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  1. Muzeum Okregowe w Konine collection

    The collection consists of concrete, a map, utensils, clothing accessories, and other small personal artifacts recovered from the site of Chelmno killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.

  2. Trap door and air vent cover collection

    Wooden trap door and metal air vent cover that belonged to a house located at Lvivska Street no. 35, Zolkiew (Zhovka), Ukraine, whose crawl space under the floorboards served as a hiding place for Jews during the Holocaust. The trap door and hiding place are described in detail in the Holocaust memoir "Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival", by Clara Kramer.

  3. Meyer family collection

    Correspondence, photograph and prayer book illustrating the experiences of Tana and her parents Gerda and Heinz Meyer and her grandmother Charlotte Abelt. Correspondence from Charlotte and Gerda to Charlotte's sister and brother-in-law in Sweden. Charlotte and Tana survived in Theresienstadt. Gerda and Heinz separately deported to Auschwitz where Gerda was killed.

  4. Edward Kaluski collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Edward Kaluski during his service as a soldier in the United States 3rd Army in Germany, including the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in spring 1945.

  5. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    The collection consists of a manicure set, stuffed koala bear, suitcase, wristwatch, two scrolls, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gisela Marx and her family before the Holocaust in Dulken, Germany and during the Holocaust in England, and two candlesticks, a lapel pin, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans Eibuschitz (John Eden) and his family before the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and during the Holocaust in England.

  6. Antisemitic and pro-Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and publications about antisemitism and pro-Nazi Party propaganda in Germany during the 1930s.

  7. Lessing family collection

    Documents, photographs, correspondence, family history albums, and miscellaneous papers related to the Lessing family (Edward, his parents Nardus and Engeline, and his brothers Arthur and Alfred) in the Netherlands, in the U.S. (1929-1932), while in hiding during WWII, and in the postwar period. Also includes Edward's drawings and sculpture made while hidden, his short memoir, materials related to Engeline's arrest by the Germans and her time interned at Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen as well as in the UNRAA camp Jeanne D'Arc in Philippeville, Algeria. In addition, the collection includes int...

  8. Robert Heiberg collection

    The collection consists of a handbill and 4 Nazi toy soldiers.

  9. Dr. Irmgard Nippert collection

    The collection consists of artifacts used at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, the Berlin center for racial experiments and research in Nazi Germany.

  10. Gusti and Julius Ackermann collection

    The collection consists of a shofar and cover and a torah binder relating to the experiences of Julius Ackermann and his family and Gusti Mayer and her younger brother August and their emigration to the United States from Hermeskeil, Germany, in 1937.

  11. Albert Finger collection

    The collection consists of German currency, Łódź ghetto scrip, documents and a photograph relating to the experiences of Abe Fingerhut during the Holocaust in Łódź, Poland and after the Holocaust in Lampertheim displaced persons camp in Germany.

  12. Waldman family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, artwork, documents, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings, relating to the experiences of John, George, and Betsy Waldman in Compiègne and Vittel internment camps and artists Jacques Gotko and David Goychman in Compiègne internment camp in France, during the Holocaust.

  13. Cinema Judaica collection

    The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina.

  14. Luba and Harry Weinroth collection

    Collection materials relating to Luba and Harry Weinroth including: loose photographs from the Feldafing DP camp, postcards, letters (some from the Warsaw ghetto), identification papers, receipt from Theresienstadt, photo album, Jewish New Years cards, shards of concrete taken by Harry (Chamek) Weinroth from the crematoria at the Dachau concentration camp immediately after liberation; Nazi patch given to Harry Weinroth.

  15. John Phillips collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Allied Military currency, three military identification tags, a shadow box with a collage of military insignia, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of John Phillips while a soldier in the United States Army from June 1945 to January 1947, and as part of the Army of Occupation from April 1946-January 1947.

  16. Freddy Rotenberg collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Freddy Rotenberg in in Germany before the Holocaust.

  17. Brust family collection

    The collection consists of clothing, documents, photographs, and portraits related to the experiences of Livia, Elek, and Eva Brust, their family, and the Vogel and Schwarcz families in Hungary and the United States, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Joseph Pallone collection

    The collection consists of two over-printed maps of the area around Bergen-Hohne, Germany, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s.

  19. Wallach family collection

    Letters, documents, family photographs and handwritten books primarily illustrating the experiences of Margot Wallach and her mother Hildegard, and Hilde's husband Karl in Germany, Belgium and France (French internment). Also included is Leni Appel's information and her daughter Ellen's who were with Margot and Hilde in Belgium and whose husband Joseph was in internment. The collection also includes Belgian stamps with images of the Belgian royal family.

  20. Oral history interviews of the Ethnographic Archive collection

    Audiotaped recordings of the Ethnographic Archive collection, featuring interviews on the subject of blood libel, the history of Polish Jews, and the Holocaust and its aftermath in Poland.