Chapman University -- Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library

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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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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 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.

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...

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,...