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 8,481 to 8,500 of 10,261
Search result ordering

  1. Josef and Jenny Hausmann: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jewish family of Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Karlsruhe, who perished at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst their two daughters managed to flee Nazi-Germany in the 1930s.Personal papers including copy correspondence by Josef and Jenny Hausmann from Camp de Recebedou, photograph of a class taught by Josef Hausmann, copy articles relating to the school in Karlsruhe where Hausmann worked; and paper entitled 'Die zerschlagene Tafel - Jüdisches Leben in Durlach'. 

  2. Ilse Majer-Williams: family papers

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains the family papers of Ilse Majer-Williams, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who escaped the Holocaust by being sent on a Kindertransport to wealthy sponsors in the UK in 1939. Personal papers including Ilse Majer-Williams' personal account and her biography; correspondence with family and friends; list of Ilse's belongings taken to the UK; papers documenting her parents' efforts to emigrate such as tax returns, insurance papers, tax and police clearance certificates, correspondence with the...

  3. Strauss family: personal papers and corresondence

    This collection consists of the papers of the Strauss family, German speaking Jews from Prague, most of whom managed to flee Nazi persecution.Personal papers including Julius Strauss' diary (incomplete) in which he describes the emigration of his children and his failed attempt to go to Paris in April 1939 to find accommodation for himself and Elsa; wartime correspondence between the parents, their children and friends; papers relating to Julius Strauss and Vilem Lesny's compensation claim; photographs; family trees; as well as papers relating to the estate of family friend, Otakar Bondy, w...

  4. Simonson and Schreiber families: family histories

    This collection contains autobiographical accounts of Alfred Simms and the family histories of the Simonson and Schreiber families and their ancestors.Autobiographical accounts of Alfred Simms and the family histories of the Simonson and Schreiber families and their ancestors. Also included are the funeral address and biography of Hans Schreiber, Alfred Simms uncle, who did not return from a temporary visit to Switzerland in 1938 and survived by getting married to Swiss national in 1942.English

  5. Gerda Mayer: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Gerda Mayer, a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia who came to England on a Kindertransport, whilst most of her family perished in the Holocaust. Personal papers including letters from family and friends (photocopies); copy of 'The emigrants', a compilation of translated letters sent to Gerda from her parents in Czechoslovakia; Johanna Travnicek's application for compensation under the Vertriebenenzuwendungsgesetz 1994; photographs; family trees; correspondence mainly between Gerda Mayer and the family of her rescuer Trevor Chadwick regarding t...

  6. Herbert Elliott: personal papers and memorabilia

    This collection comprises the personal papers of Herbert Elliott (formerly Eisenthal), a former Kindertransportee from Vienna who escaped Nazi persecutions in 1938. His sister emigrated to Palestine. His father was unable to leave Vienna but survived his imprisonment at Terezin concentration camp, where he was held for almost three years.Personal papers including Herbert Elliott's school reports and qualifications; birth certificate; certificate of origin (Heimatschein); declaration of property taken to England for the Foreign Exchange Office (Devisenstelle); steamship ticket from Hook to H...

  7. Elise Steiner: personal papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of Elise Steiner, a former Jewish refugee from Vienna who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in 1938. Her parents and younger brother were murdered at Kowno concentration camp in 1941. Includes family correspondence (together with typescripts) documenting the day to day activities and aspirations of a Jewish family in Vienna. Reoccurring themes include their gratitude that at least one child was able to escape and continue with her education, efforts to find a place on the Kindertransport for Elise's brother Leo Steiner, news of the fate of ...

  8. Lasker family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Lasker family, a Jewish family from Breslau. The parents, Alfons and Edith Lasker, were deported in 1942 leaving their two daughters Anita and Renate behind. Both sisters survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps but their parents perished.

  9. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague

    Contains records generated in the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) by the German occupiers and by dependent Czech agencies dealing with “internal security” and “racial policy.” It also contains case files from the Comité d'Assistance aux Réfugiés (Committee for Refugee Assistance) in Paris, 1933-1940 (probably captured there, taken to Germany, and evacuated to the Protectorate), including cases for refugees from Czechoslovakia, Austria, and other countries. Many documents derive from puppet ministries and agencies, including materials on deport...

  10. Jewish Women's Association Zürich Archive Israelitischer Frauenverein Zürich Archiv

    Records of the Israeli Women's Association (Israelitische Frauenverein Zürich, IFZ): Statutes, minutes of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly, minutes of the meetings of the Children's home in Heiden, reference files handwritten by the association's presidents: Berty Guggenheim-Wyler, Sonja Weintraub, Myrthe Dreyfuss, correspondence and people dossiers relating to the care for children’s home, refugees, the poor, child and youth welfare, debt recovery of the Kinderheims Wartheim in Heiden, newspaper and magazine articles on the IFZ and Kinderheim Wartheim, photos, and delivery n...

