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  1. Torah scroll fragment in a wooden frame

  2. Bronze sculpture of a briefcase with initials R.W. made to honor the memory of Raoul Wallenberg

  4. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  5. Sign

  6. Ring

    Ring created for U.S. serviceman by newly liberated prisoner of Dachau.

  7. Coin

    Commemorative coin issued on fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish population from Kolin, Czech Republic.

  8. Commemorative coin case

    Commemorative coin case issued on fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish population from Kolin, Czech Republic.

  9. Certificate

    Commemorative coin certificate issued on fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish population from Kolin, Czech Republic.

  10. Bible

  11. Teddy bear carried by a young boy on the Kindertransport

    Teddy bear received by 14 year old Jack Hellman as a child and carried with him on the Kindertransport in early 1939. When Jack was nine, his parents sent him away to boarding school in Frankfurt, Germany, to escape the vicious anti-semitism in his hometown, Tann. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, synagogues and Jewish businesses all over Germany were vandalized or destroyed. Soon after, the housemother of his boarding school petitioned Baron James de Rothschild in Great Britain to provide refuge for the 26 children in the school, as well as her own family. Rothschild ...

  12. Soap

  13. Pin

  14. Prayer book

    Miniture torah scroll believed to have been buried by Jews prior to their deportation from Sighet, Romania.

  15. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

  16. Book

  17. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  18. Adolf Hitler cigarette card

    1 cigarette card, image of Adolf Hitler inspecting quarters of German soldier

  19. Medal

  20. Medal