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 2,501 to 2,520 of 26,867
Search result ordering
Country: United States

  1. Selected records of Dr Stefan Uhma related to history of Polish Red Cross Zbiór dr Stefana Uhmy dotyczacy historii PCK (Sygn.762)

    Records of the Polish Red Cross (PCK) districts of Kraków, Kielce, Lublin, Łódź, Pomorskie, Rzeszów, Śląsko-Dąbrowskie, Wielkopolska, and branches in Skierniewice and Łowicz including documents relating to organizational structure, regulations, extracts from protocols, and correspondence. Also included are accounts and materials of various persons regarding the financing, organization and activity of PCK; copies of German court judgments in cases against Poles; assistance for civilians during the war and occupation of 1939-1945, assistance for persons in Montelupi prison in Kraków, assistan...

  2. "Aus dem Rechenschaftsbericht des W. Praesidenten in der geschlossenen Sitzung vom 16.10.1939."

    Printed report from the B'nai B'rith, Tel Aviv, titled "Aus dem Rechenschaftsbericht des W. Praesidenten in der geschlossenen Sitzung vom 16.10.1939."

  3. Commission for War Refugees Commissie voor Oorlogsvluchtelingen

    The archive consists of minutes and other documents of the Commission meetings related to the organization, and coordination and reception of refugees in the particular provinces in the Netherlands.

  4. The Oldest People Didn't Jaywalk WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "If you Hoard - Make it Bonds!" and "The Oldest People Didn't Jaywalk" on the other side.

  5. Commission to File a Declaration of the Death of Missing Persons Commissie tot het Doen van Aangifte van Overlijden van Vermisten (Cie). Aangifte Overlijden Vermisten

    Correspondence, reports, circulars concerning the methods of work and details of deportations, witness statements, reports of death of missing (most Jewish persons), and various documentation about the German concentration camps. In addition to a "Central Register of Deeds of Death of Missing Persons", there are further registered accesses and card systems. The VP files (Missing Persons) are located in the archive Justice/Missing Persons (Archive Inventory: 2.09.34.020.) Accreted records consist of individual cards indicating the names of missing persons, with a note on possible repatriatio...

  6. Tile fragment

    Tile fragment with a partial image of a Star of David found by Valerie Wilpon on March 26, 2017, in the area of Warsaw where the Jewish ghetto was established in German occupied Poland during World War II.

  7. David Weyl diaries

    The collection consists of three diaries kept by David Weyl, originally of Erkelenz, Germany, documenting his Holocaust experiences after fleeing Germany to the Netherlands in 1939. The diaries chronicle his deportations to the Westerbork and Theresienstadt concentration camps and span 1942-December 1945. They also include notes on family history and addresses.

  8. Balas family photographs

    Collection of small individual photographs cut from contact sheet with portraits of members of donor’s family who died in the Holocaust.

  9. Schmelczer family collection

    Collection of correspondence, written between members of the Schmelczer family in the Strasshof concentration camp, as well as from family friends after liberation; dated 1944-1946; in Hungarian.

  10. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)

    Records of David Diamant (Aaron David Erlich). Records include personal papers, letters, manuscripts, archives, photographs, drafts, press clippings and work books as well as letters of internees, political detainies and deporties, and testimonies and records of the Union des juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide (UJRE), Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid.

  12. Lichtenstein and Tisch families photographs

    Consists primarily of postwar photographs of the Tisch and Lichtenstein family members and friends. Many of the photographs are associated with Jozef and Mania (née Tisch) Lichtenstein's stay in the Eschwege DP camp. Included is also photograph of Mania's rescuer Janina Zawadzka.

  13. Vitta family papers

    The collection consists of letters written by Benvenuto Mario Vitta (Mario) in 1944 to his wife Ines and daughter Adriana who were in hiding. The letters were likely written in Milan and the Fossoli di Carpi concentration camp. There is also one letter to Mario from his friend Alessandro Sgatti who was hiding Mario's son Adolfo with his family in Marina di Carrara.

  14. Moses and Mainzer families collection

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence, a Pentateuch, ID cards, and passports relating to the experiences of Meta Moses and Fritz Mainzer before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. Lubomir Skrovina correspondence

    Personal correspondence of Lubomir Skrovina (donor's father) from the period of his deployment on the Eastern Front during WWII

  16. Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen | Tants a bisele mit mir

    Relatively rare Soviet Yiddish recordings that obliquely document anti-Jewish policies in the postwar USSR. A: Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen; B: Tants a bisele mit mir. Folksinger Zinovy Shulman (1904-1977) was imprisoned in 1949. The song on Shulman's "B" side, here called "Tants a bisele mit mir" (Dance with me a while), was the source for the Vilna ghetto song, "Hot zikh mir di shikh tserisn" (I've torn my shoes). Phonograph record 4 (purple label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Zinovy Shulman, voice N. G. Valter, piano (Leningrad & Moscow, 1949: Gramplasttrest 11617-11618)

  17. Songs recorded in Henonville DP camp

    Spool 06. 22 min. Psychologist David Boder recorded interviews in displaced persons camps in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1946. His wire spool recordings were deposited at the Library of Congress and later transferred to tape in 1995. USHMM located this lost recording with songs of Henonville in 2017. "Songs of Henonville" was recorded in Henonville, France on September 13, 1946. Songs include: 1. "Dos yidishe lid" (The Jewish Song) by Anshel Schorr and Sholom Secunda (USA, 1926). Performed in Yiddish as "Golus-lid" (Exile Song) by Dzhuel [Joel] Prizant. 2. "Aheym" (Homeward). ...

  18. Kinder Juhren | Blimelech zwei

    Phonograph record 1. Syreno Electro. The disc dates from circa 1929 and preserves rare repertoire from the Polish-Yiddish stage. The operetta "Rumännische Chassene" (The Romanian Wedding), with libretto by Moyshe Shor and music by Peretz Sandler (and featuring contributions by several other songwriters), premiered in New York in 1923 and toured to many European venues, including a lengthy run in Warsaw. Side A: Kinder Juhren (Kinder-yorn). From the operetta "Rumännische Chassene" (Rumenishe khasene). Words and music: Mordecai Gebirtig. Herman Fenigstein, vocals, with unnamed orchestra. Side...

  19. Klezmorimlekh | Tif in veldele

    A: Klezmorimlekh; B: Tif in veldele. Folksinger Epelbaum (1894-1957) was imprisoned in 1949. Phonograph record 3 (red label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Mikhail Epelbaum, voice Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Yakov Kukles (Moscow, 1939: Gramplasttrest 9019-9020)

  20. Randy Comins collection

    Photographs: family photographs of Zelda Field's (donor's aunt) family in Vilna, Poland, who died during the Holocaust.