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  1. Sophia Kalski collection

    The collection consists of paintings created by Sophia Kerpholz Kalski from 1981-1994 about her experiences in the ghettos in Lwow and Trembowla, Poland (Lviv and Terebovlia, Ukraine), and her life as a child living in hiding during the Holocaust.

  2. Alexander Stankiewicz collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experience of Alexander Stankiewicz in Mauthasuen concentration camp in Austria during the Holocaust.

  3. German political and military propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the propaganda activities of the German military and the Nazi Party in Germany during World War II, and also Allied forces informational services in the immediate postwar period.

  4. Frank Magid collection

    The collection includes German documents, a flier printed by the French resistance movement, the anti-American propaganda book "Verruchte Neue Welt" by Ernst Machek, and photographs and copy prints taken in Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation recvied from Frank Magid, a Staff Sergeant with the 516 EVAC Hospital Unit of the 7th Army that liberated Dachau.

  5. Erika Rybeck collection

    The collection consists of a knapsack and a suitcase used by Erika Schulhof when she was sent from Vienna, Austria, to Great Britain in 1938 on the Kindertransport.

  6. Meir Baum and Issachar Ilan collection

    The collection consists of a drawing and documents relating to the experiences of Issachar Ilan and his brother, Meir Baum, during and after the Holocaust.

  7. Isaac Kornowski family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Paul and Pnina Kornowski and their families as German-Jewish immigrants to France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Bernard Feingold collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Brigadier General Bernard Feingold during World War II.

  9. Lawrence and Stelly Levy Kirsch collection

    The collection consists of seven pieces of scrip of the type issued in the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czecoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  10. Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities collection

    The collection consists of three broken tombstones recovered from a desecrated Jewish cemetery on Sevastopol Street in Bucharest, Romania, that was destroyed during World War II.

  11. Bruno Lambert collection

    The collection consists of calipers, a stethoscope, a retinoscope, an electrotherapy machine, and documents relating to the experiences of Bruno Lambert, who left Germany in 1937 for the United States and later served in the Army Medical Corps and with the 123rd Infantry during World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Philippe Henriot propaganda speeches collection

    The collection consists of four pamphlets of propaganda speeches given by Philippe Henriot for the Vichy government in France and one book.

  13. Joe Koenig collection

    The collection consist of books relating to the experiences of the parents of Joe Koenig who emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1937.

  14. Shiber family collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, negatives, and a reel of magnetic tape relating to Emanuel Shiber's family and their life in Lʹvov, Poland, (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) before World War II, his experiences during and after the war, and his wife's experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and her art and testimony.

  15. Nazi propaganda collection

    The collection consists of documents, a canister of film from the 1936 Olympics, a scrapbook of postcards, and a publication.

  16. Taubner-Kovacs family collection

    The collection consists of a Swiss schutzpass issued to Zoltan Taubner and Jozsa Kovacs Erika Gold's parents, 1 certificate for a work camp, Shell Koolaj R.T., issued to Zoltan Taubner, 1 certificate for a work camp issued to Jozsa Kovacs and Erika Gold, and 1 laminated dollar bill carried by Zoltan Taubner in the heel of his shoe while working for Shell Koolaj R.T.

  17. Anna Leist collection

    The collection consists of a handmade portfolio and five books relating to the experiences of Anna Zajac and her sister Lydia in the Ahawah Children's Home in Berlin, Germany, from 1936-1938 and her subsequent journey to Great Britain as a Kindertransport refugee in December 1938.

  18. Robert Holland collection

    The collection consists of two drawings and photographs relating to the experiences of Robert E. Holland during his service in the United States Army, 20th Armored Division, at the Dachau prisoner of war camp after the end of World War II.

  19. William Begell collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Wilhelm, Ferdinand, and Liza Beigel in prewar Vilna, in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust, and Wilhelm in the Dillingen an der Donau displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  20. Nazi Germany memorabilia collection

    The collection consists of a Berlin medical association circular, an SA kepi, two books, and a box of 46 glass slides relating to the history of the Nazi regime in Germany, 1933-1945.