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  1. Jeanne Bowen collection

    The collection consists of four prints from Arthur Szyk's holiday portfolio and include "Simchat Torah," "Chanukah," "Rosh Hashanah," and "Passover."

  2. Patrick D. Gleason collection

    Consists of badges, ballots, broadsides, and posters relating to the 1933 elections in Germany. Also includes a ballot for the Austrian Anschluss plebescite.

  3. Jaworski family collection

    Consists of photographs of the Jaworski family, including of Maria Teicher, the donor's mother, in the Polish and Soviet Armies, 1942 - 1946; in the Szczebrzesyn ghetto in 1941; and after the war in Sopot and Lublin, Poland. Al;so includes a six-pointed yellow star patch, with "Jood" printed in the center in in black ink; on the verso is a Nazi emblem of an eagle with extended wings holding a wreath, printed in black ink.

  4. Klaus Barbie trial evidence removal tag collection

    The collection consists of tags that were placed on boxes containing documents from the trial of Klaus Barbie. The tags indicate sealed doucuments were moved from the municipal library to the court, then after the trial to the Lyon local Archives.

  6. Albert Bernard Hartstein collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, tallit, and publications relating to the experiences of Paul Hartstein during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps.

  7. Lore Baer collection

    The collection consists of a wool hat, scarf, and bloomers worn by Ernst Baer donor's father while in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust

  8. Jerzy Kajetanski collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a teddy bear, thirty eight black and white scratchboards from the 1950s and 1980s and other artworks, documents, and photograph relating to the experiences of Jerzy Kajetanski, his wife, and his extended family, non-Jewish Polish persons, during the war when several were conscripted as laborers and sent to Germany, and after the war in Germany, Poland, and the United States.

  9. German propaganda lithograph poster collection

    The collection consists of lithograph prints (posters) with German propaganda; circa 1935.

  10. Nazi Germany propaganda collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, documents, newspapers, and photographs relating to the history of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s.

  11. Alain Markon and Raya Magid Markon family collection

    The collection consists of a blanket and children's clothing relating to the experiences of Alexander and Raya Magid Markon and their young son, Alain, during the Holocaust when they escaped German occupied France for the United States.

  12. Eleanor and Ernest Fried collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eleanor Lustig and Ernest Fried and their families in Germany and in the United States before and after their emigration in 1937 and 1938.

  13. Rosemarie Fuchs collection

    The collection consists of five books published by the Watch Tower Society and banned during Nazi rule

  14. Ilie Wacs collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ilie Wacs and his family in Shanghai, China, before and during World War II. six drawings, 1 set (10 pages) of patterns, 1 book - "'ORT' SHANGHAI Course in Cutting Mens Clothing"

  15. Stefan and Frederike Deutsch family collection

    The collection consists of two World War I German badges, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Stefan and Frederike (Frida) Deutsch and their children, Margot, Martin, Erwin and Gerda, originally from Breslau, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany and the United States.

  16. Louis Davis collection

    The collection consists of four Soviet currency notes, a document case, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Louis Davidovic (David) and his family in Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the Holocaust, including the years Louis spent in a Hungarian forced labor battalion on the eastern front in Russia.

  17. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    The collection consists of artwork, medals, Star of David badges, books, correspondence, documents, and musical scores relating to the experiences of Moritz and Hildegard Henschel before and during the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, and after the Holocaust in Israel.

  18. University of Mary Washington Galleries collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the Nazi regime in Germany from 1933 to 1945.

  19. Hannah Kaplan collection

    The collection consists of three published portfolios of artwork, Tanuságtétel by Shraga Weil, 16 fameszete by Miklos Adler, and Danse Macabre by Ernest (Emo) Barta, published soon after the Holocaust.

  20. Terry Friedman collection

    The collection consists of a selection of postage stamps issued by the fascist governments of Germany and Italy from 1938-1941.