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  1. Salomon Strauss-Marko collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a dog tag, a nightstick, a pair of brass knuckles, and a bootjack, correspondence, documents, a manuscript, and photographs relating to Salomon Strauss-Marko, originally from Warek, Poland, during the Holocaust when he lived under a false identity as a Ukrainian while imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp in Germany and in concentration/labor camps in Austria.

  2. Shiber family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, negatives, and a reel of magnetic tape relating to Emanuel Shiber's family and their life in Lʹvov, Poland, (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) before World War II, his experiences during and after the war, and his wife's experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and her art and testimony.

  3. Barbara Rein collection

    The collection consists of four face powder containers marked with the color name Rachel sold in Bulgaria before and during the Holocaust, including the period when Bulgaria was an Axis ally.

  4. Suzanne Meisingher Cohen collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and an identification card relating to the experiences of Suzanna Meisingher Cohen in France during the Holocaust.

  5. Shlomo Schiller family collection

    The collection consists of a tallit, a tallit katan, and photographs relating to the experiences of Shlomo Schiller and his family in Poland before and after the Holocaust, and in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.

  6. Gisela E. Zamora collection

    The collection consists of tefillin and tefillin storage bag relating to the experiences of Josef and Marcus Zamojre, originally from Germany, while living in hiding in Italy during the Holocaust.

  7. Herbert C. Durkee collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief, documents, photographs, and signatures relating to the experiences of Herbert C. Durkee after World War II when he served as a guard at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

  8. Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities collection

    The collection consists of three broken tombstones recovered from a desecrated Jewish cemetery on Sevastopol Street in Bucharest, Romania, that was destroyed during World War II.

  9. Ladislaus Farkas collection

    The collection consists of a drawing and photographs relating to the experiences of the Farkas family in Romania and of Ladislaus Farkas in Germany prior to the Holocaust.

  10. Ossip Lubitch collection

    The collection consists of fifty-two pencil drawings created by Ossip Lubitch while he was interned in Drancy internment camp in France from July to August 1944.

  11. Bernard Feingold collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Brigadier General Bernard Feingold during World War II.

  12. David Glick collection

    The collections consists of four reels of 16mm original color and black and white camera reversal film; each reel is approximately 400 feet in length. The films document David Glick's travels as a representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helping German Jews emigrate to South America in 1939, trips to France in the 1920s, France and Bavaria between 1936 and 1938, and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The collection also includes a bound report compiled by Allen Hepner titled "Rescue and Resettlement: Thousands saved from Nazi Germany; bound report compiled b...

  13. Miriam Ziegler collection

    The collection consists of an aluminum box and photographs relating to the experiences of Rose and Miriam Ziegler and their family before the war in Ostrowiec, Poland, during the Holocaust in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and after liberation, to Miriam's experiences in Bindermichl displaced persons camp and the Strobl children's home in Austria.

  14. Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of documents, a canister of film from the 1936 Olympics, a scrapbook of postcards, and a publication.

  15. Nazi Germany cultural and political propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and publications relating to the expansion of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and the waging of World War II.

  16. Israel Lichtenstein collection

    The collection consists of a handmade greeting card and photographs documenting the experiences of Menachem Mendel Lichtenstein, his wife Shifra, and son, Israel, in France during the Holocaust when Menachem was interned in Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp and Israel lived in the Masgelier's children's home.

  17. Emanuel Thcitchcik Zafrir family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket and photographs relating to the experiences of Emanuel Thcitchcik (later Zafrir) and his family in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, before, during, and after World War II.

  18. Esther Flam collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken at displaced persons camps in Schauenstein and Peppendorf, Germany, and two "temporary travel documents" issued to Esther Zoberman donor and Raisl Zoberman by the military government for Germany. Also included are a food knife and blanket issued at the displaced persons camp in Emden, Germany.

  19. Henry Zguda collection

    The collection consists of a badge, armband, letter opener, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Henryk Zguda in prewar Krakow, Poland, during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when he returned to Poland and then emigrated to the United States.

  20. Luneberg, Germany, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp documents and realia collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, negatives, photographs, and publications relating to the history of the Holocaust in German occupied Czechoslovakia and Nazi Germany.