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 2,101 to 2,120 of 55,824
Search result ordering

  1. RAF; steel production; bombed railways in Belgium; troops weather storms

    Combat Bulletin No. 30. Reel 1, E.T.O Activities in European Theatre of Operations "R.A.F. Sinks “Tirpitz”" "Front Line Steel Production" "Bombed Belgium Rail Networks" "Allied Armies Face Rain and Snow"

  2. Berlin street scene

    Berlin street scenes with posters affixed to a pillar; bicycles (very brief). Probably Charlottenburg district where the Vishniac family lived on Pariserstrasse.

  3. Moving into the Krakow Ghetto

    Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto. Carts/wagons, some containing belongings. People with star armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes. Busy scenes. People appear worried. Walking across a bridge, moving into ghetto. Bicycle. Various shots. (01:39:08 - 01:39:10 black screen) Some CUs. Moving furniture. Belongings on cart. Girls with chairs. Tram passes. People in the streets. More shots of furniture, the bridge, people walking, and carts. Sign reads: "Fur Juden, fur nicht Juden." Baby carriages. CU armband.

  4. Farming

    Excerpt of "Founding a New Life: A Story of Rehabilitation." Tractors. "Harvesting the Fruits of Their Labor" Working in fruit trees. Sorting vegetables/potatoes. Wheat. Harvesting melons. Boys eating melons.

  5. Liberation of Buchenwald; VE Day in Paris

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include films taken by cameraman Arthur Mainzer: Liberation of Buchenwald, April 16, 1945 in color (USHMM Film ID 849, 07:01:12 to 07:04:00) Soldiers near Torgau and Buchenwald in color (USHMM Film ID 850, 08:07:59 to 08:10:16) VE celebration in Paris on May 8, 1945 in b/w (USHMM Film ID 2513,...

  6. Wedding of Kurt and Alyse Laemmle

    Kurt and Alyse marry in Chicago. EXT, Chicago Sinai Congregation building. MCU a group of people get out of a car, including Alyse in a wedding gown. A woman in a white fur coat caries the gown behind her as Alyse walks up the steps of the synagogue. People follow. CU, a man in a brown hat and coat (possibly Alyse’s father?). The bride and groom (Alice and Kurt) walking out of the Emile G. Hirch Center. A woman in a red dress helps Alyse with her gown. CU Alyse and Kurt, as they move in to kiss each other. The newlyweds are joined by a short older gentleman wearing a white hat and black sui...

  7. Holland; Poland; Churchill in Russia

    Newsreel release date: 03-Dec-44. "Holland" "Poland" "Churchill in Russia"

  8. Life in Berlin; Hitler motorcade

    Unedited home movie material of life in Berlin and citizens playing in 1939. Two people play with a terrier dog in a park or garden. Opposite the Cafe Linden in the Unter den Linden, crowds form behind SS guards as a long motorcade passes. Hitler's car is part of this motorcade. People skating and running in the snow. Berlin cafes and club lights at night-time.

  9. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  10. Various scenes in Novogrodok, Poland

    EXT, large crowd of men and women, smiling, filing into a building. Title: "The Talmudical" VS, INT of Yeshiva. Boys at desks davening, teacher instructing. Title: "The Metchet" EXT of prayer house. Title: "The Jewish Library" Still of library, MCU books on bookshelves. Title: "House of Tarbuth School" EXT of school, men exiting. Title: "Jewish Trade School" EXT of trade school. INT of boys woodworking, students eating, girls working on sewing machines. EXT, Group of men posing for the camera, some are smoking cigarettes, some are speaking to each other and to cameraman, smiling, all are dr...

  11. DPs loading luggage on truck

    DPs boarding truck with luggage. CU girl. Lifting baby onto truck. CU men and women on truck. Shots of truck leaving, children waving.

  12. Touring Austria for Maexie's birthday

    Introduced with German titles throughout. House in a sparse mountain village in summer. Ivan and a dog. Good CUs of the boys playing in the forest with their driver Leithner. Camera view from the top of the Austrian Alps in November. Snowy mountains in Schneeberg, Maexie points at the lookout. The boys ski and slalom down a mountain. Mountain peaks above the clouds (from an airplane?). Two St. Bernard puppies. More views of the majestic clouds. Frost and icy buds. 03:38:50 Blossoms in spring line the streets. Driving tour with visits to small towns in lower Austria in the springtime (each i...

