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  1. Hugo R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hugo R., who was born in Ruma, Yugoslavia in 1926. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; cordial relations with multi-ethnic non-Jews; moving to Novi Sad in 1938; Hungarian occupation; not attending school due to anti-Jewish quotas; expulsion as non-Hungarians; living with his parents, grandmother, and sister in the Fruska Mountains; assistance from a Serb villager; returning to Ruma; brief imprisonment by the Ustaša; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; returning to Novi Sad; escaping the mass killing in January 1942 due to their false papers; German occupati...

  2. Hugo Schriesheimer papers Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)

    Private papers of Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989), Holocaust survivor from Konstanz, Germany. The collection consists of school and work documents, passports, identity cards, photographs concerning childhood and youth in Konstanz as well as imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and Gurs internment camp, and asylum in Switzerland; correspondence, lectures, publications, newspaper clippings, and various documents relating to the Memorial Museum in Gurs and the 50th anniversary of the "Reichskristallnacht" in Konstanz.

  3. Hugo Sinclair de Rochemont, 1901 - 1942

    Hugo Sinclair de Rochement (1901-1942) stichtte in december 1922 vmet dr. K.H.E. de Jong, privaat-docent aan de universiteit van Leiden, dr. Alfred A. Haighton, directeur van de loterijmaatschappij 'Lotisico', en met zijn mede-student A. van Iperen de eerste fascistische organisatie in Nederland: Het Verbond van Actualisten (VvA). Door gebrek aan organisatietalent en door de intriges van de geldschieter Haighton verwaterde het VvA vrij spoedig en in 1926 viel de beweging uit elkaar. Haighton, die actief wilde blijven op politiek gebied wist Sinclair die inmiddels zijn studies gestaakt had, ...

  4. Hugo Steinhardt Collection

    Printed material relating to The Cedar Boys (N.d); Printed material relating to Hugo Steinhardt (1998); 1 photograph.

  5. Hugo Zulawski papers

    Consists of photographs, a photograph album, documents, and correspondence, owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Zulawski immigrated to the United States in 1939 on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport). Prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs include those Hugo took while in the United States military (1944-1947) and images of his parents while they were at the Kitchener Camp in England. Documents include restitution paperwork for property confiscated in Poland.

  6. Huguette F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Huguette F., who was born in Paris, France in 1925. She recalls her family's strong sense of French identity; her brother's French military service; German invasion; her father's death; not hearing from her brother; escaping with her family and governess to the unoccupied zone; living in Nice and Marseille; benign Italian occupation; German invasion; her mother's and grandmother's arrests; remaining with her governess and brother; his escape to join the Maquis; arrest in May 1944; deportation to Drancy, then Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor; a close bond with a family ...

  7. Huguette Frank papers

    The collection primarily contains documents, correspondence, and photographs that document the wartime experiences of Huguette Salomon Frank of Paris, France in Marseille, France; Drancy transit camp; Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp; Ravensbrück concentration camp; and one of the Bunzlau subcamps of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Included are some photographs and documents relating to the pre-war lives of the Salomon family, and Huguette’s post-war life with her husband Werner Frank.

  8. Huisman family collection

    Contains an illustrated photo album created by seventeen-year-old Max Appelbaum. The album uses a grouping of donated family photographs from the Marie Louise Refugee Center in St. Simon, near Toulouse, France to show their appreciation to camp director Jacob Huisman and his wife Judith who lived in the camp with children Michele and Annie (donor's uncle and mother). The photo album is dated 1942 and was presented to the family before they immigrated to Toronto, Canada. Includes a group of loose photographs showing pre-war families' experiences. The Marie Louise Refugee Center, a Belgium an...

  9. Hulda Cassel correspondence collection

    Contains five letters written by Holocaust survivor Hulda Cassel after her liberation from Theresienstadt. She wrote the letters from a refugee camp in Switzerland to her family in Manila between July and December 1945.

