1. Henry Himmelfarb collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47909
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of copy prints, including pre- and post-war images of the Himmelfarb family and a portrait of Chaim Himmelfarb taken following liberation; and a photographic print portrait of donor’s cousin Irving who found Chaim in Frankfurt, Germany in 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523567
• English
• 1910-1998
• boxes oversize box 28 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of documents and correspondence related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and accomplishments of Dr. Henry J. Kellermann, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's pre-war life and schooling, the Gross-Breesen agricultural school for German-Jewish boys, and Dr. Kellermann's involvement in wartime refugee affairs and in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Also includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's post-war career in the United States Foreign Service, where he served in Bern and as the permanent representative to UNESCO, and regarding hi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515342
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 12 photographs of Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521342
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection consists of photographs, identity cards, and letters relating to Henry Kellen and his family's experiences as displaced persons after the war. The family name in the documentation is listed as "Katznellenbogen" or "Kacenellenbogen."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516316
• English
• 1850-2004
• boxes 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Henry Knepler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual arrest, and transport to Auschwitz where he did not survive. Some of these materials are photocopies. Biographical materials document the lives of Henr...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42108
• English
• 1945-1950
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of photographs and documents related to Henry Kolber's experiences as a refugee in post-war Switzerland and his immigration to the United States on the SS Drottningholm in 1947. Also includes a memory booklet signed by fellow refugees in 1945, a musical score entitled "Bitte um Menschwerdung" and letter dated 1950, both written by Rudolf (Ruedi) Schaerer.

1. Henry Landman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501643
• English
• 1935-1945
• boxes oversize folders book enclosure 3 6 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Henry Landman papers contain biographical materials, “V-mail” letters, emigration and immigration files, photographs, wartime newspapers and newsletters, World War II memorabilia, writings, restitution files, and financial records documenting the Landmann family from Augsburg, their immigration to the United States, and Henry Landman’s participation in World War II and the liberation of his hometown. Biographical materials include birth, immunization, medical, and marriage certificates, school and military records, and identification papers for Henry Landman, his parents, and his sister...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503312
• English
• folders 10 10 microfiche,
• Updated 1 year ago

Includes various materials concerning Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, the suffering of Jews through history, and atrocities toward Jews in the Soviet Union and Poland. Also included is the November 1928 report of the Constituent Convention of the Federation of American Jews of Lithuanian Descent. The report discusses the persecution of Jews in Lithuania. See RG lists for RG-10.01701 through RG-10.017*09 titles.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn84764
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 20 copyprints from the collection of Private First Class Henry M. Heinrichs documenting his experiences as an American soldier, mainly as an ambulance driver, during World War II, particularly his experiences witnessing the Dachau concentration camp. Includes portraits, Heinrichs posing with his ambulance, piles of corpses at Dachau, the corpse of a guard dog, and liberated prisoners riding in a military jeep with a banner thanking the Allies.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517615
• English
• oversize folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 23 large black and white photographs taken of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Also includes photographs of other influential figures in the Roosevelt administration and photographs of Henry Morgenthau, Sr., the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514483
• English
• 1941-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers include 55 photographs including images of Major Henry Plitt as a child and as a member of the United States 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment and the liberation of Dachau concentration camp as well as a letter written to Julius Streicher, after his capture, by his wife.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514903
• English
• 1938-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Henry Rosen, originally of Buczacz, Poland (Buchach, Ukraine). The photographs depict Henry Rosen in a Polish army uniform in Krakow, Poland; his brothers Samuel and Yechiel; and Samuel’s wife Helena Rosen.

1. Henry Rosenthal collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn716978
• English
• 1938-1997
• folders 6
• Updated 1 year ago

The Henry Rosenthal papers include biographical material, correspondence, immigration documents, and restitution material relating to Henry’s wartime experience being sent to an orthodox orphanage in Cologne after Kristallnacht and immigrating to the United States in 1941. Biographical material includes documentation of birth for Henry, registry changes noting Hedwig’s date of death, a report card for Henry, a photograph of Georg and Hedwig in front of their store in Germany, a newspaper clipping about Henry volunteering in America, a copy of a photograph of a headstone for members of the R...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515569
• English
• 1938-1949
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers consist of seven photographs of refugees at the displaced persons camp, Bad Reichenhall, and on the military transport ship, "General McCray," which was headed for the United States in October 1949, as well as release papers from the Bad Reichenhall DP camp and a Polish repatriation document.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn43825
• English
• 1945-1950
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524143
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection consists of documents, photographs, clippings and photocopies pertaining to Heinz Sussman's [donor] family's experiences in Theresienstadt concentration camp between 1943 and 1945; Russian, German and Czech. Also includes materials post war from Austria and Deggendorf Camp as well as immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes two copyprint photographs of Sussman family and young group prewar in Vienna, Austria.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44314
• English
• 1939-1992
• 749 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Includes reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, speeches and various articles relating to the mission of the “division de secours;” aid to POWs during World War II, POW camps in Germany, and correspondence with Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Roger Gallopin, Max Huber, Albert Lombard, Robert Macduff, Heinrich Zangger, and others. The collection contains also biographical files, personal papers, autobiographical summaries, visual material of the ICRC, and Second World War artifacts. Includes a rare map printed on silk. This ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41445
• English
• box oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Heinrich [Henryk] Werdinger (donor). Born in Borysław, Poland, he was arrested and interned as a slave laborer in Borysław, in 1942 for Karpathen Oel AG. In April 1944, he was first transferred to the Płaszow concentration camp, and then to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria in August 1944, where he was liberated in May 1945. His immediate family perished. Included in the collection are photographs that document pre-war life in Borysław, postwar documents and photographs which illustrate Heinrich’s wartime experiences and p...

1. Henry Zguda collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515264
• English
• 1937-2003
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The Henry Zguda papers include biographical material, correspondence, publications, subject files, and photographs relating to Henry’s experience in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Flossenberg, and Dachau concentration camps as well as material relating to his immigration to the United States through Poland and Belgium, and attempts to establish a life in New York. This collection also includes restitution files for damages and medical claims. Biographical materials include Henry’s United Nations refugee card, Polish ID card, Polish military ID card, Committee of Physical Culture instructor card, an...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn518566
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Collection of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of both of the donors in the Łódź ghetto, their imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and later in other camps. Also includes one manuscript in which Henryk described his experiences in the ghetto, camps and his survival from the "Cap Arcona" catastrophe.