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 12,401 to 12,420 of 33,316
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple

  1. Hanna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923, the middle child of seven. She recalls attending Catholic school; cordial relations with non-Jews; one brother's service as an officer in the Polish military; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation of her parents and oldest sister in 1942 (she never saw them again); hiding in a bunker in 1943; giving up after three days; deportation with her family to Annaberg; transfer to a labor camp with her next youngest sister; slave labor in a textile factory; their transfer to Gru?nberg; sharin...

  2. Hanna Schepps collection

    Collection of four photographs: image depicting Anna Kohane (donor) at age two in Uzbekistan; a studio portrait of Anna and Leon Kohane in Bielsko, Poland in 1946; an identification photo of Leon Kohane, c. 1946; image of Leon Arie Kohane and his small dog on the balcony of the family apartment in Bielsko, c. 1949.

  3. Hanna U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanna U., a non-Jew, who was born in Poland in 1933, one of two children. She recounts living in Warsaw; her father's death when she was three; German invasion in 1939; observing starving people and bodies on the streets when traversing the ghetto by street car; her uncle's deportation for resistance activities; sending packages to him through the Red Cross; a public execution; observing the ghetto burning during the 1943 uprising; the Warsaw uprising in 1944; when most of Warsaw's population was forcibly evacuated, deportation with her mother and brother to Dzielna, ...

  4. Hanna washes her uncle's hands and eats nuts

    Hanna with a hat uses an outdoor water spout to wash her uncle Georg's hands. She gathers and cracks nuts, and eventually sits in a wash tub, eating them.

  5. Hanna Yaari collection

    Collection of documents and letters between Edith and Samuel Jurovics, and their children, who were living in Berlin, Germany before the Holocaust and were then forced to disperse to England, the United States, France, Palestine and Switzerland. Samuel, who was living in New York City, passed away in 1942. Benjamin and Raphael, two of his children, immigrated to Palestine and exchanged mail between each other. Edith fled to the United Kingdom and was able to exchange correspondence. The middle child, Esra, who joined a Zionist youth organization in the Netherlands, was able to send correspo...

  6. Hanna, her mother, and aunt model kimonos on the terrace in prewar Poland

    Hanna walks around in a kimono and holding a sun umbrella on the porch of their home in Jaremcze. Mother Ella and another woman are dressed similarly. Hanna walks around and plays with the umbrella.

  7. Hannah Berkowitz collection

    Includes family photos and documents, travel documents, restitution-related papers, and a transcript of an oral history with Eva Berkowitz, the donors' mother, that captures Eva's experiences in the ghetto in Irshava and then in Auschwitz, where she was incarcerated until July 1944, and then sent to work in German ammunition factories in Gelsenkirchen and Essen.

  8. Hannah Callman collection

  9. Hannah D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah D., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1922. She describes her family's move to Bochum when she was two; her father's death in 1929; expulsion from boarding school in 1937 because she was Jewish; the impact of anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; her mother's remarriage in 1939; and emigration to England three weeks later on a kindertransport. Mrs. D. recalls entering nurse's training; internment on the Isle of Man as an "enemy alien"; friendship with a woman who committed suicide; receiving her nursing diploma in 1941; enlisting in the army; the horro...

  10. Hannah E. Ohr family collection

    Correspondence, legal documents and photographs relating to Hannah E. Ohr and her family; mother, Emma Kruger; father, Julius Kruger; and sister, Annemarie Heimbach.

  12. Hannah H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah H., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls attending public school and business school; celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion; ghettoization with her family in the Srodula section; forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; her brother being caught and killed; foregoing an escape opportunity to save her parents from deportation (they were not released); deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; being shaved and tattooed; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to a German camp in January 1945; liberation by the Red Cross in April; tr...

  13. Hannah Kaplan collection

    The collection consists of three published portfolios of artwork, Tanuságtétel by Shraga Weil, 16 fameszete by Miklos Adler, and Danse Macabre by Ernest (Emo) Barta, published soon after the Holocaust.

  15. Hannah Koblentz Shulman collection

    Contains one copyprint of a wartime photograph of Hannah Koblentz Shulman, originally of Albany, NY, in a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps uniform, and a copy of the July/August 1998 issue of "The Jewish Veteran" magazine. The magazine contains an article entitled "Jewish Women in the Military: Hannah Koblentz" and describes Mrs. Shulman's experiences in the armed forces and her experiences as a Jewish woman touring the newly liberated concentration camps.

  16. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    The collection consists of a spice box, sugar tongs, a tabelcloth, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hannah Kronheim, a Kindertransport refugee from Bochum, Germany, and her family before and during the Holocaust.

  17. Hannah Messinger collection

    The collection consists of a series of drawings done around 1970 by Hannah Messinger based upon her experiences as a prisoner in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Sackisch concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Czechoslovakia immediately after the end of the war.

  18. Hannah Metzger speech relating to Holocaust survival

    Consists of a transcript of a speech in English, eight pages, written by Hannah Metzger on the occasion of a reunion of the Jewish school of Fürth/Nuremberg, detailing her experiences living in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  19. Hannah N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah N., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1922 to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. She recalls being raised as a Jew; little antisemitism until Hitler's ascent to power; her parents' unsuccessful attempts to emigrate; synagogue confirmation in 1937; being protected by a non-Jew during Kristallnacht; high school graduation in 1938; deportations of many Jews; Allied bombings; her deportation to a forced labor camp in 1944 (her mother was sent to Berlin); a privileged position due to having previously worked for the SS officer in charge (she was the only Jew not...

  20. Hannah R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah R., who was born in S?iauliai, Lithuania in 1928. She recalls her comfortable, observant childhood; speaking Hebrew at home; summer vacations in Palanga; antisemitic violence; Soviet occupation; her father's imprisonment and release; German invasion; her father's disappearance (she never saw him again); ghettoization; transfer with her mother and sister to the Trakai ghetto in 1943; the children's round-up in June 1944; deportation with her mother and sister in July to Stutthof; their transfer to several work camps; the death march in December to Gross Golmkau ...