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 13,641 to 13,660 of 55,839
Search result ordering

  1. Holocaust-era records of the Jewish Labor Committee Child adoption case files

    The collection consists of 13 linear feet of Child Adoption Case Files (Sub-series of the Holocaust-Era Record of the Jewish Labor Committee), arranged alphabetically by name. Files were created by the Child Adoption Program of the Jewish Labor Committee between 1946 and 1960. Size and contents of individual files vary greatly; contain brief biographies and photos of the children, as well as correspondence, memos, and other documentation relating to the support of each child. Some of these children were living in the Jewish Labor Committee-supported children's homes in France, Belgium, Pale...

  2. Holocaust-era records of the Jewish Labor Committee Displaced and refugee card files

    The collection consists of records of the Displaced Persons and Refugee Card files (Sub-series of the Holocaust-Era Records of the Jewish Labor Committee). The thousands of cards provide biographical information on refugees, most of them in DP camps in Germany. The files are divided in several series, and each series is arranged alphabetically.

  3. Reichswirtschaftsministerium records (R 7)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv, Record Group R7, relating to various activities of the administration of the Reichswirtschaftsministerium, 1933-1945.

  4. Reichsarbeitsministerium records (R 41)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv, Record Group R 41, relating to various activities of the administration of the Reich Labor Ministry between 1933 and 1945.

  5. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (R 55)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv, R 55, relating to various activities of the administration of Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda between 1933 and 1945.

  6. Seconde Guerre Mondiale records (AJ 72)

    Contains documents extracted from official records found in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Records include lists of political prisoners, lists of prisoners used in medical experiments, correspondence, requests, statistics, medical statements, discipline statements, and administrative documents. Also collection contains interrogations of ex-guards in concentration camps, liberation photographs, published testimonies,essays, clippings related to antisemitism, prosecution of Jewish in France, and to the Vichy politics.

  7. Selected records from the Départmental Archives of Drôme, France

    Contains materials relating to deportations, internment camps, foreigners resident in Drôme, France, and subject to arrest and deportation, declarations of Jewish heritage, directives concerning treatment of Jews, name lists of persons interned and deported, and movement of refugees. Also contains a brief history of refugee artists in the town of Dieulefit, France.

  8. Records from the French National Archives on the persecution of Jews in France (F 41)

    Collection contains predominantly published materials and some correspondence related to antisemitism, war refugees, persecution of Jews in France and to Vichy politics. Records include brochures, essays, clippings, newspaper illustrations and office documents.

  9. Records of the Aisne Historical Committee of World War II

    Consist of correspondence, publications and other records of the Aisne Historical Committee of World War II related to the "Jewish Question."

  10. Archives of the Villers-Cotterêts

    Contains publications and correspondence related to discriminatory actions against Jews.

  11. Alphabetical list of Flossenbürg inmates

    Collection of administrative material relating to Flossenbürg collected by the US Army in connection with war crimes trials. Includes alphabetical lists of over 100,000 inmates. The information on each inmate consists of prisoner number, category of prisoner, family and personal name, date and place of birth, date of arrival and date and nature of fate, i.e., died, transferred, released, etc.

  12. Kaufbeuren Bezirkskrankenhaus: Individual case files

    381 individual case files from the psychiatric hospital in Kaufbeuren from the time period of Operation T4.

  13. Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives records

    Contains reports to Helsinki (Finland) from the following Finnish Embassies: Vienna (Austria), Washington, D.C. (USA), Warsaw (Poland), Stockholm (Sweden), Prague (Czech Republic), Paris (France), Oslo (Norway), Hague (Netherlands), Budapest (Hungary), Berlin (Germany), Bern (Switzerland). Also contains records of incoming and outgoing cables to and from these embassies and copies of the Finnish Foreign Ministry files on various matters related to Jews, including files on the "Jewish question," and Finnish emigration policy. Other miscellaneous documents include personal name lists of Jewis...

  14. Special Commission of the Central Jewish Committee of Jews in Poland Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Komisja Specjalna (Sygn. 303/XVIII)

    This collection documents the activities of the Special Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland. It contains protocols; reports related to antisemitic incidents; statistical documents; correspondence; and civil defense plans for Jewish properties in Białystok, Częstochowa, Kraków, Opole, Sosnowiec, Szczecin, Zabrze, Otwock, and Wrocław. It also contains lists of individuals who collaborated with the Germans, the Jewish Committees in various cities, employees of Special Commissions, places for Jewish defense, and weapons held by the Special Commission.

  15. M. Blank, O. Schmidt, and Keitel testify at Nuremberg Trial; Army review

    07:00:45 (Munich 72) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 28, 1946. HAS, Tribunal and Justice Lawrence swearing in Ms. Margaret Blank, von Ribbentrop's former secretary. Von Ribbentrop's defense counsel, Dr. Martin Horne, questions Ms. Blank. She is heard answering. MS, Dr. Horne at the stand. Paul Otto Schmidt is heard being sworn in and questioned by Dr. Horne. Pan, US and British prosecution at table. (See also 111 ADC 5848 - RG-60.2856, Film ID 2354) 07:04:48 (Munich 97) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. Dr. Otto Nelte questions Keitel as camera shows HAS of...

  16. Mannheim synagogue program

    This program for the music sung during the High Holy Days in 1938 at the Hauptsynagogue in Mannheim, Germany. It was written by Samuel Adler's father, Hugo Adler, the last chief cantor of the synagogue, and brought to this country by the second cantor of the synagogue, Erwin Hirsch. At the end of this memo, Hugo Adler writes: "Last High Holy Days in Germany; to be continued in the world to come. (Baolam Haba) All of the Mannheim synagogues were destroyed on Nov. 10, 1938, and by 1940 there were no Jews left in Mannheim. There were also no more services after the Yamim Horaim of 1938.

  17. Klaus Barbie trial

    Contains original court transcripts from the trial against Klaus Barbie for war crimes. On May 11th, 1987, after 4 years of pre-trial investigation in Lyon, France, Klaus Barbie's trial opened. It was the first case for crimes against humanity tried in France. Pierre Truche was the chief prosecutor, and Jacques Vergès was the defense attorney. The collection includes over 37 court sessions (approximately 185 hour trials) held in Lyon form May 11 to July 3, 1987. Barbie had to answer several charges: the liquidation of the Lyon committee of the L'Union générale des israélites de France (UGI...

  19. Benjamin Aussen collection

    Consists of one black and white plastic negative strip containing six frames depicting the donor and his family and friends during their hiding in Amsterdam, circa 1942-1945.

  20. Emanuel M. Abrams collection

    Consists of three issues of the periodical "Unzer Styme" ("Our Voice"): Issue 7, dated 20 February 1946; Issue 8, dated 17 Mar.1946; and Issue 10, dated 24 May 1946.