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 6,801 to 6,820 of 10,858
Search result ordering

  1. Mendel Birnbaum photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mendel Birnbaum's experiences before and after World War II in Szczecin, Poland. The images consist of informal group photographs of family and friends as well as images of people dining, riding motorcyles, and farming.

  2. Levy-Saltiel family papers

    The papers consist of documents; identification cards; newspaper clippings; a CD of memoirs, family photographs, and a family tree related to the Levy family of Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece. The documents relate to life under the German occupation, forced labor as Jews, and life in the Salonika ghetto. After being warned of upcoming deportations, the Levys went into hiding in Athens, where they spent the remainder of the war. The collection also relates to Salomon Saltiel, who was a member of the Greek military and spent the war in Italian and German POW camps. He and Dora Levy married i...

  3. Labor Ministry and Social Services selected records (Fond 490)

    Contains agreements between the Bulgarian Government and Soviet military representatives regarding passports for Jews and Turks; assistance for Jews after World War II; correspondence with the National Committee of Liberation regarding homelessness and destitution, persecution of Bulgarians by Nazis, and immediate relief after liberation; correspondence with the Central Jewish Consistory regarding assistance with coal; appeals from Jewish organizations for restitution of property and money confiscated under the Defense of the Nation Act; appeals (arranged by geographical place) from politic...

  4. Text only poster annoucing the execution of French hostages by the German occupation authorities

    1. French collaborationist propaganda poster collection

    Broadside on yellow paper announcing that 50 hostages have been executed and that more will be executed if those guilty of the crime have not been found by midnight on Ocotber 26, 1941. The Germans executed the hostages in retaliation for the assassination of a local German military commander, Hotz, on October 20, 1941, in Nantes, France, by resistance fighters. A reward of 15,000 francs was offered for information leading to the capture of the resistance fighters. This event was called Les Fusilles de Chateaubriant. In revenge for the assassination, the Germans rounded up 100 men from surr...

  6. Text only red poster announcing the execution of French hostages after the assassination of a German officer

    1. French collaborationist propaganda poster collection

    Broadside on red paper announcing the execution of hostages held by the Germans in retaliation for the assassination of a local German military commander, Hotz, on October 20, 1941, in Nantes, France, by resistance fighters. A reward of 15,000 francs was offered for information leading to the capture of the resistance fighters. This event was called Les Fusilles de Chateaubriant. In revenge for the assassination, the Germans rounded up 100 men from surrounding villages and threatened to execute all of the hostages if the persons who committed the crime were not found. The hostages were inte...

  7. Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps flight logbook with entries

    1. Zydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma collection

    Flight logbook with many handwritten entries used by the Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps [NSFK: National Socialist Flying Corps] of unknown origin. NSFK was a paramilitary organization founded in 1937 and affiliated with the Nazi Party. It was primarily involved with training and civil air defense.

  8. Andrzej Szelubski photograph collection

    Consists of eight group portraits photographs depicting Polish prisoners of war, Jewish and non-Jewish, imprisoned in Stalag IV A in Elsterhorst, Germany, which were taken between 1940-1941.

  9. Exhumation of corpses of Soviet civilians by German POWs

    Exhumation of corpses of the Soviet civilians by German POWs. Woman, stands to the side of the pit, hands clasped, watching as they take out a body, and crying (possibly her husband or son). VS of soldiers digging up graves. The woman who was crying before appears again, in a different shot, MCU, she is being interviewed by someone behind the camera, and, with her hands clasped she explains her story to the camera and continues to sob. Soldiers look on, standing behind this woman. Pan, scores of bodies laid out, quick cut to another elderly woman speaking, she remains on screen for a fracti...

  10. US Army 86th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve patch with a black hawk with spread wings on a red field

    1. American military badge collection

    Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 86th Infantry Division, United States Army, known as the Blackhawk Division. The monogrammed red shield displays a black hawk with outstretched wings and talons. The Unit, activated in 1917, adopted this insignia in honor of the Native American warrior Blackhawk. Reactivated in 1942, the Unit entered the war in March 1945. It landed in France and quickly advanced into western Germany. The 86th liberated Attendorn, a civilian forced-labor camp in the Olpe District, on April 11, 1945. The Division had crossed the Danube River, and was advancing toward Salzburg,...

  11. Jan Szelubski papers

    The papers consist of pre-war, wartime, and post war photographs, documents, and identity cards illustrating the life of Jan Szelubski before the Holocaust in Lida, Lithuania, (now Belarus). During World War II, Szelubski was a company commander of the Armia Ludowa during the Warsaw uprising and received the "Virtuti Militari" medal for his bravery. After the war, he joined the diplomatic service.

  12. Herman Lewinter photographs

    The Herman Lewinter photographs document the Janowska concentration camp, Lvov (now Lviv, Ukraine), and Zloczow (now Zolochiv, Ukraine). Images depict prisoners, camp staff, the Janowska prisoner orchestra, and corpses. Photographs include 15 images that were presented at the Nuremberg Trials and 26 photographs of photo collages with Russian captions that Herman Lewinter created at the request of Soviet investigators of Nazi atrocities.

  14. Charles Froelicher papers

    The Charles Froelicher papers consist of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp and children who were part of the transport Charles Froelicher accompanied from Buchenwald to Switzerland in June 1945; a document issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force Military Government authorizing him to accompany the transport; two German language clippings about the transport; and a blank questionnaire used by the Counter Intelligence Corps for interrogating arrested Nazis. The photographs were taken by Charles Froelicher or other soldiers from the U.S. 6th Armored Division.

  16. Selected records from North African colonies

    This collection contains documents pertaining to the treatment of Jews in French North Africa, particularly in Algeria, and the expropriation of their property by Vichy officials. Topics include the "Jewish question," antisemitism, the establishment of camps, refugees from Spain and/or from the International Brigades, the local Jewish community in Algeria, Jews from France, and the commune of Ain Temouchent. Also included are police reports on the general condition of Jews in Algeria, correspondence concerning the 1941-1942 census of the Jewish population; the famous pogrom of Constantine i...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- British delegates visit Buchenwald

    British MPs at Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, September, 1946. VS, convoy bearing British delegates arrive and enter the camp. Walking about the camp, inspecting and talking to inmates. VS, Mrs. Mavis Tate and others interview victims in prison courtyard. Survivors cook over fire behind barbed wire. INT, barracks at Buchenwald, talking to survivors in prisoner uniforms lying on cots. CU, pan, two emaciated victims. VS, Mrs. Tate and inspection party through barbed wire. Pan, tilt shot from pile of naked bodies to MPs looking on. MS, inspection party looking at a truck full of dead bodies....

  18. Postage stamp, 50 centimes, issued by Italy to honor German-Italian friendship

    1. Terry Friedman collection

    Postage stamp issued by the Fascist government of Italy to honor the alliance between Germany and Italy. It features Hitler in cap and Mussolini in helmet, facing each other in profile, with a German and an Italian soldier in the background.

  19. Postage stamp, 1.25 lira, issued by Italy to honor German-Italian friendship

    1. Terry Friedman collection

    Postage stamp issued by the Fascist government of Italy to honor the alliance between Germany and Italy. It features Hitler in cap and Mussolini in helmet, facing each other in profile, with a German and an Italian soldier in the background.

  20. US Army soldier's red and white striped ribbon

    1. Irving H. Rosenberg collection

    Red and white striped ribbon that belonged to Irving H. Rosenberg who served in the United States Army during World War II. It is possibly from a Good Conduct medal. Rosenberg was a medic with the 46th Armored Medical Battalion, attached to the 4th Armored Division, which, in 1945, liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.