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  1. Oral history interviews of the Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen collection

    Oral history interviews of the Gedenkstatte Bergen-Belsen collection

  2. David Rose collection

    The collection consists of courtroom art and posters relating to the Klaus Barbie trials in Lyon, France.

  3. Roza Lustgarten collection

    The collection consists of a silver napkin holder and tray given to Roza Lustgarten in 1947.

  4. Augustów Forest partisan collection

    The collection consists of a jacket and belt worn by Partisans in the Augustów Forest, near the Kovno Ghetto.

  6. William Rule collection

    The collection consists of a tolerance gage and 2 aluminum bolts and nuts found in the tunnels at Nordhausen.

  7. Bea Kandell collection

    Consists of an audio file, with typed transcript, of an oral history interview with Bea Bernheimer Kandell, originally of Goeppingen, Germany. In the interview, which was conducted by Brad Zarlin on December 10, 2013, Ms. Kandell describes her memories of pre-war life in Germany, immigrating to the United States with her younger sister in July 1938, the arrival of her parents and youngest sister in 1939, and her wartime and post-war life in the United States. Includes a copy of a photograph of Ms. Kandell.

  8. Jiri Lauscher collection

    The collection consists of small wooden pendants and plaques, a cut metal brooch, and a cut metal pendant relating to the experiences of Jiri Lauscher in Prague, Czechoslovakia, before, during, and after the Holocaust, and in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the Holocaust.

  9. Fritz and Thea Lowenstein Klestadt family collection

    The collection consists of two drawings, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Thea Löwenstein Klestadt and Fritz Fred Klestadt before the Holocaust in Dusseldorf, Germany, and the United States where the couple emigrated in October 1937.

  10. Giza and Leon Falik and Mildred Stern collection

    The collection consists of three US Army woman's uniform jackets, one matching cap, a bag of loose military buttons, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mordche Lieb (Leon Falik), his wife Giza Sternchuss (later Falik), and Giza's sister Mildred Stern [Malka Sternchuss] in Poland before and during the Holocaust, when Leon fled Poland for the Soviet Union and Giza fled Tarnopol and became a partisan. Mildred left for the United States before the war where she joined the US Women's Army Corps.

  11. Joachim Hahn collection

    The collection consists of a Torah scroll and publications relating to the cultural history of Jews in Nazi Germany.

  12. Leon and Olga Thau family collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter and case, documents, photographs, and written testimony relating to the experiences of the family of Leon and Olga Thau and their sons Felix and Benjamin before the Holocaust in Germany and during and after World War II in the United States.

  13. The 1990 Jewish Welfare Fund Appeal of Cleveland's Pre-Mission to Poland Group collection

    The collection consists of nine pieces of scrip from the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto in German occupied Poland scrip : nine 50 pfenning notes and ten 5 mark coins.

  14. Nathan D. Weiss collection

    The collection consists of items found postwar at Dachau concentration camp.

  15. Stefan Petri collection

    The collection consists of a workbench and over forty tools, machines, and machine parts, relating to the experiences of Stefan Petri, who with his first wife, Janina, concealed a Jewish family, Kaufman, Ela, and their sons Marek and Jerzy Szapiro, in two hiding places he built in his home in Warsaw, Poland, from spring 1942 to September 1944.

  16. Joseph Wardzala collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph Wardzala, a Roman Catholic who was deported from Poland to a forced labor camp in Germany during World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Menachem and Ita Blinbaum Konkowski families collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, armbands, medals, a ribbon bar, cufflinks, certificates, correspondence, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Menachem and Ita Blinbaum Konkowski and their families before the war in Poland, in the Jewish resistance and in hiding in Belgium during the war, and supporting the Jewish underground army in Palestine after the war.

  18. Annette Fry collection

    The Annette Fry collection includes photographic material, correspondence, art objects, and publications documenting Varian Fry’s work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around Europe.

  19. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of drawings created by William Sharp. Associated with PM (New York, N.Y.) newspaper, printed between 1940 and 1948.

  20. Poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: one is a French propaganda poster and the other is an anti-Nazi poster created by Ben Shahn protesting the decimation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia.