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 12,161 to 12,180 of 33,359
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English

  1. Selected records from the former archive of the city of Westerbork

    Contains registers, together with death certificates, of deported and arrested persons in the vicinity of Westerbork, Netherlands.

  2. Zygfryd Baginski papers

    Collection contains one album of official photographs of Dachau post-liberation, appears to be published by the International Information Office for the Former Concentration Camp Dachau; one photocopied typed manuscript of the Holocaust remembrances of Zygfryd Baginski [donor]; one set of photocopies of passport pages for Military Exit permit, issued Sep. 1948; one concentration camp information form, entitled "Outlet by Death."

  3. American soldiers holding Nazi flag

    Rectangular form with scalloped edge; black and white image depicting United States Army soldiers holding a German flag bearing a Swastika.

  4. Post-war Polish Jewish community center documents

    Collection contains three invitations for various events at post-war Polish Jewish community centers from 1947-1948: one invitation to the opening of the Jewish community center in Bytom, one invitation (in Hebrew and in English) for a spring dance at the Jewish community center in Wrocław, and one invitation for the 1st anniversary ceremony for the Jewish community center in Złotoryja, which also contains a program. The collection also contains one blank identity card for the Jewish organization of culture and art in the Dolny Sĺa̧sk.

  5. SS headquarters for race and settlement Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt-SS (NS 2)

    Contains selected records from Bundesarchiv, NS 2, the SS headquarters for race and settlement, involving implementation of racial and resettlement policies by the SS in Germany and German-occupied territories. The documents concern coordination with other German agencies, SS orders, commands, directives, regulations, investigations regarding race relations, and correspondence and reports sent between various SS offices. Also includes reports on the Jewish situation in various cities or countries, inspection reports of concentration camps, records concerning contact with foreigners during t...

  6. Merecki family collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the pre-war experiences of the Merecki family, who emigrated to the United States from Austria in December 1938.

  7. Application forms for the mandatory adoption of the names Sara and Israel for Austrian Jews

    Contains mandatory name-change applications received from Jews by the Vienna, Austria, district offices of the Bezirkshauptmannschaften.

  8. Madeleine Coleman collection

    Consists of three postcards written by Joseph Miltau, imprisoned in southern France, to his family in Paris, and one photograph of his daughter, Madeleine Coleman, in Paris in the summer of 1943. Joseph Miltau was later deported to Majdanek.

  9. Walter Wolff collection

    Contains identity cards and documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of Walter Wolff, who spent the Holocaust in Italy and in Germany.

  10. Marta Brod photographs

    Consists of 17 pre- and post-war family photographs of the Brod family of Istanbul, Turkey. The photographs feature Simon Brod, who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency of Palestine in Istanbul, and is credited with rescuing David Stoliar, a survivor of the shipwreck of the "Struma" in February 1942.

  11. Hans Garfunkel collection

    Consists of letters written to Bessie Silberman, in Chicago, IL, from Hans Garfunkel, as Hans was trying to obtain the visas and affidavits necessary to emigrate to the United States (in English and French); letters written to Hans Garfunkel from his parents in Germany (in German); report cards and other academic paperwork for Hans Garfunkel; and telegrams and consular correspondence regarding Hans Garfunkel's visa requests. Also consists of 12 pre-war and wartime photographs of the family and friends of Hans Garfunkel.

  12. Nussbaum-Koch family collection

    Consists of correspondence, passports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documentation of the Nussbaum and Koch families of Luxembourg. Includes papers and photographs related to Albert Nussbaum, who had worked with refugees in Luxembourg before working for the Transmigration Bureay of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon, then emigrating to the Dominican Republic; and to Gustav Nussbaum, Helene Kleinberg Nussbaum, Marguerite (Martha) Koch, and Rene Nussbaum.

  13. Nada Weiss papers

    The collection consists of 2 pieces of correspondence: a letter, dated August 1942, sent by Gizela and Dragutin Weiss to their daughter Nada, who was in "Merkur," a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia; a postcard, dated May 15, 1943, sent by Nada Weiss, an inmate in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, to her uncle Stjepan Magdic in Zagreb, Croatia.

  14. Shirley Gola Enselberg photographs

    The photographs depict Shirley Gola Enselberg, her parents, and rescuers in Belgium, after liberation, and during their emigration to the United States aboard the ship, "Ernie Pyle," in September 1948.

  15. Lola Kaufman papers

    The papers consist of a passport issued to Etie Stempler, the late wife of Lola Kaufman's maternal uncle, Gedalia Aschkenase, who immigrated to the United States in 1930 as well as a newspaper clipping from the New York Post, dated June 26, 1962, referring to Heinrich Peckmann, an SS sergeant in Chortkiv (Czortków), Ukraine, who was acquitted by a German court in Saarbrücken, Germany. Peckmann murdered Lola Kaufman's mother, Dwojre Rein, in 1942.

  16. Gutter family papers

    The papers consist of 20 documents relating to Elsa Gutter Deutsch and Grete Gutter Knoblich, Melissa Cutter's paternal aunts, and two photographs of Jean Gutter, Melissa Cutter's father.

  17. Blanka and Fania Eckstein papers

    The papers consist of 17 photographs and 10 documents relating to the experiences of Blanka and Fania Eckstein before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Oscar S. Johnson photograph collection

    The collection consists of 16 photographs taken by Oscar S. Johnson, a lieutenant in the United States Army, immediately following the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp.

  19. Photograph of Leon Felhendler

    The copy print is from an original photograph created in 1933 and depicts Leon Felhendler, Nicholas N. Kittrie's uncle.

  20. Oral history interview with Walter Szczesniak