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  1. Hans Edward Prager letter

    Consists of one letter written by Hans Edward Prager, originally of Berlin, Germany, on May 9, 1947, from Birmingham, England to John H. Prager of Washington, DC. In the letter, Hans Prager describes his wartime experiences and asks John Prager, whom he does not know, for an affidavit so that he might immigrate to the United States.

  2. Hans Engel letters

    Hans Engel's letters (dated 17 May 1945; 27 May 1945; and 11 Jun. 1945) describe his impressions of the concentration camp of Sandbostel and of its survivors' medical conditions.

  3. Hans F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (currently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1928. He recalls antisemitic street violence; the destruction during Kristallnacht; his father's six week incarceration in Buchenwald; his emigration to Cuba upon release; embarking in Hamburg with his mother and sister on the St. Louis to join his father; Cuba denying landing permission; returning to Antwerp; traveling to France; living by himself in an OSE children's home in Montmorency; joining his mother and sister in Laval after German invasion; embarking for Cuba; a week on Ellis Island en ...

  4. Hans F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wrocław, Poland). He recounts anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's arrest and incarceration in Buchenwald on Kristallnacht; his release in December 1938 based on his departure from Germany followed by his emigration to Cuba in January 1939; his father's friend arranging for Mr. F., his sister, and mother to emigrate to Cuba; the painful separation from his grandparents (he suspected he would never see them again); buying permits in Hamburg at the Cuban consulate; their departure on the St. Louis; the Cuban govern...

  5. Hans F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in 1922, the youngest of three children, into an assimilated family in Breslau, and moved to Berlin at the age of seven. He is now a professor of Religious Studies and much of his testimony is suffused with a psycho-historical critique of the topics he discusses. From his personal experience, Professor F. tells of his early politicization; his parents' fear for the family; his education in England, where he became a religious Christian (while his father, still in Germany, renounced his own conversion and returned to Judaism as a political protest...

  6. Hans Fassler testimony

    Interview with Hans Fassler, legislator from Switzerland, relating to the saving of Jews by a Mr. Grueninger during World War II.

  7. Hans Feld Papers

    Papers and documents relating to Dr. Hans Feld, German-Jewish film critic and journalist. The collection includes personal documents and letters relating to Hans Feld and his wife and son as well as manuscripts commenting on the radio and emerging film industry in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. The collection also contains all of his appointment diaries stretching from 1922-1978.

  8. Hans Fischböck papers

    The Hans Fischböck papers consist of correspondence, official documentation, biographical materials, and photographs, documenting Fischböck's National Socialist career which involved the systematic expropriation and Aryanization of Jewish properties and assets in Nazi-annexed Austria and the Nazi-occupied Netherlands; Fischböck's flight to Argentina after the war; his life and work in Latin America; and his eventual return to Germany and Austria. It contains official certificates of promotion and commendations issued to Hans Fischböck by high-ranking Nazi officials including Adolf Hitler, H...

  9. Hans Frank

    Hans Frank, Governor-General of Poland, visits Stry (a small town in western Ukraine), and is presented with flowers. Marches in city streets lined with Ukrainians. HAS in Belgrade,Serbia military gathering, Serbs, flag. Russians crowd in city square marching with signs, parade of collaborators. Translation of Ukrainian narration: With great enthusiasm the Ukrainian population greeted the General-governor. [Belgrade/Serbia]: And in Belgrade there were also many Serbian volunteers who agreed to fight against communism. On St. Yuriy's (St, George) Day Serbian volunteer units received a flag. ...

  10. Hans Frank and the children at Schoberhof

    Michael on a tricycle at Schoberhof in wintertime. 02:20:59 Extended CUs of family members, including Brigitte (02:21:17) and Hans (02:21:36). Teenage Sigrid balances a vase on her head. The family acts out a scene: they look for grandmother and excitedly welcome her to their home at Schoberhof in the mountains. Happy family, hugging. Children play and pose for the camera, good CUs. 02:24:16 In summertime, a party/celebration with relatives. The kids play outdoors and pose for camera. Hans Frank with Brigitte and Michael take a walk with their dog. 02:24:56 At Schoberhof, Hans runs towards ...

