ACQUISITIONS
TheMuseum’s Permanent Collection supports themission of the
Museum as outlined in theCollectionsManagement Policy. Items
are added to the collections carefully and selectively. Potential
donations are screened and evaluated for relevancy to the scope
of the collections and are accepted into thePermanent Collection
upon approval of the Collections Committee.
The following is a selection of artifacts acquired between June
30, 2013 and July 1, 2014.
2013.1
Pamphlets (two) :
“This is Anne” pamphlet
created by “Dr. Seuss”
for the U.S. Army’s
InformationandEducation
Division in 1943; and
“TwoDownandOnetoGo”
depicting Arthur Szyk
drawing on cover from the U.S. War Department No. 21-31, April
1945. Drawings: (12) Pierre Debarre reproductions with original
folder, “Yesterday’s Supermen? To-Day’s P.W.’s” (pub. 1944,
Belgium “underground”)
GIFTOFGREGGANDMICHELLEPHILIPSON
2013.2
Sweaters (two) made by a Jewish family after they fled to
Shanghai. Materials donated to enhance the Museum’s existing
Levenback collection
GIFTOF ELIZABETH (LEVENBACK) SHAMIR
2013.3
Photographs (five) documenting the Jewish emigration
efforts from the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Donor’s oral
testimony and autobiography titled “The Vision” are part of the
Museum collections.
GIFTOF T.W. WESTON
2013.4
Armband; Danish Resistance
Fighters, May 1945, worn by the
donor’s grandfather, serves to
document Denmark’s upstander role
inWorldWar II.
GIFTOFFRANKFERDINANDSEN
2013.5
Pin and case awarded to
Houston-area survivor who joined
the French Resistance, helping many
families by providing food, money and
false papers. Donor is a member of
Houston’s Survivor Registry and theMuseum’s Laurie andMilton
Boniuk Library and Research Center holds her oral testimony.
GIFTOF LAUREWITTNER
2014.1
Photograph Book: “Our
Destruction In Pictures,” published
in Bergen-Belsen in December 1946
by The Central Committee of the
Liberated Jews in the British Zone.
GIFTOFGILAGLATSTEIN
2014.2
Magazine pages (two) depicting Arthur Szyk artwork
documenting the political cartoons published in American media
duringWorldWar II, early 1940s.
GIFTOFGREGGANDMICHELLEPHILIPSON
2014.3
Programs (two): Garmisch Military Post, Germany 1951;
Newsletter, “USNS News Patch; Menu, 7th Army Mess. Donors
areHouston-area survivors. SamRubin immigrated to the United
States in 1948, joined the Army and served in the KoreanWar.
GIFTOF SAMANDPAULINERUBIN