  11. Documentary about the German invasion and siege of Poland

    In this ten minute film, Julien Bryan, the last neutral reporter remaining in Poland on September 1, 1939, records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the German attack on Poland. Through actual footage taken during the siege, Bryan poignantly describes the frightening chain of events that finally resulted in the capitulation of Warsaw and Poland. During the early stages of the blitzkrieg, civilians were commandeered to dig ditches, set tank traps and shore up fortifications. Then, as the Polish soldiers retreated, Warsaw was surrounded and besieged. German planes, triumphant in the s...

  12. Lichta family papers

    The collection documents the postwar experiences of Holocaust survivors Itzhak and Judith LIchta in several displaced persons camps. Included are photographs and an album from Föhrenwald, Reichenhall, Bergen Belsen, and likely Milbersthofen-Am-Hart displaced persons camps; pre-war photographs of Itzhak’s family in Falenica, Poland and Judith’s family in Oszmiana, Poland (present day Ashmyany, Belarus); pre-war membership cards for a sports club Itzhak belonged to; and a Zionist Organization of London Shekel receipt.

  13. Articles relating to the war crimes trial of Bergen-Belsen guards

    Consists of photocopies of newspaper articles relating to the September 1945 war crimes trial of several Bergen-Belsen guards. Included is information about the testimony of Dr. Ada Bimko (a.k.a.Hadassah Rosensaft), selections for the gas chambers at Auschwitz, results of medical experiments on female prisoners, and atrocities committed by the SS guards at Bergen-Belsen.

  14. Jewish Organizations (Czech Republic) Židovské organizace (425)

    Fond 425 consists of records of several Jewish and Zionist organizations that were active in the Czech Republic from circa 1930-1950, such as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC), as well as records that were collected and used by the Czech secret police after 1950. The materials include information about the activities of Jewish communities in the Czech Republic; the Palestine Office established in Prague and Bratislava to facilitate the emigration and rescue of Jews; the records of the Central Committee of Zionists in Prague and Bratislava; records of the Jewish commun...

  15. Papers of Jacob Pat (Fond WAG 127)

    Includes correspondence, essays and writings, and other material pertaining to Pat's work with the Jewish Labor Committee. Correspondence (1937-1971) includes one file of obituary and memorial articles, and thirty-two files of correspondence, arranged chronologically. The correspondence includes both incoming and outgoing letters, reflecting Pat's involvement with a wide range of Jewish political and cultural organizations, and personal correspondence with friends from many countries. Of special note is a file of correspondence related to the publication of his conversations with Jewish Wri...

  16. Dulberg family papers

    1. Lester and Esther Suna Dulberg family collection

    The Dulberg family papers contain documents and photographs related to Louis and Esther Dulberg’s families in the years before and after the Holocaust. Included in the collection are several documents pertaining to Louis’ immigration. Among them, copies of his birth certificate, Polish identification cards, correspondence regarding his Visa application, and affidavits affirming his Polish military service and nationality. The photographs contain images of Esther’s first husband, Moshe and their children, Bella and Henry, and Louis’ first wife, Sara and their three children. Also included ar...

  17. Riesenfeld family papers

    1. Riesenfeld family collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Riesenfeld and their children Ernst and James, originally from Würzburg, Germany, who fled to the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in 1940. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, financial documents related to the forced sale of Bruno’s paint factory in 1938, wartime correspondence with Frieda’s mother, Dora Schwabacher in Würzburg, and photographs. Biographical materials include immigration documents, identification papers, education and employment papers, restitution documents, and a family boo...

  18. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Polish Embassy in Paris Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Paryżu (Sygn. 463)

    Reports, studies, articles, correspondence and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and other countries in Europe, including Germans, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians and Polish Jews. Included are materials about Jewish matters: Jewish affaires in Poland and other countries, attitudes of the Jewish population to the Polish-Soviet war, Zionist organizations, the issue of pogroms of Jews in Poland, general position of the Jewish population in Poland, 1919-1920; the Universal Jewish Congresses in Gdańsk and Karlsbad, Jewish Memorandum to the Council of ...

  19. Jewish Committee in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Komitet Żydowski w Ostrowcu Świętokrzyskim (Sygn. 359)

    This collection includes circulars of the Jewish Committee in Kielce, correspondence (including correspondance with local Polish authorities), a list of Jews from Ostrowiec living in Bergen-Belsen, memebers of the Jewish committee in Munich (Germany), minutes of meetings, numerous documents related to the recovery of property lost during the war, in addition to medical certificates, statistical data of the Jewish population in Ostrowiec.

  20. Hersch Wasser collection Kolekcja Hersza Wassera

    The collection consists of diaries, eyewitness accounts, testimonies, essays, official and underground publications, documents from the Jewish councils (Judenrats). The materials pertain to Jewish communities, ghettos, labor camps and to Jews living illegally on the "Aryan side." Materials on the Warsaw Ghetto include a manuscript diary and other notes by Emanuel Ringelblum. Essays by other members of the Oneg Shabat group on topics related to conditions in the ghetto, such as: black market, street trade, smuggling, working, performing arts, child beggars, ghetto folklore, sanitary conditio...