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Language of Description: Romanian

  2. Hannah H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah H., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls attending public school and business school; celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion; ghettoization with her family in the Srodula section; forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; her brother being caught and killed; foregoing an escape opportunity to save her parents from deportation (they were not released); deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; being shaved and tattooed; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to a German camp in January 1945; liberation by the Red Cross in April; tr...

  3. Hannah Kaplan collection

    The collection consists of three published portfolios of artwork, Tanuságtétel by Shraga Weil, 16 fameszete by Miklos Adler, and Danse Macabre by Ernest (Emo) Barta, published soon after the Holocaust.

  5. Hannah Koblentz Shulman collection

    Contains one copyprint of a wartime photograph of Hannah Koblentz Shulman, originally of Albany, NY, in a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps uniform, and a copy of the July/August 1998 issue of "The Jewish Veteran" magazine. The magazine contains an article entitled "Jewish Women in the Military: Hannah Koblentz" and describes Mrs. Shulman's experiences in the armed forces and her experiences as a Jewish woman touring the newly liberated concentration camps.

  6. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    The collection consists of a spice box, sugar tongs, a tabelcloth, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hannah Kronheim, a Kindertransport refugee from Bochum, Germany, and her family before and during the Holocaust.

  7. Hannah Messinger collection

    The collection consists of a series of drawings done around 1970 by Hannah Messinger based upon her experiences as a prisoner in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Sackisch concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Czechoslovakia immediately after the end of the war.

  8. Hannah Metzger speech relating to Holocaust survival

    Consists of a transcript of a speech in English, eight pages, written by Hannah Metzger on the occasion of a reunion of the Jewish school of Fürth/Nuremberg, detailing her experiences living in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  9. Hannah N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah N., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1922 to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. She recalls being raised as a Jew; little antisemitism until Hitler's ascent to power; her parents' unsuccessful attempts to emigrate; synagogue confirmation in 1937; being protected by a non-Jew during Kristallnacht; high school graduation in 1938; deportations of many Jews; Allied bombings; her deportation to a forced labor camp in 1944 (her mother was sent to Berlin); a privileged position due to having previously worked for the SS officer in charge (she was the only Jew not...

  10. Hannah R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah R., who was born in S?iauliai, Lithuania in 1928. She recalls her comfortable, observant childhood; speaking Hebrew at home; summer vacations in Palanga; antisemitic violence; Soviet occupation; her father's imprisonment and release; German invasion; her father's disappearance (she never saw him again); ghettoization; transfer with her mother and sister to the Trakai ghetto in 1943; the children's round-up in June 1944; deportation with her mother and sister in July to Stutthof; their transfer to several work camps; the death march in December to Gross Golmkau ...

  11. Hannah Starman research collection

    Consists of photocopies of original documents collected from various archives in Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, and Italy, pertaining to Jewish life in Slovenia from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. Incudes copies of birth and death certificates; community membership lists; individual, community and industrial property listings; deportation lists; documents related to the aliyah of Slovenian Jews and the subsequent confiscation of their property; individual files pertaining to expropriation of Jewish properties by the Nazis and later by the Communist regime; documents per...

  12. Hannah T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah T., who was born in Halberstadt, Germany in approximately 1922. She recalls her father's death; moving to Hannover in 1933; living with her maternal grandfather; his orthodoxy; attending pubic school; expulsion as a Jew in 1936; living in an orphanage in Hamburg for a year; learning domestic skills and English; working at a resort outside Hamburg; her brother's emigration to the United States; learning of Kristallnacht through the media; returning home; working as a maid, then in a knitting company; assistance from some non-Jews; the outbreak of war; receiving ...

  13. Hannah Weill photographs

    Consists of 13 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Hannah Mansbacher Weill, originally of Berlin, Germany. She and her family immigrated to Shanghai, China in May 1939 in order to escape the Holocaust. They immigrated to the United States in 1947. Photographs depict Hannah in Berlin, life in post-war Shanghai, and photographs of the family's immigration to California.

  14. Hannah Wolpert letter

    Consists of two envelopes and one letter written by Hannah Wolpert from Kelme, Lithuania, to cousins Jean and Sophia in New Jersey, describing life in Kelme in 1931. The letter is five pages long on two pieces of paper, and the donor recovered the letter from the attic of the Wolpert family home in Palisades Junction, NJ.

  15. Hannah Zimmerman papers

    The collection is comprised of affidavits, a passenger list of voyagers on the RMS Queen Elizabeth aboard which Hannah Zimmerman and her parents arrived to the United States, and a luggage tag. It also includes photographs of Hannah Zimmerman as a young child. With the exception of one wartime photograph showing Hannah circa 1 ½ - 2 years of age, the photographs of Hannah were taken while she and her parents lived in Bratislava after the war, and later as displaced persons in Munich prior to their immigration to the United States in 1952.

  16. Hannalore F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannalore F., who was born in Oberlauringen, Germany in 1931. She recalls leaving school due to antisemitic harassment; her father's work as a cantor and teacher; his arrest on November 9, 1938; a neighbor warning them to leave their home; hiding in her aunt's home during Kristallnacht; a Nazi neighbor protecting their home (all other Jewish homes were vandalized); learning her father was in Dachau; her mother planning their emigration; receiving documents from her uncle in Norway (he was a rabbi there); her father's release; living with her uncle in Oslo; German inva...

  17. Hanne S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanne S., who was born in Hagen, Germany in 1922. She recalls her parents' successful millinery and yarn shop; attending lyceum; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; Nazi intimidation of their non-Jewish customers; escalating vandalism; their emigration to Dordrecht, Netherlands; her parents establishing a similar store; attending school; German invasion; compulsory transfer inland to Gorinchem; her parents' decision to go into hiding with the help of non-Jewish friends (the Hucks); being separated from her sister and parents to hide with a farm family; moving when susp...

  18. Hannele Kuhn: family papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and...

  19. Hanneliese Mendowsky family collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hanneliese Mendowsky Tannenbaum and her mother Martha Mendowsky during and after the Holocaust when they left Breslau, Germany, for the United States.

  20. Hannelore H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannelore H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recounts her father was Lutheran; her mother's baptism as a child (both her parents were Jewish); Jewish children being expelled from her school; not returning a school form on which she had to document her "Aryan" ancestry; her twin brother having to repeat a grade due to anti-Jewish laws; her widowed maternal grandmother living with them; her grandmother's strong sense of German identity (her only son was killed in World War I, and her family had been there for generations); her grandmother's deportation; re...