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Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Harry Boonin collection

    Contains the photocopies of six depositions and relating to mass killings of Soviet civilian Jews and Soviet Jewish prisoners of war from Starokosti︠a︡ntyniv, Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ Gaysin, and Uman in Ukraine. The killings took place in Kirovohrad, Ukraine, around September 1941, and were carried out by Police Battalion 304. The depositions were used by the German Democratic Republic as prosecution evidence in war crimes trials held in Halle, circa 1970 to 1988.

  2. Harry Burger collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Harry Burger during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Harry C. Abeles collection

    Correspondence: received by Harry C. Abeles (Heinz Abeles) [donor's father] born in Munich, Germany on December 6, 1922. The letters were written by his parents Margarete Grete Lewy Abeles and Eugenie Abeles in Munich after their son's emigration to the USA in 1937. Prayer book: received by Harry Abeles on the occassion of his Bar Mitzvah on December 14, 1935, presented to him by the Jewish Community of Munich.

  4. Harry C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry C., who was born in Poland in 1896, the youngest of three children. He recalls attending cheder in Sosnowiec; his older sisters' marriages; his parents' deaths; working in textiles; marriage; German invasion; his wife's deportation to Auschwitz; his deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Blechhammer; slave labor "digging and chopping"; public hangings; Allied bombings; hospitalization; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Katowice, then Sosnowiec; a month later leaving for Wroc?aw, then Munich; living in Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp from 1945 to 1949; ...

  5. Harry C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry C., who was born in Narvik, Norway, to a British father and Danish mother. He recalls a stepbrother from his father's first marriage; German bombardment; incarceration in Grini for about nine months; his mother's parents bribing a high Nazi official to free them; their "escape" to Copenhagen, with assistance from the underground in both countries (he never saw his father again); being warned of German deportations in fall 1943; departing from Kastrup to Landskrona, Sweden on boats, an underground operation; living in Göteborg until the end of the war; returning...

  6. Harry C. Saunders collection

    Contains photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence, publications and photographs which relate to the 1st Platoon, Troop D, 41st Cavalry Recon Squadron Mech., 11th Army Armored Division, liberating Mauthausen, and Harry C. Saunders' recollections of Mauthausen.

  7. Harry D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry D., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1928. He recalls a comfortable life as the only child of two members of the intelligentsia (his father was a concert pianist and music teacher); attending Jewish schools; drastic changes after Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; Latvian anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; his grandfather's disappearance during a round-up; and taking his mother's advice to say he was older in order to accompany his father (he never saw her again). Mr. D. describes work in an SS hospital; arrival of German Jews; execution of Jewish p...

  8. Harry David collection

    Consists of letters, articles, photographs, identity cards, and forms related to the life and experiences of Harry David, born Hans Dzialowski, originally of Berlin, Germany. Mr. David immigrated to Bolivia to escape the Nazis and worked as a news announcer for Radio Patria. In 1941, he immigrated to the United States, where he established himself as a writer and advisor for business affairs. Includes paperwork regarding his immigrations and his work with Radio Patria, as well as his identification cards and pre-war family photographs. Also includes writing samples from later in his life.

  9. Harry E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915, one of eight children. He recounts his family's poverty; their move to Kuro?w, then Zwierzyniec; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; their return to Warsaw in 1925; participating in S.K.I.F., the Bund youth group; attending a Yiddish Bund school; working as a floorer; German invasion; a bombing killing his mother, sister, and baby niece; working with his wife and sister in a Bund sanatorium/orphanage in Miedzeszyn near Falenica; support from the Joint; bringing his younger brother there; leaving eighteen m...

  10. Harry E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry E., a non-Jew, who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1921. He recalls employment in the immigration section of the Department of Justice in 1938; assisting his supervisor in Antwerp, Belgium on the St. Louis, when it returned to Europe (Holland had agreed to take a portion of the Jewish refugees); passengers passing him notes attempting to document connections to Holland; his supervisor choosing those who had high numbers for emigration elsewhere to minimize their stays in Holland; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the star; some n...

  11. Harry E. Norman collection

    The collection consists of a belt and a collectin of lantern slides.

  12. Harry Edward Anderson Collection

    This collection contains some personal papers and photographs of Harry Edward Anderson (formerly Hans Israel Abraham) who emigrated to England as a Jewish refugee upon release from Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

  13. Harry Ehrismann papers

    The Harry Ehrismann papers consist of an unbound scrapbook created by Ehrismann documenting the voyage of the MS St. Louis, its return to Europe, and the selection of passengers to be transferred to the Netherlands. The first folder includes correspondence; notes; a report by C.G. van Dalfsen and Gilles Hendrik van Helden (inspectors of the Municipal Police of Rotterdam) describing the selection of refugees to be welcomed by the Netherlands; a list of those passengers; a registration card for Hannelore Klein; and three name cards worn by passengers Hannelore Klein, Hilde Pander, and Martin ...

  14. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1919. He describes attending public school; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; joining his younger brother at a work camp (he never saw his parents or older brother again); escaping; his brother joining him in Lubarto?w; living briefly in the Majdan Tatarsky ghetto; obtaining false papers from the underground; being caught escaping; getting into a work group (his brother was deported); traveling to Tereszpol; working in ?uko?w; secretly sharing his food with Jews in the ghe...

  15. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., a Romani. He recalls his family's long history of puppetry and puppet shows; performing throughout Germany; observing violence against the Jews; deciding to leave Germany; living in Schleusingen; obtaining false passports in Nuremberg; crossing to Italy; performing; good treatment by the Italians; leaving for Yugoslavia when they were unable to renew their passports; performing in Zagreb; traveling to Bucharest; observing Jewish deportations; moving to Bulgaria, then back to Yugoslavia; performing for German soldiers under the pretense of being state sanctio...

  16. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924. He describes emigrating with his mother and brother to Belgium in 1933; the family moving to Zaandam; adjusting to school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; obtaining Palestine visas; a brief arrest in 1940; anti-German riots in Amsterdam in 1941; internment with his parents and brother in Westerbork; building barracks; reluctance to leave his parents and brother when he had the opportunity to escape; avoiding deportation due to their Palestine visas; deportation in 1944 with his family to Bergen-Belsen to a special ...

  17. Harry Felzer photograph collection

    Consists of photographic negatives taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp from the collection of Harry Feltzer, who was a photographer in the United States Army. Also includes a negative of a building displaying Nazi insignia.

  18. Harry Fogel collection

    Consists of a photocopy of a diary, in Polish, written by Harry Fogel between 1939-1944. In the diary, he describes his life in the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto, including the experience of purchasing food, the morale of those in the ghetto, and attempts at resistance. Also includes a photocopy of a speech, in English, which Harry Fogel gave at the Łódź ghetto commemorative ceremony in Montreal, Canada, on October 10,1994.

  19. Harry Friedman correspondence

    The Harry Friedman correspondence consists of postcards and letters Harry Friedman received from family members including Perl, Simon, and Isaac Friedman in Horodenka, Poland before World War II and under the Soviet occupation in 1940.

  20. Harry Froehlich and Isaak Judas families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, a Boy Scout banner, belt, twenty drawings, two albums, papers, and photographs related to the experiences of Harry Froehlich, in a refugee camp in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, circa 1939-1945, and then in Palestine, as well as documents and photographs related to the experiences of Isaak Judas, originally of Ihringen, Germany, before and after World War II.