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  1. Halina Jaworski-Klon collection

    The collection consists of two documents of Karol Gecman (later Karol Jaworski) in Kuybyshev, USSR (now Samara, Russia). The first is a 1943 Russian translation of Karol's diploma from a Jewish Gymnasium in Lubin, Poland in May 1933. The second is a 1946 repatriation document allowing Karol to return to Poland.

  2. Halina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina K., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1929, the only child of wealthy parents. She recalls traveling to Warsaw with her mother to avoid German invasion; returning home six weeks later; anti-Jewish regulations, including confiscation of their business; ghettoization; attending a clandestine school; hiding with her father during a round-up; running away when a policeman neared them; escaping from the ghetto; a Polish friend briefly hiding her; Polish men assisting her in a village; finding a Jewish work commando to join; finding her father there; his deport...

  3. Halina Masri papers

    The papers consist of 103 photographs depicting Halina Wroncberg Masri's family before World War II in Poland, her experiences as a hidden child during the war, and her experiences immediately after the war, including her immigration to Israel. The collection also includes a business card for Mordka (Mordechai) Bleiwejs, Halina’s maternal grandfather.

  4. Halina Neujahrs arkiv

    • Archive of Halina Neujahr

    The archive primarily contains documents relating Halina Neujahr's own experiences from the Warsaw ghetto and her time in Sweden in the form of lectures and newspaper articles, as well as the documentary film In Memoriam with Halina Neujahr, in which she talks about her life in the Warsaw ghetto and her transfer to a concentration camp. Centralfilm produced the documentary for the Association of Holocaust Survivors. The archive also contains newspaper articles, audio tapes, videotapes, and photographs from Neujahr's early days in Sweden.

  5. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of 147 drawings, 47 oil paintings, and 135 mixed material pieces of artwork created by Halina Olomucki based upon her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner and death march survivor of Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  6. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Hanna Olomucki based on her experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and as an inmate in the Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust.

  7. Halina Olomucki collection

    The collection consists of eleven drawings created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) during and after the Holocaust as her eyewitness testimony of people and scenes she saw and experienced in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and as a prisoner in Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps.

  8. Halina Peabody collection

    The collection consists of a makeup compact and beaded bag that belonged to donor’s aunt who perished during the Holocaust.

  9. Halina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1929. She describes her loving family; the outbreak of war; fleeing with her family to S?omniki in 1940; returning to Krako?w; living with her family in a village to avoid ghettoization; returning with her family to S?omniki; entering a labor camp to join her older brother and sister as advised by her parents (she never saw them again); deportation to the Krako?w ghetto; her brother advising her to volunteer to move to P?aszo?w; transfer to Schindler's factory; Schindler arranging an easier job for her; visiting her brothe...

  10. Halina Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Halina Z., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. She describes growing up in an affluent home with two sisters; her father's dedication to the family; attending a private high school; the arrival of the Germans; and the ensuing deterioration which led her parents to decide to move the family to her mother's hometown of Chrzano?w, where conditions were better. Mrs. Z. recalls their two years in Chrzano?w; her father's escape to the Soviet Union where he was imprisoned for a year; his return as a changed person; obtaining false papers; and arranging for a customer to ...

  11. Halla Aurél államtitkár iratai

    • Records of State Secretary Aurél Halla

    The overwhelming majority of the records of the Ministry of Trade and Transportation were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45, when the main building of the ministry was destroyed by bomb attack. Therefore, the records of the ministry survived in other collections have special relevance for the study of the economic anti-Jewish policies in Hungary. State Secretary Aurél Halla was one of the key persons in the Ministry of Trade and Transportation responsible for the planning and implementation anti-Jewish legislation. Halla also worked for various companies, and he was an activ...

  12. The hallucinatory vision of our typhic comrades, parked in barracks 8 Print 13 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a blanket-wrapped prisoner has been detained in barrack 8 for those sick with typhus and forgotten about at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and ...

  13. Halmi z Košíc

    • The Halmi family from Košice

    The collection is based on the legacy of one of the Halmi (Hennefeld) family from Košice in the period between 1867 and 1945. The documents that were preserved in the legacy are connected mainly to the personal files of four brothers, Félix, Jenő, Pál and Béla Halmi, and their sister, Piroska who were active in the political, social and cultural life of Košice. Many of the documents belonging to the family legacy concerns the life and survival strategies of the familiy after the first Vienna Award in 1938 and during the holocaust. Among these materials are also their requests for exceptions...

  14. Hamburg

    Hamburg; ships with German flags, swastikas (agfa-color).

  15. Hamburg-Amerika Linie: Copy notice re illegal emigration to Palestine

    Copy of a notice from the Hamburg Amerika Linie, travel company, Breslau office, re sailings and prices for illegal emigration to PalestineGerman 

  16. Hamel family collection

    Contains two photographs and a document related to Marion Hamel and her parents, Hilda (Pincus) and Frederick Hamel who came to the United States from Germany. Contains a birth register certificate for Hilda Hamel.

  17. Hameln Synagogue collection

    Consists of information regarding the history and reconstruction plans of the synagogue in Hameln, Germany, which had been destroyed on Kristallnacht. Includes copies of original drawings of the synagogue before it was destroyed, a bound book entitled "Sie waren Burger der Stadt: Die Geschichte der judischen Einwohner Hamelns im Dritten Reich", by Bernhard Gelderblom (164 pages, published 1997), a brochure about the synagogue, copies of newspaper articles, and a blank piece of stationery with a drawing of the synagogue on the front. Also included is one photoprint consisting of copies of tw...

  18. Hammerschlag and Stein families: personal papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Istvan and Eva Stein, Hungarian Jews from Budapest who emigrated to Cairo in 1938 whilst some members of their family stayed behind and perished in the Holocaust. 

  19. Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children: index

    These index cards are evidence of the activities of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children in connection with the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany (British Inter-Aid Committee). The index cards of the children contain personal data and passport photographs. It seems that the cards were produced following a British Government initiative to simplify admittance procedures for children up to the age of 17 years.There are essentially 3 types of index card. One gives the particulars of the child, including the fate of the parents, and often has passport phot...

  20. Hamy Gal and Holocaust related documentation

    The collection consists of illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal; photographs of Atlit detainee camp created during the Holocaust; photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw; a Treblinka extermination camp testimony; manuscript drafts of poetry by Itzhak Katzenelson; documents related to Jewish detainees in camps in Kenya and Eritrea; and Anti-Semitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera, United States.