Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 16,941 to 16,960 of 55,777
  1. Harry L. Smith photograph collection

    The collection consists of 23 photographs taken at Buchenwald at the time of liberation that show camp structures, crematoria, corpses, and liberated prisoners. The photographs were taken by Harry L. Smith in April 1945, when he was a medic with the 628th Medical Clearing Company of the U.S. First Army.

  2. Harry Langsam papers

    The Harry Langsam papers include a letter written by Harry Langsam to his gentile neighbor, Mr. Glazar, inquiring about his family and the rest of the Jewish population as well as a translation of the letter, in English. Also included are two photographs of Jewish policemen in the Ziegenhain displaced persons camp and a photograph of a group of men learning the bricklaying trade as part of vocational training provided by the ORT.

  3. Harry Lee photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting post-liberation Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The images belonged to Private Harry Lee, US Army 7th Armored Division (donor's step-grandfather). Images depict open train cars containing victims, and others wearing concentration camp uniforms moving the deceased; labled on verso in English.

  4. Harry Levitt collection

    Collections consists of seven postcards and a letter the Grudka family in Siedlce, Poland mailed to Sarah and Abraham Levitt in New York before World War II and during the Nazi occupation and one post war postcard from Bytom, Poland.

  5. Harry Lindauer collection

    Papers of Harry Lindauer, Col. U.S. Army, retired. Documents, letters, photographs, published accounts and military reports concerning Harry Lindauer's family history and military experiences, 1941-1945. Additional photocopies and photographs of his return trips to Germany and of award from Federal Republic of Germany in 1988; Dog tag issued to Harry Lindauer.

  6. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., a prominent Dutch author, who was born in Netherlands in 1927. He recalls his father was a German non-Jew and his mother a Dutch Jew; their divorce in 1936; living in Haarlem with his father; weekly visits to his mother in Amsterdam; neither of his parents practicing any religion, although his mother celebrated holidays with her Jewish friends; German invasion in 1940; his father's position at the bank that spearheaded the confiscation of Jewish assets and property; his mother's arrest in May 1943; his father arranging her release; deportation of his grandmo...

  7. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He recounts his United States citizenship through his father; participation in Jewish athletics; pervasive antisemisitm; German occupation in March 1938; giving a Gestapo official their expired passport to ensure they could leave; leaving with his parents for Paris the same day; traveling to the United States three weeks later; arranging for relatives and his fiancee to join them; military conscription in 1943; infantry service in Europe; assignment as an interpreter in April 1945; choosing not to shoot German POWs wh...

  8. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born, one of five children, in a small town in the province of Kielce, Poland, in 1925. Mr. M. remembers the constant antisemitism during his childhood; the German occupation of 1939; the brutality of the German soldiers; the deportations; the murder of his parents; his deportation to P?aszo?w, where he was a slave laborer; his two successful escapes from P?aszo?w; his return to the camp due to conditions outside; and his transfer to Flossenbu?rg in 1943 and Dachau in 1944. He also describes several incidents within the camps; the death march from Da...

  9. Harry Markowicz collection

    The Harry Markowicz photograph collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and copyprints of Harry Markowicz and his family in Widawa, Poland; Berlin, Germany; and Brussels, Belgium from 1920-1949. It also includes one framed hand-painted photograph of Harry Markowicz that was made after his family was reunited. It further includes a bracelet inscribed "Henri Vanderlinden" entrusted to Harry Markowicz immediately following the WWII by the family with whom he hid.

  10. Harry Mayer collection

  11. Harry Oberyant collection

    Collection of letters from 1943-1945 documenting the experiences of Harry Oberyant, who served in the US Army during WWII.

  12. Harry Oberyant papers

    Collection of letters sent home by US Army soldier Harry Oberyant (donor's father) documenting his experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp; 1984 testimony (2 pages) written by Harry Oberyant; 3 photographs of him.

  13. Harry Perkal collection

    Collection of black and white photographs of donor's family in the Displaced Person's camp near Kassel, Germany where they lived from 1945 to March 1952, before leaving for the United States.

  14. Harry Posmantier and family papers

    Contains photographs of a relative who died at Auschwitz and a photograph of the donor's brother, Sam, who was a Jewish policeman at Landsberg DP camp. There also is a photocopy of his postwar ID certificate.

  15. Harry Ralton collection

    The archive contains the personal and business papers of Harry Ralton. The latter concern Harry’s firm the Arcadia Music Publishing Co. There is also an extensive collection of his sheet music published in interwar Germany and in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition there are two folders of letters addressing Harry’s attempts to help his mother escape Germany, Harry's life and career in the UK, post-war conditions and the fates of friends under the Nazis. Prominent correspondents include Herbert Sandberg, Harry’s cousin and conductor of the Royal Swedish Opera, and the journalist and...

  16. Harry Ray collection

    The collection consists of an artifact, correspondence, and prewar photographs relating to the experiences of Harry Ray (Rabinowicz), a resident of the United States, and his relatives in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and in exile in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.

  17. Harry Reese photograph collection

    Collection of black and white photographs and copy prints, some loose, some fused together, which document atrocities committed during the Holocaust at a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp; dated circa 1945. Acquired by Harry Reese (donor's father) while serving with the US Army in Belgium during WWII.

  18. Harry Reis collection

    Consists of correspondence from Hans Reis' parents, who were prisoners in the Gurs concentration camp in France from 1940-1942 to their son and to various other family members. Mr. Reis was part of a Kindertransport to England in 1939, but his parents, who remained in Konigshofen, were deported to Gurs in 1940 and then on to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished.

  19. Harry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1929. He recalls their poverty; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to his family; lying about his age to obtain a job in a glass factory; deportation of his parents and sister (he never saw them again); a man exempted from deportation choosing to stay with his baby (an image that he still sees today); mass shootings in nearby woods; deportation to Cze?stochowa in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Buchenwald, then Rehmsdorf; friend...

  20. Harry Schiller collection

    Consists of two report cards from the Prague English Grammar School, issued to Harry Schiller, and three picture postcards depicting Harry Schiller and his brother, Gustav (born 23 October 1923).