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 19,701 to 19,720 of 55,847
Search result ordering

  1. German antisemitic/anti-American propaganda newsreel

    Part 1, Jewish American woman receives award contrasted to those who live in "ghetto," shots of Jewish neighborhoods, people in store picking out material, Jewish merchant behind counter, Hebrew signs, shots of frenzied activity of Stock Exchange, CU of money being counted. LaGuardia gesturing at man at desk, going up ladder, CU as he makes speech. Background music throughout is jazz swing.

  2. Danish rescue mission; refugees arrive in Sweden

    Danish Jews fleeing to Sweden in 1943 and arrive at the refugee center. Boat at shoreline. Group of men chopping wood. Pan, refugees gather in reception hall in Sweden. CU, baby, children. Quick shot of boat. Interviews. Chopping wood. Line of refugees. Medical examinations. Photographs taken. Pan, line. CUs, food, two women serving food. Diplomats, office. Boat in water.

  3. City Scenes of Bucharest

    A Post Film. Various travelogue shots of Bucharest.

  4. Caviar factory; fishermen in Krakow

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. CUs man and boys speaking. CU, camera (Leica factory). Caviar factory, worker packs and cases caviar for distribution. Slow pan of port with boats, fisherman, fish.

  5. Liberation of Ebensee concentration camp: caring for sick survivors; crematorium

    (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of Jesus. Town street scene, men walking, guest-house. CU, baby in carriage. Mountains. Good views of Ebensee concentration camp, electrified barbed wire fence, barracks. Men carry large pots of soup. Survivors walk past camera in striped uniforms, one is quite young. CUs, survivors, some with red triangles, eating. Pan, emaciated inmates, some lying on stretchers. American soldiers with the US Air Force and USAF ambulances in the BG. Soldiers (some African-Americans) help the sick on stretchers into ambu...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  7. Pharmacy? in ghetto

    INTs of what appears to be a pharmacy. VAR pans of empty shelves, empty bottles. Man in ragged jacket (pharmacist?).

  8. Jewish police

    Jewish Police sequence: CU of commander; double line of police at attention (all turn their heads, German military style). CUs of several policemen. Police march by camera, pan down to boots. VAR policeman at check point, checking papers, chasing children. See Emanuel Ringelblum's diary, May 7, 1942

  9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  10. Street scenes

    Street scene with pedestrians: two poor children stand with arms around each other; poor, desperate woman carrying a baby paces back and forth in the street, crying out. Street traffic passes by in foreground.

  11. Teheran Conference

    President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Teheran. Churchill's daughter Sarah is introduced to Stalin. According to UN contents sheet: "Backed by the greatest concentration of military power in history, the Teheran Conference broadcasts its official communique to the world: "We, the President of the Unites States of America, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, have met and expressed our determination that our nations shall work together in the war and in the peace that will follow. The common understanding which we have here reached ...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees board ship in Lisbon

    Large crowd of people wave to those aboard "Serpa Pinto." Ship waits for 1500 children from France. At last minute, Germans do not let children leave France. Most are Jews and were assisted by American charitable organizations. Only 40 of these children get to Portugal. Men at table check passenger documents prior to boarding. Children are assisted up gangway; boy and girl at document table. More people, including more children, board ship, go up gangway toward camera. Good shots of children. LS departure of "Serpa Pinto" against sun. People waving from ship. LS Boarding of American Export ...

  13. Men undressed/examined; food, shops, cafe

    Sign and chart, "Fleckfieberkrankungen bei...Typhus. 1940 1941 1942" Interiors: VAR thin men and boys undress, CU dirty feet; naked, they are checked for lice, get rough haircuts. VAR CU and MCU men scratching, bone-thin naked bodies, lice-infested scalps. VAR modern sanatorium: ext views of building in tree-filled, sunny setting; patients on porch, blanketed, reading, nurses; people chatting, sitting outdoors on benches. People at food shop/indoor cafe; appealing display at counter; waiters serve well-dressed crowd at tables.

  14. Rauter Trial, Westerbork

    "Neerlands Nieuws / Polygoon Profilti" "Het Proces Rauter Opens with the trial of Hanns Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up Westerbork and Vught 02:19:44 The judge's voice, presumably reading the indictment, over footage of well dressed civilians wearing stars either arriving at Westerbork or boarding for deportation to Auschwitz or Belsen. Men, women, and children. Good shots of Dutch military police on duty. Back to Rauter sitting at the trial. 02:20:12 Men wearing wooden clogs getting off train at Westerbork lini...

  15. XI Olympiad

    First day of Olympics - newsreel outtakes. Includes shots of Nazi and Olympic flags on Brandenburg Gate, motorcade through - torch runners through. Shot of stadium bedecked with huge swastikas, some Olympic flags.

  16. Liberation at Dachau

    MCU Stevens and GI in parkas stand in front of Toluca jeep. US Army comes across railcars filled with dead prisoners in Dachau and assists survivors. LS along row of boxcars on railroad siding, GIs in distance, snow on ground. GI walks into FG looking at cars. MS corpse of inmate in striped uniform lies on gravel beside track, CU. Snow-covered corpse curled in corner of boxcar. MS from behind, GIs looking down at dead SS man, CU battered face, other dead SS. Frozen bodies of dead prisoners covered in snow in boxcar, CU of haunting face, pile of bodies in doorway of boxcar, GI photographs, C...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish refugees in Amsterdam

    01:18:54 December 3, 1938, the Christian population organized street collections for Jewish refugees. Shots of collectors at work on street. CU of collection tin. Jewish men walk on busy street (bikes, cars, streetcars) and enter small hotel, shot of men leaving. Same men with suitcases go to doorway. LS "Beurs Voor den Diamanth" (Amsterdam Diamond Bourse). 01:20:35 Jewish open air market as people buy and sell. Book stalls, fabrics, food. Newspaper on wall "Ten Bate Voor de Joodsche Vluchtelingen." Good shots of people, women chatting. LS EXT kosher poultry shop ("Kip Haan"). INT women hav...

  18. Exodus Jews in France

    INTs of refugees sleeping on cots, of floor, rough conditions (too dark). Refugees sleeping on cots outdoors, in trucks (police trucks). Shot of harbor. "Ocean Vigour," the "Runnymede Park," and the "Empire Valour" in harbor. Small boats go up to ship. Shots of refugees on ship (Runnymede) with barbed wire. Sailors on ship, more refugees. French Red Cross on shore, give water to refugees.

  19. Inhabitants of ghetto

    CUs of people standing for the camera in the ghetto. One man holds a crutch.

  20. Children are caught smuggling food

    Five youths are caught smuggling and forced by German (uniformed) police to empty the food from sacks under their clothes. Potatoes, carrots, etc. fall at their feet.