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  1. Nicole Widerman family collection

    The collection consists of a Corps Auxilliaire Volontaire Feminin uniform jacket, booklets, documents, photographs, and videotapes relating to the experiences of Nicole Widerman and her family in France before, during, and after World War II and in the United States after their postwar immigration.

  2. Oral history interviews of the Esther Toporek Finder collection

    Oral history interviews with survivors from the Las Vegas, NV area about their post-Holocaust experiences.

  3. Fred Levinson collection

    The Levinson and Stern family papers primarily contain biographical materials and photographs related to the Levinson family of Homburg, Saarland, Germany and the Stern family of Kassel, Germany in the 1920s and 1930s prior to immigrating to the United States in 1935. Biographical materials include birth and death records, identification papers, a diary of Ann Stern Levinson, genealogy notes, marriage certificates and two ketubahs. Photographs include numerous identified family members in Germany as well as three photograph albums. The collection also includes a prayerbook, a WWI Iron Cross...

  4. Gertrude Winter collection

    Gertrude Winter collection of drawings, documents, notebooks, correspondence. Gertrude Winter was born on February 28, 1905. She was a first-and second grade teacher for girls at the "Volksschule der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien," which was located in the Castellezgasse in Vienna. The school was closed in the summer of 1941. The content of the collection includes drawings, poems and essays. There are also nine notebooks with between 22-48 pages of writing. In addition there are 11 photographs of the students and teacher. Altogether 35 of the children can be identified by their names. ...

  5. Alice Goldberger collection

    The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, drawings, and paintings relating to Alice Goldberger and the orphaned children survivors of concentration camps in her care in Lingfield, England, after the Holocaust.

  6. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The collection consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany. It also contains additional documents, a wallet and a badge.

  7. Magazines

    THe collection consists of copies of "Life" magazine, dated between 1937-1941, and issues of the Pathfinder newsletter, dated 1941.

  8. Dorothy L. Jones Miller collection

    The collection consists of documents relating to Dorothy Jones [donors' mother] (b. July 17, 1914) who on July 1, 1945 began to work as Assistant Welfare Officer of UNRRA in US zone in Germany and left in September 1948 as Chief Welfare Officer. The documents include different reports, passports, lists, correspondence, UNRRA publications, and others. Two UNRRA uniforms (2 jackets and 3 skirts), sweaters, dolls, UNRRA patches, name bracelet, metal pins, dolls, doilies, other woven and embroidered items, wooden boxes, pewter set, silver pins and spoon - gifted to Ms. Jones or purchased by her...

  9. The American magazine collection

    The collection consists of twelve issues of American magazine, published 1942-1943.

  10. Roma Laks Kaplan collection

    The collection consists of two self portraits created by Roma Kaplan in 1966.

  11. Arundel Antiques collection

    The collection consists of issues of Life magazine, Liberty magazine, Scribner's Commentator, St, Nicholas for Boys and Girls, and True Story magazine, dated 1937-1942, all containing issues related to the United States during World War II and regarding atrocities against Jews.

  12. AnyTime Antiques collection

    The collection consists of an issue of Liberty magazine (January 18, 1941), of Life magazine (June 26, 1944) and Popular Mechanics magazine (March 1942).

  13. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, audio recordings, correspondence, documents, reports, and writings related to the experiences of Rachel Greene Rottersman during her career with UNRRA and her work at the children’s home at Aglasterhausen, Germany, assisting displaced children after World War II.

  14. Refugee Relief poster collection

    The collection consists of three posters made to promote awareness of the need for refugee relief in the United States during World War II.

  15. US patriotic envelope collection

    The collection consists of four unused envelopes depicting artwork created during World War II in the United States.

  16. Ira Schobel collection

    The collection consists of 2 drawings created by a liberated inmate from Dachau concentration camp.

  17. George Zielezinski collection

    The collection consists of two published art portfolios with prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski in the immediate postwar period depicting scenes of daily life as a prisoner in German concentration camps.

  18. Auschwitz concentration camp uniform badge collection

    The collection consists of two identification badges from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  19. New York Times newspaper collection

    The collection consists of four issues of the New York Times daily newpaper, published the week of Kristallnacht.

  20. Peter Kubicek collection

    The collection consists of three pieces of Theresienstadt scrip valued at 1, 10, and 20 kronen.