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  1. Leonie Roualet collection

    The collection consists of artwork, Catholic devotional objects, household objects, luggage, scrip, shoes, stamps, and documents relating to the experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust.

  2. Henri Pieck collection

    The collection consists of a published folio inscribed by the artist, Henri Pieck: 7 Origineele Kleurenlitho's Van Beelden Uit Het Concentratiekamp Buchenwald, seven reproductions of sketches of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp based on his experiences as an inmate.

  3. Helmut Rosendahl collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David Badges, Westerbork scrip, testimony, and a speech relating to the experiences of Helmut Rosendahl during and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and Germany.

  4. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    The collection consists of opera glasses, buttons, textiles, petticoats, a Rorschach ink blot test, and a composition book, relating to the experiences of Leopold and Herta Schwartzbart Stoer and their family in Austria before the Holocaust and in Austria, Belgium, Poland, and the United States during the Holocaust.

  5. Bernat Berk collection

    The collection consists of a prayer book with loose inserts, a pair of tefillin with covers and pouch, a Tallis with a bag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernat Berk as a displaced person in Germany, Switzerland, and Australia after the Holocaust.

  6. Frank and Edith Sim collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag and commemorative medal relating to the experiences of Frank and Edith Sim during and after the Holocaust at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  7. Rabbi Georg and Martha Wilde collection

    The collection consists of a monogramed tablecloth and napkin rings relating to the experiences of Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde and his wife Martha in Germany, before and during the Holocaust.

  8. Forrest James Robinson Jr. collection

    Collection of American poster stamps, which include remembrances of Poland; the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, designed by Arthur Szyk; Greek War Relief; America First; war bond drives; Pearl Harbor; V for Victory; and related subjects.

  9. Wenk family collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Henriette Kieffer Wenk, her daughter Marion (born in Gurs) in France and in hiding. Also illustrated is Henriette's immediate family including her sister Emma, and Emma's family, who fled Germany.

  11. Otto Pankok collection

    The collection consists of five Sinti woodcut portaits created by Otto Pankok in postwar Germany.

  14. Eastern European sewing equipment collection

    The collection consists of six sewing machines, treadle tables, and a scale used in Poland before, during, and after World War II.

  15. Edmund Graf collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform, soap, a sweater, and a shirt relating to the experiences of Edmund Graf after he was deported from Poland to Flossenburg and Altenhammer concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  16. Paul Weber Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of two wooden candelabra made for Paul Weber Jacobs by a displaced person.

  17. Gerda Ehrenberg family collection

    The collection consists of a print of the Breslau synagogue and a report card relating to the experiences of Gerda Ehrenberg and her family in Breslau, Germany, before the Holocaust.

  19. Kurt Weiler collection

    The collection consists of two Waffen SS fezzes and a Nazi banner relating to the experiences of Kurt Weiler, a refugee from Nazi Germany before World War II, who served in the US Army in Europe during the war.

  20. Alexander Kuechel collection

    The collection consists of tefillin, a tefillin bag, and a tallit katan relating to the experiences of Alexander Keuchel in Belgium and several concentration camps during the Holocaust.