us-005578-irn715731
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
date: 1944 February-1944 April
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 843
has or had subject: 680
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identifier: irn715731
record resource extent: folder 1
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scope and content: Two handwritten notebooks kept by Bernhard Haas, a Jewish prisoner in the Atlit detention camp near Haifa, 1944. Includes journal, poems and transcripts of letters. The date and place of writing are recorded on the first page of each notebook: Camp 195, Haifa, February 1944 / Camp 119, Atlit-Haifa, April 1944. The first notebook opens with a brief summary of Haas's life story until his arrest, including his childhood in Giessen, being orphaned of both his parents, the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, his voyage to Palestine from Trieste, his studies in the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, his conscription to the British Army and his arrival in the Atlit detention camp. The rest of the notebook comprises transcripts of letters (mostly of romantic content; some were sent from the Latrun detention camp and from the Kurdani camp) and transcripts of poems, some of which were composed by Haas himself. Bernhard Haas, a Jewish immigrant from Germany, was detained in several British detention camps in Palestine. Two notebooks. [1], 118; [24] written pages.
title: Bernhard Haas papers