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  1. Hadassah Goldreich photograph collection

    The collection consists of original and copy print photographs relating to Hadassah Goldreich's family in Poland before World War II and after the war in Landsberg DP camp.

  2. Hadassah R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hadassah R., who was born in Ko?o around 1923. She recalls attending Polish school in Da?bie Miasto; the German invasion; posing as a Christian to return to Ko?o; atrocities committed against Jews, particularly the brutal beating of her brother; establishment of a killing center in nearby Che?mno, from which she escaped; posing as a non-Jew; and meeting other Jews hiding near Grabo?w. Mrs. R. describes ghettos in Ozorko?w and ?e?czyca; working in a typhus hospital; transfer to ?o?dz?; attempts to warn Rumkowski about the Che?mno killing center; her sense that people s...

  3. Hadassah Rosensaft collection

    The collection consists of several series of anti-Nazi satiric prints.

  4. Hadassah Rosensaft oral history collection

    Interviews with 15 Holocaust survivors documenting their experiences as children during the Holocaust.

  5. Hadassah Rosensaft photograph collection

    The papers consist of one photograph of Benjamin Bimko-Preizerowicz, son of Hadassah Bimko-Rosensaft [donor] and Josef Preizerowicz, who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on December 3, 1937 and died at Auschwitz-Birkenau on August 4, 1943. The papers also include a photograph of a group of Jewish men with raised hands that was taken in Będzin, Poland, in September 1939.

  6. Hadassah Virshup collection

    Contains pre-war family photographs from Lida, Poland and Vilna, Lithuania, bearing inscriptions in Hebrew or Yiddish. One photo postcard shows a school or youth group, dated 1932.

  7. Hadjeret el Meguil, Algeria: Various documents

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documents concerning life in Hadjeret el Meguil and other internment camps in Vichy North Africa was, according to a covering note at the beginning of the collection, donated to the Wiener Library, by way of gratitude for the assistance that was given to the depositor with respect to his restitution claims.Material re camps in North Africa including the following:Type-written copy of a novel, "Levinstein", by Peter Andreas, based on his experiences in forced labour units ...

  8. Hafftka and Jonisch families photographs

    The collection documents the Holocaust era experiences of the Hafftka family of Częstochowa, Poland and the Jonisch family of Żarki, Poland. Included are photographs of Ola Hafftka (née Jonsich), her husband Aleksander Hafftka, and their daughter Sylvia Hafftka (now Sylvia Smoller), along with other family members. Also included are photographs of the Hie Maru, the ship that Ola, Aleksander, and Sylvia sailed on from Kobe, Japan to Seattle, Washington in 1941 after obtaining Japanese visas from Chiune Sugihara. Additionally, there is an identification card of Ola’s from Warsaw, Poland.

  9. Häftlingskartei des SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamtes

    • SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamt prisoner card file
    • WVHA prisoner card file
    • „Hollerith-Kartei“ des SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamtes
    • SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamt „Hollerith card file“
    • KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg
    • WVHA-Häftlingskartei
    • English
    • 1944-1945
    • 148.782 record cards (digital representations) and corresponding dataset: ca. 269.000 references to concentration camp prisoner names in other documents (state: Nov 2014).

    The collection consists of 148.782 prisoners' record cards (27.351 of which were compiled for Jews) without names, digitized and matched with victims' databases (International joint project).The cards are produced in 1944 – 1945. More than 123.000 reconstructed names of concentration camp prisoners, based on entries in other documents (ca. 269.000 references). The digital images of these SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamt prisoner cards were made in: Federal Archives, Berlin (103.814), Polish Red Cross, Warsaw (44.279), State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim (563), State Museum Stutthof,...

  10. Häftlingspersonalbogen from Auschwitz concentration camp

    Contains Häftlingspersonalbogen (prisoner registration forms), numbered 1 through 331, for female prisoners at the women's camp at Auschwitz (reel 1) and Häftlingspersonalbogen, numbered 1 through 4,50,0 for male prisoners at the Auschwitz main camp (reels 2-9). Each of the Häftlingspersonalbogen contains personal information such as date and place of birth, marital status, date of arrest, date of entry into the camp, nationality, occupation, religion, race, and physical appearance. Registration forms relate to prisoners, mainly Jews, from different European countries. Also included is i...

