Archival Descriptions

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 3,281 to 3,300 of 26,867
Search result ordering
Country: United States

  1. Berlin 1930s

    Olympic games, Berlin Palace, city views, garden exhibitions

  2. Western Campaign Albert Canal

    British and French war prisoners, command post, office

  3. German soldiers forced to dig up mass graves at Terezin

    Czech newsreel footage of men digging into the dirt at Terezin. One with SS insignia on the back of his shirt. Men dig and shovel dirt into small wheelbarrows which other laborers wheel away. They continue to dig. At the bottom of the pits are decaying bodies (mass graves). The men use smaller tools to delicately unearth and exhume the bodies. Another worker has the SS insignia on his pant leg. Captured German soldiers forced to dig up the mass graves, under guard of the Czech army. They lift a body up on a stretcher. Other men move the body to rows of coffins. The process continues with ex...

  4. UNRRA selected records AG-018-035 : Philippine Mission

    Selected files of the Philippine Mission: Correspondence, telegrams, UNRA registration cards, questionnaires, interviews, affidavits for refugees, and UNRRA agreements and polices related to displaced persons desiring repatriation: Displaced Persons-Chinese in Rabaul 1944-1949, as well as Displaced Persons, European, 1944-1949. Some files relate to Jewish refugees after the war, and the repatriation of Austrian and German Displaced Persons in the Philippines. Including are addresses of tracing bureaus in Europe and description of the tracing programs of the major organizations: National Tra...

  5. Return of an infantry regiment to Schwäbisch-Gmünd after the Western Campaign

    Band, infantry, group of soldiers with bicycles, cart pulled by horses, soldier in conversation with civilians including a child, rail transport, waving soldiers in and on the wagons

  6. "Po'alei Zion," Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party Żydowska Socjaldemokratyczna Partia Robotnicza "Poalej Syjon" (Sygn. 1213)

    Records from the Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party „Poalej Syjon” including program proclamations, a proclamation on the occasion of Labor Day (1th of May), and others documents.

  7. March of SA storm troopers in 1933

    Hilter youth, Adolf Hitler, Ernst Röhm, Heinrich Himmler, swastika flags, German greetings

  8. Family films; Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg; Hitler; Western campaign; Göring; Everyday-life in occupied France.

    July 1934: private life, children. Sep 1934: Vienna trip, zoo visit, wedding.1935: Winter and carnival delights, soldiers in a private atmosphere 15:20 Nazi Party, Volksfest, Adolf Hitler in an open car. Railroad, private, moving, May celebrations, sea vacation in Karshagen, carnival run 38:40 Western campaign, ruins, Dunkirk, war goods left behind, church, Lille 44:57 Bus with the inscription "Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss" / front theater 45:13 Goering at Air Force Unit 46:20 Everyday life, Luftwaffe, Donnerbalken, airfield, Stukas, France, typical shots, Ride on the Eiffel Tower, debri...

  9. Nazi Germany, 42 pfennig postage stamps, one sheet

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn538398
    • English
    • a: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 10.560 inches (26.822 cm) b: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 10.560 inches (26.822 cm)

  10. Inauguration of the Carl Benz monument, April 1933

    10:00:51 April 1933, Mannheim: Monument unveiling: Carl Benz monument in Mannheim. Large crowd, wreaths are carried to the veiled monument. 10.01:04 motorcycle relay of the NSKK, mounted police

  11. Innsbruck

    Title: CPC Film. Italian youth organization, light railway, Bavaria: dance, people's fair, beer. Ice skating. Motorcycle race.

  12. Ava Berry collection

    Contains a letter from Clara, Gidus, and Schulim in Lvov, Ukraine, written by Schulim three weeks after their liberation, describing their survival through Nazi occupation. Schulim describes torture and murder in and around Krakow and "Limberg." In addtion, he describes being interned in the ghetto [Lwow?] He describes being told about the killing center Belzec and Jews transported there to be killed. Letter is in English and addressed to Schulim's brother.

  13. Luftwaffe private film

    1. Luftwaffe private film

  14. Bodnar family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs which document the experiences of the Bodnar family of Vienna, Austria, who fled through Switzerland, Italy, and France before arriving in the United States. Includes a recording made by Fani Bodnar (Jacque's mother), and a visa signed by Hiram Bingham IV allowing Jacques to travel to the United States.

  15. Railway construction regiment in the Carpathian forest

    Construction, blasting. Last bridge built in Eastern Slovakia.

  16. Selected records of the City Bodzentyn Akta miasta Bodzentyn (Sygn.126)

    Files of the communal office of Bodzentyn with information about Jews living in the commune. Included are licenses to run industries, lists of landlords (estates and lands), documents related to election to the communal council, tax rates, shares to the firefighting fund, registers of the Bodzentyn region and indexes to the population ledgers, as well as a book of communal resolutions (1910-1938) and a list of births, marriages and death in the synagogue district of Bodzentyn (1923).

  17. Alicia Altmueller collection

    The Alicia Altmueller collection consists of three letters written in August 1947 by three survivors requesting assistance (warm clothing, shoes, physical support) from Mr. J. Garfinkel, Kiever Independent Unterstuzung Verein (KIUV). The three survivors wrote KIUV on behalf of themselves, family and friends from Campo Adriatico IRO, Milan DP. The IRO supported camp was also referred to as Transit Camp Bari, located in Apulia. Names in the letters are as follows: Miriam Kegen along with unnamed husband and daughter, Aron Bakalchuk and Lucy Bakalchuk, Girsch Goberman and Sonia Goberman (née T...

  19. East Prussia, Breslau

    Several short documentaries with titles on East Prussia, Silesia, Transylvania, Refugee Camp in Denmark

  20. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...