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  1. Poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters.

  3. Ernst Deutsch collection

    Contains material related to Ernst Deutsch (donor's father) and his efforts to emigrate from Vienna, Austria. Includes a certificate of residence issued in July 1937; a German passport with a red in stamp of the letter "J"; and a document from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) certifying that the bearer is a "full Jew" for military recruitment authorities in post-Anschluss Vienna. Also includes a Jewish prayer book belonging to the family of Ernst Deutsch, and an armband acquired by Ernst Deutsch at the Dachau concentration camp immediately following its lib...

  4. Anna Gure collection

    Collection of photographs and documents concerning the experiences of Anna Gure (Gurvich), who worked with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in a Munich DP camp (possibly St. Ottilien); one postwar document issued by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria, dated December 5, 1945, stating that she had been a former prisoner at Stutthof; and one Swiss Red Cross document with the results of a chest x-ray. The collection also includes a caricature of a HIAS worker created by a Hungarian refugee.

  6. Ruth Forrest collection

    The collection consists of a calendar printed in 1938, Berlin, Germany. Carried by Ruth Loeb (donor) on board the MS St. Louis and after disembarking in Belgium, May-June 1939. It also includes a sketchbook created by Armin Loeb (donor's brother) who created drawings as a child in Belgium during his stay there in 1939 after his disembarkation from the MS St. Louis and until his immigration to the US in 1940.

  7. Selma Abensohn collection

    Collection of prayerbooks originally owned by Adolph and Bertha David (donor's parents), Dügenheim, Germany. Given to Anna Lellig (donor's former neighbor) by Bertha David (donor's mother), 1942, Düngenheim, Germany. Hidden by Anna Lellig, 1942-1945, Düngenheim, Germany. Given to Selma Abensohn by Anna Lellig after the war, Germany.

  8. Beate Steigner collection

    The collection consists of a lottery ticket from the German Red Cross, a pamphlet titled "Gehl: German History in Keywords", a flier issued by the race-politics office of the NSDAP, and a magazine: NS-Frauen-Warte, Issue 15, Year 6.

  9. John Frayman collection

    The collection consists of a pair of boots worn by Jonah Frajman (donor's husband) in Zelow, Poland, and a shoe tree used by Jonah Frajman.

  10. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

    The collections consists of a doll and photographs relating to the experiences of Elzbieta Lusthaus after the war when she and her mother Helena, who survived in hiding in Poland, were reunited with her father Edmund in Ancona, Italy, where he was stationed with the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. Accretion: Purse which belonged to Zofia Schiff (donor's maternal grandmother)

  11. Jack and Marilyn Pechter collection

    The collection consists of identification canteen notes, identification tags, scrip, clippings, correspondence, documents, a map, propaganda materials, photographic postcards, photographs, and a philatelic collection documenting pre-war Jewish life, anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus Affair, the arrest of Herschel Grynspan, multiple concentration camps, and World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Poster collection

    The collection consists of three posters: a poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information, a poster depicting a three-quarter length portrait of Hitler (Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!), and an anti-Semitic propaganda poster.

  14. Roman Vishniac collection

    Portfolio containing twelve photographs, reproduced from the original negatives. The original photographs were taken prewar by Roman Vishniac (donor's father) in 1938. The catalog of the work is titled "A Vanished World," (published by Witkin-Berley, Ltd.).

  15. Bernard and Salomon Melzer collection

    The collection consists of six photographs, including a photograph of Leonore Melzer Grossberg (donor) and images of the donor's parents, Bernard and Berta [nee Schwarzbart] Melzer, and her sister, Rela. Many of the images are from Krakow, Poland, in 1939, and most have inscriptions on the verso. The collection also includes two kiddush cups that belonged to Bernard Melzer and his son, Salomon.

  16. Kallia Bokser collection

    Parokhet (curtain for Torah ark) found hidden after WWII by survivors of the Holocaust in Lviv.

  17. Hans Levi collection

    Collection consisting of an election poster for Adolf Hitler, and a poster instructing Germans to boycott Jewish businesses, which was removed from the wall of father's factory by Hans Levi, 1933, Stuttgart, Germany.

  18. Fred Sherman collection

    The collection consists of two examples of anti-Jewish propaganda printed between the false covers of an American dollar bill.

  19. Barry Ziff collection

    The collection consists of a letter and a photograph. The letter was written by Barry Ziff to his parents on April 9, 1945 while serving in the United States Army in Germany. In the letter, Barry wrote about his experiences touring the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation and speaking to survivors. The photograph of Barry was taken in London on March 22, 1944. The collection also includes a Nazi flag captured by Barry Ziff on April 3, 1945, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The flag was captured from the flagpole in front of the German army headquarters in Frankfurt. Barry Ziff was in the ...

  20. Goldschmidt Family collection

    The collection consists of a drawing created by Ludwig Goldschmidt (donor's uncle and brother of Elise Schapira), January 1939, Germany. The drawing is an image of the synagogue of Brückenau in the lower Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Ludwig Goldschmidt was sixteen at the time. He was later deported to Dachau where he died. The collection also includes the Elise Schapira papers, which consists of correspondence to Elise in New York from her parents in Frankfurt, photographs of her parents and brother before the Holocaust and of her family in the United States, and two versions of her...