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  1. John Hein collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a three page letter, and two photographs relating to the experiences of John Hein, originally from Germany, as a soldier in the United States Army during the liberation of Zwodau labor camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II.

  2. Louis Brandsdorfer collection

    The collection consists of a diamond ring found at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 and seven photographs depicting a massacre in Bolesławiec, Poland.

  3. Nancie Furgang collection

    The collection consists of one London News Agency photograph of Nordhausen concentration camp at liberation and two hardbound collections of the British edition of "Yank," a weekly magazine published during World War II by the United States Army.

  4. Paul A. Strassmann collection

    The collection consists of documents, certificates, identification cards, photographs, a medal, and a badge relating to Paul Strassmann's involvement with partisans in Slovakia during World War II.

  5. Michael Greenburg collection

    The collection consist of 5 pieces of scrip.

  6. Herman Yablokoff collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Yablokoff after World War II

  7. Gyorgy Antos collection

    Collection consists of 17 photographic postcards of scenes of Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics; 1 calling card listing the false identity for Pallos, Klara; 1 photograph of Jozska Lustig wearing a star patch, with verso inscription (in Hungarian) stating the the photo is a form of identity allowing her to work outside the ghetto; 1 typed document posted after the war, searching for Antos, Laszlo; 3 reels of film shot by Laszlo Antos in Berlin, 1936

  8. Yehuda Nir collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a badge, cigarette cards, leaflets, posters, and scrip and correspondence, documents, sheet music, and publications relating to the history of the Holocaust in Europe. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Fred and Katie Rose collection

    The collection consists of materials issued to Dutch citizens during and immediately after World War II.

  10. David Mentken family collection

    The collection consists of a portrait drawing, a silhouette, a shop sign, three pairs of capmaker’s scissors, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Salomon Mentkewicz, his family, and the Haar family before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and Krakow, Poland, and to the emigration of David and Regina Haar Mentkewicz (later Mentken) and their sons, Edgar and Robert, to the United States in 1938.

  11. George and Shari Fine collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents related to the experience of Getzel Fingerhut (George Fine) in Dachau concentration camp and Sari Marmor (Fine) as a slave laborer in Poland during the Holocaust and in displaced persons camps and Canada after the war.

  12. Ela Weissberger collection

    The Ela Weissberger collection consists of photocopies of materials related to cultural activities at Theresienstadt including a Purim play and Brundibár, poetry about Theresienstadt, a map of Theresienstadt and hand-colored coat of arms of Theresienstadt, and biographical materials and correspondence documenting Walter Weiss’s imprisonment in Theresienstadt. Weiss was a cousin of Ela Weissberger. The collection also includes a metal item: two separate pieces of iron alloy held together by a hinge. On front is a relief of a lion with a sword between two castles above a brick pattern with st...

  13. Miles Lerman collection

    Collection of one (eine) Mark bills (scrip) issued in the Łódź ghetto, Poland; issued May 1, 1940.

  14. Rose Galek Brunswic family collection

    The collection consists of mother of pearl buttons, mother-of-pearl shards, a letter, two photographs, and other materials relating to the experiences of Raszka Galek (later Rose Brunswic) and her family in prewar Poland and in Germany and Poland during the Holocaust and of a haggadah relating to the experiences of Kurt Braunschweig (later Claude Brunswic) in prewar Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection the future.

  15. David Mielzynski collection

    The collection consists of a document excluding David Mielzynski from service in the Wehrmacht, two identification cards, three calendars which David Mielzynski used in hiding, and a Star of David badge.

  16. Lewin family collection

    The collection consists of documents and artifacts surrounding the experiences of Eva Lifschitz and Jakob Lewin, before and during World War II. Included in the collection are letters and documents relating to Eva who arrived in the United Kingdom on a Kindertransport in 1939, as well as documents and artifacts related to Jakob who was in hiding in Le Chambon, France, and then given refuge in Switzerland.

  17. Edward Vebell collection

    The collection consists of nine courtroom drawings created by Edward Vebell, US Army, during the Trial of German Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, which opened on November 20, 1945, following the end of World War II.

  18. Berg and Hermanns families collection

    The collection includes a cake server, cooking pot, Kenyan statues, silver spoon, steamer trunk, prayer book, biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Clara and Max Berg and their extended family in Germany before their escape to Kenya and their life in Kenya during the Holocaust, and their postwar immigration to the United States and the Hermanns family and Julius Hermanns’ journey aboard the MS St. Louis, return to Europe, and internment in France. An accretion of five WWI medals was received in 2016.

  19. Collection of posters and propaganda leaflets

    Group of posters and leaflets with anti-Semitic propaganda. Printed in black ink on off-white paper

  20. Joseph and Rose Lieberman collection

    The collection consists of an identification card, photographic negative, and tefillin scroll relating to the time period of the Holocaust.