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  1. Ellis Gordon collection

    Invitation Card to a Gala Concert to aid the Danish Refugees in Sweden at the Metropolitan Opera House held on Thursday evening, February 17th, 1944. Lists participating artists, prices, special guests, contact for tickets. "There are about 11,000 Danish Refugees in Sweden who have fled Gestapo terror, they must be fed, clothed, housed until Denmark is free again. Denmark is not yet in the Nation-wide National War Fund Drive, as this unfortunately was closed before the latest tragedy to our country occurred, therefore this Benefit Concert has been arranged by Lauritz Melchior to help reliev...

  3. John and Melanie Balzer collection

    The collection consists of an anti-Semitic postcard issued by the Nazi Party and a poster.

  4. Shirley Sternberg collection

    Stamps acquired in Europe by an American soldier returning to the U.S. from active duty in Germany after WWII.

  5. Nazi Germany political poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: a pro-Hitler political campaign poster and an anti-Jewish Parole der Woche broadside issued in Nazi Germany.

  7. French poster collection

    French posters: "Paroles du Marechal", "Explication du schema de L'Organisation du Travail", and "Principes de la Communaute."

  8. French poster collection

    The collection consists of two French propaganda posters.

  9. Eugene Herman collection

    The collection includes a leaflet printed on newspaper announcing a mass meeting concerning "Workers in Italy Today" and "Workers in Germany Today", and a newspaper advertisement, concerning the "sale of Jews." The advertisement refers to 70,000 Jews awaiting death in Roumania. The advertisement states "Roumania will give these 70,000 Jews to the Four Freedoms for 20,000 Lei ($50) a piece..." Published by the Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless Palestinian Jews."

  10. Bernard Fleming collection

    The collection consists of a cigarette case created in the Łódź Ghetto and given as a gift to Bernard Fuchs (later Fleming), a hand-made case for an I.D. card which was also given to Bernard Fuchs from members of his labor unit in the Łódź ghetto, and a Jewish calender printed by the Jewish Council in Łódź.

  11. Eike Geisel collection

    The collection consists of a theatrical program for a Shakespeare play (Merry Wives of Windsor), a program for a concert with works by Beethoven, Brahms, Lewy and Schuber, and a program for another concert (Die goldene Kette). All three productions were sponsored by Juedischer Kulturbund Berlin.

  12. Felicia Olzsewska collection

    The collection consists of two identification badges and a pin with a prisoner number.

  13. Max Nussbaum collection

    The collection includes two pieces of scrip.

  15. Hilda Kahan family collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David badges and documents relating to the experiences of the family of Hilda Kahan during the Holocaust in Germany.

  16. Stanley Granat collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard with an image of Adolf Hitler and a propaganda calendar sent by the Organization for Germanness in Foreign Countries to German nationals living in foreign countries. The collection also includes a letter accompanying the propaganda calendar.

  17. Robert Sanders collection

    The collection consists of a painting, a portrait of a seated woman, created by Josef Oppenheimer, 1922-1923, Berlin, Germany, as well as a prayerbook, "Gebete der Israeliten."

  18. Helmut Eschwege collection

    Collection of anti-Semitic film and propaganda posters, broadsides and other materials.

  19. World War II French poster collection

    The collection consists of posters depicting anti-Semitic, anti-British, and anti-American propaganda created in German occupied France during World War II.

  20. Israel (Miedzyrzecki) Nahari collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin and a tefillin pouch used by Israel Miedzyrzecki (later Nahari) before the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Israel.