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  1. Hannele Kuhn: family papers

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection of family papers consists primarily of letters from the Jewish parents, Franz and Hertha Kuhn, in Berlin, to their daughter, Hannele or Hannah, who had managed to find refuge in Great Britain, having come out on one of the Kindertransporte in 1939. The letters give a very moving account of the trials and tribulations of a very close-knit, loving family split asunder by the Nazis and ultimately condemned to death. The correspondence includes Red Cross telegrams between Hannele and her parents and...

  2. Hanneliese Mendowsky family collection

    The collection consists of a suitcase, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hanneliese Mendowsky Tannenbaum and her mother Martha Mendowsky during and after the Holocaust when they left Breslau, Germany, for the United States.

  3. Hannelore H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannelore H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recounts her father was Lutheran; her mother's baptism as a child (both her parents were Jewish); Jewish children being expelled from her school; not returning a school form on which she had to document her "Aryan" ancestry; her twin brother having to repeat a grade due to anti-Jewish laws; her widowed maternal grandmother living with them; her grandmother's strong sense of German identity (her only son was killed in World War I, and her family had been there for generations); her grandmother's deportation; re...

  4. Hannelore Jacob collection

  5. Hannelore Marx collection

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, describing author's experience of deportation from Germany to Riga ghetto and subsequent years in nearby concentration camps (Kaiserwald and Jungfernhof) before eventual liberation.

  6. Hannelore R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannelore R., who was born in Germany in 1926, the younger of two children. She recounts her father's service in World War I (he lost a leg); expulsion from school; her father's confidence his veteran's status would protect them; hiding in a non-Jewish neighbor's apartment during Kristallnacht; the destruction of their business; deportation with her parents, grandfather, and brother to Gurs in 1940; minimal rations; her mother giving her her bread; her grandfather's death; transfer to Rivesaltes six months later; two months later receiving notice to go to a French orp...

  7. Hannelore Wahlhaus papers

    The papers consist of letters, postcards, telegrams, a passport, a passport photograph, and other documents relating to the experiences of Hannelore Wahlhaus [donor's mother] and her emigration from Germany in 1937, with the assistance of the German-Jewish Children's Aid organization. The collection also documents the subsequent efforts of Max Schrayer, Wahlhaus's "adopted" father in the United States, to bring her parents, brother, and extended family to the United States.

  8. Hannes family letters and postcards

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Hannes family, originally of Hamburg, Germany. Included are five German Red Cross letters, dated from March 1943 to October 1944 from Luise Eugenie Hannes to her daughters Ruth (later Ruth Hannes Doswald) and Lieselotte (later Lieselotte E. Rosenmeyer), both of whom fled Hamburg to England. Her daughters’ responses are on the reverse of each letter. Also included are seven postcards addressed to Luise’s husband Dr. Berthold Hannes from former patients imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The postcards date from De...

  9. Hanni Krispin collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Kolumbus family (donor's family) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes photographs, documents, and letters from the donor's grandmother Ella, who was living in Palestine, addressed to her daughter in Poland, as well as responses from Hanni and her mother in Melmel and Kovno. Also includes letters from them in the Feldafing displaced persons camp.

  10. Hanni L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanni L., who was born in Tempelhof, Germany in 1924. She recounts her father's strong sense of German identity (he served in World War I); her expulsion from public school in 1934; attending Jewish school; Kristallnacht; outbreak of war in 1939; her father's death in January 1940 resulting from forced labor; her forced labor at a munitions factory beginning in July 1940; reluctance to leave her mother, who was ill; her mother's death in April 1942; her grandmother's deportation in September; escaping from a round-up in 1943; non-Jewish friends placing her with anothe...

  11. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Hanni Sondheimer, her parents, Moritz and Setty, and her brother, Karl, as they emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to Kaunas, Lithuania, and then to Shanghai, China, before and during the Second World War. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Hannover's Landesgericht records

    Selected records relating to the Jewish population in Hannover (Germany).

