The Spungen Family Foundation continues to acquire new materials, exhibiting them whenever possible along with the Holocaust Postal Collection.
Documents of the Righteous
The Spungen exhibit has expanded to include many documents issued or “created” by Righteous (non-Jewish) people who in many cases risked their lives and/or careers to provide protection to Jewish people during the WWII era.
Most of the documents were signed by people that are recognized by Yad Vashem (Israel) as Righteous Among The Nations. The Spungen exhibit includes documents from Varian Fry, Valdemar Langlet, Carl Lutz, Bishop Angelo Rotta, Chiune Sugihara, Raoul Wallenberg, and Sir Nicholas Winton.
The Sugihara Visa
Learn about Japanese Consul to Lithuania Chiune-Sempo Sugihara and the transit visas he approved in the summer of 1940.
Money and Scrip
The foundation has a growing collection of money and scrip issued during the war by the NAZI regime as well as after the war by the Allies and the United Nations.
The Mengele Letters
In 2010, the foundation began exhibiting two letters from Nazi SS Doctor Josef Mengele. The letters offer rare insight into the life and mind of the man who has been nicknamed the “Angel of Death.”
ERNST SCHWALM – THE STORY OF A JEHOVAH’S WITNESS
Learn more about the Jehovah’s Witnesses through the story of Ernst Schwalm, who spent eight-and-a-half years in multiple prisons and concentration camps before being liberated in May 1945, as told through the letters he wrote to his family.
THE MARQUER SCROLL
Learn more about how this Torah scroll, desecrated by the Nazis in WWII and discovered by Danny Marquer among his mother’s effects, came to be in the Spungen Family Foundation collection.