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  1. Hanna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna F., who was born in Czemierniki, near Lublin, Poland in 1923. She mentions prewar life in a mixed neighborhood and details the changes which occurred in the wake of the German occuption, including her slave labor. She relates her family's evacuation to Parczew in 1942; their hiding during round-ups for deportation; and the splitting up of her family (she alone survived the Holocaust). She tells of escaping from a slave labor camp near Parczew, securing false papers, and joining a Polish (non-Jewish) labor transport to Germany, where she remained from October, 19...

  2. Hanna H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna H., who was born in Warsaw in 1918. In this extraordinarily vivid and detailed account, Mrs. H. describes her childhood and education in Warsaw; extreme antisemitism; her marriage in 1939; her flight, with her husband, to Russian-occupied Rovnoe; and their return a short time later. She recalls the birth of her son in 1941; the formation of the Warsaw ghetto; the loss of her husband and, later, of her baby; her severe illness; hiding from a selection in a toilet; her discovery and narrow escape from death; and her reunion with her mother in the ghetto. She recou...

  3. Hanna Herzig collection

    Contains family photographs of the Herzig and Stock families in Drohobycz, Poland before the war, and in the Foehrenwald DP camp in Germany after the war, including photographs showing Zygmunt Herzig in his official role as legal council. Includes a drawing depicting Zygmunt Herzig's sister, who was murdered in Drohobycz; identification cards of donor's parents from the DP camp; immigration application forms; receipts for donations; and general correspondence, Also includes prayer books from the Foehrenwald DP camp; contemporary photographs showing the house in Drohobycz where the donor's p...

  4. Hanna Hirshaut collection

    The collection consists a blouse and photographs related to the experiences of Hanna Warhaftig Hirshaut and her family in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  5. Hanna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna K., who was born in Poland in 1925. She recounts her family's emigration to France due to antisemitism; living in Belleville, Montreuil, then Levallois, a leftist community; living with a cousin in Nantes and attending boarding school in 1939; her father's draft; German invasion; returning to Paris in May 1940; "discovering" she was Jewish; her father's arrest in October 1941; his internment in Drancy and deportation in May 1942 (he perished); hiding with her mother in Bois de Vincennes in July 1942 after being warned of a round-up by non-Jews; fleeing to Fonten...

  6. Hanna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1939. She recounts her father going to France before her birth; German invasion in September 1939; memories of the Warsaw ghetto; being smuggled into a convent; a non-Jew helping her mother escape a month later; refusing to eat and sadness because she missed her mother; finding comfort in Catholicism; her mother's arrival six months before war's end (she had been hiding in the woods); recovering from a serious illness; feeling privileged because she had a mother; their move to Warsaw; meeting her future stepfather; moving to...

  7. Hanna Keselman collection

    Consists of two Catholic prayer cards given to Hanna Rawicz (now Hanna Keselman) in the French convent of Viale Regina Margerita in Rome, Italy, in June 1944. The prayer cards, both of which seem to depict the Virgin Mary, have handwritten messages written by Catholic sisters noting on the verso that these cards are for Hanna's protection.

  8. Hanna Khajezadeh papers

    The papers consist of two fliers advertizing a Nazi propaganda board game called, "Juden raus" ("Jews out!"), manufactured by Rudolf Fabricius. "Juden raus" was a sort of amalgam of Monopoly and Halma created by the Nazis as propaganda. The objective was to collect as many Jews as you could and get them off the board. The pieces were little pawns wearing pointed medieval Jewish hats; the players moved them by rolling dice. The child winning was the one whose Jews scurried out, 'off to Palestine!,' through the gates of a walled city.

  9. Hanna Marton

    Hanna Marton is from Cluj (now Romania), formerly the capital of Transylvania. Both Hanna Marton and her husband were lawyers and Zionists. Marton was aboard the train organized by Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, carrying 1684 'privileged' Jews that left Hungary for Germany, eventually bringing them to Bergen-Belsen on 9 July 1944. Claude Lanzmann asks questions in French, which Hanna Marton understands, although she replies in Hebrew. Her answers are translated to French by Lanzmann's female translator, Francine Kaufmann. The transcript is in French only. Cluj was also known as Kolozsvar and Klau...

  10. Hanna Marx family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experience of Hannelore (Hanna) Simons Marx and Helmut Marx in Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. Hanna Moneta photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Moneta family in Krakow, Poland before the war; members of the "Akiba" Zionist youth organization in Kielce, Poland during "Hachshara"; Hanka Moneta, who survived Płaszów, Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation in Sweden during recuperation; photographs of Mordechai Moneta (Hanka's husband) with his "Beitar" group.

  12. Hanna P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna P., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She recalls her family's affluent life; her brother and father reporting for military service before German invasion; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions and food scarcity; learning her father and brother were alive and fleeing to the Soviet zone; using false papers to join them in Soviet-occupied Bia?ystok; moving to Orsha; attending Russian school; fleeing east after the German invasion; her father working as a bookkeeper on a collective farm near the Urals; her brother's draft; moving to Ukraine near the war...

  13. Hanna playing at the gate in prewar Olomouc

    Hanna in pig tails is playing on a gate with a very tall man. CUs. He climbs over the gate after she is done swinging on it. He leaps over it with relative ease.

  14. Hanna playing in the yard of her home in prewar Poland

    Hanna places a baby doll in a wagon, taking great care in doing so. She hauls the wagon around, running through the garden in which she stands. She runs about while holding the doll.

  15. Hanna playing indoors in prewar Poland

    Hanna jumps in her bed, which has netting around the side.

  16. Hanna plays alone, then with Thomas and Lieberman family adults in the yard of their home, and finally bathing

    Hanna plays with a very small wagon. Around her neck is some kind of purse. She puts many things in the wagon, and then walks around pulling it. She runs into another girl. Benedikt holds his daughter. Grandfather Sperber (older man with beard) hugs Thomas. Hanna gives Thomas a kiss, and then they play. The car drives past, they look on in wonderment. They walk up to the car with a nurse, and get in. Cut to the children in a wash basin taking a bath. They both splash wildly and play with sticks.

  17. Hanna plays in the garden of her home in prewar Poland

    Hanna stands in a tree and then sits on a wicker chair in the garden in the buff. Her mother Ella comes and talks to her as she walks around the garden with a measuring tape, and then a watering can, drawing water and then watering the grass.

  18. Hanna plays with a camera

    Hanna plays with the photo camera and lipstick case again.

  19. Hanna plays with a camera and lipstick case with her father Benedikt

    Hanna has a photo camera, her father Benedikt looks over her shoulder and sticks his tongue out at the camera. He begins explaining it to her, helping her to use it. She also plays with a lipstick case.

  20. Hanna Poznanska-Linde collection

    The collection consists of a one piece of Łódź ghetto scrip, and two Soviet bank notes relating to the experiences of Hanna Poznanska-Linde, a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, and her husband, a soldier in the Russian Army during World War II.