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  1. 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).

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Harriet Bixler scrapbook

    Consists of one scrapbook, labeled "1944-46," containing clippings, photos, letters, receipts, tickets, and assorted memorabilia collected by Harriet Bixler (Mary Harriet Bixler Naughton), while working for the War Refugee Board and the Office of War Information in Turkey, 1944-1946.

  13. Harriet D. Schwartz papers

    Harriet D. Schwartz papers, spanning 1927 to 1939, consist of letters, envelopes, and photographs. Letters are written in Yiddish and German cursive, along with some English translations to family in New York City. Letters describe the difficulties of Jews living in occupied Europe. Letters also account for pleas from multiple family members requesting help with immigration to the United States; including a family arranged marriage to a cousin. Writings on the envelopes document which family member was requesting help. Photographs of the family document prewar life.

  14. Harriet Postman correspondence

    The Harriet Postman correspondence documents Postman's unsuccessful efforts to assist Flora Hochsinger's immigration to the United States from Vienna. Letters include correspondence between Flora Hochsinger and Harriet Postman as well as between Postman and relatives, friends, and aid agencies Postman contacted for help, such as the Boston Committee for Refugees, B'nai Brith, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

  15. Harriet R. Karan collection

    Testimony, typescript, eight pages, titled "An Unforgettable Tale" by Nora Hope Karan, describing her experiences during German invasion of the Netherlands, imprisonment at Westerbork, then deportation to Bergen Belsen, liberation, life as DP, and immigration to U.S. Separate typescript (2 pages) titled "Eva" by Harriet Karan, letter addressed to her after death in 1978.

  16. Harry and Clare Lerner papers

    The Harry and Clare Lerner papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, reports, memoranda, and subject files documenting Harry Lerner’s work as UNRRA director of Displaced Persons centers in Stuttgart, Hof, Rehau, and Vilseck, Clare’s work alongside him, and their marriage. Biographical materials include assignment and travel orders issued to Harry and Clare Lerner and Clare Lerner’s Occupational Force Travel Permit. Correspondence consists primarily of letters written by Harry and Clare Lerner at the Stuttgart and Vilseck DP centers to Harry’s family descri...

  17. Harry and Lili Topolansky photograph collection

    Collection of photographs showing the Topolanski family in Grodno and the Schwarcz family in Munkacs before the war, and Lili Schwartz and Hersz Topolanski, who were married in the Landsberg DP camp. Hersz Topolanski (later Harry Topolansky) resided in Krasnik during the German invasion. He was imprisoned in Płaszów and transferred to Leitmeritz concentration camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg, on April 8, 1944. Lili Topolanski was deported with her family to Auschwitz Birkenau on May 20, 1944. Two months later Lili was transferred to Hunsfeld, a subcamp of Gross Rosen, where she was forced to ...

  18. Harry and Luba Marcus family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Marcus family in Prenzlau, Germany, before and during the Holocaust, and in Cuba and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  19. Harry and Ruth Krautwirth Meyerowitz collection

    The collection consists of a belt and two handkerchiefs relating to the experiences of Ruth Krautwirth, who was an inmate of Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and Malchow concentration camps during the Holocaust, and a Nazi armband and SA uniform shirt relating to the experiences of Harry Meyerowitz, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II.

  20. Harry Anrode collection

    Consists of one photocopied document, 9 pages, describing the author's arrest and detainment in the Buchenwald concentration camp after the Kristallnacht mass arrests in November 1938. The document is unsigned and undated.