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 8,941 to 8,960 of 55,824
Search result ordering

  1. Girls dance outdoors in prewar Poland

    The girls dance outdoors in Jaremcze in front of an ethnic band, with drum, violin, and some kind of held piano. Brief shot of their mothers Ella and Nelly on a bench.

  2. Mrs. Shulamit Fritzi Ayalon collection

    Contains photographs and documents depicting the Ganz and the Huss family in Romania before the war in Fălticeni, Romania, and after the war. Includes photographs of Fritzi and Abraham Huss in Apeldoorn, Holland during their recuperation, dated 1947-1948; photographs of Fritzi, Abraham and Roza Huss in Israel, 1948-1953; identification cards Roza and Fritzi Huss in Romania and Israel; letters to Fritzi and Abraham in Apeldoorn, Holland from their mother; and an autograph book in which friends in Holland and later in Israel wrote their wishes to Fritzi, 1947-1951.

  3. Hitler parades in Vienna

    Schupo police handing out Nazi merchandise to crowd. Bread being handed to young adult men. Schupo. CU, man eating bread. Crowd at "Sirk-Eck" opposite Opera house on Ringstrasse watching parade. Man with hat identical to earlier shot at 01:03:56 (?). Parade. Hitler passing in car. Hitler's car from behind. Filmmaker appears to stand in front of police line (?). Parade, crowd of spectators, tanks. Crowd saluting, CUs of man with hat. More of military men and vehicles parading. Crowd lining Ringstrasse. Spectators sitting on a tank. CUs of parade. Wehrmacht infantry. More shots of the parade....

  4. Belgian volunteers enlisting for Germany

    Belgian volunteers enlist to fight the Soviets on the side of the Germans. Men stand outside a building with a big sign that reads "Wallonie pour la lutte contre le Bolschevisme". They look at a poster on the building. Inside the building, men hand over their identity cards to a clerk, who records their information.

  5. Ike Diamond papers

    The Ike Diamond papers include his 1934 Polish identification card, a 1946 passport entry indicating Diamond could enter Venezuela, and his 1939-1945 diary describing the outbreak of war, his confinement in the Warsaw ghetto, his escape, hiding on a farm in Otrębusy, and liberation. He appears to have begun his diary while in hiding in May 1943, so the descriptions of fall 1939 through summer 1943 are written as chapters in the past tense while entries beginning September 1, 1943 are written as diary entries in the present tense. The first half of the diary describes hardships during the in...

  6. Hungarian Discount and Exchange Bank, Co. Personnel Department Magyar Leszámitoló és Pénzváltó Bank Rt. Személyzeti Osztály (MOL Z 68)

    Contains records related to the aryanization process and conditions of employment of employees in a large and reputable financial institution, the Hungarian Discount and Exchange Bank following the first anti-Jewish laws of 1938. Includes bank statements, announcements and reports related to the implementation of Jewish law in the bank.

  7. Cases of the victims of Nazi pseudo-scientific experiments (MOL IXI L BEG 01)

    Contains legal claims, questionnaires, medical documentation, and administrative records of victims of Nazi pseudo-scientific experiments.

  8. Indexes to restitution and compensation records of BEG- BRȔG (MOL IXI L BEG 02)

    This collection contains reproductions of alphabetized indexes to Bundesrückerstattungsgesetz-BRüG (Federal Restitution Act) and Bundesentschädigungsgeset-BEG (German Federal Compensation Law) cases. A second part of the larger collection; see also RG-39.024M.

  9. Children pass time by dancing and digging in the garden

    Incredibly grainy, out of focus, and not steady. Hanna dances, and then Babeta rakes the soil. It is very difficult to distinguish anything beyond that.

  10. Janet Szyjewicz Markman collection

    Contains a letter of recommendation for Gerszon Markman (donor's husband) from the director of the Heidenheim DP camp; dated February 20, 1946. Gerszon Markman was secretary of the camp, and this letter was written to wish them well on their journey to Belgium. They were stopped at the Belgian border because they did not have the right papers, so they ended up travelling to the United States instead.

