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 12,461 to 12,480 of 55,814
Search result ordering

  1. Works of Moisey Beregovsky

    Contains a copy of the typed manuscript of the book "Purimshpili" with author' handwritten remarks and the Jewish folk musical and theatrical performances (Akhvesharoshshil) with the text and musical scores. Also contains copies of the handwritten musical scores (volume 3, part 1 & 2) from the Moisey Beregovskiy monograph "Jewish Musical Folklore."

  2. Case files of the United Restitution Organization - Toronto Office

    Consists of 773 boxes containing inactive case files of Jewish Holocaust survivors who claimed restitution for suffering and damage resulting from persecution by the Nazis during the period 1933 to 1945. The records are divided into five major groups. First, there are the records tilted "BEG" (Bundes-Entschädigungs-Gesetz or Federal Compensation/Restitution Law). The BEG files contain one-time-only claims. For the most part, these are copies. The originals are in Germany. Second, there are the records titled "URO." These files contain general claims for restitution. Third, there are the ca...

  3. Processo de pedido de visto para Artur d' Almeida Coimbra, Leopoldina de Jesus Teixeira, António Correia Lima, José António de Araújo, Victor Allen, Armando Júlio da Rocha Lima, Custodio José dos Santos, José Allen Junior, António Lucio da Costa, Ana Augusta Pereira dos Santos e Romana de Jesus

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Casablanca para Artur d' Almeida Coimbra, de nacionalidade portuguesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Casablanca para Leopoldina de Jesus Teixeira, de nacionalidade portuguesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Casablanca para António Correia Lima, de nacionalidade portuguesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Casablanca para José António de Ar...

  4. Yugoslavia Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Yugoslavia, mainly during the Holocaust period

    In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the Jews of the former Yugoslavia (according to the April 1941 boundaries) during the 20th century, and concerning various topics from the Holocaust period. Some of the documentation was photocopied from material in various archives in Yugoslavia and in other countries, including Israel, and some of the documentation was submitted to Yad Vashem by private individuals. Among the sources for the documentation are the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, the Association of Yugoslav Immigrants in Israel, Hakeren Hakayemet Le-israel...

  5. Austrian Communities Registry

    The 404 files in the collection are devoted to various subjects, a minority to specific organizations, and a small number of the files to personalities. In some of the files there is documentation regarding general subjects such as the Jews in Music and Philosophers, however, the great majority of the documentation is devoted to specific subjects, some according to states and years, for example, identification of the names of the Jews who died in various places in World War I, correspondence of the Jewish institutions with specific governmental bodies (for example, the Niederoesterreichisch...

  6. Daily life in south central Poland, circa 1936

    EXT, VS depicting daily life in south central Poland, near the town of Katowice. Young children, women and men in traditional central Polish dress with large hoop skirts, head scarves, and woven blankets/shawls. The women walk down a dirt road in the village past rows of small houses. The men gather together, talk, and smoke, etc. The men harness their horses to a cart, an old woman gets in the cart, and it drives away. VS, several CUs of the faces of the villagers. Lfe in this farming community, young children playing, men getting water from the central well, a young girl riding a bicycle,...

  7. Mania G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania G., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland in 1927 to a family of eight children. She recalls German invasion; ghettoization in 1942; forced labor digging ditches; her mother and youngest brother escaping from the ghetto (they did not survive); the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; separation from her father and brothers when she was deported to Ottmuth; forced labor in a munitions factory; sharing bread with her friend; working with her at an ammunition factory in Ludwigsdorf from the end of 1944 onward; rescuing her from selection in February 1945; disappea...

  8. Stanley R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1934. Mr. R. recalls his assimilated home; his German governess; German invasion; his father's and uncle's flight to the Soviet Union; moving with his mother to his uncle's home in Wieliczka; the horror of witnessing a building being burned containing Jewish adults and children; their return to Krako?w using false papers; his mother working as a domestic; SS confiscation of her employer's home; his mother continuing to work there while hiding him in a closet for six months; being smuggled to Bratislava with his mother, an...

  9. Reichshauptkasse - Beutestelle

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Der bereits an das Reichsarchiv abgegebene Teilbestand der Reichshauptkasse ist im April 1945 vollständig vernichtet worden. Die heute als Bestand R 2104 vorliegenden wenigen Akten wurden 1962 vom Ministerium für Finanzen der DDR an das Zentrale Staatsarchiv Potsdam übergeben. Dabei handelt es sich ausschließlich um Unterlagen der Wertpapier- bzw. Beutestelle der Reichshauptkasse. Über den Verbleib der übrigen Überlieferung liegen keine Angaben vor. Bestandsbeschreibung Vorhanden sind ausschließlich Unterlagen zur Ablieferung von Beutegut d...

  10. Anna R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna R., who was born in Rajka, Hungary in 1931. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Catholic school (there was no Jewish school); being taken to a ghetto in March 1944; transfer a month later to the Gyo?r ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz two months later; remaining with her sister (she never saw her parents again); being told by a prisoner to say she was sixteen; separation from her sister; forced labor; seeing her sister once; transfer to Gebhardsdorf; receiving extra food from a camp official; a forced march to Georgenthal in February; forced factory la...

