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 14,101 to 14,120 of 55,888
Search result ordering

  1. JDC relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Israel, people on ship and on dock, waving, smiling, people disembark, kiss as family members reunited. Max Fisher and Lou Pincus talk. Marseilles, Jews board ship. Nameless city, plane (alludes to Russia). Naples, plane. Geneva, woman at switchboard. Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. LS, Jerusalem, men in office, discussing, planning. Two men read teletype, phone calls between offices, nurses, food, ambulance, housing, bulldozer. Naples and Marseilles, emigration preparation, ship at dock, ship sets sail. Bus, man in office at phone, back to teletype, Planes ...

  2. Henry Kellen collection

    Collection consists of photographs, identity cards, and letters relating to Henry Kellen and his family's experiences as displaced persons after the war. The family name in the documentation is listed as "Katznellenbogen" or "Kacenellenbogen."

  3. German colonies in Africa postcards

    Contains 17 postcards from German colonies in Africa, World War I era.

  4. Roza Krzesiwo photographs

    The Roza Krzesiwo photographs consist of six images depicting Roza’s brothers Izak, Meir, and Filip Stoleru in Bucharest in 1944; her husband (Zucher Ber Krzesiwo) in the “Progres” Jewish tailoring cooperative in 1946 and at a Communist Party event in 1950 in Bytom (Poland); his uncle Eli Krzesiwo in 1938 in Działoszyce (Poland) and his friend Josef Szlam in 1945 in Poland; and a Bund youth demonstration in 1946 in Katowice (Poland).

  5. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  6. Oral history interview with Isaac Kraicer

  7. Theodor Herzl; Zionism

    Honoring the anniversary of the birth of Theodor Herzl, the father of the 20th century Zionist movement, this short documentary film gives a brief history of Herzl's life and work.

  8. Kazimierz, Jewish district

    Intertitle reads: "At the foot of 'Wawel' Kazimierz, 15th century Jewish district." Kazimierz of Krakow. Buildings and Jewish pedestrians. Very brief intertitle: "The Sukiennice The Old Cloth Hall in the Center of Ryrek."

  9. Adolf Hitler cigarette card

    1 cigarette card, image of Adolf Hitler inspecting quarters of German soldier

  10. Painting

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Fall of Paris. American GIs marching on road in Etamps (outside Paris), holding pictures of Hitler and Goering on bayonettes. Road sign, "Paris 50." People waving at passing Americans. GIs in jeep unfurling American flag, crowd cheers. US tanks enter Paris, pass Eiffel Tower. Civilians building sandbag barricade. Tanks firing at snipers in Paris outskirts. Street fighting in Paris outskirts. Jeepload of prisoners, crowd tries to mob them.

  12. Reference work

    Photocopy of a register of Jewish citizens located in Berlin, Germany, in 1947 that was copied by John Finke in Chicago in 2000. John (then Hans) was a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Jews were forced out of their jobs and their businesses were confiscated. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician by trade, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was hospitalized with appendicitis. On February 29, his parent...

  13. Book

  14. Ketubah

    Contains a Ketubah issued for the marriage of Sara Gitel Pollack (Gitta Pollack) and Yehuda Lev Goldberg [Leo Goldberg] married December 12, 1946 in Milan.

  15. Book

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- factory; interrogations; concentration camp liberation

    1251 L: The Fall of Schweinfurt. German soldier who wished to surrender and was hung by the SS. Wrecked ball bearing factory. German civilians being interrogated. Group of German boys (16-18 years old) being questioned. They are dressed in German uniforms and they fought against the Allies. 1251 O: 01:20:24 Liberated Buchenwald concentration camp; inmates in striped uniforms; barracks. MS of crematorium building. Swiss Red Cross trucks. Large drawing at Stalin hanging outside of barrack.

  17. Torah scroll fragment in a wooden frame

  18. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  19. JDC response to Nazi advance in Europe

    Fundraiser showing international refugee assistance programs of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Rights of Jews in the United States contrasted to the plight of Jews in Europe during the 20th century. "Jude" painted on store window. Focus on Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Images of pre-Nazi times with Jews celebrating, dancing, etc. develop into images of confinement to ghettos, refugees, and post WWII restoration. Focus on Lithuania, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France. Shots of Nazi occupation and refugees. Focus on Balkans includes statistics of Je...

  20. Liberation - Yugoslavia

    Rear views, MSs Yugoslav? soldiers on horses, soldiers marching. Civilians waving. CU, elderly woman and child. CU, another child. MSs, young peasant women. Tito and other Yugoslav military personnel meeting, discussing around a table, smoking, looking over documents. Men exiting the building. Tito getting on a horse, riding. Peasants and children waving. Soldiers on horses marching through fields, towns. Civilians waving. Some aerial shots.