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 12,361 to 12,380 of 33,316
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple

  1. Toby Quitslund papers

    Consists of three identification cards: identification card issued to Maurice Goldstein, 21 October 1941; forged identification card-issued to an alias, "Yves Maurice Gallois;" and a forged Identification card issued to an alias "Maurice Marchal," dated circa 15 March 1940-42.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Synagogue in Czechoslovakia; peasants

    1150 Y: Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 3, 1946 (?). INTs, Jews worshipping in the Synagogue of Prague. MS, the rabbi opens the ark and takes out the Torah which is shown to the worshippers. LS, same as MS above. MS, Jews worshipping the Torah. The rabbi enters the center of the synagogue where the Torah is placed on a table. He opens it. MS, the rabbi opening the Torah for the ceremony. CU, the rabbi opening the Torah and demonstrating it, wide open, to the worshippers. LS, Jews leaving the synagogue after the ceremony. NOTE: The American Jews gave a Torah to the Czech Jews in Prague. This...

  3. Esther Loeb collection

    Consists of four photographic prints: one image of Esther Loeb in Siberia during the war; one of Esther Loeb in Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany, and two of Esther Loeb in Israel.

  4. David and Nina Fox collection

    The David and Nina Fox collection consists of two photographs taken Foehrenwald, Germany, likely at the Foehrenwald DP camp; a newspaper clipping regarding Jozef Schmidt, 1904-1942, a lyric tenor; and a newspaper clipping regarding Nazi atrocities and ghetto scenes, 1945; in Yiddish.

  5. Sally Muschel collection

    The Sally Muschel collection consists of photographs of school children and teachers at the Ainring displaced persons camp; baggage tags used in her immigration to the United States; two certificates issued by the World ORT Union 5th Area H.Q. Vocational School in Lechfeld, Germany; a telegram; and a letter.

  6. Raymond McCormick photograph collection

    The Raymond McCormick photograph collection consists of nine photographs of an unidentified concentration camp following its liberation, circa 1945. The photographs include images of victims’ corpses, a cemetery, and a memorial.

  7. David Fromer collection

    Consists of a copy of a military permit, printed on “Dachau Concentration Camp" letterhead, issued to David Fromer (the donor was a 21 year-old US soldier at that time) stating that he is a member of the permanent staff and is allowed to enter and leave the camp at any time; signed by bearer.

  8. Katherine Keenum collection

    Consists of a black and white image of two survivors, wearing prisoners’ uniforms, in front of a barrack in one of the liberated Dachau sub-camps; the caption on the back: “Prisoners at concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany."

  9. Anna Fruchtman collection

    The Anna Fruchtman collection consists of a phtogoraph of three women sewing at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany; a certificate of employment and identification card relating to Hanka Fruchtman's (later Anna Fruchtman) employment at the World ORT/Union Vocational School, Stuttgart, Germany.

  10. Gloria Hartenbaum collection

    The collection consists of wartime and post-war photographs depicting Gizelle Herskovits (later Gloria Hartenbaum), originally of Bixad, Romania, and her sisters Magda Herskovits (later Magda Kramer), Vicky Herskovits (later Vicky Zepnick), and Katya Herkovits (later Katherine Rezak). The photographs include wartime images of the sisters with family and friends in Bixad and post-war depictions of them in the Feldafing displaces persons camp.

  11. Eva Kovacs collection

    The Eva Kovacs collecton consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence for Pal and Pálnéak (Pálné) Justus, originally of Budapest, Hungary, between 1931-1944. Includes correspondence from Pal Justus in Bor, Yugoslavia, while he was performing forced labor, to his family in Budapest.

  12. Nazi propaganda: anti-Soviet

    The movie depicts the Bolshevist rule over Latvia with documentary footage and a propagandistic commentary. The narrator reads the Soviet ultimatum towards Latvia of October 2, 1939 and mentions the occupation of Latvia by Soviet troops on June 17, 1940 as an 'assault against Europe.' The puppet government under Kirchenstein is said to have betrayed the Latvians to the Soviet Union. Pictures of the alleged "Zuchthauselite" [prison elite] with high positions in the new government and administration are shown. Soviet rule is associated with propaganda, censorship, collectivization, deportatio...

  13. Polish Government presentation set collection

    The collection consists of a presentation case and two spoons recovered after the war near Belzec killing center in Poland.

  14. Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection

    Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection consists of nine photographs documenting the experiences of Zofia Zajd Berkowitz and of Cecia Berkowitz (Zofia's niece) during the time period surrounding the Holocaust dated 1930-1946. Zofia Zajd Berkowitz survived the war working forced labor at the Hasag labor camp in Czestochowa. Her niece Cecia Berkowitz survived in hiding with the assistance of Genowefa Starczewska-Korczak, a Polish Christian woman who was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1986.

  15. Gabryela Bromberg collection

    The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the testimony of Regina Jabłońska who hid Gabryela Bromberg from October 1942 until their liberation in July 1944.

  16. Rapoport family collection

    Photographs of Aaron and Feiga Rapoport and their children Malka, Bola, Chana and Benzion who were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, then Liebenau and Titmoning internment camps in Germany, and finally, the Vittel internment camp in France. Additionally, there is evidence that Aaron, Malka, and Bola were imprisoned in Pawiak in Warsaw. The family, all born in Poland, survived and immigrated to the United States in 1946. Accretion: 2 oral history cassettes of interview with Benzion Jacob Rapoport.

  17. United We Win poster collection

    The collection consists of two United We Win posters produced by the United States during World War II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front.

  18. Warsaw in ruins

    CUs, men pointing to architectural drawing of building with damaged structure in BG. Men standing in ruins. WS, Warsaw in ruins. Horses/cart in FG. Men digging. Snow-covered rubble.

  19. British fascist John Amery

    British Nazi John Amery speaks to Union Des Forces Revolutionnaires on Allied "terror bombing" in French. Front of Gaumont Palace, MS interior 2 guards in uniform, LS of Amery at podium with banner above him and first few rows of audience. MS of Amery at podium speaking [sync sound begins] alternating shots of speaker and audience including CU low angle of guy in uniform with peculiar armband. [Portuguese narration takes over] Amery gives fascist salute. LS of audience applauding. Additional unrelated footage at 03:51:07 to 03:51:58, Men of Feldherrnhalle Division invited aboard submarine.

  20. Short interviews near Grabow (Maisons)

    Interviews with Polish inhabitants of Grabow, a village located 19 km from the Chelmno extermination camp. Prior to the war, Jews had accounted for over half the population of Grabow. In 1942, all of the approximately 4,000 Jews of Grabow were rounded up, locked in the town's Catholic church, and then transported to Chelmno. In these outtakes, Lanzmann reads a letter written by the rabbi of Grabow in January 1942, detailing the horrors that awaited his people. He conducts short interviews with town residents about their memories of that time, and the outtakes also contain mute shots of town...