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 22,081 to 22,100 of 22,191
Search result ordering
Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Zaiband family collection

    Oral history interview with Morris Zaiband. Oral history interview with Ruth Finder Zaiband and Morris Zaiband.

  4. Cardarelli family collection

    Oral history interviews with Silvana (Cardarelli) Fabrizi and Maria (Cardarelli) Puzzanghero, an annotated transcript, and original photos from San Donato Val di Comino, Italy

  5. Levisson family collection

    The collection consists of sketchbooks with hand-colored drawings, correspondence, documents, identity papers, and geneological materials relating to the experiences of the Levisson family, particularly Benno M. Levisson, while living in the Netherlands, a portion of the time in hiding, and Curaçao before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Cornelia Heise collection

    The collection consists of a banknote and papers documenting the experiences of Cornelia Heise during her service with UNRRA child services in Germany after World War II (1939-1945).

  7. Ze’ev Raveh Werba collection

    The Ze’ev Raveh Werba collections consist of a tablecloth, documents, awards, certificates, manuscripts, and photographs documenting Ze’ev Raveh Werba in prewar Maniewicze, Poland (Manevychi, Ukraine), as a partisan during the war, and after the war in the Adriatic displaced persons camp in Italy and then in Israel. Documents recognize Werba for his participation as a partisan and in the Israeli Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel. The manuscripts describe Werba’s experiences during and after the Holocaust. Photographs depict the Werba family in Maniewicze before the war; Werba as a partisan ...

  10. Muller family collection

    Oral history interviews with Louis and Eva Muller

  11. Oral history interviews of the Jay Ratafia-Brown collection

    Oral history interviews with Aron Ratafia, Bronia Ratafia, and Joseph Gottainer

  12. Perman family collection

    The collection consists of an oral history with Malka Perman, translated by her daughter, Eileen Perman Baker, and documents such as naturalization records, falsified birth certificates, family photographs, and restitution-related papers. The materials all relate to the experiences of the Perman family particularly following their escape from Poland to Siberia and then Central Asia after they were forced into the Bialystok and Warsaw ghettos.

  14. Oral history interviews of the Weiss family collection

    Oral history interviews with Sofie Doernberg and Gretel Weiss.

  15. Bespaloff family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial objects, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Nisson Bespaloff, his associates, and his extended family in Estonia, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  16. Teaching record set

    Teaching set of six records recorded and produced as part of the revival of Jewish education in Germany after the rise of the Nazi Party. Six records, six transcripts of the talks in Hebrew, six study booklets for each of the records with the talks in phonetic transcription in Latin characters and the meaning in German; index cards for study and repitition. Initiator of the project, Asher Plevner, was impressed by the popular teaching booklet "Ivrit LeOlim" by scholar and author Rabbi Emil Cohen and turned to the owner of a records manufacturing company, Otto Sperlin, who at the time produc...

  17. Nazi party documents, correspondence and artifacts collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and artifacts relating to several high ranking Nazi party members and likely collected as evidence by the US Army after World War II (1939-1945).

  18. Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection

    Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection, which includes interviews with Israel Weinbaum (Izrael Wajnbaum); video footage of the Wine family trip to the village of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, which features conversations with Catholic Poles who hid the donor's father Albert Weinbaum (Adash Wajnbaum) and his parents Israel Weinbaum and Leah Weinbaum (Lola Orzech); and a report about the life of Leah Orzech Weinbaum produced by her great-granddaughter Jodie Cohen.

  19. "Bible students in the Third Reich"

    S. J. Green essay discussing why and how Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted by members of the Nazi Party; the activities and fates of other Christian sects (i.e. Roman Catholics, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists); and how individual Witnesses were able to survive. The essay also contains a summary of an interview Green had with H. Dickmann, a Witness survivor.

  20. Oral history interview with Binjamin Wilkomirski