Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 1,801 to 1,820 of 22,191
Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  1. Walter Eisenhuth photograph collection

    Consists of 16 photographs documenting scenes at Buchenwald shortly following liberation. The photographs are associated with the military service of Walter Eisenhuth, who served with an Army Engineer Maintenance Company. Includes images of piles of corpses; the burial of victims; survivors in their camp uniforms; scenes at various buildings aroud the camp site; and the hanging of a sign, in English, announcing a memorial observance for the victims of the camp.

  2. Oral history interview with Isak Fligman

  3. Oral history interview with Hanus Weber

  4. Visiting the countryside and Karlovy Vary

    Waterway, bridge in unknown location. EXT of church, painting on facade. City sights, mountains in BG. CUs young woman with a kitten. Train station, views of beautiful scenery from the train window, excursion. The rapids, tunnels, a waterfall, mountains, etc. 01:02:00 The young friends take turns on playground equipment, spinning, seesaw. They crowd into one automobile, and smile for the camera. 01:03:03 They visit a church and dine. CUs, water from moving boat. More scenic shots of architecture, railroads, mountains. An archway, pedestrians on the street, “Triumph Garage” sign. HAS, touris...

  5. Peter Tabaracci photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs. Eight of the photographs depict scenes of the Gardelegen Massacre. The ninth photograph is identified as an aerial view of a former labor camp near Braunschweig. All of the photographs include original English inscriptions on the versos and are associated with the service of Peter Tabaracci, who served with the 4th Signal Battalion.

  6. Hamel family collection

    Contains two photographs and a document related to Marion Hamel and her parents, Hilda (Pincus) and Frederick Hamel who came to the United States from Germany. Contains a birth register certificate for Hilda Hamel.

  7. S.L. Shneiderman papers

    Material related to the experiences of author Samuel L. Shneiderman (donor's father). Includes genealogical records and biographical information; photographs; newspaper clippings; and writings including on the Holocaust and Warsaw ghetto, Israel soon after 1948, and Arthur Szyk.

  8. Oral history interview with Cila Trus

  9. Israel "Sol" Sokolik papers

    The collection consists of handwritten testimony of the wartime experiences of Israel "Sol" Sokolik, who survived the Holocaust in Slonim (Belarus) in the ghetto and as a partisan. The testimony was used at the 1973 trial of Gerhardt Erren and Lothar Schultz for war crimes committed in Slonim. Also included are two doucments in Polish and Russian.

  10. Oral history interview with Nelia Poliak

  11. Cukunft (Youth Union "Future") Cukunft (Związek Młodzieżowy „Przyszłość“) (Sygn. 335)

    Circulars, reports, publications, articles, correspondence, members' list of names, and financial documents.

  12. Donald Douglas papers

    Consists of research material, commemorative material, oral history interviews, and audiocassettes produced and collected by Dr. Donald Douglas, a professor at Wichita State University, who organized Holocaust remembrance events in the Midwest beginning in the 1970s. The collection includes material related to Yom Hashoah events from 1979-2000; research materials related to the World War II letters of Harold Porter, a member of the US Army; and transcripts of oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas, which formed the basis of Douglas's manuscript, "Survivors in...

  13. Chamber of Commerce 376-15 Gewerbekammer

    Selected records of the Gewerbekammer (Chamber of Commerce). The collection covers the following areas of activity of the Chamber of Commerce: internal affairs (organization, elections, reporting), involvement of the Chamber of Commerce in authorities and administrations, relations with other organizations, meetings, business development, trade and labor law, training and examination, insurance, employment, market, transportation, tax and customs, finances and credit, metrology, justice, construction, health, sports and statistics.

  14. Joyce Hay collection

    Contains a carbon copy of a letter, dated June 19, 1940 to “Minister Lammers” in Berlin [Hans Heinrich Lammers, head of Nazi chancellory] from the Archbishop of Freiburg and the Vicar of Rottenburg, Germany stating they have been informed that “mentally ill” are being euthanized and they request that this “procedure which is forbidden through Christian law” be stopped. Also includes a carbon copy of a letter, dated July 19, 1940 to Wilhelm Frick from Theophil Wurm, head of the protestant church in Germany and opponent of the Nazi party, in Stuttgart, in which Wurm states local population ar...