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 46,901 to 46,920 of 55,889
Search result ordering

  1. Jeannine A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeannine A., who was born in Paris, France in 1932. She recalls the outbreak of war; her father's military draft; moving, with her mother and brother, to Avignon to join her father when he was decommissioned; being told not to reveal they were Jewish; assuming a false name; their parents placing them with a Catholic woman in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt, who was unaware they were Jewish; participating in Catholic services; attending public school; returning to their parents when the daughter suspected they were Jews; meeting their infant brother; their parents placing them in L...

  2. Charles B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles B., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recalls his parents' economic struggles; visiting grandparents in La Celle-les-Bordes; his parents sending him on the 1940 exodus; returning after encountering Germans at Briare; antisemitic restrictions; hiding with his grandparents during the July 1942 round-up; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); living with his uncle; their arrest by French police in September; incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Cosel; slave labor; a German helping with their work; sabotage; transfer to a disciplinary camp;...

  3. Max K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max K., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1923. He recounts his parents' emigration from Poland; attending school; being snubbed by non-Jewish friends after Hitler's ascent to power; his father realizing the danger and moving them to Strasbourg in 1933, then to Milan a year later; his and his twin brother's b'nai mitzvah; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father arranging for his older sister, her husband, and child to join them; his parents' benign "incarceration" in Italian camps; visiting them; living in Casalpusterlengo to avoid Allied bombings; German inv...

  4. Grace N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grace N., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznan?, Poland) in 1920. She describes her family; moving to Berlin when Posen became part of Poland; the family's successful piano store; their comfortable life; changes with the rise of Nazism; the impact of the Nuremberg laws on their personal lives; her siblings emigrating; the destruction of their store on Kristallnacht; being offered a job by a concert pianist to accompany her on a tour of the United States; and difficulties obtaining papers to leave. She recalls the emotional departure from her parents; missi...

  5. Betty R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty R., who was born in Kielce, Poland. She recalls her family's active membership in revisionist Zionist organizations; an affluent childhood; German invasion when she was thirteen; her father and one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone (her father perished); public humiliation of Jews; forced labor; ghettoization; marriage; a mass killing of children; deportation with her husband to Pionki; slave labor in an ammunition factory; a public hanging; escaping with her husband; hiding in the woods; arrest; deportation to Oranienburg; her transfer to Ravensbru?ck; efforts...

  6. Kate B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kate B., who was born in Be?ke?scsaba, Hungary in 1929. She recalls her father, who was a distinguished physician; antisemitic incidents in school; exemption from living in the ghetto due to her father's position; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her parents upon arrival; finding her mother; their separation during a selection (she never saw her again); cutting trees in a labor camp; hospitalization; assistance from a doctor who knew her father; and liberation by Soviet troops while they were digging their own graves. Mrs. B. describes transfer to Tra...

  7. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Khmelʹnik, Ukraine in 1930, the older of two brothers. He recounts relatives emigrating to the United States and Palestine, including a great-grandmother who returned in 1929 and lived with them; attending school in a nearby village; his father's military draft in 1939; an influx of Jewish refugees; his father's return in 1940; attending a camp in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡; German invasion in 1941; fleeing to Kiev; returning home; his father's remobilization in July; anti-Jewish restrictions; a mass killing in August; hiding with his family during a mas...

  8. Henry T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry T., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls a comfortable childhood; antisemitic violence in school and on the streets; German invasion; briefly fleeing east with his father; anti-Jewish restrictions including forced labor; ghettoization in March 1941 with his parents and sister; his mother's deportation in October 1942 (he never saw her again); transfer to P?aszo?w in January 1943 with his father and sister; assignment to a privileged work brigade under Oskar Schindler; receiving extra rations; public hanging of a friend; transfer to Mauthausen in S...

  9. Felix A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix A., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1922. He describes life in Bockenheim; his family's business; elementary school in Bockenheim from 1927-1931; increasing antisemitism from 1931 on; anti-Jewish legislation resulting in greatly reduced income and lose of their house; moving to Frankfurt; SA youths attacking his father thus causing Mr. A.'s loss of faith; Realgymnasium in Frankfurt from 1931 to 1935; and the Philanthropin, a Jewish school, from 1935 to 1937. Mr. A. recalls leaving school in 1937 to learn the leather goods trade; his sister's emigra...

  10. Doris W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doris W., who was born in Teplice-S?anov, Czechoslovakia in 1925, the only child of an affluent family. She recounts her parents' vote for Sudetenland to join Germany in 1933; moving to Prague after German occupation in 1938; attending an English school; German invasion; deportation with her parents to Terezi?n; harsh conditions; starvation; her mother's hospitalization and surgery; her own work with children; her hospitalization with tuberculosis and anemia; meeting her future husband; transport with her parents to Auschwitz; learning about 'the chimneys'; and select...

