Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 1,821 to 1,840 of 22,191
Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  1. Dr. Leon Ginsburg collection

    Collection of photographs and a telegram depicting life in the Foehrenwald Displaced Persons camp and at an ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training) school in Germany; dated 1945-1948. Also contains pre-war photographs, bearing English inscriptions, documenting Kalman and Pesia Ginsburg (donor’s parents) and their children Leon and Blume Ginsburg, with friends and school groups in Maciejów, Poland, along with a wartime photo of Leon; dated circa 1925-1944.

  2. Alexander Dallin papers

    The Alexander Dallin papers document Alexander Dallin and his family’s escape from Europe between 1939 and 1940 and their immigration to the United States through autobiographical materials, family trees, photocopies of certificates and letters, newspaper clippings, and some original documentation. The collection contains a draft of Dallin’s incomplete autobiography-- split into two chapters-- a copy of Dallin’s memoir written in 1941, and a speech memorializing American Journalist, Varian Fry, which all relate to Dallin’s experience in Vichy France after escaping Nazi Germany before he and...

  3. Kabak family collection

    Contains letters dated 1937, 1939, 1947, 1948 and 1956; a document "Ammecman" which is a school certificate written in Russian, issued to Rachel Chirinskaya, May 28, 1920; and a Dina Kabak family photograph.

  4. Short erotic film starring an unidentified woman

    Titles in Hungarian throughout. INTs, an unidentified woman enters an apartment in Szeged. She undresses in the bedroom (additional lighting setup) and runs water for a bath. She takes a bath and returns to the dark bedroom, drying her body. She drinks a shot and climbs under the sheets in the nude, teasing the cameraman. Film ends 03:47

  5. Baby János

    Various CUs, infant János Schiffer at 5 months, 3 months, 7 weeks, and 8 days (reels compiled in reverse chronological order). János in a stroller. Erzsébet holds her first baby. More CUs of baby János in his crib. (03:52) János is weighed. (05:05) János is bottle fed. (06:20) János is bathed, cleaned, and clothed. (09:12) János is breastfed. Various shots of baby. (11:30) INTs, sunlit room, János (8 days old) is held by his mother, Erzsébet, on November 30, 1930.

  6. "Massenmord" airdropped leaflet

    Double-sided leaflet dropped over Germany in late 1942 following the December 17, 1942 declaration by the United Kingdom and United States stating explicitly that the German authorities were engaging in mass murder of the European Jews. The leaflet describes the deportations and mass murder already underway, and promises postwar punishment for those responsible.

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-009 : Italy Mission

    Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.

  8. Oral history interview with Oskar Tojzner

  9. Oral history interview with Daisy Strasse Weiss

  10. Painting

    Oil on canvas, created by Elly Berkovits Gross, which document her experiences while a prisoner in Birkenau; titled "Last Hours" (2017)

  11. Oral history interview with György Fenyö

  12. Hausner family in England, postwar

    Soldiers digging a ditch (unclear), plane flies over field. 01:05:26 Betty Hausner with baby Tony in Liverpool 1946. Baby in stroller. 01:06:12 Family sitting in grass, posing for the camera. Franz, the man in suit with glasses smoking, switches places with the other man, and the family poses again. Brief shots of an opera/theatrical play, three actors in costume.

  13. Archives Military Justice Directorate-Court Martial Appeal Court of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense

    The collection contains postwar records of the judicial proceedings against German, Italian, and Bulgarian war criminals who committed crimes on the territory of Greece during WWII.

  14. George E. Rothlisberg collection

    Photographs taken shortly after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 by United States Army Signal Corps photographer George E. Rothlisberg. Also includes a small amount of photographs taken after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau, including German prisoners-of-war.

  15. Oral history interview with Julian Better

  16. Central Postal Directoriate II 374-6 II Oberpostdirektion II

    Selected records of the Oberpostdirektion (Central Postal Directorate) relating to the post and land traffic supervision in Hamburg. Contains files from the various fields: Central Organization and Administration, Procurement and Household, Personnel, Post -, telecommunications, sea and ship mail, sea and coastal radio. Includes national Socialist Press advertisements, instructions and regulations, membership of the NSDAP, registers of postal servants as members of SA and (Waffen-) SS, files relating to treatment of Jewish senders and addressees, and exclusion of Jews from the postal newspa...

  17. 1948 JDC Country Directors’ Conference

    The second JDC Country Directors’ Conference (April 5-11, 1948) in Paris. Attendees from the United States, nineteen European countries, North Africa, Cyprus, and the Middle East met to analyze relief, resettlement, and reconstruction operations for some 1,000,000 Holocaust survivors in Europe. Among those present were Dr. Joseph Schwartz, Chairman of the European Executive Council for JDC; JDC official and US Army Brigadier General Morris Troper; Laura Margolis, Country Director for France; Edward Warburg, JDC Chairman; Rabbi Jonah D. Wise, National Chairman of UJA; and Moses A. Leavitt, J...