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  1. Antisemitic and pro-Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and publications about antisemitism and pro-Nazi Party propaganda in Germany during the 1930s.

  2. Robert Heiberg collection

    The collection consists of a handbill and 4 Nazi toy soldiers.

  3. Gusti and Julius Ackermann collection

    The collection consists of a shofar and cover and a torah binder relating to the experiences of Julius Ackermann and his family and Gusti Mayer and her younger brother August and their emigration to the United States from Hermeskeil, Germany, in 1937.

  4. Albert Finger collection

    The collection consists of German currency, Łódź ghetto scrip, documents and a photograph relating to the experiences of Abe Fingerhut during the Holocaust in Łódź, Poland and after the Holocaust in Lampertheim displaced persons camp in Germany.

  5. George L. Salton collection

    The collection consists of three drawings created by George Salton in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  6. Barbara Schechter Cohen family collection

    The collection consists of a pencil portrait, a knitted vest, documents, photographs, and oral histories relating to the experiences of Basha Schachter and her parents Filip and Janina during the Holocaust in Poland and Germany when they lived in hiding under assumed identities, and after the Holocaust in displaced persons camps in Germany.

  7. Dr. Irmgard Nippert collection

    The collection consists of artifacts used at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, the Berlin center for racial experiments and research in Nazi Germany.

  8. Julius Simon family collection

    The collection consist of artifacts, clippings, correspondence, documents photograph prints and album relating to the experiences of Julius and Gerda Bundheim Simon and their daughter Lore before the Holocaust in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in the United States after their 1939 emigration.

  9. Victor Borden collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Rywen Bornsztein and Mina Flattau, originally from Łódź, during the Holocaust in Poland, the USSR, and Uzbekistan, where they joined the Polish Army and then travelled to Palestine, and in 1951, to the United States.

  10. Alfred and Meta Mayer Levy family collection

    The collections consists of medals, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences Alfred Levy and Meta Mayer Levy and their children Marie-Louis and Theo Levy, and their extended family before the Holocaust in Germany. [Accretion: pair of silver candlesticks given to Alfred Levy by the Jewish Community of Saarbrucken after the war as a gift for his tenure as president; Shabbat lamp; Framed family portrait of Siesel family, Framed portrait of Alfred Levy; Framed drawing of Simon Levy; Film reel (to go to Film & Video); photo album of Marcel, a member of the resistance who was ex...

  11. Marcelle Faust collection

    The collection consists of a pencil, a juicer, and documents relating to the experiences of Emma Muller, originally from Austria, who was imprisoned in La Bastide de Bousignac and Gurs internment camps in southern France, released in 1941, and then emigrated to the United States.

  12. Wilhelm Bauman collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and newspapers related to the experience of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents before and during the Holocaust in Austria, and Wilhelm's emigration to the United Kingdom in 1939, and deportation to Australia in 1940, and his subsequent release from interment camps and emgration to the United States. The colletion also includes artwork.

  13. Cabot Mill Antiques collection

    Consists of posters, sheet music, newspapers, and magazines, dated 1933-1945, published in the United States and containing articles or artwork related to World War II and to the Holocaust. Includes copies of "American," "American Observer," "American Rifleman," "Collier's," "Foreign Service," "Free World," "Judge," "Liberty," "Look," and "Woman's Day," magazines, as well as issues of "Social Justice," the "Townsend National Weekly," the "Bangor Daily News," the "Boston Daily Record," and "The Boston Traveler," and "Yank" newspapers. Also includes posters, "I Gave a Man," "A Word of Thanks,...

  14. Jewish paper based ephemera

    Robert Edward Edmondson anti-Semitic broadsides: Six broadsides, issued by the Edmondson Economic Service, under the following titles and dates: "'Invisible Government:' The Hidden Autocratic Minority Menace to American Democracy" (18 May 1934); "Prof. Felix Frankfurter" (4 July 1934); "Are You a Communist, Mr. Dickstein?" (15 December 1934); "Justice Brandeis Unfit?" (15 March 1935); "Jews Off Gold?" (10 August 1937); "The Jewish Hymn Onward Christian Soldiers--To Make the World Safe for Communistic Jewry!" (10 January 1939). Announcement of protest against the Jewish boycott of Germany, B...

  15. Wilhelmina Juhlin collection

    The collection consists of an overnight bag, correspondence, 8mm film, copy prints, and photographs relating to the experiences of the de Kadt and Swaap families before, during, and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and the United States.

  16. Ariel S. Cardoso collection

    The Ariel S. Cardoso collection includes an Italian Labor Service armband, a Łódź ghetto scrip ten mark note, and identification papers, military papers, and photographs documenting Cardoso’s wartime hiding in Rome, postwar emigration to Palestine, and military service in the Jewish Brigade.

  17. James Edward Kirkebo collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: badges, foreign currency, a jacket, maps, posters, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of James Edward Kirkebo in the United States Army in Europe during World War II, including the liberation of Gusen and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  18. Richard and Bertha Heumann Hirschfelder family collection

    The collection consists of currency, a frame, an album, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Richard Hirschfelder and Bertha Lisa Heumann and their extended family in prewar Stuttgart, Germany, and their emigration in 1938.

  19. Ferenc Csato collection

    Consists of materials documenting the efforts of a Hungarian farmer, Ferenc Csato, to save persecuted Jews in 1944. Includes two photographs showing Mrs. Csato and Jewish women wearing the yellow star badge; a 1948 letter testifying about Mr. Csato's 1944 activities; and an audiotaped interview conducted by Istvan Csato with his grandfather, Ferenc Csato, about the events of 1944.

  20. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip relating to the experiences of Rose Galek, originally from Poland, who was a forced laborer for Germany during the Holocaust.