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  1. Henry and Lottie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry and Lottie M. Ms. M. was born in Dresden, Germany in 1921 to an affluent, assimilated family. She recounts her mother's death when she was one; her maternal grandmother living with them; her father's remarriage; her parents sheltering her from politics; vacations in Prague; expulsion from school in 1938; her father's and brother's arrests during Kristallnacht; her stepmother obtaining emigration documents for them through contacts in England; their release once they proved they would emigrate; her own emigration with assistance from the Quakers; living with a fa...

  2. Henry Feingold

    Henry Feingold, author and professor of American Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, discusses, in an interview with Claude Lanzmann, the American response to the Holocaust with particular importance on the failure to admit refugees and to create a resettlement option. FILM ID 4606 -- Feingold (NY) -- Camera Rolls 145-148 146 (01:00:43) Claude Lanzmann and Henry Feingold sit at a cluttered office table, in Feingold’s New York City apartment. Feingold begins by discussing the unique and even affluent status of American Jewry as an ethnic group during the 1930s. He then raises the question ...

  3. Henry Knepler papers

    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...

  4. Henry Schmelzer papers

    1. Henry Schmelzer collection

    The papers are related to Henry Schmelzer's journey from Austria to England via Kindertransport in 1938 and his stay in England during World War II.

  5. Herbert Malinow collection

    This collection comprises material which documents the period when Herbert Malinow was interned as an enemy alien and subsequently transported on the infamous ship, HMS Dunera to Australia. It includes diaries, correspondence and press cuttings

  6. Hermann Göring's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones

    1. IBM Corporation collection

    Headset used by Hermann Göring during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

  7. Heydecker: family papers

    This collection contains personal papers and correspondence of the Heydecker family, German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who settled in Great Britain shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

  8. Hilde and Ruth Simon papers

    The papers consist of two letters sent by sisters Hilde and Ruth Simon, who had traveled from Germany to Harrogate, England on a Kindertransport in 1939, to the Mizrachi family in the United States. The Mizrachi family sponsored the sisters to immigrate to the United States in 1944. The first letter, dated 1 October 1939, thanks the Mizrachis for agreeing to sponsor them. The second letter, dated 10 April 1943, gives an update on the sisters' lives in England and expreses their continued wish to immigrate to the United States when it is possible.

  9. Hildegard Simon papers

    The Hildegard Simon papers include biographical material, correspondence, poesie albums, and photographs relating to Hildegard “Hilde” Hanna Simon and her family’s prewar and wartime life in Cloppenburg, Germany, Hilde’s Kindertransport, and postwar restitution claims. Biographical material includes certified copies of Hilde’s birth certificates, a certificate of identity for immigration, a declaration of intent to become a naturalized citizen, a vaccination certificate, and a typed personal narrative. Correspondence includes copies of letters from Selma to Hilde and Ruth, a letter from Kar...

  10. Hindu Boy Drawing of a young male internee by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection

    Drawing of a boy, arms around his knees, imprisoned in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment cente...

  11. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521020
    • English
    • 1938-1939
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) b: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Imperial IIA small piano accordion and case belonging to Hilde Anker, 13, who took it with her on a Kindertransport from Berlin to Great Britain on June 12-14, 1939. Hilde's sisters, Eva, 17, and Dodi, 15, were also sent away by their parents, Georg and Gertrud, on the same Children's Transport. In 1933, Hitler's Nazi regime implemented policies to persecute the Jewish population. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in early November 1938, Georg decided the family must leave. The girls applied for spots on the Kindertransport and George's brother Leo in England agreed to look after them. Eva was...

  13. Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index (HO 396)

    Contains an alphabetical list of records of German, Austrian, and Italian nationals and their spouses who were interned or considered for internment in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia during World War II. Each record contains personal details of the individual and some information about their case. A digital copy of this collection is available via Ancestry.com.

  14. Homeless on the High Seas Book written by the Captain of the MS St. Louis and owned by a passenger and German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Memoir covering the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, written and signed by the captain of the ship, Gustav Schroeder, and owned by Fritz Vendig who was a passenger on the ship with his family. Fritz grew up in Germany with his parents, Ernst and Charlotte, his younger brother, Heiner, and his paternal grandmother, Pauline. In the mid-1930s, Ernst’s business was taken from him when it was aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, the family prepared to leave, and on May 13, 1939, they set sail for Cuba on the St. Louis with ...

  15. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    1. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    Honor Cross, combatants medal awarded to Kurt Schlesinger for his service in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918). The Honor, or Hindenburg, Cross was established by President von Hindenburg in July 1934. It commemorated distinguished deeds in combat, and individuals had to apply to the government to receive it. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Kurt and his second wife, Christine, were very concerned about Hitler’s policies, and immigrated to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Kurt left behind his teenage daughter, Irene, who lived in Berlin with her mothe...

  16. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    1. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    Buttonhole ribbon bar for the Honor Cross, non-combatants medal awarded to Kurt Schlesinger for his service in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918). The Honor, or Hindenburg, Cross was established by President von Hindenburg in July 1934. The medal was designed by Eugene Godet, and the ribbon bears a miniature version of the full scale award. It commemorated distinguished deeds in combat, and individuals had to apply to the government to receive it. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Kurt and his second wife, Christine, were very concerned about H...

  17. Houndstooth check cloth ankle boots worn by a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn72129
    • English
    • 1964
    • a: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)

    Brown and beige houndstooth cloth ankle boots owned by 2 year old Esther Rosenfeld who was sent on a June 1939 Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Germany to Great Britain. Her older sisters, Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had gone in March. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan in Norwich. Her foster father worked in a shoe factory and may have repaired these boots as Esther grew, as he did 2012.451.2, the other boots she brought from Germany. These childhood items were returned to Esther in 1964 by her foster brother as a gift from her foster mother who had...

  19. Hutichson camp Douglas, Isle of Man

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains examples of 'the Camp', a weekly newspaper of the Hutchinson Internment Camp in Douglas, Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). The Hutchinson Internment Camp was a World War II internment camp in Douglas, Isle of Man, particularly noted as “the artists’ camp” due to the thriving artistic and intellectual life of its internees. The newspaper reports about the activities in the camp as well as in the world, including a series of camp orders, letters and other papers from internees concerning condition...

  20. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...