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Language of Description: Danish
Language of Description: English

  1. Hanna and Peter Singer collection

  2. Hanna and Thomas play in the snow; Hanna and Babeta swing in a hammock

    Hanna and Thomas run along a path in the snow. Scene shifts to the summertime, with Hanna and Babeta swinging in a hammock.

  3. Hanna Ben-Yami collection

    The collection consists of three copyprints of pre-World War II photographs of the donor's family, one original photograph of the donor's family, one purchase coupon from Theresienstadt concentration camp, and one transport order from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz with the donor's name on it.

  4. Hanna D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna D., who was born in northern Bohemia in 1928 and moved to Prague in 1938. Mrs. D.'s mother was Jewish and her father was a German Catholic, and Mrs. D. was raised as a Catholic. She describes her family's move to Prague when her father was dismissed from his civil service job for refusing to divorce his Jewish wife; her education; mistreatment by a Nazi teacher (though most Czechs were kind to her); her vivid recollections of incidents of abuse and abandonment of Jews from the rise of Nazism through the deportations; and her forced labor with other "half-castes"...

  5. Hanna dances at a folk festival in Olomouc and then boards a train to return home to Poland

    A large, traditional German festival in Olmuetz with many couples dancing. Hanna dances on her own on a path with woods behind her. Hanna and her mother Ella board a PKP train with sign: "Stanislawow-Woronienka." They look out from the train window and say their goodbyes to family in the station.

  6. Hanna eats and plays on the terrace with Lieberman family, prewar Poland

    CU, Hanna, with a bow in her hair, eats out of a bowl. She looks around a lot, and plays a bit, but seems to enjoy the food. Cut to outside, the kids are playing with their wagon, and many more adults are around this time. Thomas has a large toy car as well.

  7. Hanna eats, plays with her father, and runs around in prewar Poland

    Hanna lies in bed, clutching a stuffed dog and playing. She is being fed. She stands up, her father Benedikt comes on screen to hug and play with her. She runs around in some coat without a back.

  8. Hanna F. Holocaust testimony

    A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Hanna F., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Mrs. F. notes that her first testimony was too short to convey her experience or say what she had wanted. She expands on the information contained in her previous testimony and recalls supporting her family by passing as a Polish non-Jew prior to deportation; obtaining Polish papers; separating from her family (neither her parents nor five siblings survived); forced labor in Germany as a non-Jew; denunciation in May 1943; imprisonment, which was "heaven" compared to concentration camps; deport...

  9. Hanna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna F., who was born in Czemierniki, near Lublin, Poland in 1923. She mentions prewar life in a mixed neighborhood and details the changes which occurred in the wake of the German occuption, including her slave labor. She relates her family's evacuation to Parczew in 1942; their hiding during round-ups for deportation; and the splitting up of her family (she alone survived the Holocaust). She tells of escaping from a slave labor camp near Parczew, securing false papers, and joining a Polish (non-Jewish) labor transport to Germany, where she remained from October, 19...

  10. Hanna H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna H., who was born in Warsaw in 1918. In this extraordinarily vivid and detailed account, Mrs. H. describes her childhood and education in Warsaw; extreme antisemitism; her marriage in 1939; her flight, with her husband, to Russian-occupied Rovnoe; and their return a short time later. She recalls the birth of her son in 1941; the formation of the Warsaw ghetto; the loss of her husband and, later, of her baby; her severe illness; hiding from a selection in a toilet; her discovery and narrow escape from death; and her reunion with her mother in the ghetto. She recou...

  11. Hanna Herzig collection

    Contains family photographs of the Herzig and Stock families in Drohobycz, Poland before the war, and in the Foehrenwald DP camp in Germany after the war, including photographs showing Zygmunt Herzig in his official role as legal council. Includes a drawing depicting Zygmunt Herzig's sister, who was murdered in Drohobycz; identification cards of donor's parents from the DP camp; immigration application forms; receipts for donations; and general correspondence, Also includes prayer books from the Foehrenwald DP camp; contemporary photographs showing the house in Drohobycz where the donor's p...

  12. Hanna Hirshaut collection

    The collection consists a blouse and photographs related to the experiences of Hanna Warhaftig Hirshaut and her family in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Hanna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna K., who was born in Poland in 1925. She recounts her family's emigration to France due to antisemitism; living in Belleville, Montreuil, then Levallois, a leftist community; living with a cousin in Nantes and attending boarding school in 1939; her father's draft; German invasion; returning to Paris in May 1940; "discovering" she was Jewish; her father's arrest in October 1941; his internment in Drancy and deportation in May 1942 (he perished); hiding with her mother in Bois de Vincennes in July 1942 after being warned of a round-up by non-Jews; fleeing to Fonten...

  14. Hanna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1939. She recounts her father going to France before her birth; German invasion in September 1939; memories of the Warsaw ghetto; being smuggled into a convent; a non-Jew helping her mother escape a month later; refusing to eat and sadness because she missed her mother; finding comfort in Catholicism; her mother's arrival six months before war's end (she had been hiding in the woods); recovering from a serious illness; feeling privileged because she had a mother; their move to Warsaw; meeting her future stepfather; moving to...

  15. Hanna Keselman collection

    Consists of two Catholic prayer cards given to Hanna Rawicz (now Hanna Keselman) in the French convent of Viale Regina Margerita in Rome, Italy, in June 1944. The prayer cards, both of which seem to depict the Virgin Mary, have handwritten messages written by Catholic sisters noting on the verso that these cards are for Hanna's protection.

  16. Hanna Khajezadeh papers

    The papers consist of two fliers advertizing a Nazi propaganda board game called, "Juden raus" ("Jews out!"), manufactured by Rudolf Fabricius. "Juden raus" was a sort of amalgam of Monopoly and Halma created by the Nazis as propaganda. The objective was to collect as many Jews as you could and get them off the board. The pieces were little pawns wearing pointed medieval Jewish hats; the players moved them by rolling dice. The child winning was the one whose Jews scurried out, 'off to Palestine!,' through the gates of a walled city.

  17. Hanna Marton

    Hanna Marton is from Cluj (now Romania), formerly the capital of Transylvania. Both Hanna Marton and her husband were lawyers and Zionists. Marton was aboard the train organized by Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, carrying 1684 'privileged' Jews that left Hungary for Germany, eventually bringing them to Bergen-Belsen on 9 July 1944. Claude Lanzmann asks questions in French, which Hanna Marton understands, although she replies in Hebrew. Her answers are translated to French by Lanzmann's female translator, Francine Kaufmann. The transcript is in French only. Cluj was also known as Kolozsvar and Klau...

  18. Hanna Marx family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experience of Hannelore (Hanna) Simons Marx and Helmut Marx in Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  19. Hanna Moneta photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Moneta family in Krakow, Poland before the war; members of the "Akiba" Zionist youth organization in Kielce, Poland during "Hachshara"; Hanka Moneta, who survived Płaszów, Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation in Sweden during recuperation; photographs of Mordechai Moneta (Hanka's husband) with his "Beitar" group.

  20. Hanna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna P., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls her family's affluent life; her brother and father reporting for military service before German invasion; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and food scarcity; learning her father and brother were alive and fleeing to the Soviet zone; using false papers to join them in Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; moving to Orsha; attending Russian school; fleeing east after the German invasion; her father working as a bookkeeper on a collective farm near the Urals; her brother's draft; moving to Ukraine near the war...