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  1. Alfred Moritz collection

    The collection consists of artwork, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred Moritz and his family in Germany and while living in hiding in France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  2. Cayla DuChene Houston collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the history of the Nazi party in Germany during the Third Reich.

  3. Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein collection

    Consists of a diary: written by "Deborah" in the Warsaw ghetto, wrapped in a Polish newspaper, dated 11 July 1945; Deborah (last name unknown) was killed by a bomb in Warsaw during the Polish uprising in 1944. Lusia Hornstein (donor's mother and a friend of Deborah's) retrieved the diary in the Spring of 1945 from a burned out home where she was living under false papers

  4. William G. Allan collection

    The collection consists of military insignia and photographs relating to the experiences of William G. Allan as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army, 99th Infantry Brigade, during his service in Germany during World War II.

  5. Renee Konstandt Lang collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Renee Konstandt Lang and her family in Vienna, Austria, before, during, and after World War II and in various concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  6. Jakob Glantz collection

    The collection consists of a painting, correspondence, documents, and identity cards related to the experiences of Jakob Glantz, originally of Szaszvar, Hungary, who fled Vienna Austria after Kristallnacht with his wife and daughter, to Shanghai, where he passed away in 1948.

  7. Ross Baker family collection

    The collection consists of a camera, currency, a flag, a poster, a songbook, stamps, toy figurines, correspondence, a diary, documents, film, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ross and Helen Baker and their five sons, Phillip, Porter, Frederick, Stanley, and Raymond, in Vienna, Austria, before World War II.

  8. Hans Praschkauer collection

    The collection consists of artifacts (two pins and one armband), composition books, correspondence, documents, publications, and scrapbooks related to the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Hans (Heinz) Praschkauer, in Breslau, Germany, Shanghai, China, and the United States.

  9. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    The collection consists of six handcrafted metal artifacts, documents, a memory book, and a scrapbook album related to the experiences of Margaret Gruenbaum and her children, Marietta and Michael, in Czechoslovakia before and during the Holocaust. The collection also includes a photocopy of a Terezin diary written in German by an unknown woman and a two-page description of a transport to Theresienstadt. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Lori Cunard collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, clippngs, and postcards, illustrating the experiences of Ingund Lore Lewinsky (donor) and her parents, Paula and Walter Lewinsky surrounding the Holocaust. Included are "Kennkarten," or Jewish identity cards, issued to all three family members, that were buried beneath the family's hiding place; Walter's identity card for forced labor at Zeiss Ikon; prewar photographs of the family aboard the ship Orinoco, correspondence from family members in Theresienstadt and Sachsenhausen, and post-war documents. Also included are three Star of David patches, worn by ...

  11. Eugenia Josefsberg Burg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David armband and a document related to the experience of Eugenia Josefsberg Burg in the Boryslaw ghetto/labor camp in Poland during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Fred and Lola Sauerbrunn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Fred and Lola Sauerbrunn in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  13. Joseph A. Witter collection

    The collection consists of two Allach porcelain figurines relating to the experiences of Dr. Joseph A. Witter, a United States Army surgeon who provided medical services at the liberated Dachau concentration camp in April and May 1945.

  14. Nazi propaganda publications collection

    The collection consists of books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, and flyers associated with the history of the Third Reich in Germany from 1933-1945.

  15. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, photographs, slides, sound recordings, and sheets of unused Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Jeanne Daman and her efforts to rescue Jewish residents of Belgium and to resist the German occupation of that country during World War II, as well as her postwar work in the United States with the United Jewish Appeal.

  16. Nazi Germany propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: Stormtrooper jodphurs, an Imperial Reich flag, a Nazi propaganda board game, a Jew Suss poster, and two pamphlets related to the history of Nazi Germany and to the postwar Allied military occupation.

  17. Margot Schwarzschild Wicki collection

    The collection consists of artwork, documents, a notebook, photographs, and postcards relating to the experiences of Margo Schwarzschild and her family during their imprisonment in Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps and her stay in the OSE Pringy children's home in France during the Holocaust, as well their life in the postwar period.

  18. Rosalyn Orenstein collection

    The collection consists of documents, an identification tag, and photographs relating to the experiences of Wiktor Lerhaft as a German prisoner of war during WWII, and with his family in a displaced persons camp and during their emigration to the United States during the postwar period. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Judith Weinstein collection

    The collection consists of a flag, a school box, a publication, a notebook, and a business catalog relating to the experiences of Judith Weinstein and her family in Poland before the Holocaust and in Wels displaced persons camp after the Holocaust.

  20. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a book, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Jacob Wiener and his family, the Zwienickis, in Germany before World War II and in Canada and the United States before, during, and after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.