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Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Harry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry T., who was born in Giessen, Germany in 1921. Mr. T. describes growing up as the only Jewish boy in Zu?rbach, a farm village near Frankfurt; the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish activities; his training in Frankfurt to become a cabinetmaker; his return home after Kristallnacht; slave labor; and leaving his family in Frankfurt in 1941. He tells of his transport from Berlin to Barcelona, Spain; his imprisonment there and then in an internment camp near the French border; his release by the Quakers; and his emigration, via Portugal, to the United States. The ef...

  2. Harry Thon papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Harry Thon who served as Chief Investigator for the Prosecution at the trials of perpetrators of the Malmedy massacre and against Otto Skorzeny, at Dachau, 1946-1947. Includes reports, correspondence, photocopies, photographs, and texts of interrogations of Generals Jodl, Keitel, and Warlimont, conducted by Thon.

  3. Harry U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry U., who was born in approximately 1909, to an Orthodox family of nine children. He recalls living in Zakopane; draft into the Polish military in 1928; recall in August 1939; German invasion; retreating to Przasnysz; returning home briefly; fleeing to Soviet-occupied L?viv via Cieszano?w, then to Pidhai?t?s?i; Soviet deportation by train to Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), then a forced labor camp; release due to his Polish citizenship; learning of a Polish exile army organizing in Kazakhstan; traveling with other Poles to Alma-Ata, Samarqand, Tashkent and Bukhoro to e...

  4. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Bez?ovce, Czechoslovakia in 1916. He tells of moving to Uz?h?horod in 1920; attending public and Hebrew school; the beauty and peace of their Shabbat observance; being stabbed by another boy in an anti-Semitic incident; studying at the Yeshivas in Mukachevo and Bratislava; and leaving in 1938 because of the Hungarian occupation of his hometown. He describes being drafted into a Hungarian labor battalion; working in many places in Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Ukraine; harsh conditions and lack of food; working in Budapest where he could leave t...

  5. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Orekhovno, Poland. He recalls growing up in a family of five sisters and three brothers; participating in the Zionist organization, he-Haluts; draft into the Polish army in 1937; discharge in March and recall in July 1939; capture by Germans on September 19; transfer to jail in Ka?uszyn; release to a prisoner of war camp on October 25; transfer to Krems and other prisons in Germany; participating in a strike for equal treatment of Jewish prisoners; transfer to Gorlice; deportation to Lublin (Lipowa 7)in January 1941; burying corpses; interrog...

  6. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Żychlin, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; German invasion; forced construction labor; ghettoization; his father's deportation; transfer to forced labor constructing roads with his father; their transfer to another camp; his cousin freezing to death; transfer to Poznań, then Kreuzsee; his father's deterioration since he was doing much of his (Harry's) work; his father's transfer to Auschwitz (he never saw him again); losing his will to live; transfer to Auschwitz five months later, then to...

  7. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1921 and raised in Vienna. He recalls his affluent childhood; his family's assimilation, emphasis on Viennese culture, and education; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; his older sisters' emigration; traveling to Prague to continue school; arrest; returning home; being sent to Paris in September 1938; internment in Melsay-du-Maine as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war in September 1939; release and emigration to the United States in January; assistance from HIAS in New York; being drafted in 1942; special tr...

  9. Harry Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry Z., who was born in Be?z?yce, Poland in 1926. He recounts the war starting his first day of school; his father doing forced labor; working as a messenger for the Judenrat; the arrival of Jews deported from Germany (one family lived with them); hiding during round-ups; capture by Ukrainian guards; escape; locating his father; hiding in a cellar with his family and several others; entering the Lublin ghetto with his parents, then Be?z?yce concentration camp (his sister was hidden by non-Jews); slave labor in a shoe workshop, then demolishing buildings in G?usk; a ...

