HICEM
Formed in 1927 out of three older associations (merger of HIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society), ICA (Jewish Colonization Association) und Emigdirekt)
Hilpert, Heinz
1890-1967, German actor, theatre director and producer; 1938-1945 director of Wiener Theater in Josefstadt; after the war, his appointments included that of artistic director at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen and Schauspiel Frankfurt.
Hindemith, Gertrud
née. Rottenberg, 1900-1967. Actor and singer. Manager and executor of her husband Paul Hindemith’s estate.
Hitchcock, Alfred
1899 – 1980, was a British film director and producer of world renown. Many of his thrillers are still regarded as classics in this genre today.
Horch, Franz J.
1901 – 1951, Austrian playwright who acted as a literary agent in New York during his American exile
Hotel Bedford
Hotel in New York, 118 East 40th Street, where several German emigrants stayed from the middle of the 1930s, among them Thomas, Klaus and Erika Mann and Martin Gumpert. The hotel manager Anton Nagel was also an emigrant.
House Committee on Un-American Activities
A committee of the United States House of Representatives; the abbreviation HUAC stands for House Un-American Activities Committee or the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The committee was active from 1934 onwards and sought out advocates of German National Socialism. Later on, the committee primarily turned its attention to Communists.
Huang, Henry
Henry Huang studied during the 1930s in London and at Harvard University in Boston under Walter Gropius before returning to Shanghai in 1942.
Hubertman, Bronislaw
1882-1947, polnischer Violinvirtuose. Trat bereits als Kind öffentlich auf, später folgten Tourneen durch ganz Europa. Hubermann war stark politisch engagiert, unter anderem für ein vereinigtes Europa. Auch die Gründung des Palestine Orchestra, aus dem später das Israel Philharmonic Orchestra wurde, geht auf sein Engagement zurück.
Huebsch, Benjamin
1876-1964, American publisher, son of a Jewish emigrant from Hungary. His publishing company Viking Press published numerous works by German authors such as Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel, Arnold Zweig, Stefan Zweig and Soma Morgenstern.
