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  1. French propaganda poster collection

    The collection consists of 5 French posters and a pair of shoes.

  2. Harry Goldsmith collection

    The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period

  3. Sam Klasner collection

    The collection consists of a pair of shoes, calipers, a certificate, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Sam Klasner during the Holocaust when he was a forced laborer in the factory owned by Oskar Schindler in German occupied Czechoslovakia and after the Holocaust when he lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Elisabeth and Maurits Munichman family collection

    The collection consists of dice, a strongbox, a suitcase, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Maurits Munichman and his parents, Herman and Hanna Santilhano Munichman, and Elisabeth Blind (later Munichman) and her mother, Schoontje Visser, and their families in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  5. French antisemitic pamphlet and poster collection

    The collection consists of an antisemitic poster and three antisemitic pamphlets published in France from April 1939-1941.

  6. Dixie Foster collection

    The collection consists of currency, documents, publications, and a scrapbook relating to the experiences of Dixie Foster when she worked as a court reporter during the US Military Tribunal known as the Dachau war crimes trials, in Germany after World War II.

  7. Joel Forman collection

    The collection consists of a badge, a coin, and a photograph relating to the history of Nazi Germany and the German occupation of the Channel Islands before and during World War II, as well as a 1983 Israeli medallion commemorating World War II.

  8. Nazi Party miscellanea collection

    The collection consists of a book, documents, a poster, and one pair of SA-Wehrmannschaft uniform trousers relating to the history of the Nazi Party in Germany.

  9. Gabriella Weinberger Neufeld family collection

    The collection consists of a pillow sham and photographs relating to the experiences of Gabriella Weinberger and her family in Hungary before and during the Holocaust when they were deported and imprisoned in several concentrations camps and of Gabriella's postwar life in Sweden.

  10. Ann West collection

    The collection consists of badges, an armband, a cloth, scrip, a pamphlet, and personal papers related to Ann West's work for a German military laundry near Berlin, her deportation to Auschwitz and liberation, and her mother’s survival in Theresienstadt and status as a victim of fascism.

  11. Eric Gutsmuth collection

    Consists of documents, leaflets, newspapers, Łódź, Theresienstadt and Westerbork ghetto and camp scrip, a diary, and philatelic material either documenting the Gutsmuth family prior to the War, their emigration, their being in hiding in the Netherlands or being imprisoned in Theresienstadt; or purchased by Eric Gutsmuth's father. Included are anti-Semitic propaganda and Dutch resistance leaflets.

  12. Henry and Sophie Bernhard collection

    The collection consists of a camera, two travel trunks, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Hans and Sophie Bernhard before and during the Holocaust when they emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to Havana, Cuba, and later in the United States after the Holocaust.

  13. Sydonia and Zbigniew Kelhoffer family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: armbands, badges, and a wooden box, correspondence, documents, glass and film negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sydonia and Zbigniew Kelhoffer and their families before the Holocaust in Boryslaw, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine), and during the Holocaust in the Boryslaw ghetto and Beskiden labor camp, including years when they lived in hiding.

  14. Koreshige Inuzuka collection

    The collection consists of a fan, a box, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Koreshige Inuzuka in Japan and Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, before, during, and after World War II.

  15. Margot Lawson collection

    The collections includes stationery, two badges, a memoir, and a work identification card from the Amsterdamsche Bond van Oud-Illegale Werkers. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Marianne May collection

    The collection consists of a petition to the American consulate in Prague, Czechoslovakia, for a visa and 7 pieces of scrip from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia.

  17. Witek and Wiera Sierpinska collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Wiera Baksztanski (Sierpinska) before and during the Holocaust in Poland, and of Dr. Witek Sierpinski during the Holocaust in Poland.

  18. Archiv des Diakonischen Werkes der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands, Berlin collection

    The collection consists of lapel pins related to the history of the Inner Mission charity of the Protestant Church in Germany during the 1930s under the Nazi regime in Germany.

  19. Leah Derera collection

    The collection consists of a miniature book, a box, and a picture frame relating to the experiences of Leia Kreimer (Leah Derera) when she was imprisoned in Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  20. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    The collection consists of a change purse, drawings, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Johanna Hirsch and her family before and during the Holocaust in Karlsruhe, Germany, their deportation to Gurs concentration camp in southern France, and Johanna's escape and travel through France to Switzerland.