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 10,661 to 10,680 of 33,375
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English

  1. Agro-Joint colonies of Nowaja-Zarza and Voroshila

    Intertitles provide information. Very good CUs and pan of a group of men and women vineyard workers (former ghetto inhabitants). MS of men coming out of building at Voroshila. Young boy (visiting from Leningrad) poses for camera. Poultry farm house with chickens wandering about.

  2. Soviet film of atrocities shown at Nuremberg Trials

    Reel 1: Documents. Atrocities, corpses, women weeping, Soviet soldiers. Exhumation of mass grave, Russians weeping. Corpses at camp. 01:18:32 Reel 2: Human remains. Doctors, exhumation, skulls. Human remains at camp, beach. Reburying children in coffins, women weeping. Watchtower, barbed wire, corpses. Gravesite in forest. Fires. 01:31:40 Klooga: corpses, CU of victim with number and Star of David. 01:33:51 Reel 3: Lublin, INTs corpses. Civilians view bodies and camp barracks. MS, survivors. Aerial views of Majdanek, barracks. Skulls and bones, crematorium. Victims' belongings (shoes, passp...

  3. Gen. Zorn and other German military officers in Russia; musical performance

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 Klappe 1-Lo 12: July 6, 1941: German military crossing a pontoon bridge. Shot of 8 German soldiers buried next to a blockhouse; switches to a different angle and shows soldiers walking past the graves. CUs of military vehicles moving across a pontoon bridge, with groups of soldiers relaxing on the bridge. Soldiers working on building a bridge, as a group of young boys looks on. Klappe 2-Lo 13: July 8, 1941: Captured Russian soldiers walking towards the camera. Military vehicles of the 3rd Panzer Division moving into a town, driving past the wreckage of a Russian plane. A so...

  4. Military Government in Cologne; Dedication of monument to Holocaust survivors

    (LIB 6939) SPX-G Military Government, Cologne, Germany, June 6, 1945 LSs, truck loaded with medical supplies from bombed-out drug store pulls away from camera. LSs, MSs, bombed-out store front with sign "Cafe Zahn". CU, sign, "Civilian Labor Office". LSs, MSs, walls of bombed buildings; wrecked equestrian statue. SEQ: Dedication of monument in city to Holocaust victims. Speakers are Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish chaplains of the US Army. Buchenwald survivors and civilians attend the services. SEQ: German farmers threshing and baling wheat and weighing sacks of grain. LS line of children ...

  5. Barbie Trial -- Day 8 -- Written depositions regarding the UGIF raid are read into the record

    16:21 President Cerdini resumes the hearing 16:22 Cerdini asks that a document filed by prosecutor Kormann be translated from German to French 16:24 The public prosecutor for the civil parties asks that documents detailing testimony of survivors of the UGIF raid be read for the court 16:26 The clerk reads testimony of Mr. Raymond Geissmann, regional director of the UGIF in Lyon following the raid in February 1943 16:29 The clerk begins to read a second letter written by Geissmann, but the photocopy is unreadable; the original letter is furnished; in the letter, Geissmann gives his opinion o...

  6. Dunson family at Christian mission

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. VS, older woman with baby posing for camera, older man poses with a Doberman Pinscher and a young girl (the donor, Joy). VS, family life, postwar. Women posing with potted plants. Various families coming out of a church, most are well-dressed, some men exit church in suits, others in work clothes- dungarees and overalls. Children playing on the farm. VS, more footage of ranch hands with cattle and sheep. They are shearing the sheep. Women and children are al...

  7. Barbie Trial -- Day 3 -- Barbie's role in the Einsatzgruppen

    13:46 Court proceedings begin. President Cerdini asks for the accused to be introduced. 13:58 Examination of Barbie's activities with the Einsatzkommandos - a cluster of mobile killing units - in Amsterdam, Gex and Lyon.

