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  1. David Klipp collection

    The collection consists of scrip relating to the experiences of David Klipp during and after the Holocaust during which he was imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto in Poland and Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps.

  2. Ernest Bergman collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, correspondence, and envelopes, postcards, and philatelic material relating to experiences in Switzerland, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust and World War II.

  3. New Yorker magazine collection

    Two covers of The New Yorker magazine: one dated August 1, 1936 and the other dated June 10, 1939.

  4. Stanley Frosh collection

    The collection consists of 42 pieces of blank Nazi party letterhead.

  5. Samuel Kaufman collection

    The collection consists of 5 lids from cans used to house ashes of cremated victims from Buchenwald.

  7. Stanislaw Mambort collection

    The collection consists of currency, a map, and documents relating to the experiences of Stanislaw Mambort during World War II when he fought with the Armia Krajowa in the Warsaw Uprising, was held as a German prisoner of war, and upon liberation, joined the Polish Military in the West.

  8. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The collection consists of a rosary, St. Anthony statuette, bible, and a doll's suitcase relating to the experiences of Laura and Selma (Zofia) Schwarzwald in Lvov and other areas of Poland where they lived in hiding under assumed indentites as Catholics during and after the Holocaust.

  9. German poster collection

    The collection consists of anti-Semitic, advertising, and political posters, and a pair of shoes worn in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  10. Eiszyszki shoemaker's tools collection

    The collection consists of 2 shoemaker's tools.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Lausanne Collegiate School collection

    Interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by students of Lausanne Collegiate School.

  12. Kielce, Poland collection

    The collection consists of an alarm clock, a butcher scale, a primus alcohol stove, and a Sphygmomanometer relating to Kielce, Poland, before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Greta Herensztat Wizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and photographs relating to the experiences of Greta Herensztat and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  14. Ella Iranyi collection

    The collection consists of thirteen artworks created by Ella Iranyi in Vienna, Austria, prior to her arrest ca. 1939 and deportation to a concentration camp, where she perished.

  15. Luba Krugman Gurdus collection

    The collection consists of two drawings relating to the experiences of Luba Krugman Gurdus and her son Robert Michael (Bobus), who perished, age four, during the Holocaust in Poland.

  16. Abba Kovner collection (RG-95-61) = אבא קובנר, ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Abba Kovner (1918-1987) consists of correspondence, drafts, letters, interviews, essays, newspapers clippings on Jewish resistance, partisans, Vilno ghetto , articles on Holocaust, Israeli society, religion, ethics; poems and their English translations. Also includes a catalog for Aba Kovner's personal archive with detailed finding aid. A separate series of the collection contains 125 audio recordings of Abba Kovner from 1961-1987 and includes testimonies (partially from Eichmann trial), speeches, interviews, radio programs from Israel National broadcasting, songs writt...

  17. Ira Nestle collection

    The collection consists of a Nazi armband, an Iron Cross 2nd class medal, and certificate.

  18. Oral history interviews of "The Children of Chabannes" documentary film

    Oral history interviews and related film and video images used in the making of the documentary film "The Children of Chabannes." For information about the film, see http://childrenofchabannes.org/

  19. Oral history interviews with local populations of Crimea

    Collection consists of audio oral history audio interviews with transcripts in Russian conducted by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the elderly members of the local ethnic communities in Crimea, including Karaites, Crimean Tatars, and Subbotniks in 2005-2006. The interviewees describe Jewish life (including their customs, local history, and the relationship between local Jews and the rest of the ethnic communities) before, during, and after World War II.

  20. Bernard and Sarah Widman collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard and Sarah Rothfeld Widman before and during the Holocaust in Poland, and after the Holocaust in the United States.