  10. Hulpvereniging voor Gereformeerd Schoolonderwijs te Scheveningen, nadien Vereniging voor Gereformeerd Schoolonderwijs

    Op 13 november 1885 is in Scheveningen de Hulpvereniging voor Gereformeerd Schoolonderwijs te Scheveningen. Deze ‘Hulpvereeniging voor Gereformeerd Schoolonderwijs’ kreeg op 22 juli 1886 bij Koninklijk Besluit officiële erkenning. Diverse Scheveningse scholen vielen onder de verantwoordelijkheid van deze schoolvereniging. In september 1938 namen grenadiers een deel van de Rehobothschool gedurende een maand in gebruik in het kader van de kustverdediging. Alle Scheveningse scholen kregen in 1939 inkwartiering. Tijdens de bezetting betrok de Wehrmacht de Rehobothschool. De school zou ernstige ...

  11. Hülsen, Botho von (Generalleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Generalleutnant Botho Graf von Hülsen geboren am 06. Jul 1895 in Wien (Wien), gestorben am 11. Jan 1980 in Freiburg, Breisgau März bis Oktober 1914 Diensteintritt und Fahnenjunker im Kaiser-Alexander Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 1, Oktober 1914 Verwundung, anschließend bis Sommer 1915 Genesung 1915 bis März 1916 im Ersatzbataillon des 1. Kaiser-Alexander Garde-Grenadier-Regiments Nr. 1, März 1916 kommandiert zum Stellv. Garde-Korps, Herbst 1916 im Stab des Chefs des Feld-Ersatz-Wesens, Dezember 1916 Adjutant des Chefs des Kriegsamtes im Kriegsministerium, Frü...

  12. Hülsen, Walter von (General der Infanterie)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten: geb. 20.Mai 1863 in Kosel, gest. 13.März 1947 Beförderungen April 1881 Leutnant September 1888 Oberleutnant September 1893 Hauptmann Januar 1902 Major August 1908 Oberstleutnant September 1911 Oberst Juli 1914 Generalmajor März 1918 Generalleutnant Juni 1921 General der Infanterie Verwendungen 1881 4. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß Februar 1888 Gardegrenadier-Regiment 4 Oktober 1889 - Juli 1892 Kriegsakademie April 1893 Kompaniechef im 3. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß Oktober 1901 Adjutant beim Generalkommando X. Armeekorps Juni 1905 Kommandeur II./2. Garde-Regim...

  13. Human skin used as evidence; Milch questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    05:09:56 (Munich 26) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1946. Pieces of human skin processed as leather are displayed on an easel in the courtroom while Russian prosecutor L N Smirnov addresses the Tribunal concerning this evidence. NOTE: Skin was reportedly removed from prisoners of a concentration camp in Koenigsberg, East Prussia. 05:14:07 (Munich 42) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. HAS, Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogating Erhard Milch about officers' knowledge of Germany's preparedness for war. Milch keeps repeating that the officers had no kno...

  14. Humanitarian Federation "Brotherhood B'nai B'rith" in Warsaw (Sygn. 674)

    Founding documents of the "Brotherhood of B'nei B'rith," in Warsaw, Poland, as well as the minutes of sessions of the board and members, briefs of the operation and financial records, correspondence, registers of membership, reports and notes referring to the organization and operation of the federation.

  15. Humboldt University Archives records

    Contains documents, mostly from the 1930s, deriving from various bodies and faculties of Humboldt University, concerning the status of Jewish professors and students. Includes financial and administrative files pertaining to antisemitic activities at the Humboldt University.

  16. Hummel, Fritz (Oberstleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Oberstleutnant Zitierweise BArch N 17/...

  17. Humorous Hitler postcard

    Consists of one postcard depiciting a cartoon Hitler painting an outhouse with a copy of "Mein Kampf" hanging inside the doorframe. The postcard is entitled "The House Painter." The postcard was sent from Pvt. F. Coleman at Fort Sill, OK, on May 24, 1943, to Mr. Francis Gowen in Concord, NH. In the postcard, Pvt. Coleman writes that he hopes that the picture on the postcard were true.

  19. Hungarian and Polish poster collection

    The collection consists of three Hungarian posters and one Polish poster.

  20. Hungarian brick collection

    The collection consists of two bricks from local brick factories relating to events in the area of Kőszeg, Hungary, during the Holocaust.