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  1. Iris Avni-Menzer family collection

    The collection consists of tefillin with storage pouch and photographs relating to the experiences of Herta (Iris) Menzer and the Menzer and Steiner families in Nitra, Czechoslovakia, and the surrounding region during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Nazi government Jewish propaganda collection

    The collection consists of labels and postcards relating to restrictions regarding medical care and correspondence imposed upon Jews by the Nazi government, 1933-1945.

  3. Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Sophia Kalski and Sarah Kerpholz while living in Trembowla and in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.

  4. Bela Gondos family collection

    The collection consists of a drawing, three chemises, a doll, eyeglasses, food container, handkerchief, suitcase, wallet, wristwatch, documents, photographs, and writings relating to the experiences of Dr. Bela Gondos, his wife Anna, and their daughter Judit before the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary, during the Holocaust in Budapest, on the Kasztner train, in Bergen-Belsen, and Switzerland, and after the Holocaust in Switzerland and the United States.

  5. Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier and Erich Maier family collection

    The collection consists of a bar of soap, paper currency, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier, Erich Maier, and members of their families in Austria before World War II and in Europe and the United States during and after the war.

  6. Simon Gelbart collection

    The collection consists of shoemaking tools relating to the experiences of Simon Gelbart in Poland before the war and in Poland and the Soviet Union, including forced labor service with the Soviet Army, during World War II.

  7. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    The collection consists of boots, a dress, gloves, jacket, necktie, two purses, shoes, and a wardrobe trunk, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor and Fanny Bieder and their daughters, Frieda and Gertrude, in Vienna, Austria, and during their emigration to the United States via Palestine before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Herbert Karliner family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence and prayer books relating to the experiences of Herbert Karliner and his family who fled Germany on the ill-fated voyage of the MS St. Louis, were separated after their return to France, when Herbert and his brother Walter were placed in a children's home and his parents, Martha and Josef, and two sister, Ilse and Ruth, were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

  9. Marian Rokacz collection

    The collection consists of nine pieces of Łódź ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Marian Rokacz as a detainee in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland, during the Holocaust.

  10. Arnold Gladstein collection

    The collection consists of a concert ticket and a program relating to the experiences of Arnold Gladstein while serving in the United States Air Force in Germany after World War II.

  11. Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

    The collection consists of a dog tag, correspondence, documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to Alexander and Raya Magid Markon and their son Alain during and after the Holocaust when the family left German occupied France for the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Arzt family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photograph albums, family histories and genealogies, notebooks, a wallet, textile-covered box, small bottle, and souvenirs relating to the experiences of the Arzt family who fled Berlin, Germany for the Dominican Republic.

  13. Rafal Imbro collection

    The collection consists of three boxes, a wallet, documents, identification cards, and receipt books relating to the experiences of Jewish people living in Łódź and Kielce, Poland, before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Roger Francois collection

    The collection consists of medals, books, a diary, and a scrapbook relating to the experience of Roger Francois in the Belgian resistance and in Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  15. Annette Metis Gallagher family collection

    The collection consists of a headband, a magazine, photographs, and a scrapbook relating to the experiences of Lotte Metis and her children, Annette and Wolfgang, and their May 1939 voyage aboard the MS St. Louis.

  16. Lea Herlinger Kaluzna family collection

    The collection consists of a Leica camera, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elsa, Ivo, and Lea Herlinger before the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, during and after the Holocaust in Italy, including the years they lived in hiding, and after their 1950 emigration to the United States.

  17. Bernhard Groeschel collection

    The collection consists of two batim from a set of tefillin and a tefillin storage pouch relating to the experiences of Bernhard Groeschel in Forchheim, Germany, before and after the Holocaust.

  18. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    The collection consists of a wallet and documents relating to the experiences of Erna Landau before the war when she emigrated from Rhede, Germany, to Great Britain in 1938 and of photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Meyer and his extended family in the Netherlands and then in Kenya where they lived as refugees during World War II.

  19. Uri Orlev collection

    The collection consists of a drawing and photographs relating to the experiences of Jurek Orlowski, (Uri Orlev) and his brother, Kazimierz, before and during the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland, and after the Holocaust in Palestine.

  20. Ursula Lenneberg Pawel and Siegmund Brünell family collection

    The collection consists of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard relating to the experiences of Ursula Lenneberg and her family in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust and of photographs relating to the family of her stepfather, Siegmund Bruenell, in prewar Germany and in Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust.