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 33,261 to 33,280 of 33,316
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple

  1. The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto

    "The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto" Episode 756 of radio program "The Eternal Light." Originally broadcast on December 12, 1943 and rebroadcast on April 26, 1959. Script by Morton Wishengrad. Production details: C08680. Link to the script: https://archive.org/details/BattleOfTheWarsawGhetto.

  2. Mändle family collection

    The collection consist of documents related to the World War I experiences of Siegfried Mändle and the Mändle family’s 1939 immigration documents. It also consists of three publications realting to the family.

  3. Grahamstown Trial, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1934

    The "Grahamstown Trial" which took place in 1934 in Port Elizabeth (ZA) deals with several issues; a document crudely forged by Harry Victor Inch, the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion and a Jewish world conspiracy. "Die Rapport" (an anti-Semitic newspaper) published a document allegedly stolen from the Western Road Synagogue in Port Elizabeth: This fake document contains a series of antigentile writings including a vague plan of Jewish world domination. The forgery pretends to be a record of an address delivered by Abraham Levy (the Minister of the Port Elizabeth Hebrew Congregation) to th...

  4. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The collection contains the documents collected by Judge Ben-Itto during years of research for her book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The book tells the story of those who forged the Protocols, distributed it around the world and used it as an antisemitic weapon. It also pays tribute to those who exposed and disproved it; with special emphasis given to the two major trials, both initiated in 1934 by Jewish communities in Switzerland and in South Africa against local Nazi distributors of the document.

  5. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    These files are the results of research enquiries the JCIO (Jewish Center Information Office) in Amsterdam, and later the Wiener Library in London, received and compiled during the war. The material was culled from books, periodicals and press cuttings, to form reliable documentation on specialized subjects. The files have been arranged under broad subject headings.

  6. The Key to the Mystery

    The Key to the Mystery, or Clé du Mystère, was a virulently anti-Semitic pamphlet, in the shape of a 32-pages booklet, published in Canada in French and English, and distributed in several countries in Europe in the 1930s. Adrien Arcand, the leader of the fascist Canadian paramilitary organization “Blue Shirts”, edited and published the pamphlet. By quoting distorted versions of texts written by prominent Jews, the Key aimed to prove the authenticity of the theories put forward in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It accused the Jews of a worldwide domination plot and of communism. The c...

  7. KZ-Verband

    The “KZ-Verband” collection of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) consists almost entirely of applications for membership to this “Alliance of Politically Persecuted” between 1946 and 1948. The forms filled in by applicants include personal data and information on family members as well as information on the reason for their arrest and the length of imprisonment in jails, ghettos and concentration camps. Most files also contain additional copies of documents on “Schutzhaft” (protective custody), confirmation of release or CVs and letters. In many cases photos of the appli...

  8. The Ludwig Dische papers : Bukovina’s Jewish history

    The Ludwig Dische papers address the history of the Bukovina before 1918, when Czernowitz was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dr. Dische was the chairperson of the Committee for internal affairs (“Communicates Evreilor”) of the Jewish community in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in the war years from December 1941 to March 1944, when the Soviet army re-occupied the city. The collection contains letters, drafts, bulletins, pictures, prints, newspapers clips, and information about well-known Jews from Czernowitz, as well as Dr. Dische’s personal papers. Dische gathered these materials after ...

  9. The Nazi Justice collection

    The Nazi Justice collection provides information on the judiciary of the Third Reich and hundreds of trial transcripts. One part of the collection (Box I) contains registers of convicts, laws and regulations, information on judges and attorneys, a detailed report of executions in Brandenburg (from October 1944 to April 1945) and a list of Nazis who had been active in Auschwitz. The other part (Boxes II to IX) contains trial transcripts in alphabetical order, mainly from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, from 1942 to 1945. Alleged crimes range from illegal slaughtering of animals to l...

  10. Notársky úrad v Moldave nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    • Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1945, including archival materials on the Anti-Jewish measures that were in force during these years. These archival sources are related mainly to the following issues: personal files related to Jewish residents, such as the number of local Jewry in 1939 (211 inhabitants), the list of Jewish doctors in Moldava nad Bodvou, files about the vetting of local doctors in 1939, official documents on Jews who converted to Christianity in Moldava nad Bodvou, as well ass the ...

  11. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The collection contains circulars (“Rundschreiben”) that the main office of the United Restitution Organization in Frankfurt/Main sent out to the various offices of the organization between 1961 and 1973. The circulars detail judgements of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) on claims of Holocaust survivors to individual indemnification for damages caused by Nazi persecution. Each circular is prefaced by a summary of the court’s decision and its significance for the jurisprudence of personal indemnification, which in Germany was regulated by the Federal Law on Compensati...

  12. Notársky úrad v Jablonove nad Turňou 1939 - 1944

    • Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou 1939 - 1944
    • Szádalmási Körjegyzőség 1939 - 1944

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1944, including various archival sources on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in the territory of ňAbov-Turňa County in 1944. Most of the documents on Anti-Jewish persecution might be found in the boxes n. 15 - 18. As for these files, one might find here inventories of closed Jewish artifacts, lists of apartments owned by Jews until April 1944 in Jablonov nad Turňou, and documents regarding the property left ...

  13. Okresný národný výbor v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1945 - 1960

    • District National Committee of Kráľovský Chlmec 1945 - 1960

    The agenda of the District National Committee of Kráľovský Chlmec contains documents that were preserved in the district administration in the period between 1945 and 1960. It contains files about post-WWII Jewish life in the localities of the district, such as the list of the members of Jewish associations or lists of Jewish persons registered to immigrate. Furthermore, the collection holds records on the Aryanized Jewish real estates that remained in the ownership of non-Jewish people after the end of WII, as well as the vetting process of these former administrators of Jewish property. T...

  14. Okresný národný výbor vo Veľkých Kapušanoch 1945 - 1960

    • District National Committee of Veľké Kapušany 1945 - 1960

    The agenda of the District National Committee of Veľké Kapušany holds records of the district administration in the period between 1945 and 1960. A specific segment of the archival collections preserves archival materials related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps. The collection contains documents of Jewish property and lists of Jewish people living in the territory of the district. A specific segment of the archival collections includes the list of those who were taken to the concentration camps from the localities that b...

  15. Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1925 - 1949

    • Tradesmen Association of the Kráľovský Chlmec District 1925 - 1949

    The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Krášovský Chlmec District contains materials related to Jewish industrialists and tradesmen who inhabited the localities of the district. 11 boxes of collection (boxes number 46-57) are related to the period between 1938 and 1945 including various archival files on anti-Jewish persecution, anti-Jewish regulations and the Aryanization of Jewish members of the association. The collection records preserve register books and several documents concerning the trade permits of Jewish members of the association. Furthermore, one might find...

  16. Župné mesto Rimavská Sobota 1938 - 1944

    • Rimavská Sobota City with County rights 1938 - 1944

  17. Obvodný úrad Miestnych národných výborov v Rimavskej Sobote 1945 - 1950

    • District Office of the Local National Committees in Rimavská Sobota 1945 - 1950

    The District Office of the Local National Committees in Rimavská Sobotá holds records of the local administration of Rimavská Sobota, Tomašovce, Jesenské and Bátka between 1945 and 1950. The fond reflects several aspects of the local postwar political, social, and economic development and everyday life, and as such it preserves materials also about Jewish life after the war in Rimavská Sobota and its surroundings. A great part of the archival collections is related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps or from hiding, searchin...

  18. Mestský úrad v Lučenci II. 1938 - 1944

    • City Office of Lučenec II. 1938 - 1944

    The collection holds the records of the city administration of Lučenec between 1938 and 1944. It contains various files regarding the political, economic, and social life of Lučenec during the wartime period. The persecution of the Jewish population is documented in the major part of the collection. Researchers might find in the collection the files of Jewish inhabitants who applied for an exception or their applications for certificates of state affiliation, as well as more documents concerning their trade permits which they have lost as a result os Anti-Jewish measures. An important part ...

  19. Gemersko-malohontská župa III. 1920 – 1944

    • Gemer-Malohont County III. 1920 – 1944
    • Gömör-Kishont Vármegye III. 1920 – 1944

    The archival collection of the Gemer-Malohont County (in Hungarian Gömör-Kishont Vármegye) holds records of the county administration from the period between 1920 and 1944. As for the wartime years in 1939 - 1944, it preserves archival materials concerning Jewish life and various files on anti-Jewish measures and the persecution of the Jewish population taking place in the cities and in the countryside of the Gemer-Malohont County. These documents concern mainly the Aryanization of Jewish property. For example, one might find here the inventory of the equipment that belonged to the medical ...

  20. Miestny národný výbor v Lučenci 1945 – 1960

    • City National Committee of Lučenec 1945 - 1960

    The agenda of the City National Committee of Lučenec contains materials of the city administration in the period between 1945 and 1960. A specific segment of the archival collection preserves documents related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps and were trying to get back their confiscated real estate and movable property. Furthermore, a relevant part of the collections holds records about the situation of the Jewish religious community and its real estate properties, mainly the building of the synagogue in the post-war yea...