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 22,901 to 22,920 of 56,066
Search result ordering

  1. Bernard Berthold Bock collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter in case held by belt, Stammbuch, siddur, price list for Bernard Berthold Bock's (donor's grandfather) tool factory, catalogs for factory items all having belonged to Bernard Berthold Bock.

  2. Sklar family collection

    Video testimony concerning the wartime experiences of Jean Sklar (Szklarz); Sklar family photographs; and a copy of the personal diary "Livre Tallis" written by Jean Sklar and colleagues at the Moulin in Moissac, France towards the end of the war and in its aftermath

  3. Music study collection

    Various audio cassettes, CDs, and LPs containing original sound recordings, published materials, interviews, or music obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's curator of music.

  4. Ina and Maurice Teich collection

    Collection documenting the experiences of Ina Szuldiner and her husband Maurice Teich, who met in Warsaw, Poland, married, and eventually fled to Cuba and ultimately the United States.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society collection

    Oral history interviews, presentations, and remembrance programs with Holocaust survivors and witnesses to WWII from the archive of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society.

  6. Baruch family collection

    Artifacts and documents from the Baruch family including a set of china (EPIAG/Czechoslovakia) owned by the donor's grandmother Astro (Elias) Baruch; a set of silverware owned by the donor's mother, Rachel (Zadick) Baruch; an amulet; a mezuzah pendant engraved with floral motifs; a shell motif pendant; Greek documents for David Baruch; British gold coins (3); a U.S. silver dollar; a British one penny coin; and photographs.

  7. Max and Lotte Wertheim collection

    The collection documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration to the United States in 1937. Documents consist of identification and family papers including birth and marriage certificates, German passports, a family book (Stammbuch), Lotte’s autograph book, and immigration papers. Photographs include depictions of prewar family life, portraits, vacations, and Stanley’s childhood. The collection also includes a silver cup.

  8. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection

    The collection consists of a handmade vest and correspondence relating to the experiences of Sara Lamhaut, Chana Goldwasser Lamhaut, and Riiha Goldwasser in Łódź, Poland, and Brussels, Belgium, during the Holocaust.

  9. Lester M. Libo collection

    The collection consists of papers, photographs, and printed matter from the military service of Lester M. Libo. Includes items related to his denazification work including his personal notebook, Fragebogen used in denazification and confiscated items including propaganda material, money, medals, and a piece of cloth with a swastika insignia. In addition, several newspapers and an issue of Army Talks (28 October 1945) and posted military government notices.

  10. Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary collection

    Sewing kit, manicure kit and two perpetual calendars which belonged to Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary and used by her after she arrived in England on the Kindertransport.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Arnold S. Task collection

    Interviews with Holocaust survivors, US liberators, and witnesses to events of WWII, recorded at memorial gatherings in Greensboro NC

  12. George John Meade collection

    The collection consists of documents, illustrations, a Nazi patch, photographs, publication, negatives, and an oral testimony documenting the experiences of George John Meade in Germany as a United States soldier during and after World War II (1939-1945).

  13. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    The collection consists of diaries, planners, publications, correspondence, statistical charts, seven unused Star of David badges, a Waffen SS addressed envelope, and a US Army's Chaplain tallit relating to the experiences of Rabbi Judah Nadich as a chaplain in the United States Army in Paris, France, following the liberation of the city by US forces in August 1944, as the first advisor on Jewish Affairs to General Eisenhower, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces, and his post-war work with WWII and Holocaust commemoration.

  14. Eugene and Irene Wojcik Wojtas family collection

    The collection consists of a forced labor badge, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eugeniusz Wojtas and Irena Wojcik Wojtas, Roman Catholics who were persecuted in German occupied Poland during World War II when both Eugeniusz, a prisoner of war, and Irena, were assigned to forced labor in Germany, and, after the war, when they met and married as displaced persons.

  15. Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher collection

    The collection consists of a set of porcelain soup and dinner plates with drinking glasses relating to the experiences of Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher and her family in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, before and after the Holocaust, during which she and her family were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp.

  16. Alfred and Elsa Dukes collection

    The collection consists of a man’s nightshirt and a woman’s nightgown relating to the experiences of Alfred and Elsa Dukes and their daughter, Gertrude, in Austria before and during the Holocaust and in the United States following their emigration in 1939.

  17. Stephen Mize collection

    Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer issued to Polish youth (Wasyl Nowodejki?)in 1944; Antisemetic Notgeld coupon from Brakel, Germany; dated March 1, 1922

  18. Hersz Berlinski collection

    Collection of documents, certificates, correspondence, wallet, tag, receipt and other papers documenting the experiences of Hersh (Herz) Berlinski, b. March 20, 1921 in Łódź, Poland who survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz (prisoner # 95325) and Kaufering where he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. After the war he recuperated in Bad Wörishofen hospital. He immigrated to the United States in January 1951 with the assistance of the International Refugee Organization under the US Displaced Persons Act.

  19. Walter Fried collection

    The collection consists of brass knuckles and a Nazi state criminal police warrant disc relating to the experiences of Walter Fried, a Jewish Austrian refugee, while serving in the United States Third Army, War Crimes Investigating Team #6824, Judge Advocate Section during World War II.

  20. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick collection

    Photographs, documents, books, and audio visual materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Luba Tryszynska-Frederick who rescued 54 children left for dead by the Nazis while she was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.