  11. Bernard G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1929. He recalls his strict Orthodox family; attending Jewish and secular schools; increased antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; his father's escape to the Soviet zone; fleeing to Koluszki with his mother; returning to ?o?dz?; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; working as a courier for the Jewish council; deportation to Auschwitz in fall 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); selections in Birkenau; transfer to Kaufering; forced labor; sharing food and helping other prisoners; the...

  12. Zeev S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zeev S., who was born in Sochaczew, Poland in 1921, the second of seven children. He recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; antisemitic harassment; the Jewish community's rich cultural life; caring for his chronically ill mother from age thirteen; participating in Hechalutz; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw with his family; returning to Sochaczew; slave labor with his brother in the Kampinoska Forest; their escape to Soviet-occupied Białystok; returning home after three months; forced labor constructing an airport; deportation with his family to the Warsaw gh...

  13. Ya'akov G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov G., who was born in Kletsk, Poland (presently Belarus), in 1924, one of four children. He recounts attending a Jewish school and yeshiva; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; witnessing a mass killing of the town's rabbis; round-up to a synagogue; separation from his father (he was killed in a mass shooting); ghettoization; forced factory labor; trading goods to non-Jews for food; setting his house on fire, and hiding in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation; escaping to the forest; assistance from farmers; walking to Hantsavichy; returning to the fo...

  14. Nina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nina S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing with her parents to Katowice, then Warsaw, in December 1939; returning to Łódź; her father's work for the Judenrat; attending school; cultural events; working at a factory after school; pervasive filth and starvation (many in her family starved to death); a public hanging; her father's deportation in July 1944 (she never saw him again); deportation in August to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother upon arrival (she never saw her again); transfer twel...

  15. Rejsi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rejsi K., who was born in Botraj, in the Carpathian region of what was then Hungary, in 1914. She discusses her mother's death in 1935; her father's debilitation from a stroke in 1939 and his death in 1944; and, a few weeks later, the removal of the town's Jews to the town hall and their subsequent transfer to the Munk?acs ghetto. She describes her four week stay there with her sisters and other relatives; her transport to Auschwitz in May 1944; and the selections there, after which all of her relatives present were killed. She recounts her experiences in the camp, wh...

  16. Bronia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia S., who was born in Zolochiv, Poland in 1915. She recounts moving to Vienna; their Austrian patriotism; the Anschluss; her father having them smuggled to ?o?dz? in 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; working as secretay to H?ayim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; seeing Hans Biebow, the German ghetto administrator, beat Rumkowski; public hangings; round-ups; marriage in 1943; her sister's deportation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her husband and father; transfer with her mother to Stutthof; reunion with her sister; assisting her sister whe...

  17. Henry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry F., who was born in Meerholz, Germany in 1919. He recalls his father, a kosher butcher, his mother, a dressmaker and an older brother; attending a Jewish school for the deaf in Berlin from the age of five for ten years; Nazi harassment; graduation in 1935; and apprenticeship to a tailor in Frankfurt, despite his desire to become an engineer, because of anti-Jewish restrictions. He describes his brother's emigration to the United States in 1937; knowing many deaf people who were sterilized by Nazi law; moving to Mannheim; difficulties obtaining documents (he show...

  18. Harry E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915, one of eight children. He recounts his family's poverty; their move to Kuro?w, then Zwierzyniec; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; their return to Warsaw in 1925; participating in S.K.I.F., the Bund youth group; attending a Yiddish Bund school; working as a floorer; German invasion; a bombing killing his mother, sister, and baby niece; working with his wife and sister in a Bund sanatorium/orphanage in Miedzeszyn near Falenica; support from the Joint; bringing his younger brother there; leaving eighteen m...

  19. Meir T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir T., who was born in Jonava, Lithuania in 1920, one of nine children. He recounts attending a Yavneh school; moving to Kaunas in 1937; joining Komsomol; attending school, taking voice lessons, and working; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; draft into the Soviet military; posting at Telšiai; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing to Jonava; meeting his wife there; futile efforts to flee east; detention with his wife by Lithuanians; escaping; assistance from a Lithuanian in the forest; returning to their residence in Kaunas; a German bringing them food; ghettoiza...

  20. Anna Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna Z., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1926. She describes her assimilated family; frequent, cordial relations with non-Jews; European vacations; summering in Ustronie in 1939; German invasion; moving to Sro?dboro?w; her father, brother, and uncle fleeing east; moving to Warsaw in October; return to Cze?stochowa; German confiscation of their house; living with her uncle; attending Polish school; receiving religious instruction and converting to Catholicism in January 1940; moving to the open ghetto; her father's and brother's return; being sent to her Polish...