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The Alfred and Annalee Roegtten collection contains documents, correspondence, printed material, and photographs. The content is both original and reproduction. The bulk dates of this collection is 1941-1945. It documents Alred and Annalee's life during Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

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This collection encompasses items from Arthur Corder’s service in the Second World War. He was assigned as an aide to one of the officers who were among the first Allied military into Mauthausen Concentration Camp on May 5, 1945. Corder had the clearance to take seized items back to the United States, these includes watches, documents, photographs, a camera, and Third Reich relics.

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This collection holds a Tefillin, two small black boxes, each containing specific passages from the Torah, that Orthodox Jewish males over the age of thirteen traditionally wear during prayer services. The wearing of Tefillin is considered a mitzvah, or good deed.

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This item is an addendum to a German emigration form vouching that the person has no unpaid taxes. Betty Sara Goetz completed the form on December 2, 1940; the form provides Goetz tax number, an indication of her identification card, and that Nazi Germany did not have a concern for her taxes.

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The collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, documents, and books, belonging to Cantor Leopold Szneer and Isabelle Szneer. Parents, family, and friends of Leopold and Isabelle are featured prominently as well. In addition, the collection comprises prayer books, and prayer clothing including a Tallit and Shabbat apron, as well as, a parochet, the curtain that covers the Torah.

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This collection contains nine colored photographs taken by professor and photographer Clifford Lester. These photographs were taken in 2011 of Holocaust survivors, including Max Webb, Leon and Natasha Weinstein, and Cantor Leopold and Isabelle Szneer.

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The collection is comprised of Corporal Robert T. Hawk's pencil drawings during his servies in the United States Army between 1943 to 1945. His drawings encompases portraits of soldiers, as well as illustrations of marksmanship badges and the United States Amry's military insignias.

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The Dr. David M. Crowe is a collection that includes correspondence and research notes from 1990 – 2004 that supported the writing of his biography on Oskar Schindler.

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The collection is comprised of unpublished manuscripts written by Dr. Isabella Wiener, both handwritten and typed. There is a bound manuscript titled "The Killer Among Us." The collection also contains items documenting Winer, including newspaper clippings, her resume, and photographs.

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This collection is comprised of research material created by Dr. Seymore Scheinberg on Frits Philips. The Dutch industrialists, chairman of the Philips electric company, and Holocaust rescuer. The collection contains, correspondence, testimonies, Dr. Scheinberg's notes, articles, and the manuscript of From the Nazis in Holland, by Marianne Trumpeter Dazzo.

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The Friday Forum is a monthly magazine of the Jewish Exponent newspaper. The forum features lengthy essays on a variety of topics regardig the Jewish life. These series are firsthand narratives of the remnants of European Jewish life and survivors rebuilding their lives post-Holocaust. The newspaper in this collection date from 1972 to 1978.

Abstract Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold, is a painting by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by Adele's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Jewish banker and sugar producer. The painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941 and displayed at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.The material provided in this collection is souvenirs of the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer painting by Gustav Klimt, including...

Content Description This six-page narrative is the description of someone's experience of the Holocaust. This item was found in a book from a used book sale. The author or original owner of the pages is unknown. In addition, the author's given name is unidentified; he renames himself Hayim. The narrative is written as historical fiction. The author of the description wrote two dates on the pages, April 13, 1946, and November 7, 1954; it is unknown which day is accurate. Hayim is a child, but the...

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In the fall of 1939, the Nazi government introduced mandatory identification badges for Jews in Poland. This Nazi policy was one of the tactics used to isolate Jews from the rest of the population, and it enabled the Nazi government to identify, concentrate the Jews of Europe. The following are reproductions of the badges worn across German-occupied Europe.

Abstract This postage stamp commemorates the fifth anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the concentration camps; it was issued on May 5, 1995. The design of the stamp is barbed wire and a prisoners number 11960. Bordering the seal is a list of liberated concentration camps including, Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz-Monowitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbürg, Gross roses, Hertogenbosch, chewing, Klooga, Krakow-Plaszow, Lublin-Majdanek, Mauthausen,...

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This collection contains brochures, guidebooks and vaious ephemera offered to patrons visiting Holocaust Memorials and Historic sites.

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The Springer collection primarily consists of Isak and Sally Springer's emigration documents from 1949 to 1959.

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A financial deposit slip of money (Einlieferungsschein) from Litzmannstadt (Lodz) Ghetto to Dachau Concentration Camp, addressed to Jakob Nemec, identification number 11966.

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The scrapbook documented the Jewish City Committee in Ulm and was published in 1947. The scrapbook contains black and white photographs of the Committee and Ulm. There is also an introduction by Ze'ev Stern, a member of the presidium of the Ulm City Committee.

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The collection contains a reproduction of Leon Weinstein's false identity documents, as well as membership cards of the Committee of Polish Jews from Breslau and the Society of Zionist Democrates.

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Leopold and Mila Page collection has been created to document the successes of Oskar Schindler's legacy, including Thomas Kennelly's book Schindler's Ark and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. The collection contains newspaper clippings, magazines, and VHS tapes. Of particular mention are the VHS tapes with interviews of Leopold Page.

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The portfolio of lithographs reflect the indelible impressions of an artist and witness who survived six years of the Holocaust in ghettos and camps of Poland.

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The material in this collection includes a Displacement person card, temporary travel document, Declaration of Intention, and Certification of Naturalization.

Abstract In 1996, the representatives of the Nuremberg Tribunal Trials met in Washington D.C. for their fifth reunion on March 22 to 23. Former Nuremberg prosecutors and other committee members gather, including Court Records, Court Interpreters, Secretaries, Research Analysts, Interrogators, Internal Security, Reporters, and Photographers. Arntson created this collection to document the executive trial counsel and the reunion. The collection includes a Nuremberg Directory, newspaper clipping,...

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This collection consists of 154 oral history interviews conducted from 1992-1995 with residents of Orange County, California, who experienced the Holocaust. The interviews are the result of a project coordinated by Jack Pariser under the sponsorship of the Orange County Chapter of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Abstract The Oskar Schindler Archive is a collection that includes reproductions and photocopies ranging from the years 1940s to 2000s. The items have been collected by Dr. David Crowe as research material to support his biography on Oskar Schindler. Divided into sixteen series spanning the years from the 1940s to 2000s, the collection documents the activities of Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), who was a spy, businessman, Nazi Party member, and Righteous Gentile. Personal papers include...

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Two newspapers documenting the Adolf Eichmann trail, from April 11-12, 1961.

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The Stanley M. Garstka personal papers contain two letters, a personal reflection, and the article Poland's Way of the cross 1939-1945 by Franciszek J. Proch.

Abstract Created by Hanni Vogelweid, a Holocaust survivor, she and her family were issued a visa to Japan by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Lithuania credited with saving thousands of Jewish refugees by providing transit visas. Vogelweid collected newspaper articles related to the rescuer, Sugihara. In addition, the collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings on Sugihara, programs to exhibitions and events associated with Sugihara, transportation list, and a photocopy of...

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The 158th Infantry Regiment, as known as the "Bushmasters" is an infantry unit of the Arizona National Guard. The 158th Infantry Regiment went to France in August 1917. The 158th Infantry was positioned to act as a guard of honor to President Woodrow Wilson during his residence in France in 1918, and the 158th Infantry Band was chosen as Wilson’s honorary band. The regiment completed its federal service on May 3, 1919.