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  1. Hans Steinitz papers

    The Hans Steinitz papers include a diary written by Hans Steinitz from 1940 to 1942 during his time in the Gurs and Les Milles concentration camps in France. He typed the diary on a small typewriter that he smuggled into the camps and made entries while working in the administration offices of the camps. This collection also includes a Reisepass (German passport) issued to Lore Oppenheimer, Hans' wife.

  3. Hans Vogel diary

    Consists of one spiral-bound diary, handwritten in German with illustrations and insertions, written by Hans Vogel, originally of Cologne, Germany. The diary, which covers the period of July 24, 1940 to August 9, 1941, describes the Vogel family's life in exile in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France and concludes on the day the family arrived from Europe in New York City in August 1941.

  4. Hans W. Holocaust testimony

  5. Hans Walter collection

    Consists of newspaper articles about Hans Walter's youth in Berlin, Germany, his experiences in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Ebensee, photocopies of his friend Peter Edel's drawings, and a photocopy of a forged twenty-pound note created as part of Operation Bernhard, a forgery effort conducted in Sachsenhausen.

  6. Hans Weil papers

    The Hans Weil papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting German educator Hans Weil, his relocation to Italy following his dismissal from teaching at Goethe University, and the school, Schule am Mittelmeer, that he established for German emigrant children in Recco, Italy.

  7. Hans Weiner memoir

    Contains a memoir about Hans Weiner's escape from the Nazis and his tenure in the 608th Company of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, a corps made up of male volunteers who had enlisted in the British Army in Mandatory Palestine.

  8. Hans Werner H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans Werner H., who was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany in 1924. He recounts his father was Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism; his family's affluence; six half-siblings from his father's previous marriage (one was killed in World War I, the others emigrated); attending school; antisemitic harassment; destruction of the synagogue during Kristallnacht; his father's three-week incarceration in 1938; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish vocational training program in Hamburg; working as a locksmith; his father's death in August 1941; his burial in Słu...

  9. Hans Wiener papers

    Contains documents and newspaper articles pertaining to Hans Wiener's acitivites in Bolivia as founder and President of the Jewish sport club Macabi in Oruro (Bolivia).

  10. Hans Wijsman photographs

    The collection consists of three prewar photographs depicting Hans Wijsman of Bloemendaal, the Netherlands in his military uniform. He is pictured with his father and other unidentified individuals. Hans was a Dutch prisoner in Buchenwald from 1943-1945.

  11. Hans Winter collection

    Consists of extensive personal papers, reports, and publications collected by Hans Winter, who worked for the Jewish Agency in Geneva and London in the 1930s and 1940s. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war personal papers and photographs, reports generated by the Jewish Agency and the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, and wartime and postwar publications related to World War II, life in Palestine (and later in Israel) and the growth of the El Al airline.

  12. Hans Wolff letter

    Consists of one letter, four pages, containing a lengthy poem written by Hans Wolff in Berlin, Germany, in 1939. The letter was sent to family in the United States. Mr. Wolff perished in the Holocaust.

  13. Hans Woltär: Copy postcard to Moritz Kupfer

    The subject matter of this copy postcard and transcription is concerned with the provision of supplies and queries about the health and well being of family and friends

  14. Hans-Peter M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans-Peter M., who was born in Charlottenburg, Germany in 1919. He recalls his family's assimilated life; cordial relations with non-Jews until the 1930s; attending gymnasium; a non-Jewish teacher urging the Jewish students to emigrate (many did); his father's arrest during Kristallnacht and subsequent release; futile efforts to emigrate; forced labor in Berlin; marriage in September 1942; helping a friend smuggle a baby out of Berlin; his family volunteering for deportation in 1943, hoping to remain together; separation from his family upon arrival at Auschwitz (he n...

  15. Hanseatisches Auktionshaus fuer Historica documents

    Artificial collection of documents including blank forms used to prove Aryan ancestry, completed forms for a few individuals, identification cards for Polish workers (undated), and postcards from German colonies in Africa (from World War I era).

  16. Hansi Brand

    Hansi Brand and her husband Joel were members of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest, Hungary, as was Rudolf Kasztner. Brand details her husband's experiences with Eichmann and the "Blood for Goods" rescue scheme. She also addresses the controversy over whether Kasztner neglected to warn the Jews of their fates. She states emphatically that by 1944, of course, everyone knew what it meant to be deported to the East. FILM ID 3109 -- Camera Rolls #1-5 -- 01:00:00 to 01:34:28 For the first part of the interview Hansi Brand speaks Hebrew and Lanzmann English, with the aid of a translator...

  17. Hansi turns three; dream sequence with special effects

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Oesterreichs. “Hansi’s Geburtstagstraum” “Momentbilder bis zum dritten Lebensjahr” “Hansi ein Jahr alt.” Hans Otto Kessler [Hansi] runs around a tree, and then eats an apple. A German title reads, “Hier spielt er Sich mit seinem Hund” Hansi holds a shovel, standing over a small dark puppy in a wheel barrow. A German title reads, “Die Gartenarbeit ist gesund” The child gardens holding a rod of some form and has an object in the mouth. The child giggles and smiles in a bath tub as someone rinses them. “Am Telephon, 2 Jahre alt” Hansi ...

  18. Hansi's first vacation (2 reels)

    FILM ID 4538: Teil I. Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Osterreichs. At a train station, men in uniform waving flags. The frame pulls back as if the filmmaker is on a train leaving the station. Image of a boat on the water being seen through binoculars. On a boat, Hansi is looking over the railing and waving to the camera. Hansi is joined by his Father. “Hansi’s erste Reise”. 01:01:31 “1931.” “I Teil." Hansi ist schon 2 1/2 jähre alt.” “Italien Sein Reisezeil" “Am Strand von Laurana” Homes by the large lake with mountains in the background. “Ausblick auf’s Meer” Foo...

  19. Hanukkah lamp

    Hanukkah lamp which belonged to the Altman family in Germany. It was given to Theodore Levite, whose mother was Marie Altman Levite and later to the donor who was a relative by marriage.

  20. Hanukkah lamp found in rubble of Chancellery used by Hitler

    Virginia Link and her husband Lt. Colonal Willard C. Link were in Berlin, Germany from June to August 1947. During that time they visited the rubble of the German Chancellery with their friends Major William Ryan and his wife Matilda Ryan. Virginia walking through the rubble somehow noticed what appeared to be a brass object partially covered with debris. She recovered the item, returned home, cleaned it and kept it as a keepsake.