  10. Harry Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry Z., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1919. He recalls growing up in a religious family, the fifth of eight children; his father's death when he was nine years old; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee; anti-Jewish measures; separation from his family when he was deported to Auenrode in October 1940 (he never saw them again); slave labor building roads; receiving packages from home until 1941; his experiences in Gross Sarne, Geppersdorf, and Klettendorf; liberation from Waldenburg by Soviet troops in April 1945; ...

  11. Harry Zaslow letter

    Correspondence: Two letters from Harry Zaslow, an American soldier, to his parents, 1944-1945, including his description of having visited an unidentified concentration camp after liberation in May 1945.

  12. HART, Lt Cdr Leonard George Richard (1903-1987)

    Papers relating to his service in Germany, 1945-1947, principally comprising British Zone Review vol 1 no 7, published by the Control Commission for Germany, (British Element), Dec 1945; Royal Rupert Times and Garrison News, edited by Hart, Feb 1947; photographs of Belsen concentration camp, 1945. Papers relating to Hart's work as Recreational Libraries Officer, 1966, notably an article on Hart and the RN Library Service cut from Navy News no 141, Mar 1966. Beating the invader and If the invader comes, two printed leaflets advising civilians how they should behave in the event of a German i...

  13. Hartog family collection

    Collection of documents, letters, photographs and a medal relating to the Hartog family during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The collection includes correspondence from Camp de Gurs, France and documents from Belgium, France and Germany

  14. Hartshorne family papers

    The Hartshorne family papers primarily contain correspondence and memoirs documenting the experiences of Americans Richard and Lois Hartshorne, along with their children Marguerite and Judith, in Nazi occupied Austria during his sabbatical from 1938-1939. The correspondence consists of letters written by Richard and Lois to their families describing their experiences in Vienna, Austria, as well as letters from Jewish friends and others they were trying to help with monetary aid or visa assistance for emigration. Included are letters from Wolfgang Hoff, an Austrian chemist who spent several ...

  15. Harvard football game

    In United States, houses in neighborhood. Women and children in front of house. Men rowing on the Charles River, flag. Harvard University marching band on a sports field. Men play American football, sign: "Harvard 14, Visitors 13." Marching band plays in the stands. Car driving on highway past trees and power lines. Aerial pan. Car drives up a snowy road. A group of young people exit the vehicle and walk towards the camera.

  16. Harvest Festival on Bückeberg Mountain

    Hitler attends harvest festival at Bückeberg, with thousands of people dressed in elaborate traditional folk costumes and headdresses; VAR CU. LS Hitler and other officials enter decorated town square; Hitler reviews and salutes troops. In large parade ground, SA march carrying many flags and standards (sound band, cheers). More shots of people wearing various traditional costumes, VO identifies them, band plays. Interesting shot of SS among festival attendees holding a "Blut und Boden" standard. Soldier blows bugle. Shots of Hitler in reviewing stand. Hitler with Goebbels and other officia...

  17. Harvesting hay and potatoes

    MS, church, cows in FG. VAR shots of farm scene, possibly in Bavaria; people pitching hay onto wagon while train passes in BG. CU bearded old man pitching hay up to woman atop haystack. CU of ox. Man smoking pipe with workers in BG. Picking potatoes. Woman with bicycle. Silhouette of man sowing seeds.

  18. Harvey Buchsbaum collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the grandparents of Harvey Buchsbaum in Germany, who were killed in the Holocaust.

  19. Harvey Gotliffe collection

    Consists of research materials (articles, transcripts, notes, clippings, correspondence,etc.) regarding Holocaust denial and advertisements of Holocaust revisionist theories and work, specifically the work of revisionist Bradley R. Smith. Dr. Gotliffe, a professor in the School of Journalism at San Jose State University, produced and collected this material from 1990 to the early 2000s. Includes copies of "The Journal of Historical Review" (1997-2001) and Smith's newsletter (1990-2004).

  20. Harvey S. Mamat photographs

    Consists of eight photographs of corpses at the liberation of the Seeshaupt concentration camp in Germany, April 1945.