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  1. Martin Shallow III collection

    The collection consists of Nazi Party cigarette cards, Theresienstadt scrip, and German passbooks relating to life under the Nazi led governments in Germany and occupied Czechoslovakia.

  3. Paul Zilczer family collection

    The collection consists of a briefcase, pouch, wallets, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Paul Zilczer, his wife Margit Gelyi Zilczer, and their families in Hungary before and during the Holocaust and of Paul Zilczer's experiences after his immigration to the United States in 1939.

  4. Grodno Survivors Association collection

    The collection consists of artifacts discovered after the end of World War II on the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno, Poland, now Hrodna, Belarus.

  5. Douglas Smith collection

    The collection consists of notebooks and photographs relating to the history of poetry and Jewish life in prewar Poland and to the experiences of postwar Holocaust survivors in Sweden, as well as a publication of drawing reproductions by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting Targu Jiu concentration camp in Romania during World War II.

  6. Michal Goldin collection

    The collection consists of a Polish eagle badge, a Polish medal and box, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Michal Goldin before the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland, and during the Holocaust, when Michal served in the Polish Army in exile in France, Switzerland, and Scotland, and was killed in combat in Normandy, France, in 1944.

  7. Oral history interviews of the "Ich Bin Jude! Ich Bin Jude!" film collection

    Oral history interviews gathered for the documentary film "Ich Bin Jude! Ich Bin Jude!"

  8. Oral history interviews of the Edith Ruina collection

    Oral history interviews gathered by Edith Ruina for her manuscript "The Grupa," which tells the story of Jewish youth from 1939-1945, who fled as a group from Poland through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and finally to Palestine.

  9. Cesia Carol Redlich collection

    The collection consists of a Łódź Ghetto coin, certificates, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Cesia Uncyk and her family before the Holocaust in Poland, and after the Holocaust when she lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany and then emigrated to the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik family collection

    The collection consists of a matzah cover, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik and their families during and after the Holocaust in Kalisz and Zdunska Wola, Poland.

  11. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    The collection consists of an unused Star of David patch, three Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp parcel stamps, and a letter relating to the history of the Holocaust in German occupied Czechoslovakia and Netherlands.

  12. Nathan Baruch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Rabbi Nathan Baruch as director of the Vaad Hatzala Rescue Organization in Germany from 1946-1949.

  13. Edith Ruina collection

    Contains research materials pertaining to Edith Ruina's research for her manuscript entitled, "The Grupa." "The Grupa" tells the story of a group of Jewish youth from 1939-1945, who fled as a group from Poland through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and finally to Palestine. The manuscript is based on the writings of Rutka Judenherc Bayuk, one of the youths, and the collection includes oral history interviews, and transcripts, of members of the group.

  14. Herbert Fierst collection

    The Herbert A. Fierst collection consists of biographical materials, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and interviews primarily documenting Fierst’s work on displaced persons issues at the Pentagon and State Department in the 1940s; a diary Herbert kept while traveling in Germany in 1935 and 1936; writings and speeches about Nazi Germany and postwar displaced persons issues; McCarthy-era investigations into Fierst and his colleagues; materials relating to Herbert’s family; and an oral history interview with Sam Perlman and Sophy Perlman about Herbert F...

  15. Nelly Toll collection

    The collection consists of six watercolors created by Nelly Landau (later Toll) during the Holocaust while living as a hidden child in Lwow, Poland.

  16. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    The collection consists of an apron, greeting cards, tallit bag, wedding dress, veil, gloves, documents, correspondence and photographs relating to the experiences of Lili Lax Frydman and Ludwig Frydman after the Holocaust in Celle displaced persons camp in Germany and in the United States after their emigration in 1948. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Regina Laks Gelb collection

    Pin and report card given to Regina Laks in the Schlachtensee DP camp.

  18. Norbert Wollheim collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Norbert Wollheim in Berlin, Germany, before and during the Holocaust, as an inmate in several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and as a refugee in displaced persons camps in Germany after the Holocaust.