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A rainstick is a long hollow tube partially filled with pebbles, thorns or beans that when turned from one end of the stick to the other make a sound akin to rain. Commonly found throughout Latin America it was thought that the use of these devices…

In 1944, Rosa Katz was taken from Gelsenberg Concentration Camp to Essen with a group of 520 Jewish women and girls whom defendants referred to collectively as “the Hungarian Jewesses,” although they came from various places. Krupp contracted to pay…

Issued by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), this foreigner’s employment book was made for Michael Garjainow, one of many children forcibly transported to Germany and compelled to work for German firms during the war. Michael…

Tiago Fernandes Maranhão and Brad Wright, both graduate students in the History PhD program, discuss their spring 2016 Dean’s Fellows project, exploring the ethnographic collection of the Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection.