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  1. French collaborationist propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of propaganda posters circulated by the Nazi-collaborationist government in France during World War II.

  2. Salomon Slowes collection

    The collection consists of military insignia, sketches, correspondence, documents, pamphlets, photographs, and photographic negatives relating to the experiences of Dr. Salomon Slowes, a veteran of the Polish Army of the East and the Second Polish Corps, British Army, before, during, and after World War II.

  3. Joel Kaye collection

    The collection consists of photographs as well as two letters received by Joseph Krakower and Cecile Krakower from Aron (Armand) Krakower who was interned in Pithiviers internment camp in France. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Karl Schwesig collection

    The collection consists of seventeen drawings, three watercolors, and 1 typed manuscript created by Karl Schwesig before and after the Holocaust when he was arrested in Dusseldorf, Germany, for anti-Nazi activity and for being a Communist, and incarcerated in multiple internment and prison camps in German and then France, as well as works relating to his wartime experiences done when he returned to Dusseldorf after the war.

  5. Zydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma collection

    The collection consists of seventy-eight pieces of scrip and sixteen coins issued in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto in German occupied Poland, one bar of soap, and one flight logbook from the Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps used during World War II.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Gymnasium Langenhagen project collection

    Oral history interviews of the Gymnasium Langenhagen project collection

  7. Walter Fried collection

    The collection consists of a tefillin set, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Walter Fried during World War II when Fried, a Jewish Austrian refugee, served in the United States Army.

  8. Marcel Mayer-Astruc collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album documenting a 1944 exhibition in London, England, entitled, "Germany -- the Evidence", organized by Marcel Mayer-Astruc. The collection also includes an envelope and photographs relating to the 1944 exhibition, "Germany--the Evidence," in London, England, created by Marcel Mayer-Astruc. The envelope is labeled with a printed return address, "INBEL..London." The photographs show exhibit panels with images of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials, civilians greeting Nazi officials, and scenes of war destruction as well as placards with quotations ...

  9. Ilya Yoffe collection

    The collection consists of medals, documents, a pamphlet, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ilya Yoffe and his family in the Soviet Union before, during and after World War II and of Ilya’s service in the Soviet Army during and after the war.

  10. Henry Wellisch collection

    The collection consists of two suitcases that were used by Emil and Jolan Wellisch donor's parents as they fled from Vienna, Austria, to Palestine and Mauritius during World War II and were again used by the Wellisches when they emigrated to Canada in 1951

  11. Lore Gotthelf Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of two steamer trunks that were sent to England to Lore Gotthelf Jacobs who left Frankfurt-am Main, Germany, on the Kindertransport

  12. Philip Goodman collection

    The collection consists of a poster and a magazine cover using images created by Arthur Szyk.

  13. David Winchester collection

    The collection consists of a prison shirt, prisoner identification badge, documents, and letters relating to the experiences of David Wincygster (later Winchester) in Poland before the Holocaust, in Ostrowiec ghetto, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Eintrachthutte slave labor camp during the Holocaust, and in Poland and Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  14. Irving Kramer collection

    The collection consists of two 1943 issues of the Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer.

  15. Trudy Katzer collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a child's dress, a child's vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Truusje Schoenfeld (Trudy Katzer), who was a hidden child in the Netherlands, and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  16. Michael M. Garber collection

    The collection consists of a tefillin set, siddur, and seven photographs relating to the experiences of Michael Garber before and during the Holocaust when he fled German occupied Warsaw, Poland, for the Soviet Union.

  17. Marion Cassirer collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative medal and a commemorative candy tin relating to the experiences of Marion Kaufmann, originally from Berlin, Germany, in Amsterdam, Holland, after the end of World War II which she survived as a hidden child in the Netherlands.

  18. Lea Abramowicz family collection

    The collection consists of a purse, Star of David badge, wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lea Abramowicz and her family before the Holocaust in Russia, Danzig, and Palestine, during the Holocaust when they lived in hiding in Belgium, and after the Holocaust in Belgium and the United States.

  19. Henry Schmelzer collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag and documents relating to the experiences of Henry Schmelzer who was sent from Austria to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1938.

  20. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek and her family during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and of Raszka when she lived under an assumed identity and was sent as a forced laborer to Germany, as well as after the war when Rose lived in a displaced placed persons camp in Germany until her emigration to the United States.