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 14,161 to 14,180 of 39,467
Search result ordering
Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13919
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • a: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) | Depth: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) b: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Depth: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)

  2. Medal

  4. Jewish settlements in Palestine

    "The Keren Hayeso presents: A recent chapter in the history of Jewish settlement in Palestine." Various shots of Jewish watchman going about his daily tasks, patrolling a Jewish settlement. Morning prayer with traditional prayer shawl and ritual amulet. Various shots of settlers unloading supplies for the construction and furnishing of a new settlement- lumber, beds, dry goods, etc. Various shots of children, waiving to the watchmen, as they ride off on horses to guard the perimeter of the settlement. Various shots of settlement under construction, trucks of supplies, horse drawn wagons and...

  5. Book

  6. Olympic event (crew) at Lake Gruenau

    Sign, "Olympia Gruenau." Olympic rings, flags, stadium, civilians. Lake Gruenau (20 km from Berlin) surrounded by spectator stands. Sign, "ZIEL" Crowd awaiting Olympic sporting event, some people with binoculars. Crew boats on lake. CU, sign, "Reihenfolge bei 1000 mtr. ZIEL" Crew race. Spectators reading newspaper. More crew. Larger boat with men and Nazi flag. Man sleeping with binoculars. Foreign flags on posts.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Paris during German occupation

    Paris Scenes during German Occupation, 1942-1944. Flags, travelling shots of Paris streets, poster, Metro Opera building. Riots in the Champs Elysee, burning the Great Palace, firemen fighting flames, ambulance. French prisoners of war. Laval with German officers, Longchamps race track. French collaborator Debrinon giving speech. INT shots of ceremony for the Legion against Soviet Russia. Swastikas on wall.

  8. Hess family papers

    The Hess family papers consist of original and photocopies of biographical material, emigration and immigration material, newspapers, and a diary relating to Adolf and Jette Hess and their daughters Ilse and Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United States in 1944. Biographical material includes documents relating to Adolf’s service in World War I including a certificate for his service, passports for Vera and Jette, paperwork for payment of Adolf’s funeral, and copy of Vera’s birth cer...

  9. Hand mirror

    Hand mirror with a photograph of the Tikotzki store on the reverse. The mirror was housed in a cardboard box with a detached lid. The box is decorated with a picture of a Christmas wreath and the name "Pettifold."

  10. Forbidden for Jews sign in Dutch displayed during the German occupation of the Netherlands

    Forbidden for Jews sign in Dutch, displayed in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940 to May 1945. These signs were used to indicate the ban of Jews from public spaces such as, swimming pools, libraries, and markets. They became widespread throughout Amsterdam in 1941. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and the Dutch surrendered five days later. Prior to the occupation, there were approximately 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands, with the majority residing in Amsterdam. The Netherlands had a reputation for being more tolerant towards minori...

  11. Stanisław Maciejewski collection

    Stanisław Maciejewski collection consists of records relating to activities of the Association of Polish Former Political Prisoners of Prisons and Concentration Camps in Germany. These records include prisoner questionnaires containing comprehensive bibliographical information about the prisoners and prospective association members as well as photographs, fingerprints, and Verification Commission notes. The collection also contains correspondence, medical and compensation records, Maciejewski family documents, newspaper clippings, and publications relating to various concentration camp muse...

  12. Jewish refugee records from the Swiss Federal Archives

    The collection consists of 10,962 case files for Jewish refugees accepted into Switzerland between 1936 and 1946.

  13. Selected records from the Archivo Storico del Ministerio degli Affari Esteri

    This collection includes information on the Italian reaction to the rise of Nazi antisemitism in Germany and German-occupied territories, as well as on negotiations about the fate of Jews in southern France. The records also document the situation of refugees, the consequences of racial laws in Italy, the Italian resistance, and Zionism.

  14. Records from various collections of the National Archives of Norway

    Selected records from the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, Police Department, Passport Agency, Teachers Union, German Sicherheitspolizei, and SD commander of Berg and Grini internment camps. Contains records from series: Jodeboer Nordenfielske avdeling Tronheim Scandinavian Jews of Trondheim; Jodeboer sonnenfjelds Oslo og Akershus [Southern and eastern Jews outside of Oslo and Akershus], Diverse, 1942-1950 [Various]; Godtgjorelese for beslaglagt eiendom, 1940-1941 [Compensation for confiscated property]; Politiet, 1942-1949 [The Police]; Politiedepartementet,1940-1945: Statspolitiet [State Po...

  15. Selected records from the Smolensk State Oblast Archives

    Records from the Extraordinary Commission (Fond 1630), and the Planning Commission (Fond 2434) of the Committee of the Smolensk Oblast Council. Contains commissions' depositions pertaining to Nazi atrocities during the occupation (1941-1943) of the Smolensk and Velizhsk Oblasts; lists detailing destruction of houses; reports on summary executions; ill-treatment of wounded POWs by the Nazis; reports on the execution of children with connections to the partisans; reports on the torture of local residents; lists of displaced persons; lists of civilian victims of Nazi crimes; reports on organiz...

  16. Phillip Lindy collection

    Consists of 11 letters, a postcard, and a receipt from concentration camps and killing centers in Austria, Germany, and Poland.

  17. Signal Corps photographs and other photographs collection

    Group of black-and-white photographs and two clippings of photographs from the Signal Corps and others taken during the war and liberation. Includes two clippings of Signal Corps photographs, 16 Signal Corps photographs with captions, 61 photographs and postcards and five liberation photographs.

  18. Book

  19. Ida Shrut Fisher collection

    Three black and white photographs relating to Josef Perell (donor's first cousin) and his experiences during the Holocaust.

  20. Hilda Gaber poem

    Contains one handwritten poem ("Ich kenne ein kleines Haeuschen..."), in German, two pages. Written by Hilde Gaber of Israel in April 2000. In the accompanying explanatory note, the author describes the deportation of her and her parents from their home in Bucovina in 1941, to a death camp in Transnistria, from which she was liberated in 1945, although her parents had died on the way to the camp. She expresses longing for her home which she has not seen since 1941.