  8. Agro-Joint colony of Politodielec

    Electrical lines leading to an electrical water pump. LS of water pouring from a pipe. CU of pipe and water pouring into irrigation channel. Pan over cotton field, CU of cotton plants.

  9. Evelyn Levin papers

    The papers consist of documents concerning two ships, the President Warfield and the City of Lowell. Included are documents and other correspondence between Louis Levin, Evelyn Levin's husband, representing the Potomac Shipwrecking Company from October 18, 1946, and the Chinese American Industrial Company, purchasers of the aforementioned ships. The bill of sale for the President Warfield (later known as the Exodus) is also part the collection as is an inventory from the U.S. Maritime Commission delivered to the Potomac Shipwrecking Company. Also included are additional correspondence from ...

  11. Guta Jean Kryger papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to Guta Jean Kryger's experiences during the Holocaust and her claims for restitution after her immigration to Canada.

  12. Watercolor

    Watercolor on paper depiction of a royal figure in a suit of armor and a cape, and holding a sword.

  13. Selected records of state security investigations of Hungarian war criminals (ABTL)

    Contains records of interrogations of suspected war criminals by the investigative branch of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Hungarian Police State Protection Department (Magyar Államrendőrség Államvédelmi Osztálya, ÁVO), and later by the independent Agency for State Security State Protection Authority, (Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH), primarily confessions and witness testimonies.

  14. Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Political Department (MOL K 63)

    The collection contains selected records relating to Hungarian foreign relations and policies. Includes reports submitted in 1944 by Hungarian diplomatic missions in Arad (Oradea), Bucharest, and Brasov (Brassó) in Romania to the Foreign Ministry in Budapest about incidents concerning Jews; a speech of the priest Áron Márton at St. Michael's Church, May 1944, condemned the prepared deportation of Romanian and Hungarian Jews; also contains Hungarian German press article and clippings.

  15. Records of the Hungarian Prime Minister's Office: Bureau of Exemptions (MOL K 466)

    Under German occupation in Hungary, in 1944, Regent Miklos Horthy established an office to exempt prominent Jews from particular measures such as wearing the yellow star, ghettoization, or deportation. This collection contains lists of people eligible for exemption status and individuals applying for this status.

  16. Dunson family at Christian mission; church; children playing in the park

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. MCU, two gentlemen in suits pose in front of a parked car. VS, men in suits, women and children on streets, walking, talking, playing, etc. MS, panning shot- high angle of church pews, some people are seated in the church. MCU, church choir in robes, posing for group portrait on steps of building. VS, children playing together and playing with a puppy. VS, children with a teacher on a school playground. Older children, in park, also elderly people seated on ...

  17. Agro-Joint colonies of October and Maifeld

    LS of two-story houses at Kolkhoz (colony) October. Pan of grape vineyards in the Maifeld colony. CU of leaves and grapes. MCU Morris Troper with an older man who works with the grapes. Field of Agro-Joint experimental agricultural station. CU of some workers. LS poorly framed shot of new high school.

  18. Emily Bordin papers

    The papers consist of a death certificate and two photographs that document the experiences of Emilie Bordin who was purportedly killed in 1940 in the Sonnenstein über Pirna Institute in Germany, which practiced euthanasia during World War II.

  19. Cesia Ritter papers

    The papers consist of 53 photographs of Cesia Ritter (née Honig) as a child before World War II and post-war photograph of her rescuers; an employment certificate for her father Naftali Honig in "Deutsche Dachpappenfabrik - Papapol" in Tarnow, Poland, in 1942; and identification card for Cesia Honig issued by ORT in Anvers, Belgium, in 1947; a copy of a letter written to Cesia's uncle in Palestine after the war; and a newspaper article from the New York Post on August 31, 1987.

  20. Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note

    Scrip with a receipt value of 50 cents issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their invasion and occupation of Poland in September 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] of the Łódź ghetto, and includes traditional Jewish symbols.