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Our Holocaust collection includes letters, images, and artifacts relating to the Nazis, the Jewish and Romanian lives lost, and the heroic upstanders who fought to save their brothers and sisters. By amassing and sharing this collection, we hope to ensure nobody ever repeats—or comes close to repeating—the barbaric atrocities the German people and their far too many collaborators perpetrated in WWII.

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The 1936 Olympics

The 1936 Olympics, nicknamed "The Nazi Olympics," is most remembered for the exclusion of Jewish athletes.

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The Poison Mushroom: Anti-Jewish Propaganda for Kids

An anti-Jewish children's book published in 1938 Germany and available in English today.

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Der Sturmer

Der Sturmer, founded by virulent anti-Jewish publisher Julius Streicher, was a weekly tabloid that published exclusively anti-Jewish propaganda.

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Der Ewige Jude

A book, film, and exhibition denigrating Jews on a massive scale in the late 1930s and early '40s.

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Jewish Disenfranchisement

Before they were sent to the ghettos and then concentration camps, the Jewish people were systematically excluded from German culture and "othered" in every area of life.

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Presentation: Propaganda & Letters from the Abyss

Watch Gregg's presentation to the Judaica Thematic Sociey about Garman anti-Jewish propaganda long pre-dating the Holocaust, on YouTube.

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Presentation: Dr. Seuss Goes to War

View Gregg's presentation to the American Topical Association about Dr. Seuss's anti-Axis political art, on YouTube.

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Presentation: Holocaust Remembrance Day

View Gregg's Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation to the Dialogue Institute of Austin, on YouTube.

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Miscellaneous Holocaust Artifacts

A small, rotating selection of the Philipson Collection's vast Holocaust archive.

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Anti-Jewish Propaganda

Anti-Jewish propaganda began long before the Holocaust, and it wasn't just in Germany. A very small sampling of the Philipsons' anti-Jewish propaganda collection.

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Liberation of the Concentration Camps

A small selection of the Philipson Collection's material on the liberation of the concentration camps.

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Anti-Judaism in the United States During WWII

America was not without its own anti-Jewish sentiments leading up to and during WWII.

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Polish Ghettos

From 1939 to 1942, Jewish people in Poland were forced into ghettos, isolated from the rest of their communities, surviving under terrible conditions.

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Nazi Officer's WWII Scrapbook

This scrapbook started on September 1, 1939—the day that would come to be known as the official start date of WWII.

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Irena Sendler: An Upstander

Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, a true upstander responsible for rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.

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The Rainbow Division

Nicknamed for its makeup of soldiers from across the United States, the 42nd Infantry division symbolized unity in the face of global conflict.

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