Henry Holland collection

Identifier
irn504396
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0269
  • RG-10.146
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1988
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504396

Extent and Medium

folders

5

,

7 microfiche,

Creator(s)

  • Henry Holland

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Henry Holland donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in November 1994.

Scope and Content

Contains United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) child welfare reports, 1946 Jan.-1946 June, relating to psychological evaluations of children and youths at Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. Also includes a 1988 memoir by Henry Holland entitled "Second Chance." The memoir contains information about Holland's childhood in Kusnica (Kushnitsa, Ukraine) and Bergszasz in Hungary; his experience in a Hungarian labor battalion during World War II; his escape from the labor battalion and return to Hungary after the war; his witness to Jewish ghettos while working in Hungary; his time in Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany; and his immigration to the United States in 1947.

System of Arrangement

Organized: RG-10.14601, UNRRA child welfare reports, 1946 Jan.-1946 June; RG-10.14602, "Second chance" by Henry Holland Arrangement of UNRRA child welfare reports is chronological

People

  • Holland, Henry.

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Subjects

  • Refugee camps--Germany.
  • Forced labor--Hungary.
  • Föhrenwald (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Jewish ghettos--Hungary.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Germany--Emigration and immigration.
  • Jews, Czech--Ukraine--Kushnitsa.
  • Refugees.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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