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  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Anthony Bissonette collection

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

  6. 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.

  7. Sybil Milton collection

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

  8. Stephen Siegel collection

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

  9. 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.

  10. Ruth Wiener Klemens collection

    The collection relates to the life of Ruth Wiener Klemens, her mother, Margarete Wiener, and her sisters, Mirjam and Eva Wiener, during their time at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany and Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands.

  11. 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

  12. 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.

  13. John Hein collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a three page letter, and two photographs relating to the experiences of John Hein, originally from Germany, as a soldier in the United States Army during the liberation of Zwodau labor camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II.

  14. Louis Brandsdorfer collection

    The collection consists of a diamond ring found at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 and seven photographs depicting a massacre in Bolesławiec, Poland.

  15. Nancie Furgang collection

    The collection consists of one London News Agency photograph of Nordhausen concentration camp at liberation and two hardbound collections of the British edition of "Yank," a weekly magazine published during World War II by the United States Army.

  16. Paul A. Strassmann collection

    The collection consists of documents, certificates, identification cards, photographs, a medal, and a badge relating to Paul Strassmann's involvement with partisans in Slovakia during World War II.

  17. Michael Greenburg collection

    The collection consist of 5 pieces of scrip.

  18. Herman Yablokoff collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Yablokoff after World War II

  19. Gyorgy Antos collection

    Collection consists of 17 photographic postcards of scenes of Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics; 1 calling card listing the false identity for Pallos, Klara; 1 photograph of Jozska Lustig wearing a star patch, with verso inscription (in Hungarian) stating the the photo is a form of identity allowing her to work outside the ghetto; 1 typed document posted after the war, searching for Antos, Laszlo; 3 reels of film shot by Laszlo Antos in Berlin, 1936

  20. Yehuda Nir collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: a badge, cigarette cards, leaflets, posters, and scrip and correspondence, documents, sheet music, and publications relating to the history of the Holocaust in Europe. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.