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 7,061 to 7,080 of 22,191
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Records of the Jewish Relief Committee (Fond 505, Opis 1)

    This collection includes bylaws, minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee and its subcommittees, reports and statistical information, correspondence with Polish government offices and agencies, Jewish organizations (Joint, Jewish Colonization Society, Central offices of the Jewish communities in Warsaw), commercial shipping companies regarding transportation for immigrants leaving for Argentina, Northern America and Africa, as well as financial reports of the charitable (Gmilat Hesed) and coop organizations. The third and largest part of this collection consists of the records of ...

  2. Kurator der wissenschaftlichen Hochschulen in Wien (AT-OeStA/AdR UWFuK Kurator)

    The collection includes records pertaining to the dismissal of Jewish professors and the hiring of replacements, confiscated literature, student matters, and other topics.

  3. Reichsstatthalter in Österreich III a.k.a. Abteilung III-Büro Mühlmann (AT-OeStA/AdR ZNsZ RSthOe Abt. III)

    The collection includes records pertaining to cultural institutions and art in Nazi-annexed Austria, in particular the confiscation and aryanization of Jewish-owned and Church-owned artwork and cultural properties.

  4. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Department of Emigration Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydzial Emigracji (Sygn.303/XIV)

    Circulars, communiqués, and other publications; correspondence with American and Polish Jewish organizations and Polish governmental agencies; name lists of persons applying for passports, registration certificates, and records of financial assistance to emigrés; personal letters regarding emigration to Palestine/Israel; photographs and various miscellanea.

  5. Fabian Gerson memoirs

    Consists of the memoirs of Professor Fabian Gerson, originally of Łódź, Poland. The memoirs are written in two parts. In part I, titled "The Road to Annihilation," 13 pages, Professor Gerson describes his childhood in Łódź, pre-war antisemitism, and the German invasion. In December 1939, Fabian's mother, Dora (neé Kon) and sister Franciszka moved to Czestochowa; Fabian and his father, Pinkus, escaped the ghetto to join them in October 1940. On September 22, 1942, Fabian was separated from his family during the liquidation of Czestochowa and taken to forced labor at an armament plant owned b...

  6. Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity, including photographs of corpses carried on stretchers in preparation for burial. Also includes one letter, dated July 28, 1945, written by Daniel J. McCue, Jr. in Bad Aibling, Germany, to his father, Daniel J. McCue, Sr. In the letter, McCue writes that he is enclosing photographs taken "at a concentration camp..snapped by one of our boys." The photographs are marked "Dachau" on the verso, but depict Gardelegen.

  7. Elimelech Weinmann family tree

    Consists of the family tree of Elimelech Weinmann, born in Poland most likely in the early 1800s. The family, which now has Argentinean, Israeli, and Australian branches, lost members in the Holocaust.

  8. "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944"

    "The Holocaust Survival of the Katz family, 1941-1944" is a 23 page memoir written by Ruth Katz Leiser. The memoir recalls the Holocaust experiences of the Katz family of Godulin, near Maišiagala, Poland.

  9. Simon Ruder photographs

    Consists of seven post-war photographs from the collection of Simon Ruder, originally of Obertyn, Poland. Mr. Ruder was deported to Loncki prison in 1941, where he spent two years sewing Nazi uniforms before being sent to Auschwitz, Dachau, and then the Mühldorf subcamp, from which he was liberated in 1945. The photographs, taken at an unknown displaced persons camp, depict Mr. Ruder, his brother Mendel, and other newly released prisoners. Includes a photograph of what appears to be a remembrance ceremony, and a group picture in which some of the men appear to be wearing prisoner uniforms.

  10. Selected records from the "Nedic Archives" of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia

    Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia related to the activities of the puppet government of the Prime-Minister Milan Nedic during the Nazi occupation. This collection includes correspondence of the various Government authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, members of the antifascist movement, communists and the civilian population.

  11. Fondo Documental Secretaría Técnica, Primera y Segunda Presidencia del Teniente General Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955), Sección: Migraciones y Colonización

    Administrative records, declarations, testimonies, declartations, decrees, name lists pertaining to Argentine migration and colonization policies and legislation, including Jewish migration in Europe and South America after the end of the Second World War.

  12. Nazi Criminals Criminales Nazis

    This collection includes newspaper clippings and a few original documents pertaining to the search and whereabouts of Nazi war criminals believed to be hiding in Argentina and other countries in South America.

  13. Legal authorities beyond the area of the Federal Republic of Germany – cadre camp Sosnowitz Justizbehörden außerhalb des Gebietes der Bundesrepublik - Stammlager Sosnowitz (BA R137V)

    The collection contains registry and registration books with arrival and departure of prisoners; also contains various documents concerning food rations, rules, regulations and policies issued to camp guards. Contains information on incarcerated prisoners under Polish punishment regulations ("Polenstrafrecht") at the "Stammleger" Sosnowitz (region Kattowitz).

  14. Vsesoyuznoe Obshestvo po zemelnomu ustroystvu trudyashikhsya evreev Society for Settling Working Jews on the Land (OZET)

    The collection contains documents pertaining to organization and work at all administrative levels; notes from the meetings of the governing bodies of the Society for the Settlement of Working Jews on the Land (OZET); collectivization plans and directives concerning resettlement; correspondence between the Central Soviet of OZET and Jewish organizations abroad; industrial and agricultural records; propaganda materials such as newspaper articles and film scripts; information bulletins; financial records of OZET; and the proceedings of the liquidation committee. Also contains documents pertai...

  15. 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...

  16. Records of the Jewish Community of Salonika, Greece (RG 207)

    The collection contains registration books containing records of vital statistics, 1920-1939; lists of Salonika Jews, circa 1939; records of the Rabbinical Court, 1920-1938; correspondence with the Salonika Jewish Community from individuals and institutions pertaining to housing, administration of Jewish quarters, and the production and distribution of matzo; records and correspondence of the Jewish Communal Council of Salonika, the Commission of Education, Salonica-Palestine, S. A., and the Banque Union; as well miscellaneous documents relating to Jewish life in Greece, circa 1912-1936.

  17. Nachman Zonabend collection

    The collection documents life inside the Łódź Jewish ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It consists predominantly of the records of the Eldest of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, and of his administration. Included are original correspondence, announcements, circulars, charts, publications, reports, essays, albums and photographs.

  18. David Tsory collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the members of the kibbutz hachshara in Wyskow, Poland, as well as photographs of the Hehalutz Hatzair youth group in Zoludek, Poland. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Izrael Cirolnicki and Rachel Sandrowska.

  19. "Tishkovska Saga"

    Consists of one memoir, 122 pages, in Russian, entitled "Tishkovska Saga," by Dora Malina Aizenshtein, originally of Moscow, Russia. In May 1941, Dora and her sister were left in the care of relatives in the Ukraine and spent several years under German occupation. After escaping from a small camp near Gaysin (Haisyn) and living on the run and in hiding until she was able to reunite with her family in the summer of 1944. Also includes information about Dora's mother's experiences with pogroms in the early 20th century.

  20. "Into the No Man's Land"

    Consists of one memoir, 133 pages, entitled "Into the No Man's Land," by Irene Miller, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, she recalls her Holocaust experiences when, as a child, she and her family escaped from Warsaw and were told that they would be taken over the border into the Soviet Union. In reality, their possessions were stolen and they were abandoned in no man's land on the border with other Jews who were unable to enter the Soviet Union. Irene, her father Srulik Miller, and sister Halina were able to escape into the Soviet Union, but her mother, Bella Miller, had to pose ...