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  1. Regine Donner collection

    Contains photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Regine Donner and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Thomas McKeown collection

    The collection consists of photographs, identification tags and Buchenwald scrip.

  3. Jan Emil Karpiński collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Jan Emil Karpiński. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Adek Firestone collection

    Th collection consists of a bar of soap, a book, and an identification badge relating to the experiences of Adek Firestone in a Jewish refugee camp after the Holocaust.

  5. Harry and Ruth Krautwirth Meyerowitz collection

    The collection consists of a belt and two handkerchiefs relating to the experiences of Ruth Krautwirth, who was an inmate of Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Malchow concentration camps during the Holocaust, and a Nazi armband and SA uniform shirt relating to the experiences of Harry Meyerowitz, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

  6. Nazi Party antisemitic poster collection

    The collection consists of three small text only antisemitic Parole der Woche posters produced by the Nazi Party in Germany.

  7. Kurt Maier family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial artifacts, photographs, and a letter relating to the experiences of Kurt Maier and his extended family before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Seymour Samuels collection

    The collection consists of pamphlets, documents, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings documenting the 1936 Winter Olympic as well as documents, and correspondence surrounding the Stettbergers family, and a book, Ludendorffs Halbmonatschrift: 1936 (nos. 5-8), 1937 (no. 4).

  9. Lieselotte Bohm collection

    The Collection consists of documents, photographs, document holders, and armband, prayer books, and Stars of David illustrating the experiences of Lieselotte Bohm and her extended family in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war.

  10. Aron family collection

    The collection consists of documents, linens, a wooden box, and pieces of a US Army uniform relating to the experiences of Selma Aron and Fred Siegfried Aron in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust and World War II.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Forum Institute, Samorin, Slovakia/Zoltán Kőrös collection

    Oral history interviews, photos, and documents related to the experiences of ethnic Hungarians and former soldiers (WWII combatants) in Slovakia who witnessed events that impacted Jews during the Holocaust and/or have memories of prewar Jewish life in Slovakia. The collection also includes testimonies about the lives of ethnic Hungarians under the Czechoslovakian regime.

  12. Auschwitz bunk bed collection

    The collection consists of two bunk beds from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.

  13. Sobibor perpetrator collection

    The collection consists of 361 photographs (two albums and loose photographs) and dozens of paper documents that depict Johann Niemann’s social background, his family, and his SS career, including his advancement through the concentration camp system (Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen) and the T4 euthanasia program (Grafeneck, Brandenburg and Bernburg) to the Operation Reinhard death camps (Belzec and Sobibor). There are an additional 15 photographs, three publications, and one wallet.

  14. Sass and Sygal families collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, correspondence, German POW camp issue scrip, and wallet/document holder. The collection pertains to the experience of Paul (Pesach) Sass, his wife Bernice (Bronia) Sass (née Sygal) and their families. A number of Sass and Segal family members survived the Holocaust in Poland. They later lived as displaced persons in Cremona, Italy where 3 Sass siblings (Pesach, Schaja, and Nechama) married three Sygal siblings (Bronia, Ruth, and Szamu). The collection also includes a document confirming Pesach Sass's release from Majdanek in February 1942 to return to Ska...

  15. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket and pants.

  16. Bill Leftwich collection

    Contains the Sgt. Bill Leftwich story and one drawing relating to the liberation of the Landsberg camp. The story describes how the American Army broke the camp, Hurlach #4, near Landsberg on 28 April, 1945, and had liberated 2800 allied prisoners. The graphic, singed by Bill Leftwich and dated June, 1945, shows two camp prisoners with an American tank; and on the other site: one prisoner in a dark room.

  17. Hausner family collection

    The collection consists of a film projector, textiles made in Hausner factory, documents, photographs and identification cards.

  18. Joseph Polzer collection

    The collection consists of notebooks, written by Joseph Polzer, in 1940 and 1941 in Chateau du Chaumont, France in a children’s home, and sketchbook also used in France with detached and additional drawings. Photographs of pre-war Austria, where Joseph was born in 1929. Along with his mother Mirrha, Jewish and originally Russian and father Karl Polzer, non-Jewish and Austrian, the family fled to France in 1938. By 1940, Joseph was placed at Chateau du Chaumont, a chateau used by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants that housed thousands of Jewish children. The Polzer family was able to leave b...

  19. Schulmuseum Berlin collection

    The collection consists of a leather schoolbag, a blackboard, three slate pencils, a wood pencil case, and school–related documents used in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  20. Zajonc family collection

    THe collection consists of a suitcase from Hinda Zajonc (Hilda Kreuzer in the United States), photos of liberation of Dachau and Dachau postcard in red photo holder, and copies of documents related to Zelda Zajonc (Sophie Morris in the United States).