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  1. Blumenstein family collection

    Consists of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the experiences of the Blumenstein family in Vienna, Austria, on board the MS St. Louis, in hiding in Holland, and their efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. Includes a photograph of the donor's father in Sosua, Dominican Republic and a photograph taken in a Quaker camp for refugees in Havana, Cuba.

  2. Simon Jeruchim collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Simon Jeruchim and his family in France during and after World War II, when he lived as a hidden child in Normandy and then in foster homes near Paris.

  3. Samuel Flecker collection

    The collection consists of one German bank note and six pieces of scrip in 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Kronen denominations from Theresienstadt (Terezin), Czechoslovakia.

  4. Charles A. Weingarten collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, children's drawings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Charles A. Weingarten and his family in prewar and wartime France where he lived as a hidden child, and after the war while he recuperated in Switzerland, and then returned to France. Charles Albert Weingarten is the son of Margarethe (Marguerite) Weingarten and Rudolph Gelb. He was born on Jan. 13, 1941, in Nice, France. In 1943 when the Germans invaded the area, Margarethe hid with Charles in the basement of a building in rue Verdi in Nice. In July 1943 Margarethe and Charl...

  5. Marvin Benn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to Jewish life in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  6. George Pick family collection

    The collection consists of a two sets of pressed flowers, a suitcase, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Istvan and Margit Kornhauser Pick, their son Gyorgy, and Malvina Spitzer Kornhasuer and their extended family in Hungary before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust, which they survived by living in hiding in Budapest.

  7. Jaša and Enica Frances Altarac families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Jaša Altarac and his family before and during the war in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (later Serbia,) and during the Holocaust in Skopje, Macedonia, Pristina, Kosovo, and Albania and two photographs relating to the experiences of Enica Frances and her family in Albania during the Holocaust.

  8. Steffa Horowitz Mairanz collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Steffa Horowitz Mairanz and Tadek Mairanz before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  9. Dr. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Collection consisting of one school diploma and five books owned by the Selma Schwarzwald (now Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)[donor] (with inscriptions). Five books published in Polish, which belonged to Zofia Tymejko [false name used by Selma Schwarzwald] and which she kept throughout the years and one diploma from St. John's Wood Synagogue school in London; dated July 26, 1950

  10. Antal Pal collection

    The collection consists of a bracelet that was worn by Antal Pal from Tîrgu-Mureș, Romania, while he was imprisoned in Melk concentration camp and a piece of cloth from the pocket of a uniform that belonged to a friend of Antal Pal.

  11. Anna Cheszes collection

    Contains photographs and documents pertaining to Anna Cheszes' experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust

  12. Gerard Fields family collection

    The collection consists of a microscope and accessories, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences Gerard Blumenfeld (later Fields) and his family in France and Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  13. US newspaper collection

    Group of newspapers including: New York Times, April 30, 1933, New York Herald Tribune, May 10, 1933 and New York Herald Tribune, August 30, 1933

  14. US newspaper collection

    Group of two newspapers: The Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, June 16, 1953 and New York Times, Sunday, September 21, 1947

  15. Historical newspaper collection

    Group of newspapers including: Dallas Morning News, May 16, 1933, New York World-Telegram, November 29, 1933, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 12, 1933 and New York times, July 3, 1953

  16. Esia Baran Friedman collection

    Collection of black and white photographs, letters, documents, pins and a book relating to Esia Baran Friedman's family before the war in Vilna and after the war in DP camps in Germany and Austria.

  17. Bob Geiger collection

    The collection conisists of a Nazi flag and a Nazi eagle flagpole ornament.

  18. Goldfarb family collection

    The collection consists of two metal and enamel pins and one wood and rubber stamp relating to the experiences of Elimelech, Roza, and William Goldfarb in the Ziegenhain and Kassel DP camps.

  19. Elisabet Goldstein collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform that includes a jacket with embroidered patch and pants and a teaspoon relating to the experiences of Isidor and Elisabet Farkas Goldstein in Romania, Poland, and Germany during and after the Holocaust.

  20. Edgar Gaerber collection

    The collection consists of one paper note and five coins from the Łódź ghetto, an antisemitic calendar, seventeen false identification documents, and a publication relating to the experiences of Edgar Gaerber and his parents, Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber, during the Holocaust in Lvov, Poland (L'viv Ukraine) and in hiding in nearby towns and after the Holocaust in Łódź, Poland.