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  1. Jewish Community of Targu Mures collection

    The collection consists of two yads used by the Orthodox Jewish community of Targu Mures, Romania for over 100 years.

  2. Dorit Isaacsohn family collection

    The collection consists of fashion drawings, handmade garments, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude, Julius and Dorit Isaacsohn before the Holocaust in Grätz (Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland) and Berlin, Germany, and after the Holocaust in Berlin and the United States.

  3. Internment camps of France in art collection

    The collection consists of twenty drawings by Fiszel Zylberberg-Zber of an internment camp in Beaune-la-Rolande, France, two aquarelles by Jacques Gotko (Yankelli Gotkovski) of an internment camp in Compiègne, France, and a watercolor by an unknown artist of the transit camp in Drancy, France.

  4. Jewish Community of Baia Mare collection

    Mixed collection of a ledger book and religious articles including an oil lamp, candlesticks, spice box and auction price box Hannuka, oil lamp, from Baia Mare synagogue, stayed in synagogue during Holocaust. Auction price box used in Baia Mare synagogue, stayed in synagogue during Holocaust, used when fundraising for people called to the Torah and during the High Holy Days. Spice box, in two pieces, made of copper-alloy. Two candlesticks (one pair) from Baia Mare synagogue, stayed in synagogue during the Holocaust. Ledger that lists Jewish properties from 1888 to 1943; Baia Mare, Romania.

  5. Charles H. Turner collection

    The collection consists of coins relating to the experiences of Walther von Scheidt, who was one of Hitler's bodyguards during World War II.

  6. Brian Katz collection

    The collection consists of 85 Nazi propaganda posters produced by the Reichspropagandaleitung der N.S.D.A.P. (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei).

  7. Moritz Schoenberger family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Moritz, Helene, and Bianka Schoenberger, including their escape from Austria after the Anschluss and their roundtrip voyage aboard the MS St. Louis in 1939, Moritz's internment in France, and the family's emigration to the United States.

  8. Lea Grundig collection

    The collection consists of fourteen etchings issued in the 1970s of drawings created by Lea Grundig from 1934-1936 for three different series: Der Jude ist schuld [The Jew is guilty]; Unterm hakenkreuz [Under the swastika]; and Krieg droht [War threatens] to document and protest the Nazi regime and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

  9. Herbert Sandberg collection

    The collection consists of seventy aquatints for the series Der Weg created by Herbert Sandberg on commission from 1958-1965 for the Buchenwald Museum in East Germany (now Germany) on the site of the concentration camp where he had been imprisoned during the Holocaust and incorporating work he had drawn while an inmate.

  10. Anthony Bissonette collection

    The collection consists of 7 scrip notes of various Kronen denominations from Theresienstadt (Terezin), Czechoslovakia.

  11. Milton L. Shurr collection

    The collection consists of an ashtray, binoculars, model airplane, Buchenwald scrip, a hunting knife and sheath, a Walther pistol and sheath, and a watercolor, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Milton Shurr, who as a member of the United States 1st Army Displaced Persons Team, arrived to care for prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp soon after its liberation in April 1945.

  12. Sybil Milton collection

    The collection consists of posters and books related to the Soviet Union, the Nazi party, and the Holocaust.

  13. Stephen Siegel collection

    The collection consists of seventy-eighty lithographs relating to the history of the Holocaust.

  14. Cyprus detention camp collection

    The collection consists of banners, stone carvings, flashlights, a compass, and documents relating to the experiences of inmates, primarily Jewish, who were held by the British Army in detention camps on Cyprus after being caught attempting to immigrate into British-mandate Palestine and of British Lieutenant D.P. Grehan, who served as a commanding officer in the camps.

  15. Fran Greene family collection

    The collection contains a dress worn by Fran Frost upon her arrival in the United States and a pair of suspenders worn by her father in Lukow, Poland, before World War II

  16. Helen and William Luksenburg collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket relating to the experiences of Welek (William) Luksenburg during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps and two photographs relating to the experiences of Welek Luksenburg and of Hilde (Helen) Chilewicz in prewar Poland.

  17. Dr. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Collection consisting of one school diploma and five books owned by the Selma Schwarzwald (now Sophie Turner-Zaretsky)[donor] (with inscriptions). Five books published in Polish, which belonged to Zofia Tymejko [false name used by Selma Schwarzwald] and which she kept throughout the years and one diploma from St. John's Wood Synagogue school in London; dated July 26, 1950

  18. Steve Kagan collection

    The collection consists of two miniature propaganda booklets created by the Nazi Party in Germany during the Third Reich, 1933-1945.

  19. Esquire magazines

    A collection of four issues of Esquire magazine: one from February, 1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 53 titled "The New Orderlies"; the second magazine from March,1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 71 titled "The Map Maker"; the third magazine from April, 1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 59 titled "Detour on the Glory Road"; and the fourth from May, 1942 with an illustration by Arthur Szyk on page 56 titled "Some Necks...?."