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  1. Harold B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold B., who was born in Raczki, Poland in 1921. He recalls attending school and working in Suwa?ki; his older brother's emigration to the United States in 1938; brief Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Augusto?w with relatives; six months imprisonment in Hrodna as a German spy; returning to Augusto?w; joining his sister in Lyakhovichi; German invasion; fleeing to Zhitkovichi; doing agricultural work in another town; draft into the Soviet military; various assignments including work in an airplane factory in Kazan?; receiving extr...

  2. Harold Burson collection

    Collection consists of 44 typescript and mimeograph texts of the radio scripts authored by Burson, summarizing each day's proceedings of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which were broadcast each evening over the American Forces Network (AFN). According to Burson, most scripts were written in the evening following the day’s trial proceedings and in preparation for a 9:00 p.m. broadcast over AFN. The scripts cover the period between 19 November 1945 and 29 March 1946, and while typically consisting of brief summaries of the day's events in the courtroom, they sometimes also ...

  3. Harold Fishbein collection

    The collection consists of a Torah-style scroll, correspondence, a manuscript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Harold Fishbein, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's (UNNRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, after the war.

  4. Harold Floyd photograph collection

    The Harold Floyd photograph collection consists of thirteen photographs of the Dachau Concentration in March 1946. The photographs include images of various buildings within the camp, the crematoriums, gallows, a tree used for hangings, a mass grave, and the headquarters of the Dachau War Crimes Group. Captain Harold Floyd was assigned to the Publications and Microfilm division of the Field Information Agency Technical, which copied documents of interest to the Allies.

  5. Harold Fraser: copy correspondence from Weimar Germany

    This collection comprises two parts: a set of copy correspondence from Harold Fraser in Hamburg, to his employers, Helbert, Wagg and Co., merchant bankers based in London, circa 1923-1924 (1567/1); and a translation of a letter entitled, "A letter from my father about his experiences during the siege and the German occupation of Warsaw" (1567/2). It is not clear how the latter document relates to the depositor. The copy correspondence from Harold Fraser in Hamburg provides an insight into the economic, social and political conditions of that city and of Germany in general, covering the peri...

  6. Harold G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harold G., who was born in Uz?h?horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925. He recalls working in Budapest from age sixteen; belonging to a Zionist organization; lending his identity papers to a fellow member who had escaped from Slovakia; his friend warning him not to listen to any Nazi instructions; returning home for Passover 1944; German invasion of his Hungarian-occupied town; escaping prior to ghettoziation, posing as a non-Jew; buying bread from a non-Jew and sending it to his mother in the ghetto; joining a group escaping to Slovakia; smuggling themselv...

  7. Harold Geller collection

    Consists of the original ketubah for the marriage of Aron Gola, originally of Kielce, Poland, and Anna Czerkanska (alternatively Czarlonski), originally of Smargon, Poland, who married at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, Also includes the marriage registration document which was submitted to the Central Jewish Committee of Bergen-Belsen and a copy of a 2009 letter from the International Tracing Service providing information about the Holocaust experiences of the Golas. The ketubah dates the wedding as October 19, 1945, while the registration document lists is as February 19, 1946.

  8. Harold Gilman photographs

    The Harold Gilman photographs consist of photographs Harold Gilman took at the newly liberated Mauthausen concentration camp and Gusen sub-camp in May 1945. The photographs depict liberated prisoners, former guards, American soldiers, Austrian civilians, and buildings at Gusen and Mauthausen. The photographs show emaciated survivors, corpses, and scenes of summary punishment of former SS guards by their former prisoners and of American soldiers forcing Austrian civilians to dig mass graves for Holocaust victims. Most of the photographs are annotated by Gilman on the verso.

  9. Harold Goldstein photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken by Harold Goldstein, a member of the 45th Division of the United States Army, during World War II. Photographs depict a warehouse of Nazi plunder, German prisoners and Armistice Day in France, and a memorial service in Munich, Germany.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Harold Jackson (formerly Hans Hermann Josephy): personal papers

    This collection comprises the personal papers of Harold Jackson (formerly Hans Hermann Josephy).

  13. 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...

  14. 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.

  15. Harold Langford collection

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

  16. Harold Lawrence collection

    Documents and photographs relating to Harold Lawrence’s experiences of Kitchener Camp. These include the transcript of an interview conducted by Lawrence’s son.

  17. 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.

  18. 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 ...

  19. 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.

  20. 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.