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  1. Ilya Yoffe collection

    The collection consists of medals, documents, a pamphlet, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ilya Yoffe and his family in the Soviet Union before, during and after World War II and of Ilya’s service in the Soviet Army during and after the war.

  2. Henry Wellisch collection

    The collection consists of two suitcases that were used by Emil and Jolan Wellisch donor's parents as they fled from Vienna, Austria, to Palestine and Mauritius during World War II and were again used by the Wellisches when they emigrated to Canada in 1951

  3. Lore Gotthelf Jacobs collection

    The collection consists of two steamer trunks that were sent to England to Lore Gotthelf Jacobs who left Frankfurt-am Main, Germany, on the Kindertransport

  4. Philip Goodman collection

    The collection consists of a poster and a magazine cover using images created by Arthur Szyk.

  5. David Winchester collection

    The collection consists of a prison shirt, prisoner identification badge, documents, and letters relating to the experiences of David Wincygster (later Winchester) in Poland before the Holocaust, in Ostrowiec ghetto, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Eintrachthutte slave labor camp during the Holocaust, and in Poland and Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  6. Irving Kramer collection

    The collection consists of two 1943 issues of the Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer.

  7. Trudy Katzer collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a child's dress, a child's vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Truusje Schoenfeld (Trudy Katzer), who was a hidden child in the Netherlands, and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Michael M. Garber collection

    The collection consists of a tefillin set, siddur, and seven photographs relating to the experiences of Michael Garber before and during the Holocaust when he fled German occupied Warsaw, Poland, for the Soviet Union.

  9. Marion Cassirer collection

    The collection consists of a commemorative medal and a commemorative candy tin relating to the experiences of Marion Kaufmann, originally from Berlin, Germany, in Amsterdam, Holland, after the end of World War II which she survived as a hidden child in the Netherlands.

  10. Lea Abramowicz family collection

    The collection consists of a purse, Star of David badge, wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lea Abramowicz and her family before the Holocaust in Russia, Danzig, and Palestine, during the Holocaust when they lived in hiding in Belgium, and after the Holocaust in Belgium and the United States.

  11. Henry Schmelzer collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag and documents relating to the experiences of Henry Schmelzer who was sent from Austria to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1938.

  12. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek and her family during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and of Raszka when she lived under an assumed identity and was sent as a forced laborer to Germany, as well as after the war when Rose lived in a displaced placed persons camp in Germany until her emigration to the United States.

  13. Gaston and Robert Crouzet collection

    The collection consists of a French medal for resistance activities, correspondence, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Dr. Gaston Crouzet and his son Robert, during World War II in France and in Germany where they were interned in German concentration camps for their resistance actions, and of Dr. Crouzet after the war in France.

  14. Mira Wallerstein collection

    The collection consists of archival material and three-dimensional objects relating to the Nazi Party, the German Army, and the United States Army Counter Intelligence Corps.

  15. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    The collection consists of three detachable collars, comb, shoulder bag, thirteen handkerchiefs, a leather portfolio, travel sewing kit and two thread sets, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lilli Schischa and her family in Austria before and during the Holocaust and after Lilli's escape to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1939.

  16. Adolf Atlas collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and documents relating to the experiences of Adolf Atlas in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.

  17. John Vincent Tillman collection

    The collection consists of a Mother's Cross medal, documents, two reels of 16mm film, one photograph, and publication relating to the experiences of John Vincent Tillman as an American student in Germany from 1935 and 1936 and after his return to the United States.

  18. Doris Rauch and Norbert Troller collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and artwork documenting the experiences of Doris Rauch and Norbert Troller (Doris Rauch's uncle) and their families' experiences during the Holocaust.

  19. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Contains university report card (Meldungsbuch) issued in 1938 in Vienna, Austria, to Edwin Bader, father of the donor, as a replacement for the original issued in 1910-1915; a photocopy of a note about proper behavior handed out to newly arrived refugees in England in 1938; and video recordings of the 1988 reunion of former Nuremberg-Fuerth refugees. Mr. Frank Harris arranged the reunion.

  20. George Flaum Banet and Marlene Roberts Banet collection

    The collection consists of a walking stick, a quill pen, and a woodcut relating to the experiences of Georges Flaum (later Banet) and his parents Charles and Therese in France during and after the Holocaust, which Georges survived in hiding, while his parents were held in internment camps in France, and then deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland.