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  1. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born, one of five children, in a small town in the province of Kielce, Poland, in 1925. Mr. M. remembers the constant antisemitism during his childhood; the German occupation of 1939; the brutality of the German soldiers; the deportations; the murder of his parents; his deportation to P?aszo?w, where he was a slave laborer; his two successful escapes from P?aszo?w; his return to the camp due to conditions outside; and his transfer to Flossenbu?rg in 1943 and Dachau in 1944. He also describes several incidents within the camps; the death march from Da...

  2. Harry Markowicz collection

    The Harry Markowicz photograph collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and copyprints of Harry Markowicz and his family in Widawa, Poland; Berlin, Germany; and Brussels, Belgium from 1920-1949. It also includes one framed hand-painted photograph of Harry Markowicz that was made after his family was reunited. It further includes a bracelet inscribed "Henri Vanderlinden" entrusted to Harry Markowicz immediately following the WWII by the family with whom he hid.

  3. Harry Mayer collection

  4. Harry Oberyant collection

    Collection of letters from 1943-1945 documenting the experiences of Harry Oberyant, who served in the US Army during WWII.

  5. Harry Oberyant papers

    Collection of letters sent home by US Army soldier Harry Oberyant (donor's father) documenting his experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp; 1984 testimony (2 pages) written by Harry Oberyant; 3 photographs of him.

  6. Harry Perkal collection

    Collection of black and white photographs of donor's family in the Displaced Person's camp near Kassel, Germany where they lived from 1945 to March 1952, before leaving for the United States.

  7. Harry Posmantier and family papers

    Contains photographs of a relative who died at Auschwitz and a photograph of the donor's brother, Sam, who was a Jewish policeman at Landsberg DP camp. There also is a photocopy of his postwar ID certificate.

  8. Harry Ralton collection

    The archive contains the personal and business papers of Harry Ralton. The latter concern Harry’s firm the Arcadia Music Publishing Co. There is also an extensive collection of his sheet music published in interwar Germany and in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition there are two folders of letters addressing Harry’s attempts to help his mother escape Germany, Harry's life and career in the UK, post-war conditions and the fates of friends under the Nazis. Prominent correspondents include Herbert Sandberg, Harry’s cousin and conductor of the Royal Swedish Opera, and the journalist and...

  9. Harry Ray collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, correspondence, and prewar photographs relating to the experiences of Harry Ray (Rabinowicz), a resident of the United States, and his relatives in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and in exile in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.

  10. Harry Reese photograph collection

    Collection of black and white photographs and copy prints, some loose, some fused together, which document atrocities committed during the Holocaust at a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp; dated circa 1945. Acquired by Harry Reese (donor's father) while serving with the US Army in Belgium during WWII.

  11. Harry Reis collection

    Consists of correspondence from Hans Reis' parents, who were prisoners in the Gurs concentration camp in France from 1940-1942 to their son and to various other family members. Mr. Reis was part of a Kindertransport to England in 1939, but his parents, who remained in Konigshofen, were deported to Gurs in 1940 and then on to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished.

  12. Harry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1929. He recalls their poverty; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to his family; lying about his age to obtain a job in a glass factory; deportation of his parents and sister (he never saw them again); a man exempted from deportation choosing to stay with his baby (an image that he still sees today); mass shootings in nearby woods; deportation to Cze?stochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Buchenwald, then Rehmsdorf; friend...

  13. Harry Schiller collection

    Consists of two report cards from the Prague English Grammar School, issued to Harry Schiller, and three picture postcards depicting Harry Schiller and his brother, Gustav (born 23 October 1923).

  14. Harry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry T., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. He recalls anti-Semitic violence in school; active participation in a Zionist organization; German occupation; destroying Zionist documents with Jacob Edelstein; Edelstein's concept of avoiding death transports through internal deportations; a leadership position under Edelstein in Theresienstadt; compiling lists of deportees under duress; attempting to save children, providing education and medical care; public hangings, starvation, and fear; Edelstein's anguish when forced to attend executions; Edelstein's deportatio...

  15. Harry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry T., who was born in Lask, Poland in 1923. He recalls the outbreak of war; an unsuccessful attempt to flee to ?o?dz?; German occupation; public humiliation of Jews; fleeing, with his brother, to Bia?ystok in the Soviet zone via Ma?kinia and Zareby Koscielne; returning to Lask in December; ghettoization; deportation to Nekla with his brother on March 25, 1942; unloading stones in another camp; public hangings of prisoners; transfer with his brother to Andrzejow in April 1943; their transfer to Birkenau in September 1943, and in December 1943 to Jaworzno; obtaining...

  16. Harry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry T., who was born in Giessen, Germany in 1921. Mr. T. describes growing up as the only Jewish boy in Zu?rbach, a farm village near Frankfurt; the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish activities; his training in Frankfurt to become a cabinetmaker; his return home after Kristallnacht; slave labor; and leaving his family in Frankfurt in 1941. He tells of his transport from Berlin to Barcelona, Spain; his imprisonment there and then in an internment camp near the French border; his release by the Quakers; and his emigration, via Portugal, to the United States. The ef...

  17. Harry Thon papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Harry Thon who served as Chief Investigator for the Prosecution at the trials of perpetrators of the Malmedy massacre and against Otto Skorzeny, at Dachau, 1946-1947. Includes reports, correspondence, photocopies, photographs, and texts of interrogations of Generals Jodl, Keitel, and Warlimont, conducted by Thon.

  18. Harry U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry U., who was born in approximately 1909, to an Orthodox family of nine children. He recalls living in Zakopane; draft into the Polish military in 1928; recall in August 1939; German invasion; retreating to Przasnysz; returning home briefly; fleeing to Soviet-occupied L?viv via Cieszano?w, then to Pidhai?t?s?i; Soviet deportation by train to Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), then a forced labor camp; release due to his Polish citizenship; learning of a Polish exile army organizing in Kazakhstan; traveling with other Poles to Alma-Ata, Samarqand, Tashkent and Bukhoro to e...

  19. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Bez?ovce, Czechoslovakia in 1916. He tells of moving to Uz?h?horod in 1920; attending public and Hebrew school; the beauty and peace of their Shabbat observance; being stabbed by another boy in an anti-Semitic incident; studying at the Yeshivas in Mukachevo and Bratislava; and leaving in 1938 because of the Hungarian occupation of his hometown. He describes being drafted into a Hungarian labor battalion; working in many places in Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Ukraine; harsh conditions and lack of food; working in Budapest where he could leave t...

  20. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Orekhovno, Poland. He recalls growing up in a family of five sisters and three brothers; participating in the Zionist organization, he-Haluts; draft into the Polish army in 1937; discharge in March and recall in July 1939; capture by Germans on September 19; transfer to jail in Ka?uszyn; release to a prisoner of war camp on October 25; transfer to Krems and other prisons in Germany; participating in a strike for equal treatment of Jewish prisoners; transfer to Gorlice; deportation to Lublin (Lipowa 7)in January 1941; burying corpses; interrog...