  11. Hagana Troops

    Men walking through streets of Jerusalem. Suitcases sign on wall of old city. CUs, woman and her children. Crowd gathered in square. Hagana troops on jeep. CUs, moving villagers on truck, boat. Dead bodies. Aerial shot of buildings. Soldiers on truck with thumbs up. Boys walking towards camera with guns. Weapons moved onto cart. Sandbags block streets. Civilians searched. Hagana officer guards captured Palestinians. Villagers interrogated. Walking with belongings in streets. HAS, city. Civilians walking on streets. Holding portraits. Women with belongings carried on top of their heads. Sold...

  12. Haganah poster

    Poster issued by the Haganah; titled "It All Depends on You" in English and Hebrew with image of finger pointing at viewer and the Haganah shield in the upper left corner; caption in lower left corner "Haganah Poster No. 2"; published 1947

  13. Haggadah commemorating the Holocaust

    Consists of one haggadah, entitled "Pessach Haggadah in Memory of the Holocaust", illustrated by David Wander with calligraphy and micrography by Yonah Weinrib. Published by Goldman's Art Gallery in Haifa, Israel and by the International Society for Yad Vashem, the haggadah is copy 115 of 250. It consists of 12 prints, 31 illuminated pages, and 13 black and white pages. It is housed in a large leather box.

  14. Hahlo family collection

    The collection contains vital records, identity papers and other personal papers of members of the Hahlo family, principally Peter Hahlo. In addition there are interviews with Peter and Fay Hahlo conducted by their son, Gerry, as well as the memoirs Georg Hahlo wrote for his children and family photographs.

  15. Hahn and Laks family collection

    Contains an Arbeitskarte (work ID) issued to Piotr Kaszuba (donor's father; real name Juliusz Hahn) by the employment office in Plauen, Germany on August 31, 1944, stating that the bearer was born on December 29, 1915, is stateless, and is employed as metal worker in the Oskar Otto factory in Elsterberg. Also includes an identity card issued to Ruchla Laks (donor's mother), on July14, 1937; Ruchla Laks, born on October 8, 1916 in Włodzimierz Wołyński, Poland, left Poland on a passport which didn’t belong to her in 1938, escaping imprisonment for belonging to the illegal Communist Party. She...

  16. HAHN, Professor Dr Otto (1879-1968)

    Typescript text in German entitled 'Beziehungen zu Nichtariern' ('Relationships with non-Aryans'), dated Jul 1945, relating to the treatment of Hahn's Jewish friends and colleagues in Germany, 1933-1945.

  17. HAIBLEN, Alfred : Internee and Post-Internment Papers

    Several folders of correspondence with various Canadian and American family friends and sponsors, McGill university documents, all from the late 1930s and early to mid-1940s. Short biographical and explanatory letters written by Mr. Haiblen in 1980, 1993, 2000 and 2004, with explanatory notes appended by his daughter Barb Rugo. Addition: 1 copy print photo Alfred Haiblen (at left) and 3 other McGill land surveying course students on a fieldtrip, outside the Seignory Club at Montebello in 1944. 7 additional photos of Fred Haiblen (1939-1946). One additional folder of school-related documents...

  18. Haika Grosman personal archives (RG-95-69) חייקה גרוסמן, ארכיון אישי

    The collection includes personal documents, correspondence with Hashomer Hatzair leadership and personalities as Meir Ya'ari (1897-1987), the leader of Hashomer Hatzair, Kibbutz Artzi and Mapam; and Ya'akov Hazan (1899-1992),the Israeli politician and social activist; also includes documents from Grosman's activities as a Knesset member (1969-1988).

  19. Haim A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim A., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1923. He recalls his father's prominence in the community; his father's reluctance to escape after German invasion; being rounded-up with all Jewish men in Liberty Square; forced labor for two months; ghettoization; deportations; escaping to Athens via Larisa, with assistance from non-Jewish friends and strangers; living with his brother in the home of a non-Jewish friend; learning his parents had been deported; traveling to Aleppo via Izmir to join the Greek military; training in Gaza, Rhodesia, and Cape Town; returni...

  20. Haïm A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haïm A., who was born in Chișinău, Romania in 1923, one of three children. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1929 due to antisemitism; attending Jewish and public schools; participating in Betar; his father's death in 1933; German invasion; fleeing with his brothers to Boulogne; doing farm work for a few weeks; returning home; living as non-Jews; several menial jobs; arrest with his family in 1943; imprisonment for several weeks; transfer with his family to Malines; deportation in cattle cars; separation from his mother (he never saw her again); arrival i...