  11. Hans Frank in Poland

    UFA #688: Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, visits Pilsudski Tomb and dines at castle. MS of elaborate scrollwork on entryway to tomb, group of Nazi officials enters, shots of tomb and overhead of people in room. Outdoors in courtyard of castle, Frank and aide are introduced to various people, CU as he shakes hands while in BG Nazi officers stand around. LS of people seated outdoors at table. Good MCU of Frank without his cap, shot of castle exterior.

  12. Hans Frank's newborn son

    Brigitte Frank (age 44) lays in bed at a hospital in Munich with a newly born son, Niklas, born in March 1939. Dark interior shots, flowers in the room. 02:01:09 Brief shot of grandmother Magdalena Frank. 02:01:31 Brigitte stands outside of the Frank family's vacation home in the snowy mountains, pan of the landscape. A man and the nanny Hilde play with a still photograph camera. Train passes by.

  13. Hans G. Rosen documents

    Contains twelve documents pertaining to Hans G. Rosen's experiences in the underground during the Holocaust.

  14. Hans Garfunkel collection

    Consists of letters written to Bessie Silberman, in Chicago, IL, from Hans Garfunkel, as Hans was trying to obtain the visas and affidavits necessary to emigrate to the United States (in English and French); letters written to Hans Garfunkel from his parents in Germany (in German); report cards and other academic paperwork for Hans Garfunkel; and telegrams and consular correspondence regarding Hans Garfunkel's visa requests. Also consists of 12 pre-war and wartime photographs of the family and friends of Hans Garfunkel.

  15. Hans Gewecke

    Lanzmann used a false name and filmed this interview with a hidden camera. See his description of filming Gewecke in his memoir The Patagonian Hare, published 2009 by Farrar Strauss and Giroux, pages 456-457. Gewecke was the Gebietskommissar of Siauliai, Lithuania. In 1971 he was convicted and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for participation in the execution of a Jewish baker for smuggling. Gewecke is evasive about when he arrived in Siauliai, stating that the killing actions there took place "before my time." He claims that he was not a crass anti-Semite and provides as proof...

  16. Hans Globke: deposition concerning Jewish name changes in the Third Reich

    This is an original signed statement by Hans Globke, formerly chief adviser to Konrad Adenauer and earlier, official commentator on the Nuremberg Racial Laws. The statement deals with the provision of names denoting the Jewish origins of German citizens. The document is typescript with corrections apparently initialled, signed and dated by Globke.

  17. Hans Hartmut Weil collection

  18. Hans Helm - policijski izaslanik pri Poslanstvu Trećeg Reicha u Zagrebu

    • Hans Helm - the representative of the Third Reich police administration in Zagreb
    • Hrvatski državni arhiv
    • HR-HDA-1521
    • English
    • 1942-1945
    • 39 boxes (material relating to Jews: two binded books)

    Collection contains records on members of the German intelligence service, the members of the intelligence and police authorities of the ISC and the British intelligence services; a list of members of the various intelligence agencies, and information about them, information about members of the state apparatus of the NDH/ISC/ Ustasha officials, on various nationalist organizations, participants of the'People's Liberation Movement'(anti-fascist fighters); communists and the partisan leaders, Home Guard officers (NDH/ISC) gone into the partisans,"white Guards"in Sušak and Rijeka, Masons, Che...

  19. Hans J. Kaufman collection

    Book and articles regarding donor's father Arthur Kaufman. One photocopy of document with Himmler's signature, 17 August 1942. One postcard with list of names of those who appear.

  20. Hans Kroker: papers re law suit

    This collection contains papers concerning a threatened law suit which arose out of an assertion made in the famous TV programme Holocaust, which was broadcast in Germany in 1979. In particular, Hans Kroker, a former SS member, refutes the assertion made by one of the programme's participants that the family of this person was murdered in gas chambers, claiming that, without proof, it amounted to a vicious slur on the SS. The papers include a news magazine cutting with details of the story; a copy letter from Hans Kroker's lawyer, Eberhard Engelhardt, to the person who uttered the alleged s...