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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Harry Friedman correspondence

    The Harry Friedman correspondence consists of postcards and letters Harry Friedman received from family members including Perl, Simon, and Isaac Friedman in Horodenka, Poland before World War II and under the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  2. Harry Froehlich and Isaak Judas families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a Boy Scout banner, belt, twenty drawings, two albums, papers, and photographs related to the experiences of Harry Froehlich, in a refugee camp in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, circa 1939-1945, and then in Palestine, as well as documents and photographs related to the experiences of Isaak Judas, originally of Ihringen, Germany, before and after World War II.

  3. Harry G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry G., who was born in Proste?jov, Czechoslovakia in 1932. He recalls his family's strong Czech patriotism (his father was a decorated veteran); expulsion from school in 1939; attending Jewish school; deportation to Theresienstadt, via Prague, with his mother and younger sister in spring 1942; living in a children's block; attending school; working in the gardens; maintaining contact with his mother and sister; participating in a musical production during a Red Cross visit; liberation by Soviet troops; transfer to Proste?jov with his sister; and learning of his mot...

  4. Harry Goldsmith collection

    The collection consists primarily of stamps, envelopes, postcards, correspondence, postal cancellations, scrip, identification cards, photographs, work permits, ration cards, and receipts relating to the Holocaust in various countries, ghettos, and concentration camps. The scrapbooks are organized by concentration camp, location, ghetto, and period

  5. Harry Goodrich papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Harry Gutreich [donor] after his release from Buchenwald concentration camp, a telegram to Harry Gutreich in Zurich, Switzerland, from Lotti Gutreich sent after his release from Buchenwald, and a telegram sent from "Uncle Max" in London, England, to Harry Gutreich in Basel, Switzerland, after the latter's release from Buchenwald.

  6. Harry Gordon manuscript

    Contains an 360 page handwritten manuscript entitled "The Shadow of Death" by Harry Gordon, which was latter published in English by the University Press of Kentucky in 1992.

  7. Harry Harrison collection

  8. Harry Iticovici collection

    Consists of copies of personal documents and identification papers of Harry Iticovici, originally of Bucharest, Romania, born 6 June 1922.

  9. Harry J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry J., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1932, the second youngest of eight siblings. He recounts their relative affluence and orthodoxy; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker with his family during round-ups; one brother's deportation to Treblinka; smuggling themselves into the small ghetto; hiding with his younger brother, then with his mother and younger brother; his mother ordering him to join his sisters at HASAG Pelzery, knowing the younger boy could not survive; slave labor in a munitions factory; visiting his sisters; their "release" in J...

  10. Harry J. Mayer collection

    The collection consists of a leather belt, booklets, documents, letters, photographs, and postcards relating to Heinz (Harry) J. Mayer and his family before the Holocaust in Germany, during the Holocaust when his parents, Max and Mina, were imprisoned in Camp de Gurs and Camp de Noé in France, and Heinz was taken to safety in Switzerland.

  11. Harry Jarvis: family papers

    This collection contains the family papers of a Jewish immigrant from Chernivtsi (formerly Czernowitz), Bukovina, Ukraine. It is a relatively rare example of material from the German speaking Jewish community of this region and, as such, is valuable evidence of a now effectively extinct era. Item 1617/14 is an accrual which was added on 3.2.2011.

  12. Harry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry K., who was born in Otynya, Poland in 1919. He recalls his childhood in Zablotow; his older brother's service in the Polish military; supporting his parents from age fourteen on; the outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation; forced labor; being drafted into the Soviet army in 1940; transfer to Cheliabinsk; attending a military school; service in Manchuria and Leningrad; assignments building bridges and as a traffic regulator near Moscow; transfer to the Polish army in spring 1944; serving in W?odawa, then Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; learning his family had been murd...

  13. Harry Katz collection

    Consists of one small photo album, the cover embroidered with dragons and the name of Shanghai, China; one Haggadah given by the Jewish Community in Shanghai to the donor for his bar mitzvah, 1946; three ship menus for the S.S. President Wilson, 1949; and three documents.

  14. Harry Kranz collection

    Contains photographs (33) and copy of typescript text (6 pages), describing a visit made by the donor to his parents' ancestral village in Poland in 1985 to seek traces of the Jewish cemetery and other buildings.

  15. Harry Krieger memoir

    Contains a photocopy of letter, five pages, written by Harry (Heinz) Krieger (born 1922, Munich; died 2015, Plainview, NY) to his grandchildren about his experiences in Germany as child; the rise of Hitler; Kristallnacht; beating and arrest, release, and escape to England on a Kindertransport; and eventual immigration to the United States with his parents in 1939.

  16. Harry L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry L., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1934. He recalls attending Catholic school; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee with his family to France; anti-Jewish laws; his father arranging for him and his sister to hide separately with non-Jewish families in Brussels; becoming a "convinced" Catholic; learning from his mother that his father had been deported (he did not return); hiding with his mother for six months; liberation; reunion with his sister; meeting an uncle who was in the United States military; and their emigration to the United States. M...

  17. Harry L. Konar collection

    The collection consists of a set of Old Testament scriptures given to Harry Konar by an unidentified elderly woman in 1945 in Stuttgart, Germany.

  18. Harry L. Konar collection

    The collection consists of two issues of "On the Freedom" magazine.

  19. Harry L. Smith photograph collection

    The collection consists of 23 photographs taken at Buchenwald at the time of liberation that show camp structures, crematoria, corpses, and liberated prisoners. The photographs were taken by Harry L. Smith in April 1945, when he was a medic with the 628th Medical Clearing Company of the U.S. First Army.

  20. Harry Langsam papers

    The Harry Langsam papers include a letter written by Harry Langsam to his gentile neighbor, Mr. Glazar, inquiring about his family and the rest of the Jewish population as well as a translation of the letter, in English. Also included are two photographs of Jewish policemen in the Ziegenhain displaced persons camp and a photograph of a group of men learning the bricklaying trade as part of vocational training provided by the ORT.