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  1. Heinz Max and Jetty Werthamer Newbeck families collection

    The collection consists of two prayer book, documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the experiences of Heinz Max and Jetty Werthamer Neubeck (later Newback) and their families, the Neubacks in Dortmund, Germany, and the Werthamers, originally from Kolomea, Poland, as well as Heinz and Jetty's experiences during the Holocaust in Shanghai, China, and their postwar emigration, with their son Reginald, to the United States in 1947.

  2. Heinz P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz P., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1926. He describes his Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; his parents' divorce in 1929; his father joining the Nazi party; his father's remarriage; Kristallnacht in Oberkassel; moving to live with his father in Berlin in 1939; the outbreak of war; his father arranging his admission to a boarding school in Garmisch; his father's death in December 1941; returning to Oberkassel; his mother's deportation to Theresienstadt; living with his aunts in Dortmund, then Dresden, in 1942; working at a photo studio, then at an amm...

  3. Heinz P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1911. He recalls his apprenticeship and employment in a bank; the anti-Jewish boycott in 1933; his brother's emigration to South America; co-workers suddenly shunning him; dismissal from his job in February 1937; working for his father's business associate in Kitzingen; arrest on Kristallnacht; imprisonment in Dachau for three months; his release; and departure for Shanghai a few days later. Mr. P. recounts living outside the Jewish area; starting a photography business with a friend; corresponding with his father who wrote...

  4. Heinz Praeger papers

    The Heinz Praeger papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Heinz Praeger, his prewar life in Germany, and his wartime years as a refugee with his wife and son in Shanghai. Biographical materials include three copies of a brief biography of Heinz Praeger by Michael Carlon describing Praeger’s childhood in Berlin, antisemitic persecution in the 1930s, his imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his relocation to Shanghai, meeting and marrying his wife, the birth of their son, the family’s immigration to the United States, and their lives in New...

  5. Heinz Prossnitz Collection

    Heinz Prossnitz Collection Heinz Prossnitz was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926. Following the German occupation of Czechia and Moravia in March 1939, Heinz joined the Maccabi Hatzair movement in Prague. His "Forbearance" group numbered ten members and it was led by Fredy Hirsch, who was much admired among the Jewish youth in the Protectorate. During the 1940/1941 school year Heinz studied in the Jugend-Aliya [Youth Aliyah] school, which prepared pupils for aliya to Eretz Israel and was therefore permitted by the German authorities. The school was closed in summer 1941 and the situation of th...

  6. Heinz Samuel: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Heinz Samuel, his wife Edna and various other family members. Material includes personal documentation such as birth marriage and death certificates, school certificates and personal correspondence. Also included is a set of family photographs.

  7. Heinz Schubert - Einsatzgruppen

    Lanzmann used the false name Dr. Sorel and filmed this interview clandestinely. Heinz Schubert was Otto Ohlendorf's adjutant in Einsatzgruppe D. He was sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg for his role in the massacre of Jews in the Crimean town of Simferopol. His sentence was commuted to ten years in prison. Schubert never admits to much criminal or moral guilt. The interview ends when Schubert discovers that Lanzmann has been filming it. Several men, among them Schubert's son, attack Lanzmann and his interpreter, Corinna Coulmas. The Schuberts pressed charges agains...

  8. Heinz Sprung collection

    Consists of documents related to the pre-war, wartime, and immediate post-war experiences of Heinz Adolf Sprung, originally of Leipzig, Germany. Heinz was arrested in 1939 and was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Collection includes letters and postcards, on Sachsenhausen stationery, which Heinz sent to his mother and uncles from 1939-1942, as well as mail he received from them. In 1942, Heinz was sent to Auschwitz and worked in Buna until January 1945, when he was sent on a death march back to Germany, where he was liberated. After the war, Heinz wrote down his experiences in ...

