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  1. Henry Kis collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief holder and correspondence relating to the experiences of Heinz (later Henry) Kis who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1936 and the Kis family in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  2. Collier's magazines

    The collection consists of four Collier's magazines dated Jan. 17, 1942; Mar. 28, 1942; June 20, 1942; and Sept. 12, 1942. The magazines feature illustrations by Arthur Szyk on the front covers.

  3. Anne Weil Wascou family collection

    The collection consists of two suitcases, correspondence, documents, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Anne Weil Wascou and her family during the Holocaust and to the postwar efforts of Anne Wascou to obtain restitution.

  4. Rose Kfar Rose collection

    The collection consist of books relating to the experiences of Rose Kwar in Krakow, Poland, after the Holocaust when she continued to live under an assumed Christian identity.

  6. Howard Zar collection

    The collection consists of pastels created by Leon Target depicting a French post-war ballet about the Holocaust.

  7. Moszek Brycman collection

    The collection consists of posters and a flier advertising Zionist and Socialist events in post-war France as well as a commemoration for the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

  8. Leo Haas collection

    The collection consists of eleven artworks created by Leo Haas, some created during World War II when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps, and some after the war when he was a satirical cartoonist in Berlin, East Germany.

  9. Luigi Lucaccini collection

    "Mein Kampf"" and "Adolf Hitler: Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuhrers." The copy of "Mein Kampf" was published in 1941 and given to a young couple Eck-Gerritsma on the occassion of their wedding, and was signed by the mayor of the town of Beuderich in Westfalia, Germany; dated July 1, 1942. "Adolf Hitler": 1936 album from Germany containing propaganda photographs describing "life of the Fuehrer" and disseminated by a cigarette company with photographs pasted in by the buyers; The album was later found in Germany by an American GI and dated May 6, 1945.

  10. Group of PM and New York Times newspapers

    Group of PM newspapers with illustrations by Arthur Szyk. Also, New York Times newspaper from January 21, 1945. The PM newspapers include the following: April 23, 1941, September 24, 1943, November 7, 1943, December 3, 1943, January 17, 1944, January 30, 1944, February 20, 1944, March 27, 1944, May 14, 1944, August 20, 1944, December 24, 1944 and February 22, 1945.

  11. Les L. Salter collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ludwig Salzer as a refugee in Shanghai, China, and of his family in Vienna, Austria, and Opole, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  12. Stanley Becker collection

    The collection consists of 4 framed drawings (black ink and graphite) on paper by Arthur Szyk.

  13. Donald H. Harter family collection

    The collection consists of a megillah and a print relating to the experiences of Harry and Lenore Hirschberg and their children who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1938.

  14. Elizabeth Margosches family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, design artwork, buttons, coins, pencils, sewing materials, wallets, biographical materials, correspondence, a diary, documents, photographs, books and other printed materials, and immigration, restitution, and subject files relating to the experiences of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United States, and Brazil before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. Marion Sapir collection

    The collection consists of a set of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip issued to Marion Sapir who was an inmate in the camp during the Holocaust.

  16. Steven Schuyler collection

    Postcards, black and white images from Israelitsches Kinderheim Koln; almanac, gray cover with Star of David image, title "Kulturbund Deutscher Juden Almanach 1934-1935"; book, cardboard cover with image of two flowering trees, title "Die Haggadah des Kindes"; calendar, for 1938-1939, pages for each month attached to yellow cardboard backing, photographic imges of children on backing, issued by Israelitsches Kinderheim Koln.

  17. Betty Willdorff collection

    The collection consists of two spoons made of coins. There is a coin on each end with a twisted metal handle. The spoons were made of coins to be used instead of currency in the Netherlands during World War II.

  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. Ruth Schaffer collection

    The collection consists of pages from a scrapbook, photographs, an "Intourist" ticket booklet, and a bank note from the USSR that relate to the experiences of Ruth Schaffer Lax during World War II.

  20. Kirszencwajg family collection

    Consists of letters, postcards and envelopes written in the Warsaw ghetto by the donor's family to Vilna, Poland, Melbourne, Australia, and Shanghai, China; documents; relating to the donor and his family life in Poland before the war, in Shanghai during the war, and in Melbourne, Australia after the war; and photographs;depicting the donor and his family in Warsaw before the war and later in Vilna, Kobe, Japan, and Shanghai.