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Holland America Line paper luggage tag with twine. Passenger information written in ink on one side. HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE CABIN CLASS with image of windmills and text instructing passengers on how to claim baggage on other side.

Letter dated February 13, 1958, from Ellen Song to John Herbert regarding compensation for properties in Berlin seized from their family during the war.

"Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaust—from the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution." —Publisher

"From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, this novel braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary ...

Document is a circular distributed by airplane to German soldiers in Italy, found by Maurice Smith in a field at the front lines of the Second World War in Northeast Italy. Roughly translated: front: “Collapse in the East, Russia begins on the 11th of January the great offensive … Russia was on the 18th of January on the German border.” Back: “Why are you still in Italy? The Russians are now on the ...

Armband for members of the NS-Reichskriegerbund [Nazi War Veterans] association. Black felt armband with embroidered patch in shape of red shield with white border with black iron cross and swastika in centre. Edges unattached.

Item is a certificate of registration issued to Sarah Rozenberg-Warm (as “Sara Warm”) by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs’ department of vital statistics in Amsterdam. The certificate was likely used in support of the Rozenberg family’s immigration to Canada. The certificate lists the address, names and dates of birth of Sarah, her husband Abraham and their child.

Item is a letter from Johanna van Kreveld de Leeuw, mother of Amalia Boe-Fishman, to Amalia’s foster family about the health and care of her daughter while she hides with them in their home.

Item is an identification card for Albert J. van Haren as a member of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (the Jewish Council of Amsterdam). The Joodsche Raad was the Dutch iteration of the Judenräte formed to issue orders from the occupying German government to the Jews of the Netherlands. According to the donor, van Haren became a member of the organization in order to postpone his deportation. Item ...

Marga Minco was a Jewish schoolgirl in the Holland of 1940, and this book tells how she watched the sky darken over her country. Alone of her family she escaped arrest and death in a concentration camp, yet, like the diary of Anne Frank, this book appears not so much as an accusation as a comfort.