Search

Advanced query tips

There are several ways to be more specific in your search query:

"Phrase"
Search an exact match of your query, e.g. "Member lists"
+Phrase
Given word has to be in the result, e.g. +Gestapo
-Phrase
Exclude given word from search, e.g. -Gestapo

Use the following syntax to restrict the search to specific fields:

field:"phrase"
For instance, you can find all descriptions that have the phrase "Auschwitz Birkenau" in their titles by searching for title:"Auschwitz Birkenau".

The following fields are currently available:

  • identifier
  • title
  • creator
  • person
  • place
  • subject
  • address
Displaying items 241 to 260 of 1,140
Search result ordering

  1. Set of ration stamps

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Set of ration stamps, one of a number of materials documenting the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The Stripounskys fled Antwerp, Belgium in May 1940 to France. After a year, they got American visas, traveling via Spain and Portugal, arriving in New York in May 1941. Joseph was sent by the US Army to Germany in 1944.

  2. Pauline Joseph passport

    1. Joseph and Loeb families collection

    The "Reisepass" was issued to Pauline Franziska "Sara" Joseph (b. Neustadt) [friend of donor] by the Chief of Police in Berlin, Germany. It is stamped with a red "J" in the upper left corner to identify the holder as a Jew. It includes immigration visas for the United States issued in Germany and Spain.

  4. Liane Reif-Lehrer photographs

    1. Liane Reif-Lehrer collection

    Contains photographs and negatives compiled by Liane Reif-Lehrer, a survivor of the Holocaust who interviewed numerous survivors of the "MS. St. Louis" for a potential research project about that ship. Ms. Reif-Lehrer was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria and, together with her mother and brother, were on the St. Louis, returned to France and fled to the United States through Spain and Portugal.

  5. Liane Reif-Lehrer papers

    1. Liane Reif-Lehrer collection

    Contains documents, photographs, transcripts, oral histories and general research completed and compiled by Liane Reif-Lehrer. Numerous survivors who were aboard the MS St. Louis were interviewed and participated in research Ms. Reif Lehrer completed for a potential publication on the voyage of the ship. Ms. Reif-Lehrer was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria and, together with her mother and brother, were on the St. Louis, returned to France and fled to the United States through Spain and Portugal. Also includes modern photographs and negatives

  6. The memoirs of Tova Klein Sego during World War

    Contains Tova Klein Sego's account of her experiences in Kassa, Hungary, (until 1938 known as Košice, Slovakia) during the Holocaust; her life in the ghetto; her escape to Slovakia where she was reunited with her sister, Margaret; the arrival of her parents and brother, Michael, a few weeks later; their life in hiding in various villages and in the mountains; their liberation by the Russians in February 1945; and their reunion with other members of their immediate family and return to Košice.

  7. German newsreel excerpts: Gen. Franco; Mussolini; Winter Aid; British air raids

    Reel 1, Part 1, General Franco and German officials visit the Alcazar in Seville, and review Moorish guards, Part 2, Mussolini decorates Italian airmen and reviews troops in Rome. Part 3, crowds, including children, attend a military, exhibit in Vienna. Contributions for "winter aid" are collected. Part 4, Flemish musicians perform in a Berlin cabaret. Part 5, a wedding is performed in Le Meuse, France. Part 6, factory workers attend a concert performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. Part 7, cultural and religious monuments in Lubeck, Germany, rubbled by British air raids.

  8. 5 Pesetas scrip

    1. Sue Elder collection

    Five pesatas scrip issued in 1945 in Spain by the Banco de Espana, part of a collection documenting the experiences of Sue Elder who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials from 1946-1948.

  10. Bausch Paul, 1895-1981

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    Adalbert Alfons Prinz von Bayern was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach, historian, author and a German Ambassador to Spain -- Wikipedia

  11. Otto Papernik family papers

    Papers of Otto and Irene Papernik, including birth certificates, travel documents, immigration forms, and an unpublished memoir of Otto Papernik, describing his experiences after the annexation of Austria by Germany, his escape to Luxembourg, and after 1940, to southern France, and eventually the Dominican Republic. Collection also contains documents related to Papernik's mother, Karoline, including travel documents and her death certificate, showing that she died at Gurs in 1940.

