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Language of Description: Lithuanian

  1. Hanetzotz (The Spark)

    Bound periodical from late 1945, apparently from United Zionist Movement among Jewish survivors in Germany.

  2. Hanff Family Papers

    Contains passports, a marriage license, and other documents concerning the experiences of Kurt Hanff and Frieda Hirschfeld Hanff, who were married in 1936 in Berlin, before fleeing to Shanghai, China and eventually to the United States.

  3. Hanging of Nazis

    Convicted Nazi war criminals are hanged as American military observers watch. Men escorted to scaffold with chaplain or priest, blindfolded and hanged against backdrop of castle wall. Bodies removed, placed in coffins. Very sobering.

  4. Hangings Print 14 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting two prisoners being hanged from scaffolds in front of the entire camp under the direction of the commander and SS doctor at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht an...

  5. Hangings; Russian Correspondents at Nuremberg Trial

    Hangings. 10:07:34 (Paris 494) Trip of the Russian Correspondents to Germany, January 12, 1946. Russian correspondents accompanied by American officers walking around factory yards and interviewing foremen and workmen. Cars bearing the group enter gates at Bad Tolz. Party on tour of grounds and buildings. Group interviews a German woman at window of her home. MS, Russian taking notes. LS, group on grounds of Heidelberg University. Party entering Bucholz prison. Group watches military execution by hanging of a German accused of murdering unarmed American prisoners. MS, group getting into thr...

  6. Hank Freedman collection

    The collection includes a color copy of a journal written by Hank Freedman while a POW in Germany, first at Stalag IXB in Bad Orb and then Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain. In the journal Hank keeps lists of foods to eat, things to do after liberation, names and addresses, and notes about his experiences as a Prisoner of War. The collection also includes two copy prints of Hank Freedman taken during his military service with the US Army during WWII, serving with the 106th Infantry Division.

  7. Hanka Ehrlich collection

    Consists of two photographs. One an Image of Hanka Granek, the donor, with her friend Moniek Taitelbaum, who perished in Auschwitz; the photograph was taken in Bystra, Poland in summer 1939 during their last vacation before the war. The second image was taken in 1940 in the Bedzin ghetto, Poland, of Rachela Pszerowska Ingster seated at a desk, a Star of David on her dress. Rachela, who perished in Auschwitz, was the sister-in-law of Szewa Ingster.

  8. Hanka Gorenstein papers

    The Hanka Gorenstein papers consists of a photograph of Hanka Gorenstein as a young woman and a re-transcribed memoir describing her experiences in Kamieniec Podolski and the Łuck ghetto, escaping the ghetto liquidation, hiding under a non-Jewish identity and working as a farmhand in Wołyń, and returning to Łuck after the war. In addition to the Polish version of the memoir, the collection also includes an English translation of the same.

  9. Hanka J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka J., who was born in Piaski Luterskie, Poland in 1931. She recalls brief German and Soviet occupations, then German takeover of Piaski; ghettoization; round-ups and deportations; her brother being killed after he was denounced for black marketeering; hiding with her family during round-ups; from their hiding place, hearing a baby being killed by the SS; obtaining false papers and escaping; hiding with Poles in a nearby village; being joined by her sisters who had been hiding in Warsaw; returning to the ghetto when their funds ran out; her father being killed in w...

  10. Hanka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka K., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1930. She recalls her traditional childhood; her parents' Zionist background; the outbreak of war; brief Soviet occupation; hiding during a pogrom; German invasion; her father's arrest during a round-up (she never saw him again); hiding with her mother and sister in a cellar; her mother's killing; escaping with her baby sister to the Rejowiec ghetto; hiding her sister while working as a maid; her sister's death; deportation to Majdanek, then Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Cze?stochowa, and Bergen Belsen; witnessing cannibalism in Belse...

  11. Hanka L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. She recalls her close, extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; attending Jewish school; German invasion; Germans looting her parents' store; standing on the food line with her brother because they did not "look Jewish"; ghettoization; crowding, starvation, and frequent deaths; clandestine schools and cabarets (the black humor raised their spirits); forced factory labor; reciting the seder while hiding with her brother during a round-up for deportation; her father's and brother's deaths; volunteering with her moth...

  12. Hanna and Benedikt play in the river, prewar Poland

    Hanna and her father walk around a beach. She plays in the water. He stands around. They sit together next to what appear to be small railroad tracks. Pan up to a large flagpole (flag with circle in the middle).

  13. Hanna and Peter Singer collection

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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"...

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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...