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 19,981 to 20,000 of 55,761
Search result ordering

  1. French refugees; German convoy

    Refugees leaving town using various modes of transporation. Couples walking, women pushing prams, one pram has a rabbit in a cage atop. Horse-drawn carts with people and possessions in the back. One of the carts has a flat tire but continues anyway. A couple of cars, one with bicycles atop, stuffed so full of belongings that the passengers ride, stanidng, on the side bumpers. More shots of refugees moving slowyly down a road. Empty, destroyed town, dead horses in the street. Refugees on side of road, German Army trucks on the other. (Good sense of dislocation and movement.)

  2. Election day

    Berlin election day. Street scenes. Trams, pedestrians, bicyclists riding in single line wi th placards. Leaflets tossed in air. Potzdamer Platz. Group of people running along street while others watch. Vehicles with banners waving.

  3. Oral history interview with Uzi Narkiss

  4. Aerials of Hitler plane

    Hitler by window of plane. POV, plane landing. Aerial of plane. Hitler gets out of plane.

  5. German soldiers advance; Jewish forced to dig a pit

    The German military enters Riga, Latvia: jeeps (some full of soldiers, some pulling ammunition) drive through cobblestoned city streets. Views of destruction all around: bodies and dead horses, rubble, shattered buildings. A sense of grim, utter destruction pervades. Pan of the bombed-out facades ending at an artist sitting in the street, sketching the sight. 03:28:15 At Kužiai forest (15km from Siauliai, Lithuania) rounded-up Jews, many in suits, some bearded and in religious garb, jump off the back of an open truck, shovels in hand. They are made to dig in field/orchard, then move large r...

  6. Heydrich's funeral

    Reinhard Heydrich's swastika-covered coffin makes trip from Prague to Berlin. LS long line of people waiting outside Berlin's palace of Invalidenfriedenhof [Veterans' Cemetery] waiting to pay respects. INT, Hitler salutes coffin, stands in front of audience (MS). LS Hitler with Heydrich's sons. Shot of Goering awkwardly greeting them. Note: Heydrich was killed by Czech resistance fighters. In retaliation, Nazis killed all the men living in Lidice, Czechoslovakia.

  7. Belsen at liberation; Kramer; women jeer at SS

    CU of commandeered German truck driving burial detail to the mass graves outside Belsen, loaded with British soldiers and SS men in the back of the truck with corpses. Corpses on ground in BG. Naked female corpses dropped into grave, carried by two SS guards in uniform. Exuberant, clapping female survivors in crowd cheer and follow truck of British soldiers. CU of various women expressing pain and fury at SS; one holds her hands in prayer. Back to happy reactions of women towards British. VAR CUs of camp commandant Josef Kramer, under guard, with scarred face and untroubled look, speaks. 17...

  8. Jewish refugee children, England, play in park

    Jewish refugee children playing in a park. MLS of kids dancing in a circle. Girl with a hoop. Group of children playing leapfrog. Children indoors with toys at table. CU girl with doll. CU boy writing letter. High angle view of long table and children eating soup. Eating at table.

  9. Freikorps in Munich

    A parade of Freikorps members marches through a Munich street as spectators watch. A streetcar passes beside the parade. Scene switches to a train crowded with Freikorps members waving from the windows. Wagons with people in them on the train. Point of view switches to one of a rider on the train. People on board wave flags and cheer. Title (in German): Journey under the Hacker Bridge. The train passes under the bridge. Title: "Greeting of the Mayor of Weilheim." A crowd in front of the stopped train listens to the mayor speak and cheers him. Title (partly cut off on screen): "___ speech of...

  10. Oral history interview with Zoltan Toman

  11. War crimes, Herzenheim, Germany

    (B-1190) War Crimes, Herzenheim, Germany, May 10, 1945. LSs, MSs, German civilians digging up bodies in concentration camp. CUs, bodies of men, women and children showing signs of violent death. EXTs, concentration camp buildings, crude and filthy interiors. CU, corpses laid out in field. INTs, camp buildings. CU, naked female corpses laid out. VS, Men burying corpses.

  12. Passengers on the St. Louis

    CU "St Louis: Hamburg" written on ship's bow. LS ship from dock as ship enters harbor. Passengers walk down gangplank or are carried off on stretchers. Waving from dock. Boarding train.

  13. Jews at UNRRA camp in Austria

    Displaced persons, UNRRA. Signs in Hebrew. At right, sign reading "UNRRA DP camp Admont." Several scenes of Jews marching with picks and shovels. LS, camp, tending crops, hoeing, women washing (various shots). MCU, four men walking on dirt road, UNRRA official? UNRRA officers caring for children. School children, teenagers sitting at desks outside, teacher writes on blackboard: "We hope to go to Palestine" in English and Hebrew. Couple looking at announcement board. CU, man sitting on steps.

  14. Belsen Concentration Camp: survivors and burial

    Low pile of naked corpses. In BG, survivors busy, smoke, trees. SS men march through the frame. More captured Germans enter gate. LS German soldiers unloading trucks (out of focus). From above, large crowd of female survivors, some smile at the camera for group portrait. MS of women sitting in compound, behind them is pile of boots and shoes, one woman takes some from the pile. VAR MLS of women hanging around, eating. More shots of corpses, mangled face, eye sockets; VCU, face of female, hollowed, glassy eyed. LS, wall, edge of pit, 10 feet down, shadows into pit. People looking down into i...

  15. KPD demonstration 1929

    KPD (communist party) demonstration on May 1, 1929. Shots of police running down the street, seen from above through a window down an alley/street. Shot of police marching and running after people. Several shots of police attempting to push and beat people. A horse and cart in street, people rush by.

  16. Airship and workers in hangar

    INTs, VS, airship hangar and work on ship's infrastructure. CS man working with tool high up on metal girder; young man climbing on girders. Workers at airbase at change of shift, GV of road and workers walking, riding bikes and motorbikes. Older man gets bicycle from rack, rides off. Others walking near hangar. EXT of hangar, doors open slowly, reveal airship inside. INT of office of airship designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, older man in suit and tie, seated at desk, shots taken from various angles. Dr. Eckener smokes a pipe and speaks to his son off camera. Assistant enters office and they disc...

  17. Red revolution in Munich

    Poster of General Strike. WS, Munich railroads. Red troops with weapons. Kiosk on fire, smoke.

  18. Invasion of USSR

    Early morning street activities in Berlin on morning of invasion of USSR. Preparation of broadcast at radio station. At 5:30 AM Goebbels sits at desk and makes announcement. Shots of people listening. Von Ribbentrop walks into conference. Newspaper headline, then map of Eastern Front. Flare goes up in dark, silhouettes of troops in dark. Artillery fire and burning target presumably in East Prussia. Dismantling of border post. German troops move cautiously forward. Explosion in building interior.

  19. Annexation of Austria; Austrians welcome Nazis

    Hitler's (and German Army's) triumphant arrival in Austria. Many shots of wildly enthusiastic crowds (synch sound). Swastika-shaped confetti. Waves of Nazi frenzy through the countryside. Crowds lunging for miniature swastika flags. Rural folk line country road as German military rolls by. Steady tracking shot of Hitler's motorcade and thousands of people in Vienna, all gathered in square, hanging from trees, sitting on statues, etc.

  20. Jews being beaten

    Individual Jews are beaten by local civilians and dragged across street as Nazi soldiers watch. Narrator: "Anger of local population...against the cowardly Jews [who are] guilty of causing endless suffering...get their punishment."