  12. Radio Sefarad broadcasts with Judith R. Cohen

    1. Judith R. Cohen Collection

    Excerpts of Judith Cohen broadcasts on Radio Sefarad, a communication project of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain. Track 1 Descubriendo la música sefardí (15/1/2011). Personal chronological history of her discoveries of Sefarad and the formation of her group Gerineldo. Introduction to Sephardic songs, starting with Bosnia, Spain (Barcelona), Turkey (Istanbul) and discoveries of vestiges of Sepharadim in Montreal. Mentioned influences from Spanish Galicia, Joaquin Diaz, and medieval Spain. Track 2 Hoy en Radio SefaradL Los romanceros. Introduction to the world of romanceros. Usi...

  13. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers

    The Richard and Ernestine Benes papers contains a diary, biographical material, and emigration and immigration documents relating to Richard and Ernestine Benes attempts to emigrate from Austria to the United States. The diary was written by Richard from June 6 - July 4 1941. In the diary Richard writes about their emigration from Austria to Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Spain as well as their time aboard the ship and arriving in New York City. Biographical materials include birth and baptism certificates, a marriage certificate, proof of citizenship, identification cards, passports (Reisepass...

  14. Records relating to the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council

    The collection consists of four folders of photocopied materials from the files of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign Office. In general, the files concern Giorgio Perlasca and his work to assist and rescue Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Among the copied materials are letters, newspaper and magazine articles, testimonies, and interviews concerning the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca conducted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign Office.

  15. Ruth von Wild papers Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)

    Private papers of Ruth von Wild (August 3, 1912 -April 26, 1983), a Swiss teacher and aid worker for refugees. The collection consists of a diary, diploma, certificates, correspondence, postcards and reports of holiday travels by former employees of the Swiss Working Community for Children of Spain (Ayuda Suiza, SAS) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Spanienkinder], and for the Swiss Working Community for Children with Disabilities (SAK) [Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kriegsgeschädigte Kinder], personal photo albums on the activities of the children's colony of the Swiss Re...

  16. Fascist volunteers from various countries; Invasion of USSR

    Volunteers in various countries. Danish volunteers for "Germany's fight against Bolshevism" enter a building with a sign that reads "Arbejdsfronten DNS." Norwegian men sign up for military service. Men in black uniforms march down the street in the Netherlands. Rowdy volunteers saluting and carrying anti-Bolshevik banners march down a street in Spain. Members of the Blue Division from Spain depart the Bordeaux train station for the front. They lean out the windows and wave. Mussolini bids farewell to Italian volunteers in Verona. The volunteers parade down the street in motorcycles and othe...

  17. Francisco Franco

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    "Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and the Caudillo of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. Coming from a military family background, he became the youngest general in Spain and one of the youngest generals in Europe in the 1920s."--wikipedia(English)(viewe3.7.2016). "Walther Funk (18 August 1890 – 31 May 1960) was an economist and prominent Nazi official who served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs from 1938 to 1945 and was tried and convicted as a major war criminal by the International Military Trib...

  18. Passport of Heyman Roet and Catharina Freso. Collection

    A Dutch passport issued in October 1940 by the Vice-consul for the Netherlands in Toulouse, France, to Heyman Roet and his wife Catharina Freso. The document contains a photo of both spouses and visa for Spain and Portugal as well as for the United Kingdom

  19. Collection of Ilya Ehrenburg, author and member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC), 1941-1967

    In the Collection there is original documentation including articles, testimonies, photographs and letters regarding the Holocaust within the Soviet Union; some of the documentation appears in"The Black Book". The Collection also contains letters from Jews written after the war regarding displays of antisemitism in Soviet policy.

  20. From the time of the Spanish persecution of Jews Print of a Jewish family found by the Grand Inquisitor

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    The print is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.