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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Harold Green photograph collection

    The Harold Green photograph collection consists of a small photograph album depicting liberation scenes of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. According to an interior inscription the photographs are associated with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. The photographs were given to Harold Green by an unidentified friend and fellow WWII veteran.

  2. Harold J. Buckman photograph collection

    Photographs primarily depicting the Nordhausen concentration camp immediately following liberation, 1945. The photographs were acquired by Tec 5 Harold J. Buckman, who was a member of the US Army’s 750th Tank Battalion, 104th Infantry Division that participated in the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp on April 10, 1945.

  3. Harold K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold K., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1920. He recalls his impoverished home; their orthodoxy; leaving school to begin working at age twelve; Polish antisemitism; German invasion; a public hanging of Jews; forced labor as a bricklayer in Katowice; transfer to a labor camp; arrest while visiting home; release and transfer to Annaberg, which he helped build; Allied bombardments; Yom Kippur services; his privileged status as a bricklayer; visiting his family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; transfer to Auschwitz in June 1944, then to Birkenau and Gleiwitz; a death marc...

  4. Harold Keith Thompson Collection

    Leaflets, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper and periodical issues, clippings, correspondence, and writings, relating to fascist and other rightist political groups in the United States and Europe after World War II. Includes a few leftist publications. Indexes: Preliminary inventory. Box l0 of the collection contains miscellaneous material dealing with anti-semitism in the United States in the l950s, some issues of the American Nationalist and some material by and about the American Nazi Party and George Lincoln Rockwell.

  5. Harold Langford collection

    Contains an eight-page report of an inspection of Buchenwald concentration camp on April 16, 1945

  6. Harold Lehman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, drawings, sketches, publications, prints and photographs relating to the artist Harold Lehman and his experiences in the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  7. Harold M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold M., who was born in New York City in 1923. He recalls enlisting in the United States military in 1942; serving in the 32nd signal construction battalion of the 1st Army; being stationed in England; arriving in France on June 13, 1944; installing communications cable in Weimar in May 1945; his company commander insisting they enter Buchenwald; seeing dead bodies and emaciated prisoners; the stench of burnt corpses; hardened combat veterans' shock at encountering death on this scale; lampshades made of human skin; and contacts with locals who denied knowledge of ...

  8. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of two Russian ruble coins and a HIAS pin relating to the experiences of Shanke (Sonia) Minuskin, her husband Shlamke, and their two children, Henikel and Kalmanke, while living in hiding in Bialowieza Forest in Poland and Belarus during the Holocaust and in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  9. Harold Minuskin family collection

    The collection consists of a billfold, currency, documents, oral history compact discs, photographs, and postcards relating to the experiences of Shlamke and Shanke Orlinsky Minuskin, their two young sons, Henikel (Harold) and Kalmanke, and their extended families in prewar Zhetel, Poland, in the Zhetel ghetto and the surrounding forests with the partisans during the Holocaust, and as refugees in Germany and then the United States after the war, and a billfold, day planner, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lew Minuskin who was in Siberia during the war.

  10. Harold Oram collection

    Collection illustrating the direct mail campaign efforts for the organization Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons. Harold Oram created direct mail fundraising for the Committee. Collection consists of several examples of the fund raising and public relations pieces that were sent by the Committee to not only garner support for displaced persons who remained in camps in Europe awaiting emigration, but to raise funds under the signature of Earl G. Harrison and William S. Bernard (secretary of the committee).

  12. Harold Pearson liberation photographs

    Consists of 46 photographs, some duplicates, taken by Harold Pearson, a member of the United States Army. The photographs are possibly of the Belsen concentration camp after liberation.

  13. Harold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold R., who was born in 1923 and drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts deployment to North Africa, then Italy; training in a medical laboratory; moving through to France to Germany; entering Dachau after lits liberation; observing malnourished and sick prisoners; corpses stacked "like wood"; testing prisoners for typhus, and leaving after a short time. He shows photographs taken at Dachau.

  14. Harold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold R., who was born in Fürth, Germany in 1922, the older of two brothers. He recounts attending public school; his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school and his family's eviction from their apartment; attending a trade school in Frankfurt; destruction of the family business and his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his father's return from Dachau three weeks later; futile efforts to emigrate; deportation with his family to Rīga in November 1941; slave labor on a farm with 500 others for two years; public hanging of a man for tradin...

  15. Harold Reichenthal collection

    The Harold Reichenthal collection consists of an undated letter (postmarked June 1938) from Isser Reichenthal in Berlin to Jack Cohen (or Cohn) in Schenectady, New York, requesting affidavits for his daughter, Dorothea (Reichenthal) Graf and her husband Ernst Graf. Also includes the envelope in which the letter was mailed.

  16. Harold Rosenn photograph collection

    The collection consists of 5 photographs of concentration camp scenes after liberation, including images of victims of Nazi atrocities being excavated and reburied by German civilians, corpses laid in a row awaiting burial with burned remains of buildings in background, a survivor still wearing concentration camp uniform, and the interior of inhabited barracks.

  17. Harold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold S., who was born in Ostrowiec S?wie?tokrzyski, Poland in 1925. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish regulations; public hangings; forced labor; deportations, including his mother, grandmother, and younger brother; ghettoization in 1940; his father's deportation; the ghetto's conversion to a concentration camp; his brother's injury; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; helping his brother when he was injured; public hangings of escapees; the death ma...

  18. Harold S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold S., who was born in Missouri in 1920, and served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts joining the Air Force in 1942; deployment to England; serving with a radar unit in France, Luxembourg, and Germany; visiting Buchenwald three days after liberation; sick and emaciated prisoners; wheelbarrows filled with corpses; a lampshade made of human skin; feeling numbness, disbelief, then anger; taking photographs (his wife, horrified, threw them away); and visiting divided Berlin as an officer many years later.

  19. Harold Wallerstein papers

    The collection consists of two German passports ("Reisepass") stamped with the letter "J." One was issued to Max Wallerstein donor's father in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and the other was issued to Elisabeth Wallerstein [donor's mother] in Mannheim, Germany, in 1939.

  20. Harold Williams photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp by Harold Williams, a member of the United States Army, shortly after the liberation of the camp.