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  1. Guy Francès. Collection

    In this interview Guy Elie Francès talks about: the migration of the Frances family from Greece to Belgium via the Netherlands ; his childhood in Brussels ; daily life at the family home in the Jewish neighbourhood of Saint-Gilles, Brussels ; his family’s escape during the anti-Jewish raid on Brussels in the night of 3 on 4 September 1942 ; hiding in Liège ; family life after the Liberation.

  2. Guy Reed Branch collection

    Consists of a photograph album containing photographs of life at the prisoner of war camp in Laon, France, which the American military used to house German POWs after the war. Includes photographs of performances, housing, and groups of prisoners. The album was compiled, described, and given by an unknown POW to Guy Branch, a member of the American occupying forces who staffed the camp. The POW may have been Hans Scheffler; the collection also contains a letter with his prisoner number which matches the prisoner number and photograph on the interior of the album. Also includes a handmade wo...

  3. Gymnasium Langenhagen project collection.

    Consists of transcripts of interviews with Holocaust survivors in Paris, June 9-15, 2002, done by a class of German high school students from the Gymnasiums Langenhagen (Langenhagen, Germany).

  4. Gymnastics Print 9 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting guards watching a group of prisoners, during an abusive exercise period, on their hands and knees being attacked and punished by Kapos and dogs at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both me...

  5. Gyorgy Antos collection

    Collection consists of 17 photographic postcards of scenes of Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics; 1 calling card listing the false identity for Pallos, Klara; 1 photograph of Jozska Lustig wearing a star patch, with verso inscription (in Hungarian) stating the the photo is a form of identity allowing her to work outside the ghetto; 1 typed document posted after the war, searching for Antos, Laszlo; 3 reels of film shot by Laszlo Antos in Berlin, 1936

  6. György Bakách-Bessenyey papers (MOL P 2066)

    This collection contains the papers of György Bakách-Bessenyey (1892‒1959), Hungarian envoy to Switzerland who resigned upon the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, and who played an instrumental role drawing the attention of the West to the deportation of Hungary's Jews. His correspondence, reports, speeches, articles constitute the collection.

  7. György K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of György K., a prize-winning author, who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1933, the second of two children. He describes his sheltered, pleasant childhood in an affluent home in Berettyóújfalu; his large extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; large family gatherings at his home and in Oradea; not attending school until age ten when he first encountered Christian children; deportation of Jewish men for forced labor; German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions including confiscation of the family business and valuables and wearing the star; his parents' ar...

  8. Gyorgy Kadar collection

    The collection consists of seventy-three original works of art created by Gyorgy Kadar depicting the experiences of Kadar, his family and friends in Budapest, Hungary, and multiple concentration camps and Budapest, Hungary during the Holocaust. It also includes materials relating to the art collection, such as condition books, press clippings, exhibition materials, and slide sheets.

  9. György Ránki collection

    Consists of color copies of materials related to György Rosenberg (later György Ránki), who was fourteen years old when he was deported from Budapest. The collection includes copies of the note he threw from the train addressed to his father; identity papers he received after his liberation in Lübeck, Germany, and later in Sweden; a Red Cross search card; and other documents.

  10. Gys L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gys L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her childhood in a wealthy family; her father's decision to move the family to Paris in 1933; education in French schools and the Sorbonne; internment of male German Jews (including her father and brother) in late 1939; and meeting her future husband when he called with news of her brother. She recounts detention with her mother in Gurs; primitive camp conditions; release during the German invasion in 1940; her marriage in Marseille; and her in-laws' escape to the United States (her father-in-law was the ant...

  11. Gyula Nador collection

    The collection consists of one dog tag, three notebooks, and one gray vinyl pocket calendar pertaining to Gyula Nador's experiences in Strasshof, Bergen-Belsen, and Hillersleben.

  12. The Gyula Trebitsch papers

    Contains photocopies of three documents pertaining to Julius Trebitsch, 1945-1947. The first two relate to the organizations for liberated Jews/political prisoners in Holstein, 1945, the third is a Hungarian document from 1947, attesting to the treatment Trebitsch had received from Germans during imprisonment and work on forced labor battalion, 1942-1944.

  13. H. Arnold Strauch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents related to the experience of H. Arnold Strauch during and after World War II.

  14. H. D. S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of H.D. S., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts assignment to a POW camp in New Mexico; landing in Le Havre; moving into Germany; entering Dachau; giving all his food to the starving prisoners; entering barracks and a crematorium; traveling to Salzburg three weeks later; delivering supplies to Ulm displaced persons camp; and discharge in 1945. Mr. S. notes nightmares and physical ailments resulting from the war and never discussing his experiences. He shows documents.

  15. H. Frank Brull Collection

    Correspondence, photographs, maps, travel brochures, printed materials, documenting the immigration of Hans Frans Brull (later H. Frank Brull) to the United States as a child, correspondence from his parents in Berlin, travel itineraries and brochures from the cruise ship line on which he traveled to the United States; photographs of Brull as a child, his parents, and classmates in Berlin; and booklets and printed material from his military career, as well as a transcript of opening statements at one of the Allied military tribunals held in Nuremberg, 1947. 7 additional pieces of scrip are ...

  16. H. Rubin collection

    Consists of 25 original photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. Contains images of reburial, piles of corpses, crematoria, German onlookers, the grounds of the camp, and a post war memorial.

  17. Ha Shomer Hazair in Poland, Galicia (RG-2-1) השומר הצעיר בפולין, גליציה

    Contains records of the Histadrut (trade union of Jewish workers) of the Hashomer Hatzair in Galicia, includes census data of movement members, name lists of candidates for the "Youth Aliya", a diary of "Shalhevet" group (branch "Vilna") in the years 1924-1935, census data of graduated members of the movement according to the regions: Baranovichi, Białystok, Grodno, Włoclawek; records of the Central leadership in Warsaw in 1935: forms of referendum and circulars, minutes of meetings of the Chief Council, correspondence of the Central leadership in Lviv with its branches (kenim).

  18. Haas family collection

    Photographs and letter illustrating the experiences of the Haas family surrounding the Holocaust: pre-war images of Semi Haas and his wife Frieda Steinberger Haas and their children Walter, Ilse and Ernst (donor) in Neumarkt, Germany and after 1938 in Fürth. Also included are pre-war photographs of extended family members and post-war photographs of Ernst in Germany after his liberation from Riga and Stutthof concentration camps. Letter to Walter in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 from Semi, Frieda, Ernst and Ilse and Fürth, Germany. Frieda, Semi and Ilse did not survive. Post-war documents issu...

  19. Haas family photographs

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Eleonora Haasova, originally of Bytča, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), and her brother Ivan Haas, who perished at Auschwitz. Included a pre-war photograph of Ivan, a photograph of Eleonora in 1944 around the time of her high school graduation, and a post-war high school reunion.

  20. Haber family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Haber family of Vienna, Austria including Fritz Haber (Fred), who emigrated from Vienna, Austria with Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, an American couple who negotiated the American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the United States; identification papers of Fritz’s parents Joseph and Grete Haber; education and employment papers of Joseph; documents of...