  13. Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp records and photographs

    Contains an unpublished booklet of photocopies of photographs, correspondence, documents, survivor testimonies, and extracts from publications compiled by Vernon W. Tott and relating to the history of Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp and the liberation of the camp by the 84th Infantry on April 10, 1945. The booklet includes Benjamin Sieradzki's 38-page typewritten testimony, "A teenager survives the Holocaust," describing conditions in the Łódź ghetto, his deportation in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, his transfers first to Birkenau and then to Hannover-Ahlem concentration camps, ...

  14. Hanoch Gerstel papers

    The Hanoch Gerstel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, printed materials, and sermons documenting the life of a Vienna‐born pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and his family members in Austria, Sweden, and Hungary. Biographical materials include birth certificates, a Ketubah and marriage certificate, a certificate of origin, a certificate documenting non‐Jewish status, identification cards, and passports documenting the lives of Hanoch and Ester Gerstel, his father Carl Gerstel, and his grandparents Julius and Charlotte Gerst...

  15. Hanoch V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanoch V., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1920, the oldest of five children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; working in a leather store; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair (Abba Kovner was his group's leader); Lithuanian independence; fleeing briefly to relatives in Lida and Maladzechna; returning home; German invasion; killing of Jews; fleeing to Ashmi︠a︡ny; returning when he was caught; ghettoization; forced labor in a dairy factory; smuggling food; obtaining a pistol; participating in the organiz...

  16. Hanover College Collection

    Pamphlets relating to national socialism in Germany, Nazi persecution of Jews, Jewish-Arab conflict regarding Palestine, Japanese participation in World War II, the Korean War, foundation of the Irish state, and other issues. Collected by Hanover College Library.

  17. Hanover Harlen concentration camp

    Hanover Harlen Concentration Camp, Hanover, Germany. MS, Various views of Hanover Harlen camp. MS, inmates of camp piling discarded clothing to be burned. CU, Red Cross clubmobile. CU, Polish prisoners receiving food from Red Cross clubmobile. CU, various views of emaciated Polish prisoners, eating their first good food in 5 years. CS, face of Polish prisoner while eating. CU, nurse treating inmate's foot. CU, five emaciated inmates of Hanover concentration camp. INT, dying prisoners inside of barracks. CU, body of what was once a human being is taken to pit outside of barracks for burial.

  18. Hans (Jan) Löw collection

    Consists of enlargements, CD photographs, original negatives, copyprints, and original photographs of Hans "Jan" Löw, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia. Prior to his 1936 emigration to England, Hans had previously edited a Revisionist Zionist publication in Prague and worked for Keren Tel Chai. Upon his arrival in London, Hans served as a secretary to Vladimir Jabotinsky in his office at 47 Finchley Rd. The office operated from 1936-1939.

  19. Hans and Ethel get married in Philadelphia, 1929

    Open outdoor area. Car with license plate “D617” pulls up and parks. Hans Wolfgang Lindemann and Ethe McGloclin smile and kiss. CUs, Ethel sitting on a concrete planter with bare trees behind her. She smiles as her beau joins. They kiss again. In Philadelphia city, “RITTENHOUSE,” the couple wed in 1929. The newlyweds consult with their wedding party - men have flowers on their suit jacket lapels, and women hold bouquets and wear cloche hats. They meet with the priest, everyone shakes hands, the women joyously throw rice. The couple is getting married. They kiss once again. More hand-shaking...

  20. Hans and Hertha Steinberg collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Hertha and Hans Steinberg and their children Ernst Dieter [donor] and Martin in Hamburg, Germany, Italy and the United States. Hertha and sons left Germany in 1936 for Palestine, stopping in Italy for more than two years And eventually emigrating from Italy to the United States in 1939. Hans never joined, passing away in Germany in 1936. Included are birth and death records, family tree, letters of recommendation, Ketubah, marriage certificates, books, including Talmud and correspondence and report cards.