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  1. Nissim Farhi collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Nissim Farhi and his family in Bulgaria and Palestine during and after the Holocaust.

  2. Kay Nabel collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a forced labor badge, a dress, and a towel, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Krystyna Selinger Nabel and her family in Poland and Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  3. Bertha and Eliazer Davids family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the extended families of Bertha Kaufman Davids and Eliazer Davids in the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  4. Sylvia Bassman collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sylvia Bassman before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Aviva Slesin oral history collection

    Collection of materials gathered for and related to the film Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII, including oral history interviews, photo stills, B-roll footage, and video segments.

  6. Sonia Beker collection

    The collection consists of three broadsides relating to the experiences of Fania and Henia Durmashkin as members of the St. Ottilien displaced persons orchestra in Germany after the Holocaust during which the sisters had been interned in several concentration and labor camps.

  7. German cultural propaganda collection

    The collection consists of a bust of Hitler, an Olympic torch holder, and a German made radio associated with the history of Germany under the Nazi regime.

  8. Jewish community broadside collection

    The collection consists of two broadsides and a publication relating to the Berlin Jewish Community and the death of President von Hindenburg, British Army enlistment in Palestine, and the Hay internment camp in Australia before and during World War II.

  9. Dr. Samuel Schader collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and papers relating to the experiences of Dr. Samuel Schader as a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps of the British Army during World War II.

  10. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of two newspapers: "Das Schwarze Korps" published by the SS in Berlin, Germany, dated December 8, 1938 and December 15, 1938.

  11. Lenczycki family collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Simon Lenczycki, his wife Sara Glatter Lenczycki and their son Henryk [donor] in the displaced persons camps in Feldafing and Fuerth, Germany: included are drivers licenses and identity cards for Fuerth, and an identity card issued to Simon who was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Landshut and Muhldorf concentration camps. Documents illustrating the immediate post-war experiences of Mania Fiedler, Sara’s sister: included are a "civilian internee” identity card issued in post-liberation Mauthausen concentration camp as...

  12. Bernice, Morris, and Sarah Kirsch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Bronia and Morris Kirsch, and their daughter, Sarah, in a displaced persons camp after the Holocaust.

  13. Alona Frankel family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publication relating to the experiences of Gusta and Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family lived in hiding in the Lvov ghetto, and after the war in Krakow and following their emigration to Israel.

  14. Vera Lechtman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Vera and Marcel Lechtman, Georges Maringer, and Marc Hoffman as rescued children in Switzerland during the Holocaust.

  15. Martin and Sophie Keizer Waterman family collection

    The collection consists of a flashlight, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Meijer and Sophia Frederika Keizer Waterman, their daughter, Roosje, and other family members in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the Westerbork transit camp, and the Vittel internment camp in France before, during, and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Shevach Biegeleisen and Emanuel Stein family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the families of Shevach Biegeleisen and Emanuel Stein in Lwow and Krakow, Poland before and during the Holocaust and of Dr. Stein and his family during and after their emigration to the United States.

  17. Aliza Bar collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experience of Aliza Bar, who was a hidden child in Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Eugene Silver collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs associated with the history of the Nazi Party in Germany from approximately 1933-1945.

  19. Jacqueline Mendels Birn collection

    The collection consists of children's clothing, baby books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ellen and Frits Mendels, and their children, Franklin, Jacqueline, and Manuela, before and during the Holocaust in France when the family lived in hiding. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Henry and Rose Basch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Henry and Rose Basch as Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, before, during, and after the Holocaust.