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 14,401 to 14,420 of 39,504
Search result ordering
Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Book

  2. Book

  3. Soviet Propaganda film

    This two reel "agitka" (short propaganda film) was one of the first produced by the Soviet regime. Made in 1919 to show to Red Army troops, often on trains, the film tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army.

  4. Dublon family papers

    The Dublon family papers consists of a diary written in German regarding the Dublon family’s experiences aboard the MS St. Louis, May-June 1939; a translation of the diary in English; photographs of the Dublon and Heimann families, circa 1933-1939; and a postcard, 1936. The photographs include a photograph of a children’s kindergarten performance in Erfurt, Germany, circa 1933. The kindergarten was operated by Frau Topf. Lore Dublon is seated second from the left and Peter Heimann is the first boy on the left. A photograph of the Dublon and Heimann families in Finowfurt, Germany in 1937. Fr...

  5. Liberation - Yugoslavia

    Airfield, airplane. Group of men converse. Injured POWs exit building. US soldier inspects wounds. Boys marching, some have bandages around heads. Group of girls marching. Children dancing in circle. Doctors examine children, CUs of wounds. US photographer plays with young boy who is knitting. Children dancing. Crowd of children running and playing with ropes. CU, sign on building in Serbo-Croatian. Yugoslav? soldiers on horses riding through villages. Peasants/civilians wave and cheer as they pass. Different angles, more shots of soldiers. MS,CUs children waving. CUs, troops marching past ...

  6. Repatriation of POWS: airfield; rations; grooming; clothing; trains

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 4: Bari: display of pharmaceutical supplies, Russians receiving supplies. Trucks loaded with Russians leaving camp. Men entering and leaving supply house with bags and new clothing. Russians playing cards, others watching. Officer explaining bulletin board to group. Men shaving, combing beard, mustache, and hair. Young Russian soldier laying out new clothing and supplies. Men entering shower room after discarding old clothing, admiring new clothing and disposing old clothing. Train pulling into siding, Russians departing, lining...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Russian diplomat; Walter Winchell

    Russian diplomat disembarks plane (US Army Air Forces sign). He is interviewed by US reporters (sound). Many takes of the same question. 01:04:00 Broadcast by Walter Winchell (sound) [Transcript of broadcast attached to the dope sheet in files).

  8. Hollander family documents

    Contains an identification card for Clara Sara Hollander and two passports for Siegmond Israel Hollander and Clara Sara Hollander.

  9. Abraham Gold documents

    Contains an identification card from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for Abraham Gold, two identification cards indicating that Abraham Gold is a member of the Selfaid of the Jewish former concentration camp inmates in upper Austria, a black and white photoprint, and a memoir entitled "This is My Story"

  10. Arnold Hartmann correspondence

    The Arnold Hartmann correspondence documents Hartmann’s efforts to help his Breslau cousins flee Germany during the Holocaust and either join their relatives who had already emigrated to Shanghai, Montevideo, or La Paz or immigrate to the United States. Hartmann’s correspondents include his cousins Philipp and Regine Hartmann in Breslau; their older daughter Meta and her husband Bruno Oszlowski who traveled from Breslau to Montevideo; their younger daughter Erna Hartmann who traveled from Breslau to La Paz and married Max Kissinger; cousins Martin and Jette Beil, also in Breslau; cousin Mar...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- French discuss Czechoslovakia's problems; parade

    French Army Commission discusses Czechoslovakia's problems at a special meeting. General view of committee listening to its president expose the problem of Central Europe. Committee President, Miellet, deputy of Belfort, points to Czechoslovakia on the map and stresses the gravity of the present situation. CU, President Miellet. The members discuss measures to safeguard France and agree to ask the government to increase French armaments. General shot of Czechoslovak officers surrounding their chief Colonel Kalina, Military Attache at the Legation (wearing spectacles). Colonel Kalina convers...

  13. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 2 Reichsmark

    2 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armo...

  14. Book

  15. Isaiah Trunk papers

    Contains photocopies of materials written by or about Isaiah Trunk.

  16. Reports issued by the Prague Jewish Council

    Contains two reports which the Nazi regime required the Prague Jewish Council to execute and deliver to the Germans annually.

  17. Fragments of Memory

    Contains a memoir, 18 pages, about Chava Livni's experiences in Auschwitz, Freiberg, and Mauthausen.

  18. Survivor testimonies relating to slave labor

    Contains 42,000 documents, including 25,000 accounts by Holocaust survivors of Jewish slave labor in ghettos and camps.All these survivors have been registered with The Institute of Documentation between 1970-1985 in Haifa,Israel.

  19. Family History and World War II Years

    Contains a memoir, 13 page, about Henry Wilde's Holocaust experiences.

  20. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers

    The Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers contains two memoirs, one written by Gustave and the other by Piroska. Both are written to their grandchildren, and explain their family’s history. The memoirs detail life growing up in Hungary prior to the war, and gives details on the family’s background. Piroska’s memoirs go into great detail about life in Jewish ghettos in Budapest, living undercover as Christians in Kiskunlacháza, and the general discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave ...