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  1. Marcelle Faust collection

    The collection consists of a pencil, a juicer, and documents relating to the experiences of Emma Muller, originally from Austria, who was imprisoned in La Bastide de Bousignac and Gurs internment camps in southern France, released in 1941, and then emigrated to the United States.

  2. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal collection

    The collection consists of a Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal and case.

  3. US propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of two propaganda posters produced in the United States during World War II.

  4. Victor Borden collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Rywen Bornsztein and Mina Flattau, originally from Łódź, during the Holocaust in Poland, the USSR, and Uzbekistan, where they joined the Polish Army and then travelled to Palestine, and in 1951, to the United States.

  5. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, audio recordings, correspondence, documents, reports, and writings related to the experiences of Rachel Greene Rottersman during her career with UNRRA and her work at the children’s home at Aglasterhausen, Germany, assisting displaced children after World War II.

  6. Julius Simon family collection

    The collection consist of artifacts, clippings, correspondence, documents photograph prints and album relating to the experiences of Julius and Gerda Bundheim Simon and their daughter Lore before the Holocaust in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in the United States after their 1939 emigration.

  7. Roma Laks Kaplan collection

    The collection consists of two self portraits created by Roma Kaplan in 1966.

  8. Jewish paper based ephemera

    Robert Edward Edmondson anti-Semitic broadsides: Six broadsides, issued by the Edmondson Economic Service, under the following titles and dates: "'Invisible Government:' The Hidden Autocratic Minority Menace to American Democracy" (18 May 1934); "Prof. Felix Frankfurter" (4 July 1934); "Are You a Communist, Mr. Dickstein?" (15 December 1934); "Justice Brandeis Unfit?" (15 March 1935); "Jews Off Gold?" (10 August 1937); "The Jewish Hymn Onward Christian Soldiers--To Make the World Safe for Communistic Jewry!" (10 January 1939). Announcement of protest against the Jewish boycott of Germany, B...

  9. Gertrude Winter collection

    Gertrude Winter collection of drawings, documents, notebooks, correspondence. Gertrude Winter was born on February 28, 1905. She was a first-and second grade teacher for girls at the "Volksschule der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien," which was located in the Castellezgasse in Vienna. The school was closed in the summer of 1941. The content of the collection includes drawings, poems and essays. There are also nine notebooks with between 22-48 pages of writing. In addition there are 11 photographs of the students and teacher. Altogether 35 of the children can be identified by their names. ...

  10. Oral history interviews of the Esther Toporek Finder collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors from the Las Vegas, NV area about their post-Holocaust experiences.

  11. US patriotic envelope collection

    The collection consists of four unused envelopes depicting artwork created during World War II in the United States.

  12. Cabot Mill Antiques collection

    Consists of posters, sheet music, newspapers, and magazines, dated 1933-1945, published in the United States and containing articles or artwork related to World War II and to the Holocaust. Includes copies of "American," "American Observer," "American Rifleman," "Collier's," "Foreign Service," "Free World," "Judge," "Liberty," "Look," and "Woman's Day," magazines, as well as issues of "Social Justice," the "Townsend National Weekly," the "Bangor Daily News," the "Boston Daily Record," and "The Boston Traveler," and "Yank" newspapers. Also includes posters, "I Gave a Man," "A Word of Thanks,...

  13. Arundel Antiques collection

    The collection consists of issues of Life magazine, Liberty magazine, Scribner's Commentator, St, Nicholas for Boys and Girls, and True Story magazine, dated 1937-1942, all containing issues related to the United States during World War II and regarding atrocities against Jews.

  14. AnyTime Antiques collection

    The collection consists of an issue of Liberty magazine (January 18, 1941), of Life magazine (June 26, 1944) and Popular Mechanics magazine (March 1942).

  15. Magazines

    THe collection consists of copies of "Life" magazine, dated between 1937-1941, and issues of the Pathfinder newsletter, dated 1941.

  16. The American magazine collection

    The collection consists of twelve issues of American magazine, published 1942-1943.

  17. Violet Herkovits Mainzer collection

    Documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rabbi Boril Herschkovics who immigrated to the United States in the late 1920s ahead of his immediate family. Documents include recommendations of employment for Boril as well as later efforts in 1941, of his daughter Alice, already in the United States, to bring over her sister and mother Edith and Rose, who eventually joined Alice and Violet (who arrived in 1939) and Boril in the United States. Also includes the oral testimony of Iby Mainzer and Martin Mainzer.

  18. Dorothy L. Jones Miller collection

    The collection consists of documents relating to Dorothy Jones [donors' mother] (b. July 17, 1914) who on July 1, 1945 began to work as Assistant Welfare Officer of UNRRA in US zone in Germany and left in September 1948 as Chief Welfare Officer. The documents include different reports, passports, lists, correspondence, UNRRA publications, and others. Two UNRRA uniforms (2 jackets and 3 skirts), sweaters, dolls, UNRRA patches, name bracelet, metal pins, dolls, doilies, other woven and embroidered items, wooden boxes, pewter set, silver pins and spoon - gifted to Ms. Jones or purchased by her...

  19. Wilhelm Bauman collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and newspapers related to the experience of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents before and during the Holocaust in Austria, and Wilhelm's emigration to the United Kingdom in 1939, and deportation to Australia in 1940, and his subsequent release from interment camps and emgration to the United States. The colletion also includes artwork.

  20. Refugee Relief poster collection

    The collection consists of three posters made to promote awareness of the need for refugee relief in the United States during World War II.