File - Holocaust

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Holocaust

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  • Graphic material
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  • Textual record

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  • 1940-1973 (Accumulation)
    Accumulator
    Rogow, Arnold A., 1924-2006
    Note
    Based on date that Yael Selinger attended university in Israel.
  • 1933-1947 (Creation)

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Physical description

0.03 metres of textual material
11 photographic prints : b&w ; 6 x 8.6 cm
2 passports
2 badges : metal
10 pieces of scrip
1 pin : metal

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File consists of a binder of sleeved material labelled "Holocaust" created by Arnold A. Rogow and inscribed to Yael Seliger with a Biblical quote (Joel 1:3). Contains Holocaust-related documentation and artifacts, including: a chronology of the Holocaust, maps showing locations of concentration camps, a Nazi Party pin, labels for the use of Jewish doctors in Germany indicating that their practice was restricted to Jews, camp money from Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) in Poland, Theresienstadt in Germany and Westerbork in the Netherlands, propaganda disguised as American currency, yellow Stars of David from Holland, France and Germany, documents including letters from inmates at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Dachau, ration coupons issued to Jews in Munich, two metal badges worn by members of the Sonderkommando (one from Dachau, one from Belsen) who dealt with the dead from the gas chambers, two German passports belonging to a couple who managed to emigrate to the United States, 3 Austrian propaganda anti-Jewish postcards, 11 photographs of the snapshot variety of which ten were taken in Buchenwald in 1945 (most photographed by Rogow himself when he served in the American army during the war).

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Physical condition

Material is in good condition. Label adhesive has dried so some descriptive texts are affixed to binder pages with paperclips.

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Language of material

  • Austrian German
  • Dutch
  • English
  • German
  • Polish

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    Access to this collection is restricted, and requires completion of a Research Agreement for Non-University Archives. Consult the University Archivist for additional information in this regard.

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    General note

    Content warning: File contains racist and antisemitic propaganda. File contains photographic images of victims of genocide.

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    Status

    Final

    Level of detail

    Full

    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    2025-07-07. A. St.Onge (Creation)

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