L. Markow collection

    Herbert Markow papers relating to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials; Mr. Markow acted as an attorney advisor to the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, specifically for subsequent trial preparation for the indictment against former SS member Oswald Pohl who was head of the Economic and Administrative Office of the SS; Markow also completed preliminary work in preparation for the mesical experiments trial.

  7. Nazi Party campaign poster collection

    The collection consists of campaign and propaganda posters created to publicize the achievements of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany in the mid-1930s.

  8. Judith Stieglitz Kessler collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Judith (Yehudit) Stieglitz Kessler and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Hungary and Yugoslavia.

  9. Franka and Samuel Baral family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Franka and Samuel Baral and their three children, Aneta, Jim, and Martin, as refugees from German occupied Poland, including several years spent living in hiding, chiefly in Hungary, during the Holocaust.

  10. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    The collection consists of a spice box, sugar tongs, a tabelcloth, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hannah Kronheim, a Kindertransport refugee from Bochum, Germany, and her family before and during the Holocaust.

  11. Pablo Cano collection

    The collection consists of a miniature bust of Hitler, six Nazi propaganda pamphlets, documents, and photographs associated with the propaganda efforts of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933-1945.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Romania Roma Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with eight non-Jewish witnesses (Roma) whom were victims of persecution, humiliation, and forced labor in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  13. Gene Selig family collection

    The collection consists of a Haggadah, a certificate, and photographs relating to the experiences of Siegfried and Hildegard Selig and their ten year old son Gert (Gene) during the Holocaust when they fled Frankfurt, Germany, and traveled on the trans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.

  14. Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experiences of Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Dorien Grunbaum family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Manfred and Rita Grunbaum and their daughter, Dorien, in the Netherlands, Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States in the postwar period.

  16. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernestine Wiesenthal, her son, Fritz, his wife, Gertrude, and their daughters, Illa and Nellie, in Germany, England, and the United States before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Riesenfeld family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, papers, correspondence, a steamer trunk and other assorted materials documenting and related to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Riesenfeld (nee Schwabacher) and their children Ernst and James (donor's father) originally from Wurzburg, Germany who fled to the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in March 1940. Also documents extended family and friends.

  18. Sig Feiger collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Sig Feiger and his family in Vienna, Austria, and during their escape to the United States via the United Kingdom and Cuba before and during the Holocaust.

  19. Leah Grochowska Gutman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leah Grochowska and her family in Poland and Palestine before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Charlotte Drucker family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, clippings, documents, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Charlotte Landesmann Hirsch and her family in Hungary during and after the Holocaust.