  11. Bianca B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bianca B., who was born in Roz?kovany, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; Zionist activities in Lipany; her father believing they were safe due to their essential farm; anti-Jewish laws when Slovakia became independent; expulsion from school; a non-Jewish schoolmate saving her from a round-up; a Catholic women hiding her when she received a deportation notice; one sister's deportation with other relatives in 1942; a policeman warning them they would be taken in 1943; an aborted escape attempt; imprisonment in Sabinov; her father's b...

  12. Israel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel A., who was born in Plotsk (P?ock), Poland in 1925. He relates his family's transfer to the Starachowice ghetto in 1940; the worsening conditions there in 1942; and the action of the Einsatzkommando and subsequent deportation of his parents and brother to Treblinka, while he and his older brother were driven to a factory which comprised the Starachowice concentration camp. He tells of the brutal conditions in the camp (he later testified against its gestapo head at the Frankfurt war crimes trials) where, eluding selections and mass murders, he remained until th...

  13. Morris F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1918. He recalls a serious illness and hospitalization; waking up deaf; becoming very depressed; not being able to attend school;living; moving to Tel Aviv with his family; returning to Łódź due to harsh conditions; fear after German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor as a tailor; his parents not returning home; separation from his brothers (he never saw them again); deportation to Auschwitz; hiding his deafness; responding to vibrations and following others; slave labor on farms; transfer to Dachau; liberation from a ...

  14. Erika W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika W., who was born in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1936. She recounts her father's communist activities; being baptized, although her mother was "non-Aryan"; her father's military enlistment, hoping to save the family from concentration camps; two memories of her mother, one at a train station and another during an accident; placement with her three brothers in a convent orphanage in Landstuhl; hunger, illness, and arduous physical labor; antisemitic taunting; her brothers secretly bringing her food; learning their mother perished in Ravensbrück in 1943; placement wi...

  15. Reichssportfeld exhibition; Water tank; Cement factory in 1937

    Professors give tours of facilities in Austra in November 1937 - "A School Chronicle" filmed by Walter Nitsche. Title card: “100 Meter Schulchronik | Ein Filmchen von Walter Nitsche" "Besichtigung der Reichssportfeld-Ausstellung 1937 in der Wiener Sezession Führung: Prof. Prantl Pro. Strache.” The Secession Building in Vienna, draped with an enormous Nazi flag. CU on the swastika. A group of men exit the building down the front steps. Title card: “Besichtigung des Wasserbehälters im Lainzer Tiergarten Nov. 1937 Führung: Prof. Hubel.” Wooden building. A group of men in suits. Pan of a work y...

  16. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 1: Explosion of Swastika in Nuremberg Stadium. Dead Germans and POWs. Rubble in Cologne, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Berlin. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery; Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. Hitler, Streicher, Hess, Himmler and Goebbels addressing crowds. Germans are shown bodies in the Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Patton tour Ohrdruf concentration camp. Scene of burned bodies on truck chassis, as at start of Museum's pe...

  17. Ernest E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest E., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1915. He describes his observant family of seven children; the family's kosher restaurant; education; their strong zionist leanings; working as an engineer; Hungarian occupation resulting in the loss of his job; and emigrating to Czernowitz in the Soviet zone. Mr. E. recalls his marriage; German invasion; ghettoization; transport with his wife to Transnistria; horrendous living conditions in Mogilev; meeting a Romanian officer whom he had known and who offered him a job as an engineer; building a bridge with sixty Jews, who ...

  18. תיעוד מה-Bezirksausschuss/Bezirksverwaltungsgericht Berlin, שנים 1932-1941

    District Committee / District Administrative Court Berlin The capital Berlin separated in 1875 from the Provincial Association of Brandenburg and, according to the Provincial Order of June 29, 1875, formed together with the adjacent areas a city district. With the Administrative Court Act from July 3, 1875, each district obtained a District Administrative Court at the official residence of the district president. According to the Law on General Administration of July 30, 1883, Bezirksausschuesse (district committees) were set up to standardize the intermediate authorities, and to these admi...

  19. Konsumvereinsausschuß, Hamburg

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 36-III
    • German
    • Schriftgut 332 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 3,2 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners In der Britischen Zone wurden im Jahre 1948 drei Ausschüsse für die Prüfung von Rückübertragungsansprüchen für von den Besatzungsmächten beschlagnahmte Vermögenswerte der aufgelösten NSDAP und ihrer Gliederungen, insbesondere zur Durchführung der Kontrollratsdirektive Nr. 50 vom 29. April 1947 (Amtsblatt Kontrollrat, S. 275) gebildet. Die Vermögenswerte waren zumeist den nach 1933 aufgelösten Gewerkschaften und Konsumgenossenschaften entzogen und von der NSDAP und ihren Organisationen übernommen worden. 1. Allgemeiner Organisationsausschuß (AOA) mit Sitz in C...

  20. Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 294-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 128 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Durch Erlass der Hauptverwaltung der Binnenschifffahrt des amerikanischen und britischen Besatzungsgebietes vom 10. Januar 1948 wurde eine Forschungsanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG) gegründet, die durch Verordnung der Bundesregierung vom 4. September 1951 (BGBl. I S. 826) mit Wirkung vom 1. April 1950 als Bundesoberbehörde in den Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr überführt wurde. Sie ist eine nichtrechtsfähige Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts. Als gewässerkundliche Dienststelle der Wasser- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung berät sie das Bundesministe...