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  1. Jan Kostański collection

    The collection consists of images of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and the post-World War II period, a certificate from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, and a coin from the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Poland.

  2. Ester Reisel collection

    The collection consists of a tennis racket owned by Aldo-Yasaiiah (Eldad) Foà and an identification card for Eugenio Foà.

  3. Alexander Schenker collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Alexander Schenker and his father Oskar Schenker, including Alexander’s time in a Soviet forced labor camp, and Oskar’s flight from Lithuania to Japan with the help of a transit visa issued by the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Chiune Sugihara, and subsequent immigration to the United States from Japan. Personal papers included identification and travel papers, primarily belonging to Oskar. Objects include a cup, cigarette holder, and cigar lighter all owned by Alexander in Russia.

  4. Margalit Katz Harel collection

    Consists of documents issued to Mitzi Katz, the donor's mother, in the Mahiliou (Mogilev) ghetto in Belarus; photographs of Margalit Katz Harel as a child and of her relatives; and a belt belonging to a young girl who was killed in Transnistria, Ukraine, during the Holocaust

  5. Julius Kornman collection

    The collection consists of two handkerchiefs, a pouch, two wallets, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Julius Kornmann (later Kornman) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Sokal, Poland.

  6. Jakob and Zofia Dymant collection

    The Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers document Jakob Dymant’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust and survival in Japan, China, and India; Zofia Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in Warsaw under her Christian alias; and the Christian aliases of some of Zofia’s relatives. Jakob Dymant records include identification papers, receipts, permits, immigration records, and an immunization certificate documenting his prewar life in Warsaw and escape to Vilna and then, with a Chiune Sugihara visa, to Japan, China, and India. This folder also includes a postcard Dymant sent from Bombay seek...

  7. Edith Ostern collection

    The collection consists of a child's blouse and nightgown, and two documents relating to the experiences of Edith Tennenbaum (later Ostern) and her parents Emil and Dora before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and their emigration to the United States.

  8. Nahman-Leib Neumann Itzicovici collection

    The collection consists of newspapers, certificates, an identification card, and military medals won by Nahman-Leib Neumann Itzicovici donor's paternal grandfather in World War I.

  9. Jack Reuben collection

    Consists of nine photographs of the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945 and a Nazi armband.

  10. Vera Waisvisz-Reiss family collection

    The collection consists of baby clothes, bags, a mezuzah, a pin, a purse, a tallit, a tallit katan, tefillin, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Vera Reiss, a hidden child, and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands.

  11. Peter Fischer collection

    The collection consists of manuscript material and three-dimensional objects relating to Peter Fischer and is wife, Gertrude Adler's, experiences in concentration camps in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland during the Holocaust and after liberation.

  12. Casimir Biebers collection

    The collection consists of photographs and three-dimensional objects relating to Casimir Biebers' donor life in the ghetto of Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust

  13. Doris Rauch and Norbert Troller collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and artwork documenting the experiences of Doris Rauch and Norbert Troller (Doris Rauch's uncle) and their families' experiences during the Holocaust.

  14. Annette Krygier collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and a three-dimensional object relating to Annette and Leon Krygier donor and donor's husband and their experiences in France during the Holocaust

  15. Fritz Goldschmidt collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, a book, and a ribbon relating to the life of the Goldschmidt family before the Holocaust, their escape from Germany in 1939, and their subsequent emigration to the United States.

  16. Dorit Isaacsohn family collection

    The collection consists of a hatbox, two trunks, a coin, and photographs relating to the experiences of Dorit Isaacsohn, her parents Gertrud and Julius, and other family members before the Holocaust in Gratz and Berlin, Germany, which Dorit and Gertrud survived in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Berlin and the United States.

  17. Zalcgendler-Caspary family collection

    The collection consists of archival materials and three-dimensional objects related to Abram Zalcgendler's donor's father and Ruth Caspary's [donor's mother] emigration to Shanghai, China, from Europe during the Holocaust

  18. Adrienne Lichtig Petrook collection

    The collection consists of three photograph albums and 47 photographs of the donor and of her family before, during, and after the war in Budapest, Hungary; 29 documents relating to the sale of family property, to the family's emigration to the United States, and to the donor's schooling; one doll's dress, and one wooden heart, a Mother's Day gift from the donor.

  19. Irena Schwarz collection

    Consists of a rosary and cross and an autograph album and invitation, dated circa 1942-1945, relating to the donor's experiences as a hidden child in Poland. Also includes photographs depicting the donor, her birth family before the Holocaust and her war time rescuer, Janina Sycz. Irene (Irena) Schwarz is the author of "A Holocaust Love Story," published in Israel in 2000.

  20. Glass family collection

    The collection onsists of photographic prints, documents and a pair of pants relating to the Glass-Mosewicka families.