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  1. Halina Peabody collection

    The collection consists of a makeup compact and beaded bag that belonged to donor’s aunt who perished during the Holocaust.

  2. Halina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1929. She describes her loving family; the outbreak of war; fleeing with her family to S?omniki in 1940; returning to Krako?w; living with her family in a village to avoid ghettoization; returning with her family to S?omniki; entering a labor camp to join her older brother and sister as advised by her parents (she never saw them again); deportation to the Krako?w ghetto; her brother advising her to volunteer to move to P?aszo?w; transfer to Schindler's factory; Schindler arranging an easier job for her; visiting her brothe...

  3. Halina Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina Z., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She describes growing up in an affluent home with two sisters; her father's dedication to the family; attending a private high school; the arrival of the Germans; and the ensuing deterioration which led her parents to decide to move the family to her mother's hometown of Chrzano?w, where conditions were better. Mrs. Z. recalls their two years in Chrzano?w; her father's escape to the Soviet Union where he was imprisoned for a year; his return as a changed person; obtaining false papers; and arranging for a customer to ...

  4. Halla Aurél államtitkár iratai

    • Records of State Secretary Aurél Halla

    The overwhelming majority of the records of the Ministry of Trade and Transportation were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45, when the main building of the ministry was destroyed by bomb attack. Therefore, the records of the ministry survived in other collections have special relevance for the study of the economic anti-Jewish policies in Hungary. State Secretary Aurél Halla was one of the key persons in the Ministry of Trade and Transportation responsible for the planning and implementation anti-Jewish legislation. Halla also worked for various companies, and he was an activ...

  5. The hallucinatory vision of our typhic comrades, parked in barracks 8 Print 13 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a blanket-wrapped prisoner has been detained in barrack 8 for those sick with typhus and forgotten about at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and ...

  6. Halmi z Košíc

    • The Halmi family from Košice

    The collection is based on the legacy of one of the Halmi (Hennefeld) family from Košice in the period between 1867 and 1945. The documents that were preserved in the legacy are connected mainly to the personal files of four brothers, Félix, Jenő, Pál and Béla Halmi, and their sister, Piroska who were active in the political, social and cultural life of Košice. Many of the documents belonging to the family legacy concerns the life and survival strategies of the familiy after the first Vienna Award in 1938 and during the holocaust. Among these materials are also their requests for exceptions...

  7. Hamburg

    Hamburg; ships with German flags, swastikas (agfa-color).

  8. Hamburg-Amerika Linie: Copy notice re illegal emigration to Palestine

    Copy of a notice from the Hamburg Amerika Linie, travel company, Breslau office, re sailings and prices for illegal emigration to PalestineGerman 

  9. Hamel family collection

    Contains two photographs and a document related to Marion Hamel and her parents, Hilda (Pincus) and Frederick Hamel who came to the United States from Germany. Contains a birth register certificate for Hilda Hamel.

  10. Hameln Synagogue collection

    Consists of information regarding the history and reconstruction plans of the synagogue in Hameln, Germany, which had been destroyed on Kristallnacht. Includes copies of original drawings of the synagogue before it was destroyed, a bound book entitled "Sie waren Burger der Stadt: Die Geschichte der judischen Einwohner Hamelns im Dritten Reich", by Bernhard Gelderblom (164 pages, published 1997), a brochure about the synagogue, copies of newspaper articles, and a blank piece of stationery with a drawing of the synagogue on the front. Also included is one photoprint consisting of copies of tw...

  11. Hammerschlag and Stein families: personal papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Istvan and Eva Stein, Hungarian Jews from Budapest who emigrated to Cairo in 1938 whilst some members of their family stayed behind and perished in the Holocaust. 

  12. Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children: index

    These index cards are evidence of the activities of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children in connection with the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany (British Inter-Aid Committee). The index cards of the children contain personal data and passport photographs. It seems that the cards were produced following a British Government initiative to simplify admittance procedures for children up to the age of 17 years.There are essentially 3 types of index card. One gives the particulars of the child, including the fate of the parents, and often has passport phot...

  13. Hamy Gal and Holocaust related documentation

    The collection consists of illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal; photographs of Atlit detainee camp created during the Holocaust; photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw; a Treblinka extermination camp testimony; manuscript drafts of poetry by Itzhak Katzenelson; documents related to Jewish detainees in camps in Kenya and Eritrea; and Anti-Semitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera, United States.

  14. Hana A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana A., who was born in Vilna (then Russia) in 1915. She recalls her marriage in 1936; her daughter's birth in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband being taken away (she never saw him again); a Polish neighbor who gave her food for her daughter; mass killings in Ponary, which included her mother and some siblings; a round-up of children, including her three-year-old daughter (she never saw her again); deportation with her sister and niece to Kaiserwald, then six months later to Dundangen; transfer to Dachau, then Bergen-Belsen; liberat...

  15. Hana Berger Moran collection

    Infant's cap and shirt relating to the experiences of Hanna Berger (later Hana Berger Moran) during the Holocaust when she was born while her mother Priska was a prisoner in a German concentration camp.

  16. Hana D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana D., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1931. She recounts living in Olbramovice on her paternal grandmother's farm, which her father managed; her parents' divorce; remaining with her father; not knowing she was Jewish; occasional visits with her mother; German invasion; confiscation of the farm; living with her father's sister in Prague, then with her mother; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from school; briefly hiding with her father's non-Jewish friends; secretly studying with other children under private teachers; her mot...

  17. Hana Engel photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs: one a prewar image of Ania Szymkiewicz Engel (donor) and her mother, Regina, walking in the street in Łódź, Poland; the second an image of Hana Engel in Tel Aviv, dated 1948. Ania attended Abba Gymnasium before the war and the ghetto high school. In August 1944, she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Regina was murdered. Hana was liberated in May 1945 in Theresienstadt and in 1946 she arrived in Palestine where she was reunited with her father.

  18. Hana Evyatar collection

    Contains materials documenting Hana Evyatar's experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Hana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana G., an only child, who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts German occupation; receiving extra food from non-Jewish friends; eviction from their apartment; deportation to Theresienstadt in December 1943; public hangings; her mother sharing extra food with her and her father; their deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; remaining with her mother (she never saw her father again); briefly working in a children's barrack; deportation to Stutthof in July 1944; twice being in the infirmary; a death march in January 1945; escaping with her mother...

  20. Hana Gruna collection

    Contains a list of Czechoslovakian Jewish women who were inmates of Sackisch labor camp and a memoir of experiences relating to Sackisch.