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 15,881 to 15,900 of 55,889
Search result ordering

  1. Steven Galezewski collection

    The collection consists of a memoir containing information describing the liquidation of the Minsk-Mazowiecki ghetto and a copy of an arrest warrant dated 30 August 1941.

  2. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet published by US Army describing conditions at Gunskirchen concentration camp upon Liberation.

  3. Oscar and Lillian Stempler Foundation collection

    Contains an album of postcards, envelopes, postage stamps and other items with accompanying captions.

  4. Kahan family collection

    Contains identification cards ("Kennkarten") for donor, Hildegard Kahan, and her mother Else.

  5. Photograph album page

    Page from a Jewish family album that depicts pre-war life in Yugoslavia. Page bears two black and white photographs on recto and one on verso. Found in front of photo album [Ref 1]

  6. Photograph

    Photograph portrait of woman wearing a black headband, black dress, and fur; mounted in wooden frame covered in gold paint, with glass front and red-and-white paper backing.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Clearing ruins/rubble in Warsaw

    Men demolishing parts of wrecked walls, still standing on Place Napoleon. 06:12:03 LS and CU insert, sign with name of the future avenue dedicated "To the heroes of the Ghetto." A monument has been erected to their memory. LS the same surrounded by ruins. 06:12:25 Men and women working on tram line crossing Ghetto. 06:14:08 Old woman working on top of a heap of bricks. In FG wrecked buildings of Warsaw. LS ruins of the ghetto. Wrecked wall still standing draws a cross in the sky. 06:15:31 Cement cross emerging out of a heap of bricks. Cart loaded with rubbish passing through ruins of the gh...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    In the Samaria Plain, workers develop wasteland, leveling ground. Views of Hedera, the largest settlement in Samaria, showing houses, gardens, fields, etc. with sand dunes in the BG. Tractor plowing fields. Orange plantations. 02:23:52 Farming scenes at Arab farm, plowing among orange trees, weeding in orange grove, CU, Arab diverting waters in irrigation canal. Cows feeding on Arab farm, coming out of stable. 02:25:13 Men and women picking oranges in one of the largest plantations in Rehoboth (the main town in the orange-growing belt of Palestine), CUs. 02:25:55 Packing oranges. CU, Yemeni...

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- War Crimes Trial: "Butchers of Auschwitz"

    "The Trial of Forty German Butchers of Auschwitz Camp," November 24-26, 1947. LS, building in which the trial of Auschwitz takes place. Market scene. 02:36:45 MS, crowd listening to loudspeaker on steps of building. MS, crowd outside of building listening to prisoners' examination. 02:37:05 VS, German prisoners jumping out of lorries and marching into the Court of Justice. 02:37:22 VS, Maria Mandl, head of women's camp at Auschwitz, between two Germans. 02:37:58 LS, old women jumping out of lorry and going to the Tribunal. CU, President of the Tribunal, Alfred Eimer, verifying identity of t...

  10. Fragebogen zur erstmaligen Meldung der Heilberufe

    Collection of 134 registration forms for Jewish health professionals in the Galicia region in Eastern Europe.

  11. Book

  12. Book

  13. Philip D. Vock papers

    The Philip D. Vock papers consist of biographical material, a journal, and photographs relating to Philip Vock’s wartime experiences hiding in France, as a prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, as well as his post-war experiences in France and the United States. The collection also includes certificates and membership cards for Marguerite Vock, Philip’s mother, Leon Leonoff, Philip’s uncle, and Estreia Leonoff, Philip’s aunt. Biographical material for Philip Vock include a certificate ("Certificat de Bonne Conduite") issued by the French Air Force, a membership card issu...

  14. Ruth Taenzer collection

    Consists of correspondence written from Paula Teitelbaum to Ruth Schiller between 1938-1945. Ruth emigrated to the United States in April 1939, but her friend Paula remained in Europe and wrote to her throughout the war, describing her experiences, including the arrest of her father in 1940.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Spring in Paris

    Children in park, Eiffel Tower in BG. 04:03:00 Construction near Eiffel Tower, Chaillot? Paris street with cars, trams. People looking in store windows. Workers, Eiffel Tower, busy street with cars, Champs Elysees, road, cars. Building with "Le Figaro" across top. At Boulangerie, people leaving with bread (shot repeated several times). Scenes near the Louvre and in gardens. Street, tulips, Petite Arc de Triomphe, artist painting. 04:07:35 Eiffel Tower at dusk. Magazine stall, people buying papers. 04:09:33 (Still in Paris, seems colder?) Selling plants at outdoor market.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Convoy of the Second Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment proceeding to Tel Aviv (convoy consisted of 15 fully armed lorries with the objective of combattiing terrorists). Convoy passing through Esdraelon/Jezreel Plain, also called "Emek Yezreel," a fruitful and successful Jewish colony located northeast of Haifa, bordered by Jordan, Gilboa Hills, Galilee Hills, and Nazareth. Originally a tremendous swamp, the land was drained and planted. Father and son plowing land with settlements and hill in BG. Good views of the Emek colony, taken from Ain Harod settlement. Planting bananas in Jor...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Orchestra; art gallery; press conference in Tel Aviv

    Men and women going to see "The Palestine Orchestra." CU, poster with date January 25, 1945. 05:40:01 Woman at piano, talking to man. CU pianist, her hands. 05:41:56 People arriving outside Katz Art Gallery. CU, poster advertising sculpture exhibition by S.C. Stutzer. Busts in the gallery. 05:43:14 Men in workshop, printing. Newspaper printing machine. Men in office. EXT, press building, vendors leaving with newspapers on their bicycles. 05:46:50 Conference of Arab-Jewish press in Tel Aviv. Jewish and Arab journalists of Tel Aviv and Arab journalists from Jaffa meet with Dr. W.M. Clyde, adv...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Military convoy of the Second Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment (stationed in Haifa) on the way to Qadun village. The convoy was made up of lorries, machine guns, men, officers, donkeys, cannon, and medical units with the objective to find terrorists around Attil village. Soldiers leave barracks, drive on road. Camels proceed. Convoy going through village with Arabs drawing water in BG. Villager watches convoy. Machine guns. Fields just before Attil village. Arab explains directions to Army. Convoy unloads bombs, mortars, machine guns, donkeys. Soldiers awaiting orders, eating, load...

  19. Jura Lokaj papers

    The Jura Lokaj papers consists of photographs of Nazi persecution of Jews in Zhitomir, Ukraine, in 1941. The photographs include images of execution by hanging of Jews and partisans, as well as a possible “action”. The papers also includes the publication "Die Wahrheit ueber das Konzentrationslager Buchenwald" (Weimar: Verlag antifaschistischen Schrifttums, 1945; 63 pages).

  20. Nazi swastika armband acquired by an American POW