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

  1. Henrotte-Balay family. Collection

    This collection contains : a declaration signed by Emile Dernivoy regarding the resistance activities of Hubert Henrotte and Emma Balay ; certificates of civil resistance awarded to Hubert Henrotte and Emma Balay by the Kingdom of Belgium ; a class picture of the fourth grade at the Bressoux communal school in 1936-1937, with among the pupils Louise Henrotte and five identified Jewish girls, including Estera Chana (Anna) Szlamowicz.

  2. Henry "Hank" Mayer memoir

    Memoir, photocopy of manuscript, 13 pages, written by Henry "Hank" Mayer, of Bridgeport, CT, describing his family's experiences in their native Germany during the 1930s, including antisemitic persecution, their immigration to the United States in 1939, his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and his post-war life in Bridgeport as the owner of a military supply business.

  3. Henry "Sonny" Schloss photographs

    Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Henry "Sonny" Schloss, a member of the United States Army Signal Corps, who participated in the liberation of Dachau. Includes photographs of victims of the death train, of guards killed by American troops by summary justice, and of Schloss himself. Includes a photograph (likely not taken at Dachau) of Schloss in front of a train car on which is written the hometowns of members of the "Fightin 659th."

  4. Henry (Hank) M. and Marion Rosenwald collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs of Henry (Hank) M. Rosenwald and Marion Marx Rosenwald. Henry M. Rosenwald and his parents Paul Rosenwald and Margarete (Grete) Rosenwald were able to emigrate to the U.S. from Germany with the help of their American Rosenwald cousins. Marion Marx was also an emigre from Germany. The collection includes items from WWI through Hank's death in 2001.

  5. Henry A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes his education; working in his father's coffee house; the absence of antisemitism in Salonika; importing auto parts and radios in the 1930s; his arranged marriage; the birth of his son in 1939; and the outbreak of war with Italy in 1940. He recalls military training at Nauplion in 1941; returning to Salonika after the German occupation; refusing to divulge names of customers who bought radios; becoming a textile merchant; being fined for "overcharging" German customers; paying a doctor to certify him an i...

  6. Henry A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Jasło, Poland in 1922. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews (many assisted him when he escaped in 1943); German invasion; fleeing to the Soviet zone; imprisonment in Lʹvov; release three weeks later; returning home; ghettoization in 1941; moving to Jedlicze in late 1942; selection to work in a refinery (his father and brother were deported and killed); placing his young cousin with a non-Jew (she survived); transfer to the Rzeszów ghetto in late 1942; transfer to Płaszów; surgery without anesthesia; escaping four weeks later; hiding ...

  7. Henry Alter papers

    The Henry Alter papers primarily document his family’s pre-war history; his immigration to the United States in 1939; and his service in the military, including training at Camp Ritchie and working as a Film Theater and Control Officer for the Information Services Branch, 1943-1946. Biographical material includes birth certificates, education materials, and immigration paperwork. Military service records include paperwork and memorandums related to his training at Camp Ritchie and his service overseas, including correspondence with Martin F. Hertz and memorandums from the theater and music ...

  8. Henry and Betty Nathan: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish couple, Henry and Betty Nathan, who emigrated to London in 1937 to avoid Nazi persecution.Included are birth certificate and extract of the register of births relating to Ellen Dollie Nathan, press cuttings concerning Henry Nathan's tapestry company in Northern Ireland, copy correspondence with the Royal Household regarding a request for tapestry by Her Majesty Queen Mary (WL1702/13), certificate of naturalisation (WL1702/11) and Betty Nathan's German driving licence. The collection also includes two friendship albums ('Poesiealbums...

  9. Henry and Chana F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana F., who was born in a town near ?o?dz?, Poland, and her husband Henry F., who was born in ?o?dz? in 1911. They describe the ghettoization of ?o?dz?; conditions in the ghetto including forced labor, overcrowding, beatings, starvation, public executions, and infanticide; and the psychological numbing they experienced from living under such conditions. Mrs. F. tells of the liquidation of the ghetto and her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was selected for work in an ammunition factory; her transport to Ravensbru?ck, then to Mu?hlhausen and, six months later, to ...

  10. Henry and Edith Wertheimer collection

    Collection of letters written by Heinz Ludwig Wertheimer (b. May 22, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany). He was sent by his parents Dr. Max and Rosel Wertheimer to England on the Kindertransport. The parents joined their son Lutz in August 1939 and a year later they immigrated to the US. using a false identity of Edith Adler (b. 1924 in Ulm, Germany) issued under the name "Edith Aubert" who was a member of the French underground.

  11. Henry and Fay Bialowas collection

    The Henry and Fay Bialowas collection includes four postcards Fay received from 1942-1943 while she was interned as a slave laborer in Ober Altstadt, a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, from her father, Icek Gerschenowitz, who was imprisoned in Gleiwitz II (Gleiwitz-Steigern Judenlager) and from her mother, Hinda Gerschenowitz, who was confined to the ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. The collection also includes photographs found by Maks Bialowas, Henry's brother, who survived the Łódź ghetto and recovered the images after liberation. One image shows a group including Maks’ wife H...

  12. Henry and Gertrude Wegner papers

    Photocopied materials about Theresienstadt from 1990s.

  13. Henry and Grace Dondero photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs of the proceedings of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremburg and Dachau, Germany; one photograph of refugees on the ship "Medina Yehudit" attempting to enter Haifa, Palestine, on December 3, 1947; and a photograph of a little girl waving Israeli and American flags in front of a kosher butcher store in Pittsburgh, Pa., on July 2, 1948.

  14. Henry and Grete Salomon collection

    The Henry and Grete Salomon collection contains primarily identification documents for both Henry Salomon and Grete Nathan Salomon. Both escaped Germany in 1939, and later married in England. Grete worked odd jobs while Henry enlisted in the British Army. Documents include identification papers such as certificates concerning parents, travel documents, certificate of good conduct, household goods directory, registration identity cards, and various other items. Other documents include newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reparations information. The Henry and Grete Salomon collection con...

  15. Henry and Harriet Fink photograph

    Consists of one photograph, dated July 29, 1938, of Henry (Heinz) and Harriet (Peppi) Fink walking in front of a Hitler Youth parade.

  16. Henry and Lottie M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry and Lottie M. Ms. M. was born in Dresden, Germany in 1921 to an affluent, assimilated family. She recounts her mother's death when she was one; her maternal grandmother living with them; her father's remarriage; her parents sheltering her from politics; vacations in Prague; expulsion from school in 1938; her father's and brother's arrests during Kristallnacht; her stepmother obtaining emigration documents for them through contacts in England; their release once they proved they would emigrate; her own emigration with assistance from the Quakers; living with a fa...

  17. Henry and Mary Kress collection

    Testimony of Mary Kress (typescript, 10 pages) about her experiences in occupied Poland, as well as correspondence relating to speaking engagements she and her husband Henry gave at schools and community organizations around Orange County, California, 1980s-1990s.

  18. Henry and Rose Basch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Henry and Rose Basch as Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  19. Henry and Rose Brewster collection

    The collection consists of one Buchenwald concentration camp coupon and one Łódź ghetto scrip.

  20. Henry and Sally K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry and Sally K. Ms. K. was born in Wolano?w, Poland in 1930, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; harassment by non-Jewish children; attending a Jewish school in Radom; German invasion; soldiers burning the synagogue and killing the rabbi; her father being killed; her older brother hiding, and her sister going to Warsaw (she was killed); incarceration with her mother, sister, and younger brother in a forced labor camp for about a year; their transfer to Bliz?yn; public execution of her cousin when he tried to escape; transfer to Auschwitz/Birk...