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  1. Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Göttingen collection

    The collection consists of a medical case containing two calipers and two pencils used as part of anthropological race studies during the eugenics movement in Germany before the Holocaust.

  2. Robert M.W. Kempner collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Robert M.W. Kempner.

  3. The Judith Sherman collection

    Consists of one report, entitled "Never Forget: A Survivor's Holocaust Experience," written by Jenna M. Lichtenstein, including a biography of Judith Sherman, a Holocaust survivor, and a history of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. Also includes two DVDs of oral history testimony from Judith Sherman, conducted by Jenna Lichtenstein. Mrs. Sherman, originally of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, spent much of the war hiding in various situations before being taken to Auschwitz and transferred to Ravensbrück in 1944. She was liberated by Russian soldiers while on a death march from Ravensbrück in 1945....

  4. Abraham Saifer collection

    The collection consists of a propaganda book containing stereooptic glasses and 120 double imaged photographs to be viewed with the glasses.

  5. Shlomo Flam collection

    The collection consists of one Litzmannstadt ghetto scrip and a public notice relating to the administration and history of the Jewish ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) in German occupied Poland.

  6. Ullrich Remak collection

    The collection consists an animal bone souvenir, correspondence, documents, drawings, and newsletters related to experiences of Ullrich Remak during the Holocaust when he emigrated from Breslau, Germany, to Scotland on a Kindertransport in 1939, his subsequent life at the Birkenward Hostel in Skelmorlie, Scotland, and efforts by his mother, Nanni Remak, to emigrate from Germany to Palestine.

  7. Natalie Taubmann Tortolani family collection

    The collection consists of a 1918 banknote, affidavits, documents, a ship ticket, and a photograph copy relating to the experiences of Helene and Benjamin Taubmann, and their daughter Natalie, in Berlin, Italy, and the United States before the Holocaust.

  8. Edith and Ernst Mayer collection

    The collection consists of a Haftorah scroll, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernst Mayer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States in 1939, and to those of Edith Kuechler Mayer, who fled Nazi Germany in 1938.

  9. Zaro Calabrese collection

    The collection consists of Nazi badges.

  10. Jakob Lewkowicz collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap and two publications relating to the experiences of Jakob Lewkowicz in forced labor camps and Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and Schörzingen concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  11. Aharon Ben-Zion Katz collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin and pouch relating to the experiences of Aharon Ben-Zion Katz and his son Nachman (later Nathan) before the Holocaust in Rietavas and Klaipeda, Lithuania, during the Holocaust in the ghetto in Siauliai, Lithuania, and in hiding in the countryside, and after the Holocaust in Israel and the United States.

  12. Eric Hauser collection

    The collection consists of two prisoner food bowls collected after the Holocaust by Eric Hauser, in the former Janowska concentration camp in Lwow where his family was prisoners.

  13. Edgar Rauner collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings. Correspondence from Edgar Rauner (donor's brother) to his parents Neddy and Aron in New York. Edgar, a member of the United States 7th Army was a refugee of Nazi Germany, arrived in the United States before WWII and was drafted into the US Army where he was stationed at Fort Ritchie in Maryland before being sent overseas to Europe during the war. Also included in the collection are photographs taken in Europe, depicting the American Army and many captured German propaganda images.

  14. Krakow, Poland collection

    The collection consists of clothing irons, a coffee mill, a meat grinder, and a scale relating to Krakow, Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  15. Mortimer Schaffer collection

    The collection consists of Nazi propaganda slides.

  16. Erna Bernat collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt scrip relating to the experiences of Erna Bernat who was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  17. Max Schmeidler family collection

    The collection consists of a pin, six pieces of currency, correspondence, documents, newspapers, negatives and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.

  18. Ina R. Friedman collection

    Consists of research files, oral history interviews, transcripts, and notes produced by Ina R. Friedman during her research for her books on the Holocaust. Collection also includes original documents and identity cards for Dr. Richard Kahn and Ida Stern Kahn, originally of Berlin, Germany, as well as information about Cato Bontjes Van Beek, a member of the Resistance.

  19. Charles and Hana Bruml family collection

    The collection consists of artwork, Star of David badges, clothing, drafting tools, a drawing, Theresienstadt scrip, correspondence, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Charles (Karel) Bruml and Hana Mueller Schiff Sukova Bruml in prewar Prague, Czechoslovakia, and in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp and several concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia and the United States after the Holocaust.