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 3,961 to 3,980 of 6,679
Search result ordering
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Leopold Levy family papers

    The Levy family papers include correspondence, immigration documentation, property lists, and photographs relating to the Levy family’s prewar life in Germany and preparation for immigration to the United States through London in 1940. Included are letters to the American Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, correspondence and documentation relating to efforts to bring Erica Levy from Belgium to England and to obtain visas to the United States, and family correspondence describing the fate of other Levy family members unable to flee Germany.

  2. Paul Frey papers

    Contains reports, photographs, passports, and various other documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of Paul Frey (born Siegmund Freitag), a Polish Jew, and his parents, Salomon and Gitl Freitag. Also relates to Frey's postwar status as a displaced person. Also included are Terezin banknotes (apparently acquired by donor sometime after his own incarceration in that camp); and a photo of an exhibition at Auschwitz that includes a suitcase left by Paul's father.

  3. Case files of the United Restitution Organization - Toronto Office

    Consists of 773 boxes containing inactive case files of Jewish Holocaust survivors who claimed restitution for suffering and damage resulting from persecution by the Nazis during the period 1933 to 1945. The records are divided into five major groups. First, there are the records tilted "BEG" (Bundes-Entschädigungs-Gesetz or Federal Compensation/Restitution Law). The BEG files contain one-time-only claims. For the most part, these are copies. The originals are in Germany. Second, there are the records titled "URO." These files contain general claims for restitution. Third, there are the ca...

  4. Elizabeth Model scrapbooks

    "Memories: People and Places" is the remembrance of Elisabeth Model as a wife, mother, and artist during the 1940s and 1950s. "In Memoriam: Max Model" is a tribute to Max Model, husband of Elisabeth Model, with information about his persecution during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. See RG list for titles for RG-10.060*01 - *02.

  5. "Memories of a Vanished World"

    Contains information about Joseph Soski's childhood in Busko and Krakow, Poland; German occupation of Krakow; increasing restrictions of Jews; donor's escape to the Soviet-occupied zone of Poland; life in the Czestochowa ghetto; forced labor; deportation to Buchenwald, then to Dora-Mittelbau; evacuation from Dora-Mittelbau; liberation; displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States; and a new life in the United States.

  6. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor

    Contains information about the early life of Mieczyslaw Paul Makowski (a Polish Christian) in Poland; his participation in the Polish resistance against the German occupiers; his incarceration in Pawiak Prison, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Flossenbürg; his experiences on a death march from Flossenbürg; his liberation; and his subsequent life in the United States.

  12. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink

    1. Testimony oral history collection

  13. Blanca Borell collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Blanca Borell and her husband Norbert Borell in the Linz-Bindermichel displaced persons camp 1945-1947. Photographs depict demonstration rallies by survivors of Gusen and Mauthausen, remembrance ceremonies in Gusen in May 1946, a soccer team in Bindermichel, and displaced persons en route to Canada with aid from HIAS. Includes a depiction of Simon Wiesenthal. Also includes a HIAS business card issued to Norbert Borer.

  15. Persecution of Jews 1933-1945

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. 09:02:58 View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. 09:03:11 Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters] 09:05:09 Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. 09:05:53 Still ...

  16. Jüdisches Zentralarchiv des Burgenlandes (Jewish Central Archive of the Burgenland)

    Records of seven former Jewish communities of the Austrian state of the Burgenland, which were disbanded after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. The material consists of official correspondence, protocols of Jewish community board meetings, marriage, birth and death records, decrees, Jewish community records, school records, tax records, military records, records pertaining to Jewish organizations and officials, and other documentation.

  17. Polish Committee for Assistance to War Victims in Bern (Switzerland) Polski Komitet Pomocy Ofiarom Wojny w Bernie (Szwajcaria) (Sygn. 138)

    Files related to the assistance of Polish citizens in Switzerland, Romania and Italy, provided by the Swiss Legation in Bern, Swiss Legation in Bucharest, and the Swiss Legation in Florence, Milano,Trieste, Turin, Venice, and Rome. Includes correspondence, list of benefits payments, reports, notes, and other documents.

  18. Pratiche relative alla campagna razzista, Questura Pesaro e Urbino Practices relating to the racist campaign, Pesaro and Urbino Police Headquarters

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the precincts of Pesaro and Urbino. Include records relating to: race investigations, revocation of citizenship of people of Jewish race Anti-Jewish racial policy; land registry; Montenegrins and Dalmatians Jews to be interned, registration of Jews in the province of Pesaro-Urbino", dated 10/12/1938, prohibition of licensing of businesses and any economic activities of Jews; registration of national and foreign Jews to be arrested, 1943; and collection of any information related to movement of Jews...

  19. Waldapfel family papers

    The Waldapfel family papers include correspondence, immigration documents, and photographs documenting Irma Waldapfel, her children Valerie, Max, and Karoline, and their Waldapfel and Fischer relatives. Correspondence includes postcards sent from Czechoslovakia to Irma, Valerie, and Karoline during the interwar period and letters Irma and Karoline sent from Vienna to Valeria and Max in New York. Immigration documents consist of a Queen Mary passenger list and handwritten notes documenting Irma’s and Karoline’s itinerary from Vienna to Cherbourg to New York. Photographs depict Irma, Karoline...

  20. Wyższy Dowódca SS i Policji Wschód Der Höhere Schutzstaffeln (SS) und Polizeiführe Ost (GK 901)

    Consists of collection of orders of the Reichsführer-SS regarding the forced labor of Polish workers, 1939-1944, the organizational decree no. 1, 26 June 1942 regarding activities of police authorities in occupied Poland, set of guidelines for general matters, a daily order no. 46 regarding the transfer of officers to other positions, 1943; name lists of associates of SS-Obergruppenführer Krüger , and officers of the WD office, as well as names of civil and military administration institutions, and a name list of Polish and Ukrainian police in the General Government, 1940-1944. Includes a c...