  9. Heinz Süssmann personal papers

    Personal papers and correspondence of Heinz Süssmann

  10. Heinz W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Heinz W., who was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany in 1920, the second of three sons. He recounts his father's World War I service in the Russian army and capture in Germany as a prisoner of war (he remained there and established a successful tailoring business); difficulties finding a quorum for his bar mitzvah due to laws against Jews gathering together; his father's trip to Palestine in 1934, then sending his older brother to school there; antisemitic harassment; expulsion from school and an electrician's apprenticeship due to anti-Jewish laws; reluctantly jo...

  11. Heinz-Egon Glass papers

    The papers consist of three letters written by Susi Cohn (later Susi Cohn Podgurski) in the United Kingdom to Heinz-Egon Glass in Shanghai. The letters describe school, her life in England, and asks Mr. Glass to tell her parents not to worry about her.

  12. Hekster family papers

    Contains Red Cross messages between Hekster family members in South Africa and other members of the Hekster family remaining in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation.

  13. Hela F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela F., who was born in Ludmir, Russia (presently Volodymyr-Volyns?kyi?, Ukraine) in 1913, one of six children. She recalls her marriage; her son's birth; Soviet occupation; German invasion; transfer to a ghetto; her father's death; separation from her mother; hiding with others during a round-up; leaving to find water for her son; returning to find everyone gone; learning they had been shot; escaping; learning of the mass grave; hiding with a Polish woman in the country; assuming a Polish name; obtaining food and hiding places for a friend and a cousin; hiding with ...

  14. Hela R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in approximately 1921, one of five children. She recounts her father living in Berlin; her mother running a business; her death in childbirth; her father's return; living with her maternal grandparents; attending a Polish school; studying with Marek Bieberstein; working as a clerk; active participation in Akiba; German invasion; traveling as a non-Jew to visit her father in Sanok, smuggle children to Tarno?w, and visit Warsaw; smuggling into and out of the ghettos in Warsaw and Krako?w, acting as a courier for Zionist movements...

  15. Hela S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland, in 1911, into an Orthodox family of twelve children. Mrs. S. describes extreme antisemitism during her childhood; her close friendship with a non-Jew; her education and marriage; mass murders during the German occupation; the deportation of the Jewish men of Be?dzin; and her and her family's internment in the Srodula ghetto. She tells of her slave labor in Gleiwitz; the death march to Ravensbru?ck; and her liberation by the Russians. Postwar experiences include her return to Be?dzin; her travels in search of family members; an...

  16. Hela Sooaar letter

    Consists of a letter written by Mrs. Hela Sooaar describing her experiences on a death march from Grunberg to Bergen-Belsen with her sister, Rozia Feder Waltioux, and also her post-war experiences. Also includes one photograph of Mrs. Sooaar, taken in 2003.

  17. Hela U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela U., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. She recalls her Orthodox family; German invasion in September 1939; two older brothers' Polish military service for six weeks; fleeing briefly to G?o?wno; returning to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; forced labor; one brother's death from a beating in June 1941; her father and second brother dying in January 1942; trying to keep her mother alive despite her resignation; her death in June 1942; living for her younger brother; hiding him prior to a selection (he was only eleven); assistance from a ghetto policeman; her brother nur...

  18. Hela V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela V., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1927, the youngest of three sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; her father dying from a police beating; buying food posing as a non-Jew (she was blond); selling family belongings to non-Jews; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation; her deportation to Oberaltstadt; slave labor in a weaving factory; better treatment by a German guard after she knit her a sweater; other guards giving them extra food; a prisoner nurse helping them; assistance ...

  19. Hela Weinreb memoir

    Contains a memoir about Hela Weinreb's childhood years in Krakow and her experiences in Plashov, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen during the Holocaust.

  20. Heldentum in Guers

    Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "Heldentum in Guers" (Heroism in Gurs), written by Dr. Ludwig Mann. In the memoir, Dr. Mann, who worked as an inmate doctor, relates his memories of "heroes" he encountered in the Gurs camp--people who cared for the sick or who volunteered to replace others on transports. The memoir is undated, but was written sometime before Dr. Mann's death in 1947.