  11. Lieberman family visits a church and Hanna plays ball with her father

    The Lieberman family and Ella's relatives are on their way to Holy Hill church near Olomouc. There is a beautiful view of Olomouc from this hill. They walk the long road approaching the church, dressed for cold weather. Hanna chases after a ball bounced to her by her father Benedikt and mother Ella. She wears a fur coat and hat. Car with CS (Czechoslovakia) plate is shown for a single second.

  12. Jewish quarter in Poland

    Street scenes, dark, people gathered, automobile. Interior shots of a restaurant (probably Owsianka) in a Jewish quarter in Nasielsk, Poland, many people looking inside the window in clear view. Several wonderful street scenes of people, especially children, in the Jewish quarter grinning and vying for the camera's attention. A sign above a shop indicates a grocery, "Spozywczy". Some people have been identified, including: Shmuel Tyk and Faiga Milchberg at 01:11:25, Chaim Talmud and Shmuel Tyk at 01:11:56, Simcha Rotstein and Avrum Kubel at 01:12:04, Yitzhak Borts at 01:12:09, Srebro at 01:...

  13. Children in a garden in prewar Poland

    The kids walk around a grassy field near the house. They begin playing in a dirt area. The toy wheelbarrow is brought out, and Thomas and Hanna play with garden tools.

  14. Clip from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    An aerial shot of the Luitpold Arena shows three men walking between rows and rows of men standing in formation. They are walking in the direction of the Hall of Honor. A slow panning shot from behind the columns at the front shows a band playing and reveals the three men to be Hitler, Himmler, and Viktor Lutze, who took over as top SA man after the murder of Ernst Roehm. They stop before a huge wreath in front of the memorial, which served the Nazis as a memorial to those Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch.

  15. German soldiers visit a coal mine

    German soldiers tour a coal mine in the Ruhr. They pass a sign that reads "VII Sohle 609m" and watch a worker drilling coal. More shots of the extraction of coal. The coal is removed from the mine on small rail cars. The next scenes show an oil processing plant under construction and soldiers with drums and cans of oil/gas. This image fades into the image of tanks. Shots of a seaplane taking off on a patrol of the North Sea, with a dog perched atop one of the floats. Interior shots show the crew drinking some kind of beverage and the pilot at the wheel. The plane flies over a British ship b...

  16. Elliott S. Mandelman collection

    Contains correspondence written from family members in the Warsaw Ghetto, Sanok, and Przemyśl, Poland to Murray and Rose Sobel Mandelman (donor's parents) who were able to escape to the United State. Also includes one piece of scrip from the Łódź ghetto.

  17. Anti-Bolshevist rally in Riga

    Column of civilians march down the street carrying a swastika flag and a Latvian flag. Crowds in the street. Two signs indicate distances to St. Petersburg and Reval. CU anti-Bolshevist leaflets are handed out. HAS of a huge crowd gathered to protest against Bolshevism. The camera cuts between a speaker on a podium to the crowd.

  18. Schermeister girls play in the yard

    The three Schermeister girls, Lis (donor's mother; eldest of the three), Jeanne, and Inge play with their parents, Edith and Bernhard, in the yard at their vacation home in Snekkersten. The girls are a few years older now.

  19. Monsieur Patrick Borensztajn collection

    Contains two form letters written by a woman in the Malines (Mechelen) internment camp in Belgium to Louis de Kort (donor's step-grandfather), requesting food to be sent to her; dated 1941 and 1943.

  20. World War I veterans parade in the Saarland

    MS, multiple takes of men and women gathered around a tour bus (picture quality is poor), a man sells souvenirs (this could be another day-trip taken by the WWI veterans from the 172nd Regiment from Duisburg). Side view of Weidemann and his wife at a cafe table. The tour makes a short stop in Trier for repairs. Roll call in a field in Saarlouis, Germany. Bundesfuehrer Vorwald and other officials are greeted (after the Saar was reintegrated into the German Reich in 1935). Vorwald raises the regiment flag, then raises his arm before a large crowd, also heiling. Parading in Saarlouis with swas...