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  1. Heinrich Grüber collection

    Contains a typewritten speech, three pages, hand-signed by theologian and Dachau survivor Heinrich Grüber, dated January 1971, entitled "The Chancellor in Front of the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial," referring to the visit by German Chancellor Willy Brandt to a monument in Warsaw. Also contains two letters written by Grüber.

  2. Heinrich Himmler identification card

    Contains a student identification card for Heinrich Himmler (later Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler) from the University of Munich, where he was enrolled from fall semester 1922 through fall semester 1924, studying political science. The identification card includes picture and signature.

  3. Heinrich Himmler itinerary

    Itinerary of Heinrich Himmler from January 1, 1941, to December 30, 1942.

  4. Heinrich Himmler order to establish a special court for relatives of SS and German police personnel

    Consists of a 1940 order signed by Heinrich Himmler establishing a special court in Munich for the relatives of SS and German police personnel.

  5. Heinrich Himmler photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photograph albums including family photographs of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS; his wife, Marga; and their daughter, Gudrun. Also included are photographs of Nazi officials and gatherings.

  6. Heinrich Joest collection

    The collection consists of 137 photographic negatives and 17 contact sheets of images of the Warsaw ghetto.

  7. Heinrich Kraschutski: copy correspondence concerning his fate

    The letters deal with the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski, formerly commander in the German navy, 1914-1918, becoming a prominent figure in the pacifist movement in Germany after the First World War, and co-editor of the pacifist weekly, Das Andere Deutschland, the publication of which was regarded as particularly pernicious and treacherous by the Reichswehr because of its disclosures of violations of the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. He went to Majorca and together with a small group of other anti-nazi refugees opened a little workshop of arts and crafts at...

  8. Heinrich Pollatschek collection

    Copy family correspondence including postcards from Heinrich Pollatschek in Buchenwald to his wife, Zdenka, between August 1938 and March 1939; also letters and postcards from Heinrich and Zdenka Pollatschek from Kielce ghetto, Poland to family in Vienna and London. The correspondence describes the miserable conditions which they endured including food scarcity and cramped accommodation. Heinrich is described as working as an orderly at the office of the Jewish Council of Elders. His wife suffered from high blood pressure and severe rheumatism; also includes English summaries of some of the...

  9. Heinrich Stern collection

    Family correspondence and papers re emigration

  10. Heinrich Stern collection

    The Heinrich Stern collection contains primarily immigration documents related to Heinrich and Charlotte Stern. Heinrich was a lawyer who was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald. He was released after his wife obtained travel permits, and the couple immigrated to Bolivia, where they lived until they moved to the United States in 1944. Documents include visa applications, identity cards, police documents, letters of recommendation, and other documents needed to immigrate. Other various items include the certificate Heinrich obtained to be a notary and practice law, his disbarmen...

  11. Heinrich Sterne: copy letter

    The author of this copy letter written in Sütterlin script is unknown. The recipient, Heinrich Stern, was a lawyer and president of the preussiche Landesverbandes der jüdische Gemeinden

  12. Heinz and Mira Wallerstein collection

    Collection documenting Mira Wallerstein in Russia and Czechoslovakia and Heinz Wallerstein in Kassel, Germany until their separate immigration to the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

  13. Heinz Bauer memoir

    Contains information about the experiences of Heinz Bauer and his family as they emigrated to Kenya via Paris and London following the Anschluss. The memoir describes the years 1938-1940.

  14. Heinz Dieter Menge papers

    The collection documents the World War II-era and post-war experiences of German Luftwaffe fighter pilot Heinz Dieter Menge, who was a prisoner-of-war in Australia from 1941-1947 and later immigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Included is biographical material, correspondence, clippings, immigration documents, two guest books with personal inscriptions and signatures by Menge's guests from the 1950s to 2000s, and photographs. There is also material pertaining to the German POW camp Dhurringile in Australia and reunions of former POWs, including over 50 group photographs. Many of these phot...

  15. Heinz Gappe papers

    Contains bookplates, pamphlets, wedding invitations, business cards, newspaper and other materials, some of which concern the Jewish community in Breslau.

  16. Heinz Heinz H. Linke papers

    Memoir and news articles relating to the Holocaust experiences of Heinz Linke [donor].

  17. Heinz Hesdörffer memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 293 pages, written by Heinrich (Heinz) Hesdörffer, born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany and raised in Fulda, Germany. In the memoir, Mr. Hesdörffer describes his childhood, his evacuation (with other children, including his younger brother Ernst) to the Netherlands in March 1939, Ernst's deportation (despite Heinrich's efforts to protect him), his own deportation in March 1943 to Westerbork, and his subsequent deportation, first to Theresienstadt in February 1944, and then to Auschwitz in May 1944. Mr. Hesdörffer was transferred to the Schwarzheide subcamp, where he was...

  18. Heinz Isenberg collection

    Consists of letters and photographs related to Heinz (Henry) Isenberg, who came to the United States from Germany on a transport in 1936. Includes letters from Heinz and his host family to his parents and sister in Germany, his naturalization papers, school reports, newspaper clippings, and photographs of Heinz and his family. The family was reunited in the United States in 1939. Also includes a video biography of Heinz Isenberg, on DVD, entitled "My Journey to Paradise," made on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

  19. Heinz K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz K., who was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He describes growing up in Thessalonike?; German invasion in April 1941; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; his parents' assignment as translators (he and his family spoke German); a death march and train transport to Mauthausen in January 1945; looking for his mother and sister en route (he did not find them); transfer to Melk, then Ebensee; separation from his father; hospitalization; and liberation by United States troops.

  20. Heinz Loewy postcard

    The collection consists of a postcard received by Heinz Loewy (later Henry Long), who fled to Shanghai, China after surviving imprisonment in several German concentration camps from 1936-1939. The postcard was written by Siegmund "Israel" Meyersohn in Berlin, Germany and dated 17 April 1941.