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  1. Rudy Appel collection

    The collection consists of a medal, certificate, poster, photographs, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Rudy Appel, his parents, Julius and Rose Appel, and caretaker, Juliette Usach, in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  2. Anthony Frank collection

    The collection consists of four bullet shells picked up by American military personnel in Germany during the Second World War.

  3. Tana Gelfer collection

    Collection of Theresienstadt scrip and a postcard issued at Theresienstadt to be used by inmates to send to relatives back home. The only space open to be filled in was Dear ______ , I thank you and am in receipt of your package of __________ (date) and signature _______.

  4. Martin Edelmuth collection

    The collection consists of a piece of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip (50 kronen note) and a Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp food ration coupon used by a female inmate.

  5. Allied propaganda collection

    The collection consists of an R.A.F. flier dropped on France, a picture book, distributed by the American military, urging resistance, a copy of a newspaper ("Combat"), and three French war propaganda posters.

  6. Ignac Reiss collection

    The collection consists of documents containing information about the testimony provided to West German authorities by Ignaz (or Ignatz) Riess concerning life in the Przemysl ghetto and alleged crimes committed there by Josef Schwammberger and Rudulf Bennewitz. The collection also includes an identification pin attached to a piece of concentration camp uniform. The pin was issued to Ignac Reiss at the Görlitz concentration camp.

  7. Joel Elkes collection

    The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.

  8. Arthur Scharfeld collection

    Collection of postage stamps.

  9. Tasia Jolly collection

    Consists of material related to the life of Tassia (Tasia, Taisiya) Jolly (born Taisia Hlamionok, later Tchernoff), originally of Polotsk, Soviet Union.

  10. Lola Teitel collection

    Two slips, one worn by Lola Teitel, and the other by her sister Pearl Libatter, during hiding in the forests of Chodorow, Poland, for approximately one and a half years up until 1944-1945.

  11. Carolyn Landau collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip.

  12. Collection of archives from Danish Jewish Museum

    This collection contains interviews, photo albums, and scrapbooks relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to Sweden and deportation to Theresienstad, as well as their return home to Denmark.

  13. Edward Smolarz collection

    The collection consists of a handmade belt and a tefillin set and pouch relating to the experiences of Idek (later Edward) Smolarz during the Holocaust in Auschwitz I concentration camp and after the Holocaust in Wels, Austria.

  14. Barry Kogan collection

    The collection includes a whip, as well as a letter written by Gerszmon Ronie, an inmate of the camp N1041 in Windsheim, in the American occupation zone in Germany. It is addressed to Mr. Trygvie Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, and requests that Ronie be taken from Windsheim camp and be allowed to live in Palestine.

  15. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    The collection consists of a tefillin set and storage pouch, two tallits, a tallit storage pouch, a stole, publications, and photographs relating to the experiences of Richard Pfifferling, who left Germany for the United States in 1939, and of documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of his wife, Ruth Liebermensch (later Knox), and her sister, Hanna Liebermensch (later Lewin), who left Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939.

  16. Erwin Marx and Ernst Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of World War I German medals and documents and corrspondence relating to the experiences of Erwin Mark and Ernst Rothschild in prewar Germany and of Erwin Marx during and after World War II in Germany, Shanghai, China, and the United States.

  17. Joram Kagan collection

    The collection includes a Jewish police badge from Sosnowiec, Poland and a 100 zloty silver coin from Poland honoring Janusz Korczak.

  18. Urano S. N. Caranchini collection

    The collection consists of two blankets removed from Dachau after liberation by Staff Sargeant Urano S. N. Caranchini of the 260th Combat Engineers.

  19. Israel Haimovich collection

    The collection consists of a desk set and a pin relating to the experiences of Israel Haimovich while in a detention camp in Cyprus after the Holocaust.

  20. Miriam Davenport Ebel collection

    Collection includes a hatbox, which Miriam Davenport Ebel (the donor) took to France with her in June 1938. At one point, she lived for five months using only what was packed in the box. Steamer sticker on box is that of the Companie Generale Transatlantique's SS Champlain. In addition, the collection includes a musical score written by Hans Sahl, 1938, Zurich, Switzerland and purchased by Miriam Davenport circa 1940 in Marseilles, France, as well as a book she purchased, also in Zurich. The collection also includes artwork and papers. The Miriam Davenport Ebel papers consist of corresponde...