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Language of Description: Multiple
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Henri Moskow collection

    Consists of pre-war and post-war (1930's-1950's) documents, photographs, a photograph album, and correspondence pertaining to Henri Moskow and his family. The collection includes pre-war family photographs, documents, and correspondence attesting to his resistance activities in France.

  2. Henri Oerlemans. Collection

    This collection contains ten paint containers, a paint brush, a book on world history and a sticker book which belonged to Sylvain Honigwachs, a chess board and chess pieces which belonged to Mala (Malka) Zimetbaum and two statues (named Sylvain and Myriam) created by Henri Oerlemans. After winning a number of prizes and exhibiting his art work in several different places, Henri decided to stay a free artist. Thus inspired by his heart and his emotions, sculptures such as Myriam and Sylvain were born, both Jewish friends of his. She was a skinny, fragile, sweet girl. Henri pictured her as h...

  3. Henri Pieck collection

    The collection consists of a published folio inscribed by the artist, Henri Pieck: 7 Origineele Kleurenlitho's Van Beelden Uit Het Concentratiekamp Buchenwald, seven reproductions of sketches of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp based on his experiences as an inmate.

  4. Henri R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri R., who was born in Poland in 1910. He recalls growing up in P?ock; his father's desire that he become a rabbi; moving to Paris in 1931 with his future wife to study medicine; working as a custodian while studying; joining the Foreign Legion; demobilization in the free zone; rejoining his wife in Paris; arrest in May 1941; internment in Pithiviers; working as a physician; adequate living conditions; visits from his wife; transfer to Drancy with a group of children in September 1942; deportation to Auschwitz a week later; voluntary transfer to Golleschau; forced ...

  5. Henri S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri S., who was born in Aurich, Germany, the younger of two children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; moving to Norden around 1935; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's deportation to Buchenwald and his grandfather's arrest on Kristallnacht; their release; smuggling themselves to Brussels via Aachen; German invasion in 1940; hiding with non-Jews during round-ups; his parents contacting the underground to hide him and his sister; placement with a farmer in Grendel; hearing from his sister through a priest (he did not know where she was...

  6. Henri W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri W., who was born in 1925 in Poland. He recalls living in Brussels; moving to Paris with his parents in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Creuse in the unoccupied zone; assistance from the locals; working since he could no longer attend school; arrest with his parents; incarceration in Poussac and elsewhere; transfer to Drancy, then Birkenau; separation from his mother (he never saw her again); transfer to Mys?owice (Fu?rstengrube); slave labor for I. G. Farben; adjusting to starvation, cold, disease and beatings; trying to save his strength; his father's return ...

  7. Henri Wermus memoir

    Contains a memoir about Henri Wermus's childhood in Poland, his experiences with antisemitism in the Polish army, and the fate of Henri Wermus's family at the hands of the Nazis.

  8. Henrich F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henrich F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928, the older of two sons. He recalls a close, extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; conversion to Evangelical Christrianity in 1940; attending a state school; more teachers wearing Hlinka guard uniforms as time passed; expulsion from school because he was a "new" Christian; eviction from their home; an Aryan taking over the family business; his parents continuing to work there; the new owner shielding them from deportations; visiting relatives in Nitra; attending an Evangelic...

  9. Henrietta Kurtzig identification card

    The Kennkarte was issued to Henrietta Sara Kurtzig (b. Henrietta Jetka Englander; donor's grandmother) from the chief of police in Berlin, Germany. A stamped "J" on front cover indicates that the holder was Jewish.

  10. Henrietta Rosenzweig Kestenbaum photographs

    Consists of four pre-war photographs of Maximillian and Aranka Gluck Rosenzweig, and their children, Henrietta and George, of Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia. Includes portraits and also a photograph of a child's birthday party.

  11. Henrietta Steiner papers

    The papers consist of the German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Marie Sara Felberbaum in 1940, a certificate issued by the Nazi Party (NSDAP) releasing Dr. Herbert Steiner from cleaning duties due to his medical position, a photograph of Dr. Herbert Steiner taken in 1938, and a photograph of a program for which Dr. Steiner was a speaker.

  12. Henriette Bick Hahn papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of Henriette Bick Hahn and her parents Karl and Emma Bick, originally of Munich, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of documents and correspondence relating to Karl’s imprisonment in Stadelheim and Dachau after Kristallnacht. The last letter in the collection written by Karl while in Dachau is dated May 5, 1940. Other material in the collection includes Karl and Emma’s marriage certificate, identification cards and naturalization certificate of Henriette, and prewa...

  13. Henriette K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henriette K., who was born in Nove? Za?mky, Czechoslovakia in 1925. She recalls growing up in a prosperous family; her close relationship with her father; Hungarian occupation; anti-Semitic incidents including the vandalizing of their home; the family's move to Budapest in 1940; her father's employment by a Swiss company; her sister's marriage and emigration to Palestine; their busy social life in 1942 and 1943; and German occupation in March 1944. Mrs. K. recollects her engagement to a Hungarian soldier who obtained false papers for her family; her father's refusal t...

  14. Henriette Kirshon papers

    Consists of a postcard from Julia Weiss [donor's sister] in Munich, Germany, to her sister, Henriette Kirshon, in Zurich, Switzerland, and a three-page letter written by Julia Weiss in Theresienstadt to her sister.

  15. Henriette Mandel papers

    Photocopies of family papers, in French, relating to the eligibility of donor's nephew, Robert Kreidelman, for a war-orphan pension. Also contains evidence that donor's relatives were killed at Auschwitz.

  16. Henriette Parker papers

    Documents, most from the Kingdom of Belgium, one from office of Field Marshal Montgomery, one from Jewish community of Belgium, dated 1945-1946, all honoring Julia Pierre, widow of Leon Nicaise, for her and her late husband's actions during the occupation of Belgium. Also includes a photo of Pierre with inscription of donor on verso, stating that Pierre saved her life, and photo reproduction of identity card issued to the donor's father, 1943.

  17. Henrik Deutsch letter

    Letter from Henrik Deutsch to Gizella Deutsch Pienitz, his sister in the United States. Deutsch asks his sister for finanical help so that the family can emigrate from Budapest to the United States. The letter is in Hungarian and the Hungarian Tourist Board supplied the English translation.

  18. Henrik Roth family collection

    The collection consists of a hanukiyah, pocket watch and stand, two copyprints, and three prayerbooks relating to the experiences of Henrik, Celina, and George (b. 1941) Rath (later Roth), during the Holocaust which they survived by living under assumed identities in Poland and after the war when they lived in Paris, France, from 1947-1951.

  19. Henrika M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henrika M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of three children. She recalls pervasive antisemitic harassment; attending a Jewish high school; German invasion in September 1939; her father's death from a beating by a German soldier; ghettoization; factory work; her brother's position in the Jewish police which allowed him to help others; deportation of her mother and sister (she never saw them again); being rounded-up and twice escaping from the Umschlagplatz; deportation to Majdanek; assisting a wounded friend en route; slave labor in the tailor workshop; p...

  20. Henrikas Kurlavicius photograph collection

    Collection of 25 photographs depicting Jews from Butrimonys, Lithuania. Lisa Lainer-Fagan received the photographs from Henrikas Kurlavicius in Butrimonys, who found them after WWII. The photographs belonged to Domicele Kuralviciene, who was a caregiver for Jewish families in the town from the time she was 10 years old.