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 6,681 to 6,700 of 55,832
Search result ordering

  1. Gessner visits ancient ruins in Egypt

    Ancient ruins in Egypt, possibly part of the Karnak Temple complex. Huge columns with Egyptian inscriptions and figures. A young girl leans against the ruins. WS camera pans right on the ruins. An obelisk rises from the ruins. Various desert hills and cliffs. 01:01:45 The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. People, piles of rubble, and wagons. People holding baskets walk around on uneven terrain. A man uses a pickax to hack away at the earth. 01:02:29 Colossi of Memnon, the giant stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Two cows rotating a wheel followed by a young unclothed boy holding a w...

  2. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of Ohrdruf by an unknown photographer. Includes images of the burial of corpses, of a damaged building, and of an American military unit.

  3. Anonymous diaries from Hungarian woman

    The collection includes three diaries written between 1942 and 1945 by an unidentified Jewish woman, originally from Brno, Czechoslovakia, but living in Budapest and Subotica. She was arrested by the Hungarian and German occupation forces in Serbia, where she sought refuge, and was sent to a succession of concentration camps and forced labor sites between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945. In the diary she describes her experiences in exile in Subotica (Szabadka), Serbia; the worsening situation for Jews in the spring of 1944; her arrest and transport to camps at Bácsalmás (Hungar...

  4. Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie. Wydział Zamiejscowy w Częstochowie (Sygn.722)

    Contains selection of various civil cases related to divorce, invalidation of marriage, indemnity and disability pension, eviction, rent, declaring a person deceased, rectification of registry act, granting rights for the poor, and the like. The files contain the petitions and verdicts of the court, and, in the cases concerning divorce, a certificate of rabbinate and a notary’s certificate in cases concerning the cancellation of a contract. Contains also documents made out as a result of operations of the court such as: summons, confirmation of receipts, and the like.

  6. Levy and Lazar family collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the Levy and Lazar families from the area of Boćki, Poland. Most of those pictured perished in the Holocaust. Also includes a wedding invitation in Yiddish, from 1933 in the Biaystok, Poland area for the marriage of Rózy Lazarównej and Abramem Seleckim [Raizl Lazar and Avrum Seletsky].

  7. Papers of Rabbi René Hirschler (RG 221)

    The papers of René Hirschler consist of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from the office of the chief chaplain. Included are letters to the network of regional chaplains and auxiliary chaplains, individuals interned in internment camps, hospitals, in the Groupements de Travailleurs Etrangers (foreign labor battalions). Also included are letters to individuals involved in the effort to provide assistance to foreign Jews in France during World War II; to Vichy government officials and to Jewish and non Jewish organizations. The collection is fragmentary and covers only the last nine m...

  8. Early Nazi Party parade in Nuremberg

    Crowds line the streets of Nuremberg waiting for the parade of SA troops to begin. Title in German. Camera films spectators on moving vehicle through the empty street. A title seems to mock the KPD by saying that they KPD would claim that the lanes in the street were very narrow, and that only a few curious people made up almost the entire crowd. SA men with packs and swastika flags marching on cobblestone. More German titles. Large crowds line the parade route. Several men in uniform near cars. German title indicates an enormous mass gathered on Saturday and Sunday for the NSDAP event. Dru...

  9. Bergman family photograph collection

    Contains a photograph album which belonged to Harry Bergman (donor's father), who was born in Kraschen, Germany (today Krosnice, Poland) on March 1, 1909. He lived in Berlin and was married to Alice Simon; he was an athlete and hoped to compete in the 1936 Olympics. They moved to Brussels, Belgium to escape persecution, but on September 12, 1942 they were both deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau; Harry survived Auschwitz, Blechhammer, Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. After the war, Harry married Bronia Abramowicz and the two lived in New York.

  10. Schaap family life after the war

    At a farm, the Schaap, Naeije?, and other families line up with children in front of the camera. Riding bicycles, CUs. 00:17:33 A city home, address #32. Women and children exit the residence. Girl wears a jacket with a patch on the shoulder. Woman with fur jacket. Maurits Schaap? dressed in uniform with a yarmulke smokes and chats with a woman, man (brother Louis?), and his father, Salomon Schaap. Feeding chickens. 00:20:15 Street scenes from inside a moving car, flags of the Netherlands overhead. INTs, men in a study and on balcony, one snuggles with a toddler girl. 00:21:07 Two men in mi...

  11. Mary Berg collection

    Contains four photo albums, one scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and loose photographs relating to American diarist Mary Berg, survivor of the Łódź Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto, and Vittel internment camp.

