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 15,981 to 16,000 of 33,375
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English

  1. Richard Remizowski collection

    92 black-and-white commercially produced cards depicting the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

  2. Dana Bruden collection

    Letter was written by donor's great aunt in 1940 documenting her trip back to Germany in order to help her mother escape from Germany.

  3. Shifra Altshuler letter

    Photocopy of a typescript version of a memoir written in the form of a letter dated October 12, 1942, from Shifra nee Altshuler (married name unknown) to her sister, Rochelle, and two brothers, Barryl and Aryeh, describing in detail the sufferings of the Jewish Community of Ivyeh, Poland, at the hands of both the Poles and the Nazis. The memoir covers the period of October 12 to December 23, 1942.

  4. Lutz Haase collection

    Contains official documents concerning donor's status as a political refugee in Shanghai during the war. Collection of booklets and newspapers are published by the "Association of Former Central European Refugees from Shanghai." Also includes 27 photographs taken in the Hongkew ghetto between 1943-1948, described by the donor.

  5. Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection

    The Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection consists of a photocopy of a diary, in Polish, describing Maria Engel Gunsberg's life from 1939-1945, including time spent in hiding in Eastern Poland. Also includes a photocopy of the diary of her father, Gustav Engel, also written in hiding. Engel's diary gives extensive information about the events of the Holocaust near Tarnopol, Poland. The original diaries are located at Yad Vashem.

  6. F. Harry Brown's memoirs

    Contains autobiographical information of the donor and his family in Czechoslovakia and Austria prior to 1939; emigration to the United States through Switzerland; and fates of other family members.

  7. Sharon Muller collection

    Contains information on the following: an original printed program commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and an original journal of the Zionist Youth Movement containing articles about the third anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  8. Joan Wolfermann collection

    Contains correspondence from M. Lichtmann dated November 1940, describing his escape from Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia.

  9. Peter Rosen papers

    The Peter Rosen papers contain training materials from the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie; drafts, correspondence, and research created during the production of a 1945 handbook titled The German Police prepared by MIRS (London Branch) and SHAEF’s Evaluation and Dissemination Section (EDS); two Gestapo files; and a Sicherheitsdienst (SD) file. Camp Ritchie training materials include handouts on the organization and tactics of the French and German armed forces; recognizing the uniforms of allies and enemies; technical instruction in aerial photography, signal communica...

  10. Elizabeth Simon collection

    Contains information regarding Elizabeth Simon's internment at Mauthausen: certification of her internment, dated 22 May 1945; Claims Conference questionnaire, not dated; and an affidavit for indemnification claim, dated 1967.

  11. Charles Talmazan papers

    The Charles Talmazan papers consist of correspondence, photographic materials, clippings, and a family tree documenting Talmazan’s experiences as a hidden child in Belgium during the Holocaust, his father and sister’s deportation to Auschwitz, his efforts to receive reparations from the German and Belgian governments, and his participation in the erection of a monument in Cornemont, Belgium.

  12. Franz Werner Krebs papers

    The Franz Werner Krebs papers consist of photocopies and photographs of biographical materials and subject files documenting the Krebs family, their flight from Breslau to England in 1938 and 1939, their return to Germany after the war, and Franz Werner Krebs’ immigration to America in 1956. Biographical materials primarily include photocopies and photographs of identification papers, school records, a birth certificate, and a marriage certificate documenting Franz Werner Krebs, his registration in England, his architectural education in Germany, and his first marriage. Additional documents...

  13. Jeanne Rothschild collection

    Contains correspondence and documents relating to the donor's father's internment in Camp Gurs and Les Milles: drawings made by Gurs inmates in 1939; documentation of attempts to obtain visas; photographs taken by donor's husband while in Germany with the U.S. Army, some from Dachau taken two days after liberation; documents from the Red Cross International Tracing Service concerning the donor's mother's twin sister and older brother; and a sound cassette of the donor's oral testimony.

  15. Ralph J. Preiss collection

    Contains 10 black-and-white photographs of donor's cousins, aunt and uncle who were deported from France to Auschwitz; annotations are on the back of each photograph; biographical information of the Wohl family is also included.

  16. Letters to my uncle a memoir

    Contains information and description of stories of a close uncle and his war related experiences.

  17. Herman F. Reissig memorandum

    The Herman F. Reissig memorandum, dated May 15, 1941, describes the SS Alsina’s departure from Marseille in January 1941 carrying more than 500 refugees en route to the United States and Latin America, its detention in Dakar by the Vichy government, Reissig’s unsuccessful efforts to work with the Vichy, British, and American governments to find a solution for the refugees, and cables received from refugees aboard the Alsina describing their confusion and anxiety.

  18. Gefangnenbuch, Strafgefaengnis Wolfenbuetel

    Photocopies of oversize pages of a prisoner register from Wolfenbuetel Prison in Lower Saxony where the Jewish deportees from the region (Braunschweig, Luenburg, etc.) were registered by the Gestapo and held November 10-11, 1938. There are also some arrests from before and after Kristallnacht listed.

  19. Recollections from the Holocaust odyssey to freedom

    Contains information regarding Holocaust experiences from Wuppertal (Elberfeld) Germany,1933; escaping to Belgium in 1938; after Germany invaded Belgium, Henry Berg [donor] and his family fled to France in 1940 only to return to Brussels, where the family lived in hiding for the rest of the war.

  20. Alexander Paspa collection

    Contains information regarding a request for medicine; a notification of receiving a package; and a request for certain foods. Three original postcards dated October 23, 1944, 1942, and July 31, 1942, all with English translations. All of the postcards were mailed to Ella Paspa in Zagreb, Croatia.