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  1. Isidor Urbach family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor Urbach and his family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  2. Ignatz Kohn collection

    The collection consists of a tallit and 3 pieces of Theresienstadt scrip.

  5. Harry E. Norman collection

    The collection consists of a belt and a collectin of lantern slides.

  6. Deadly Medicine poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: "Mendelian chart" and "Ausmerzung des Kranken und Schwachen in der Natur"

  7. Robert Adelman collection

    The collection consists of an antisemitic NSDAP poster and to pieces of concentration camp scrip.

  8. Herman Schloss family collection

    The collection consists of scrip. tefillin, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Herman Schloss, from Sugenheim, Germany, who fled Nazi rule for the United States in 1938.

  9. Henryk Hechtkopf collection

    The collection of consists of four postwar drawings, an invitation and a newspaper relating to the experiences of Henryk Hechtkopf, following his return to Warsaw, Poland, after the war during which he was imprisoned in a Soviet slave labor camp. -Łódź, Poland

  10. Nestor Winters collection

    The collection consists of an armband and two documents relating to the experiences of inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during and after the Holocaust.

  11. Winter family collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, and certificate illustrating the experiences of Marianne Winter, a refugee from Nazi occupied Austria, who fled with her parents Max and Anna and her brother Stephan. Included are letters to Jane Bomberger in Reading, PA who was Marianne's pen pal since 1935 and whose parents assisted the Winters in immigrating to the United States. Also included are pre-war images of Winter's family, report cards for Marianne, materials documenting Marianne's participation in competitive swimming for Hakoach.

  12. Hanna Poznanska-Linde collection

    The collection consists of a one piece of Łódź ghetto scrip, and two Soviet bank notes relating to the experiences of Hanna Poznanska-Linde, a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, and her husband, a soldier in the Russian Army during World War II.

  13. Nathan and Edith Litvin collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American soldier and Edith, a survivor of Auschwitz. Also includes a large spiral bound book of scans, descriptions, and narrative of the collection and DVDs of film footage which Nathan Litvin produc...

  14. Claude Maly collection

    The collection consists of five newspapers published in France as the war in Europe was ending; four of them are VE Day issues.

  15. Hadassah Rosensaft collection

    The collection consists of several series of anti-Nazi satiric prints.

  16. Schläfrig family collection

    Recipe book written in Theresienstadt concentration camp by Frederick and Fannie Schläfrig [donor's grandparents] who were deported from Austria and liberated in Theresienstadt. Photographs surrounding WWII and identification card for their daughter Marie [donor's mother] who fled to the UK. Letter from David Boder at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to Mary Frotten in Windsor, Ontario; dated circa 1947-1948; in English

  17. Raul Hilberg collection

    The collection consists of ten piece of Łódź Ghetto scrip, 2 commemorative stamps, and an envelope relating to the experiences of Dr. Raul Hilberg as a scholar of the Holocaust as well as one piece of Theresienstadt scrip given to him by Frank Petschek, who had to flee Czechoslovakia after its annexation by Germany in fall 1938.

  18. Militaerhistorisches Museum Dresden collection

    The collection consists of a V2 rocket booster and a V2 rocket gyroscope manufactured in Nazi Germany.

  19. Herbert Kalter collection

    The collection conists of a pocketknife and a bar of soap acquired by Herbert Kalter at Buna concentration camp in 1944.

  20. Lovari clothing and tools collection

    The collection consists of items owned by a Lovari family.