  12. Weiss and Ross families collection

    Collection of photographs, correspondence and documents relating to the Weiss and Ross families living in Liptovská Teplá, Slovakia. The photographs depict family life; the wedding of Alexander and Blanka Weiss in June 1937; birth of Peter in 1939; and their life till their escape into hiding. The documents include two Red Cross letters from Blanka Weiss to her father, dated October 1943 and January 1944; a Czech passport; an identification card issued to the donor by the Government of the Netherlands West Indies island of Aruba; the donor's driver's license from Aruba; and a copy of a cert...

  13. Flescher family correspondence

    Correspondence sent by Kalman and Sala Flescher of Stanisławów, Poland (modern-day Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Ukraine), to their son, Joachim Flescher, who was living in Italy, during the period 1936-1942. Also includes correspondence from Flescher's sisters, Zofia Flescher Uhrman and Gusta Flescher. Joachim Flescher attended medical school in Italy and remained in close contact with his family and with his girlfriend Klara, who apparently visited him in Italy. All the plans of rescuing the family through Costa Rica didn't materialize and Dr. Flescher had to hide in Italy with the help of his futur...

  14. Ten Brink family papers

    Contains correspondence and one passport, documenting the family of Fritz (Fred) Ten Brink. Includes passport for Rosa Weinberg (nee Ten Brink), originally of Emden, Germany; a Red Cross letter from Fritz Ten Brink and his family (wife Ella and son Peter), sent from England to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ten Brink, of Berlin, October 1942, with reply from them on verso, dated January 1943; and a two postwar letters, from the Baudner family and from Kurt Seligmann, both of Berlin, reporting on the fates of various friends and family members, as well as Ten Brink's parents.

  15. Harry and Lili Topolansky photograph collection

    Collection of photographs showing the Topolanski family in Grodno and the Schwarcz family in Munkacs before the war, and Lili Schwartz and Hersz Topolanski, who were married in the Landsberg DP camp. Hersz Topolanski (later Harry Topolansky) resided in Krasnik during the German invasion. He was imprisoned in Płaszów and transferred to Leitmeritz concentration camp, a subcamp of Flossenbürg, on April 8, 1944. Lili Topolanski was deported with her family to Auschwitz Birkenau on May 20, 1944. Two months later Lili was transferred to Hunsfeld, a subcamp of Gross Rosen, where she was forced to ...

  16. Eugene Mielcarek photographs

    Consists of one folder of photographs from the collection of Eugene Mielcarek, a Polish-American member of the United States Army during World War II. The photographs, the majority of which Mielcarek did not take himself, depict the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, destruction in Germany, the collection of displaced persons in Eisenach, Germany, and a hanging of three Polish citizens, dated July 1945. Includes Mielcarek's typed and handwritten commentary on the versos.

  17. Kingmark silver and red pin commemorating the Danish king's 70th birthday acquired by Louise Lawrence-Israels

    Commemorative Kingmark buttonhole pin acquired by Louise Lawrence-Israels. It was issued in honor of the 70th birthday of King Christian X of Denmark on August 21, 1940. It has the King’s initials, the years 1870-1940, and the Danish flag. Christian remained in Copenhagen during the German occupation (4/1940-5/1945) and the Kingmark became a popular symbol of Danish independence, patriotism, and solidarity. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940.

  18. Jewish Committee for Aid and Reconstruction, EKOPO (Fond 347)

    The collection consists of minutes of the meetings, financial reports, correspondence with various Polish government offices, Jewish charitable and relief organizations, Jewish libraries and cultural organizations during the years 1919-1939, and various documents relating to organization activities.

  19. Nazi Party Labor Day pin given to a US soldier by Hermann Göring

    Nazi Party Labor Day 1934 pin, likely given to Lieutenant Jack Wheelis by Herman Göring during his imprisonment at Nuremberg from 1945-1946. Labor Day (also known as May Day) takes place on May 1 to celebrate laborers and the working classes. In April 1933, after the Nazi party took control of the German government, May 1 was appropriated as the “Day of National Work,” with all celebrations organized by the government. On May 2, the Nazi party banned all independent trade-unions, bringing them under state control of the German Labor Front. Soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945,...

  20. Deutsche Strafanstalt Tschenstochau German Penalty Court in Częstochowa Niemiecki Zakład Karny w Częstochowie (Sygn. 47)

    This collection contains 3,794 personal files of prisoners. Included are arrest forms containing personal details such as the last name, first name, date and place of birth, nationality, religious denomination, occupation, education, last whereabouts, marital status, when brought before the court (date), reason of accusation (the main reason was: politics or leaving the ghetto, hiding and helping Jews, lack of arm band, theft, and the like). There is also a description of the prisoner (appearance) with such data as: age, size, posture (e.g. weak), hair (e.g. matted), hair growth (shaved, un...