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  1. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1921 and raised in Vienna. He recalls his affluent childhood; his family's assimilation, emphasis on Viennese culture, and education; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; his older sisters' emigration; traveling to Prague to continue school; arrest; returning home; being sent to Paris in September 1938; internment in Melsay-du-Maine as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war in September 1939; release and emigration to the United States in January; assistance from HIAS in New York; being drafted in 1942; special tr...

  3. Harry Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry Z., who was born in Be?z?yce, Poland in 1926. He recounts the war starting his first day of school; his father doing forced labor; working as a messenger for the Judenrat; the arrival of Jews deported from Germany (one family lived with them); hiding during round-ups; capture by Ukrainian guards; escape; locating his father; hiding in a cellar with his family and several others; entering the Lublin ghetto with his parents, then Be?z?yce concentration camp (his sister was hidden by non-Jews); slave labor in a shoe workshop, then demolishing buildings in G?usk; a ...

  4. Harry Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry Z., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1919. He recalls growing up in a religious family, the fifth of eight children; his father's death when he was nine years old; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee; anti-Jewish measures; separation from his family when he was deported to Auenrode in October 1940 (he never saw them again); slave labor building roads; receiving packages from home until 1941; his experiences in Gross Sarne, Geppersdorf, and Klettendorf; liberation from Waldenburg by Soviet troops in April 1945; ...

  5. Harry Zaslow letter

    Correspondence: Two letters from Harry Zaslow, an American soldier, to his parents, 1944-1945, including his description of having visited an unidentified concentration camp after liberation in May 1945.

  6. Harsch, Franz (Hauptmann d.R.)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 13.10.1881 - 05.04.1958, Hauptmann der Reserve Bestandsbeschreibung Tage- und Notitzbücher sowie Fotoalben über Eisenbahntruppen im 1. Weltkrieg. Zitierweise BArch N 137/...

  7. HART, Lt Cdr Leonard George Richard (1903-1987)

    Papers relating to his service in Germany, 1945-1947, principally comprising British Zone Review vol 1 no 7, published by the Control Commission for Germany, (British Element), Dec 1945; Royal Rupert Times and Garrison News, edited by Hart, Feb 1947; photographs of Belsen concentration camp, 1945. Papers relating to Hart's work as Recreational Libraries Officer, 1966, notably an article on Hart and the RN Library Service cut from Navy News no 141, Mar 1966. Beating the invader and If the invader comes, two printed leaflets advising civilians how they should behave in the event of a German i...

  8. Hartig, Harry

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. am 16. Okt. 1928, Oberstleutnant (NVA) 1946 SED-Eintritt 1948 Volkspolizei, Grenzpolizei, später Grenztruppe 15. März 1971 - 30. Apr. 1990 Leiter der Unterabteilung I und stellvertretender Direktor des Militärarchivs der DDR (Oberarchivrat) Bestandsbeschreibung Vorlasss wurde am 03.05.1990 an das Militärarchiv der DDR übergeben und 1996 vom BArch übernommen. Es wurden vorläufige Titel vergeben und Datensätze angelegt, alle AE sind unbewertet. Inhaltliche Charakterisierung geb. 1928, Oberstleutnant, stellv. Direktor des Militärarchivs der DDR. Nachlass en...

  9. Hartkopf, Günter

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1421
    • German
    • 1984-1989
    • Nachlässe 42 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 4,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Hartkopf, Günter: Reden1969-1979. Eine Auswahl von Reden aus den Jahren 1969-1979. Hrsg.: Der Bundesminister des Innern. Bonn 1979 Lebensdaten 1.6.1923 geboren in Wuppertal 1941 Abitur an der höheren Schule in Düsseldorf 1941-1945 Kriegsdienst bei einer techn. Marineabteilung, zuletzt als Oberleutnant der Reserve und Batteriechef 1945-1949 Jurastudium in Göttingen 1949-1952 Referendar im juristischen Vorbereitungsdienst 1953-1957 Assessor und Regierungsrat im Bereich der Oberfinanzdirektion Düsseldorf und Referent für regionale und sektorale Strukturpolitik i...

  10. Hartl, Albert

    Bestandsbeschreibung Typoskripte und Ausarbeitungen, auch: Schriftwechsel Zitierweise BArch N 1356/...

  11. Hartog family collection

    Collection of documents, letters, photographs and a medal relating to the Hartog family during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The collection includes correspondence from Camp de Gurs, France and documents from Belgium, France and Germany

  12. Hartshorne family papers

    The Hartshorne family papers primarily contain correspondence and memoirs documenting the experiences of Americans Richard and Lois Hartshorne, along with their children Marguerite and Judith, in Nazi occupied Austria during his sabbatical from 1938-1939. The correspondence consists of letters written by Richard and Lois to their families describing their experiences in Vienna, Austria, as well as letters from Jewish friends and others they were trying to help with monetary aid or visa assistance for emigration. Included are letters from Wolfgang Hoff, an Austrian chemist who spent several ...

  13. Hartwig, Dieter

    Zitierweise BArch N 829/...

  14. Harvard football game

    In United States, houses in neighborhood. Women and children in front of house. Men rowing on the Charles River, flag. Harvard University marching band on a sports field. Men play American football, sign: "Harvard 14, Visitors 13." Marching band plays in the stands. Car driving on highway past trees and power lines. Aerial pan. Car drives up a snowy road. A group of young people exit the vehicle and walk towards the camera.

  15. Harvest Festival on Bückeberg Mountain

    Hitler attends harvest festival at Bückeberg, with thousands of people dressed in elaborate traditional folk costumes and headdresses; VAR CU. LS Hitler and other officials enter decorated town square; Hitler reviews and salutes troops. In large parade ground, SA march carrying many flags and standards (sound band, cheers). More shots of people wearing various traditional costumes, VO identifies them, band plays. Interesting shot of SS among festival attendees holding a "Blut und Boden" standard. Soldier blows bugle. Shots of Hitler in reviewing stand. Hitler with Goebbels and other officia...

  16. Harvesting hay and potatoes

    MS, church, cows in FG. VAR shots of farm scene, possibly in Bavaria; people pitching hay onto wagon while train passes in BG. CU bearded old man pitching hay up to woman atop haystack. CU of ox. Man smoking pipe with workers in BG. Picking potatoes. Woman with bicycle. Silhouette of man sowing seeds.

  17. Harvey Buchsbaum collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the grandparents of Harvey Buchsbaum in Germany, who were killed in the Holocaust.

  18. Harvey Gotliffe collection

    Consists of research materials (articles, transcripts, notes, clippings, correspondence,etc.) regarding Holocaust denial and advertisements of Holocaust revisionist theories and work, specifically the work of revisionist Bradley R. Smith. Dr. Gotliffe, a professor in the School of Journalism at San Jose State University, produced and collected this material from 1990 to the early 2000s. Includes copies of "The Journal of Historical Review" (1997-2001) and Smith's newsletter (1990-2004).

  19. Harvey S. Mamat photographs

    Consists of eight photographs of corpses at the liberation of the Seeshaupt concentration camp in Germany, April 1945.

  20. Harvey Shreibman collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform cap, coat, jacket, trousers, and a mug relating to the experiences of Erich Hershel Sakofski (later Harvey Shreibman) as a prisoner in several concentration camps in German-occupied Poland and Germany during the Holocaust.