Collection 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 and includes a chronology of the Holocaust, maps showing locations of the 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, Theresienstadt and Westerbork, propaganda 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 deal with the dead from the gas chambers, two German passports belonging to Jews who managed to emigrate to the U.S., 3 Austrian propaganda anti-Jewish postcards, 11 photographs of which ten were taken in Buchenwald in 1945.
Items are accompanied by contextualizing typed statements by Rogow, often noting the date that the item was given to Rogow, and the broader historical context of the item.
Includes photographs taken by Rogow as an 18 year old American soldier when he helped liberate Buchenwald.
Rogow, Arnold A., 1924-2006