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  1. Levy family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and identification cards relating to the experiences of the Levy family while living under Nazi occupation in and around Berlin during WWII.

  2. Cesia Carol Redlich collection

    The collection consists of a Łódź Ghetto coin, certificates, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Cesia Uncyk and her family before the Holocaust in Poland, and after the Holocaust when she lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany and then emigrated to the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Michal Goldin collection

    The collection consists of a Polish eagle badge, a Polish medal and box, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Michal Goldin before the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland, and during the Holocaust, when Michal served in the Polish Army in exile in France, Switzerland, and Scotland, and was killed in combat in Normandy, France, in 1944.

  4. Fritz Hirsch family collection

    The collection consists of a poster, a red box, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fritz Hirsch, his wife, Hilda, and their sons Gerd Karl and Frank, and extended family members before and during the Holocaust in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, before the family was deported to various concentration camps in Germany and Poland where they perished.

  5. Lidia Kleinman Siciarz collection

    Consists of prewar and wartime photographs of the the family of Dr. Mendel and Aniuta Szwarcman Kleinman, and their daughter, Lidia (now Lidia Kleinman Siciarz), originally of Krakow, Poland. After the occupation of Poland, the family temporarily found haven in Turka, but in 1942, with the threat of deportation, Lidia went into hiding in a Catholic orphanage under the name Marysia Borowska. Aniuta Kleinman, who was also using a false name, was denounced and perished. Dr. Kleinman reunited with Lidia in May 1945. Aniuta gave Lidia the family photographs in a locked cosmetics bag before they ...

  6. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    The collection consists of a military jacket, scrip, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Manfred Gans in Germany, Great Britain, the British Army, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust, his family in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp before, during, and after the Holocaust, and Anita Lamm and her family in Germany and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  7. Gaston Kahn collection

    The collection consists of a rubber hand stamp, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gaston Kahn, his wife Jeanne, and children Danny-Claude and Marcel-Francis during the Holocaust in Paris, Gap, and Marseille, France, when Gaston worked with the Comite d'Assistance Aux Refugies and the Union Generale Des Israelites De France, and after the Holocaust in Paris.

  8. Douglas Smith collection

    The collection consists of notebooks and photographs relating to the history of poetry and Jewish life in prewar Poland and to the experiences of postwar Holocaust survivors in Sweden, as well as a publication of drawing reproductions by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting Targu Jiu concentration camp in Romania during World War II.

  9. Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik family collection

    The collection consists of a matzah cover, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik and their families during and after the Holocaust in Kalisz and Zdunska Wola, Poland.

  10. Edward Herzbaum Hartry collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, artwork, medals, correspondence, documents, a journal, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Edward Herzbaum (from 1949, Edward Hartry) during the German invasion of Poland, his imprisonment in a slave labor camp in the Soviet Union, his service in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army (Anders Army) during World War II, and his emigration to Great Britain after the war.

  11. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    The collection consists of badges, luggage tags, purse, suitcase, storybook, prayer book, and documents relating to the experiences of Ruth Danzig before, during, and after the Holocaust as a Kindertransport refugee from Munich, Germany, to the United Kingdom, and her 1944 emigration to the United States.

  12. Arthur R. List collection

    The collection consists of six commemorative triangle badges, documents, and a DVD relating to the experiences of Adolf Lustgarten (later Arthur Robert List) during the Holocaust, when he was imprisoned in Gross Rosen, Flossenbürg and Dachau concentration camps and subcamps.

  13. Forced labor artifact and book collection

    The collection consists of badges, an armband, savings stamp cards, postcards, documents, photographs, and laborer's work books related to the use of forced laborers from western, eastern, and southern Europe in Vienna, Austria, and to the persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.

  14. Florida Holocaust Museum Survivor Testimony Project collection

    Oral histories from the Florida Holocaust Museum Survivor Testimony Project.

  15. Gyula Nador collection

    The collection consists of one dog tag, three notebooks, and one gray vinyl pocket calendar pertaining to Gyula Nador's experiences in Strasshof, Bergen-Belsen, and Hillersleben.

  16. Jewish experience ephemera and manuscript collection

    The collection consists of a booklet, correspondence, documents, fliers, and memoirs relating to the cultural life, emigration, and history of the Jewish people in Europe and Palestine during and after the Holocaust.

  17. Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionism, and prewar Palestine collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to Vladimir Jabitinsky, the Zionist movement in prewar Europe, and life in prewar Palestine.

  18. Mandate Palestine collection

    The collection consists of a poster and several archival collections relating to the Jewish experience before, during, and after the Holocaust in the British Mandate in Palestine.

  19. Maury Adams collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag, chest x-ray, documents, oral history interview transcript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Moses Adam (later Maury Adams), before and during the Holocaust in Przemysl, Poland, while incarcerated in Plaszow, Starachowice, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Ebensee concentration camps, and after the war in Italy and the United States.