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  1. Yaffa Eliach Shtetl collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Yaffa Sonenson and her family in Ejszyszki, Poland (Eisiskes, Lithuania) and the Radun ghetto (Belarus) before and during the Holocaust when, as a child, she lived in hiding, and also artifacts collected by Dr. Eliach relating to Jewish life in the shtetl before the war.

  2. Medical instrument collection

    The collection consists of a variety of medical instruments including syringes, clamps, scissors, medicine bottles, and stethoscopes used during the Holocaust.

  3. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal collection

    The collection consists of a Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal and case.

  4. Arthur Szyk collection

    The collection consists of an anti-Fascist political cartoon created by Arthur Szyk in London in 1939.

  5. Zofia Chorowicz Burowska collection

    The collection consists of a doll, teddy bear, book, postcard, letter, and three photographs relating to the experiences of Zofia Chorowicz and her parents Isydor and Rachela before and during the Holocaust in Krakow and Wolbrom, Poland, and of Zofia after the war when she returned to Krakow following her liberation from slave labor.

  6. Joseph and Romana Koplowicz collection

    The collection consists of a metal box carried by Joseph Koplowicz and an identity card belonging to Romana Koplowicz.

  7. Edith Jacobson collection

    The collection conists of scrip from the Buchenwald and Theresienstadt concentraton camps.

  8. Jacob Rutstein collection

    The collection consists of 13 coins and a hand-made tobacco pouch found at Dachau concentration camp post-liberation.

  9. Arthur and Mary Kleinhandler collection

    The collection consists of a handmade spoon, knife, and comb.

  10. Marion Davy collection

    The collection consists of a filmstrip projector, case, accessories, and 11 Nazi propraganda filmstrips.

  11. Deutsches Hygiene Museum in der DDR collection

    The collection consists of educational materials relating to education and the teaching of racial science in Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.

  12. Joseph Gilmore Rowley collection

    The collection consists of armbands worn in Europe during the Holocaust.

  13. Violet Herkovits Mainzer collection

    Documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rabbi Boril Herschkovics who immigrated to the United States in the late 1920s ahead of his immediate family. Documents include recommendations of employment for Boril as well as later efforts in 1941, of his daughter Alice, already in the United States, to bring over her sister and mother Edith and Rose, who eventually joined Alice and Violet (who arrived in 1939) and Boril in the United States. Also includes the oral testimony of Iby Mainzer and Martin Mainzer.

  14. United States homefront poster collection

    The collection consists of thirteen posters relating to the war effort in the United States before and during World War II.

  15. Esther Lurie collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Esther Lurie before the Holocaust in Latvia, Palestine, and Western Europe, during the Holocaust when she was imprisoned in the Kovno (Kaunus) Ghetto in Lithuania, Stuthoff concentration camp and Leibitsch forced labor camp in Germany, and after the Holocaust during and after her return journey to Israel.

  16. US propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of two propaganda posters produced in the United States during World War II.

  17. Paul and Herbert Ripp family collection

    The collection consists of an eating utensil and documents relating to the experiences of Paul Ripp and his son Herbert during the Holocaust when Paul was held in Gurs internment camp in France and Herbert fled Germany for the United States and then served in the United States Army.

  18. Felice Rubinstein Korn collection

    Photographs, documents, poetry, audio recordings illustrating Felice Rubinstein Korn's experiences in pre war Poland and post war Munich, Germany. Included are materials illustrating Felice's education in Munich, post-war, displace persons identification cards, and diploma or certificate that Felice has completed education and qualifies as a pharmacist. Felice, born in Radom, in 1924, was interned in the Radom Ghetto, then deported to Majdanek and Plaszow concentration camps in Poland.

  19. Henry Morgenthau family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, extensive personal and official correspondence, documents, photographs, research notes, audiotapes, books, and a DVD copy of home movies related to the experiences of the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and Armenian genocide, the family's long relationship with the Roosevelts, the Treasury Department, and the pre-war, wartime, and post-war lives of members of the family as well as family history research, collected documents, and transcripts of oral histories created and compiled by Henry Morgenthau III.

  20. Fred Vendig family collection

    The collection consists of wartime drawings, a pocket calendar, correspondence, papers, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Ernst and Charlotte Vendig, their sons Fritz (Fred) and Heiner (Henry) and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany, during their unsuccessful 1939 voyage on the M.S. St. Louis, their internment in French detention camps and escape to Switzerland, and their emigration to the United States after the war.