  13. American military at the St. James Cemetery and moving through Belgium and Germany

    Reel 10: (1945) Leaving Belgium by train through France; Paris; Army Hdqts. St. James Cemetery in Fougeres, where the QM buried troops. Sign reads "Entrance: US Military Cemetery, Pas de Visiteurs après 17 heures" [No visitors after 5pm]. Other signs point to "American Dead Only" and "Enemy Dead." American soldiers visit the cemetery. Pan, rows of white crosses. Three men stand at a grave covered with flowers. Group of soldiers drink out a bottle and smile for the camera. Soldiers pose next to "Merry Christmas" sign (probably December 1944). 3:07 Large group gathers at a train station, some...

  14. Dutch Jewish family vacations in France

    The Bed family (Meijer, Kaatje, Henriette Elly (Jetje), and John) leave their home in Amsterdam (?) for a vacation. Windmill from their car. 00:18 Busy street scene in Paris. Bicyclist, cars, streetcar. The Bed family visits Paris landmarks including Sacre Couer and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A group of men wearing exotic military uniforms. John makes faces while standing by a taxi. The Moulin Rouge, including the windmill that sits atop the building. John, Jetje, and Kaatje wave from the sunroof of a car. Street scenes from a moving vehicle. More landmarks and views of the family on ...

  15. Oral history interview with Antonia Paulavicius

  16. German military hospital; liberated German town

    Building that is serving as hospital (German military hospital). Patients in yard. German ambulances with Red Cross symbol. German officer in uniform walking down street with white band on left arm. Shot of street, old man, horse drawn cart. Gene Solow (war correspondent) and GIs walking down the street. LS of street with horse drawn cart and civilians pulling wagon. Street sign unreadable indicating direction to neighboring towns. Shot of street and woman and other civilians, giving it the feel of a 'normal' town. Top sign reads: "Arolsan 43 kms" beneath it sign reads: "Ederze 13 kms." Gre...

  17. Leaflets of the White Rose Facsimile of the second White Rose leaflet

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn14333
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) b: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Facsimile of the second White Rose leaflet, distributed by members of the White Rose, a German anti-Nazi group formed in Munich in 1942. Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell wrote the first four leaflets, possibly with contributions by Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst. The second leaflet calls Nazism a cancer on German society, states that the murder of Polish Jews by the Germans is a crime against humanity, and urges the citizens of Germany to resist the Nazi rule. The group was founded by students from the University of Munich in the late spring of 1942, and members consisted of Hans, Al...

  18. Monitor programs from State of Deception exhibition

    Interactive video presentations from the Museum’s special exhibition, "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda," providing historical analysis of the Nazi propaganda films on Theresienstadt and the Warsaw ghetto. On the subject of Theresienstadt, curator Steve Luckert discusses film excerpts from "The Fuehrer Gives a City to he Jews" and Maurice Rossel's interview for Claude Lanzmann's SHOAH (14.25 minutes). Film director Raye Farr provides an analysis of several scenes in the Warsaw ghetto film and interprets the Nazi’s propaganda intent from a curator’s perspective, with particul...

  19. Dachau camp, postwar

    Film footage of unknown provenance documenting a tour of cities and towns in Poland, Germany, and Austria during the 1960s. Includes approximately 2 minutes of footage showing the exterior of Dachau concentration camp and memorial from 20:30 to 22:12.

  20. War refugees are integrated into a small town in Massachusetts

    A re-enacted documentary on the integration of a group of World War II refugees into the life of the small town of Cummington, MA. In Reel 1, the town's clergyman describes Cummington's initial coolness towards the diffident newcomers. He helps involve the refugees in social, church, and vocational activities. In Reel 2, individual refugees find familiar work in printing, farming, lumbering, and shopkeeping, and begin socializing with their neighbors as a new kind of respect develops on both sides. Included are panoramic views of the countryside in and around the town.