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

  1. Henry Green papers

    The collection consists of Holocaust survivor Henry Green's (born Heniek Gruenbaum, nicknamed Chaim) Declaration of Intention (1951) and naturalization certificate (1956); pre-war family photographs of his family including his parents, Fishl and Sara Gruenbaum, brother Joseph, and sister; post-war photographs of Henry; and a personal narrative by his cousin Henry S. Newman entitled "Budzyn (and the "Show of Shows")."

  2. Henry Greenbaum papers

    The collection contains photographs and identification papers documenting Henry Greenbaum’s Holocaust-era experiences as a refugee in several displaced persons camps. Documents include identification papers from the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, a Jewish Committee membership card from Neunberg vorm Wald, a document stating that he was an inmate of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a driver’s license. Photographs consist of fourteen photographs from the Zeilsheim DP camp, including portraits of Henry's friends.

  3. Henry H. Barschall papers

    The Henry H. Barschall papers consist of Henry Barschall's 1934-1936 Friedrich Wilhelm University grade book whose yellow stripe and notations indicate he was a Jewish student and not a member of the German student body. The papers also include correspondence regarding Hermann Barschall's status as a patent attorney, his continuation in his profession under the Nazi regime due to his veteran status, and his dismissal from the profession after new anti-Jewish legislation of October 1938.

  4. Henry H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry H., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland, in 1919. Mr. H. describes his youth in a family of eight children; German occupation of Zawiercie; implementation of antisemitic measures; ghettoization in 1941; deportation of some 2,000 Jews (including his mother and a brother) in 1942; hiding in the ghetto; and his deportation to Birkenau with other family members in August 1943. He recounts the selection resulting in the deaths of his sisters; transport with a brother to Fu?nfteichen; posing as an electrician; suffering from extreme hunger; receiving smuggled food from ...

  5. Henry Haas collection

    Consists of one blue booklet, entitled "The Haggadah of Passover for members of the Armed Forces of the United States," published by the New York National Jewish Welfare Board, 1943, and one photograph of a family being pulled in two carts, taken in Shanghai. Inscription in the booklet reads "In memory of the gathered Passover Seder on the way from Shanghai--USA on board S.S. "Marine Lynx", April 4th, 1947.

  6. Henry Hanski papers

    The papers consist of two Signal Corps photographs of corpses at a concentration camp and twenty pages from a publication of camp and ghetto songs and poems.

  7. Henry Hellmann and Eva Hellmann: personal papers

    Personal papers Including political articles and papers by Henry Hellmann; Hellmann's reminiscences of his parents, Michael and Anna Jacubowicz, and various autobiographical accounts of Henry and  Eva Hellmann; correspondence with family and friends; marriage and death certificates; school reports; journalists membership and press cards; photographs; as well as obituaries and condolences relating to Eva and Henry Hellmann.English German French

  9. Henry Himmelfarb collection

    The collection consists of a prisoner badge and copy and photographic prints relating to the experiences of Chaim (Henry) Himmelfarb before and after the war in Germany and as a concentration camp inmate in Germany during the Holocaust.

  10. Henry Hirschmann papers

    Consists of copies of swimming certification books and an Arbeitsbuch, issued between 1934-1936 to Heinz Hirschmann of Grossauheim, Germany. Also includes copies of typed and handwritten testimony and speeches written by Mr. Hirschmann about his childhood, arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald, emigration to the United States, and experiences in the United States military during World War II.

  11. Henry Holland collection

    Contains United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) child welfare reports, 1946 Jan.-1946 June, relating to psychological evaluations of children and youths at Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. Also includes a 1988 memoir by Henry Holland entitled "Second Chance." The memoir contains information about Holland's childhood in Kusnica (Kushnitsa, Ukraine) and Bergszasz in Hungary; his experience in a Hungarian labor battalion during World War II; his escape from the labor battalion and return to Hungary after the war; his witness to Jewish ghettos while working in Hungar...

  12. Henry J. Kellermann collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and accomplishments of Dr. Henry J. Kellermann, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's pre-war life and schooling, the Gross-Breesen agricultural school for German-Jewish boys, and Dr. Kellermann's involvement in wartime refugee affairs and in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Also includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's post-war career in the United States Foreign Service, where he served in Bern and as the permanent representative to UNESCO, and regarding hi...

  13. Henry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1934. He recalls his family's unsuccessful escape to France; staying in Antwerp; his father's arrest; going to Paris, then Marseille, with his mother and two sisters; their arrest and detention in Rivesaltes in 1942 where his father rejoined them; being loaded on a freight car for deportation and being taken off with his younger sister at the last moment; separation from his sister; and being placed with a family near Limoges where he lived until the end of the war. He describes posing as a Catholic; his foster family's con...

  14. Henry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry K., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923. He recalls a sheltered childhood in a well-to-do family; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportations in 1941, including his father's; food shortages; ghettoization; his brother's deportation in 1943; hiding in the countryside; surrendering after his sister was arrested in his stead; deportation to a slave labor camp; transfer to Blechhammer about a year later; encountering his brother, cousin, and uncle; a public hanging; his privileged position in the kitchen; sharing extra food with his relatives; being ...

  15. Henry K. Shor photograph collection

    Consists of 12 photographs of Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

  16. Henry Kalmus papers

    The Henry Kalmus papers consist chiefly of correspondence received by Kalmus from Vilmos Forgács, and from other friends and professional colleagues that he knew from his time in Budapest, when he worked as an engineer at Orion Radio (Hungarian Tungsten Lamp Works). Most of the correspondence dates from 1938 - 1948, beginning in the year that Kalmus left Hungary to immigrate to the United States. Initial letters inquire after Kalmus’ life abroad as well as report on day to day events in Budapest. In a few letters, references are made to attempts to emigrate from Hungary, both on the efforts...

  17. Henry Kellen collection

    Collection consists of photographs, identity cards, and letters relating to Henry Kellen and his family's experiences as displaced persons after the war. The family name in the documentation is listed as "Katznellenbogen" or "Kacenellenbogen."

  18. Henry Kinast memoir

    Consists of one typed document, one page, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Henry Kinast. When Henry was 12, he went to work in a munitions factory in Skarzysko, Poland. In 1944, he was transferred to Czestochowa, and in January 1945, he was transferred to Buchenwald, where he was liberated. Henry was reunited with his father and brother, and they lived in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp for three years. The document is very brief.

  19. Henry Kis collection

    The collection consists of a handkerchief holder and correspondence relating to the experiences of Heinz (later Henry) Kis who emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1936 and the Kis family in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  20. Henry Knepler papers

    The Henry Knepler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual arrest, and transport to Auschwitz where he did not survive. Some of these materials are photocopies. Biographical materials document the lives of Henr...