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 901 to 920 of 3,431
Search result ordering

  1. Krieg Droht Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a white draped figure running during an aerial attack

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521155
    • English
    • 1936
    • pictorial area: Height: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) | Width: 7.125 inches (18.097 cm) overall: Height: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm) | Width: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm)

    Intaglio print, Angst, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. It is number 2 from the series, Krieg Droht. It features a woman covered in a white cloth, running in a dark landscape with large black birds and airplanes above. Lea Grundig and her husband, Hans, were dedicated Communists who created anti-Fascist works documenting and protesting conditions under Nazi rule in Dresden. Such works were prohibited under Hitler and the Nazi regime. Lea, 30, was arrested for her resistance art in 1936, but released. She continued working as an artist and was arrested in 1938 for high treason...

  2. Downfall Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a people being pushed off a cliff

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521153
    • English
    • 1972
    • pictorial area: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) overall: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm)

    Intaglio print, Untergang, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. This is number 10 from the series, Krieg Droht. Lea Grundig and her husband, Hans, were dedicated Communists who created anti-Fascist works documenting and protesting conditions under Nazi rule in Dresden. Such works were prohibited under Hitler and the Nazi regime. Lea, 30, was arrested for her resistance art in 1936, but released. She continued working as an artist and was arrested in 1938 for high treason and sentenced to two years in the Dresden Gestapo prison. In December 1939, Lea was released and left for Pale...

  3. Small gear placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Small gear placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had escape...

  4. Wooden box placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Worn, wooden box placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had ...

  5. Carved wooden bison placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Wooden bison toy placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had ...

  6. Elbow pipe fitting placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Street elbow pipe fitting placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Ma...

  7. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection

    Staatliche Kriminalpolizei [State Criminal police] bronze warrant disc [dienstmarken], ID number 1978, taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interrogating. After Himmler centralized the police forces in the mid-1930s, this was the official identification badge, stamped with the individual officer's number. The badge had the authority of a warrant and once displayed during an arrest, investigation, or search, it ensured compliance. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria for America shortly after...

  8. Czechoslovakian postage stamp, 40 haléř, acquired by a former American internee

    1. Leonie Roualet collection

    Commemorative postage stamp of Hungarian astronomer, Maximilian Hell, issued in Czechoslovakia in 1970 on the 250th anniversary of Hell’s birth and acquired by Leonie Roualet. The stamp depicts Hell on his scientific expedition in Norway to establish the distance between the earth and the sun. Leonie was born in New York to Leonie Calmesse and Henry Charles Roualet, French champagne vintners who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s. In the 1930s, Leonie’s mother returned to France to take care of her ailing brother. While caring for her brother, she too became sick, and in 1939 ...

  9. Ruth Danzig Rauch papers

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    The Ruth Danzig Rauch papers primarily contain biographical materials, correspondence, and emigration and immigration materials related to Ruth Danzig’s escape from Munich, Germany to Great Britain on the Kindertransport in 1939, her immigration to the United States in 1944, and the Danzig and Frank family’s life in Munich from 1939-1942. The biographical materials include documents from the International Tracing Service about Emanuel and Gerda Danzig, archival research on the fates of members of the Bravmann, Winter, and Danzig families in Germany, and school records for Ruth Danzig Rauch....

  10. He will free himself Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a man wrapped in rope up to his neck

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521152
    • English
    • 1936
    • pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) overall: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm)

    Intaglio print, Er wird sich befreien, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. It is number 20 from the series, Unterm Hakenkreuz. Lea Grundig and her husband, Hans, were dedicated Communists who created anti-Fascist works documenting and protesting conditions under Nazi rule in Dresden. Such works were prohibited under Hitler and the Nazi regime. Lea, 30, was arrested for her resistance art in 1936, but released. She continued working as an artist and was arrested in 1938 for high treason and sentenced to two years in the Dresden Gestapo prison. In December 1939, Lea was released a...

  11. Heavy mounting plate placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Anchor plate placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had esca...

  12. Large gear placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Large gear placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had escape...

  13. Łódź ghetto scrip, 20 mark note

    1. Steffa Horowitz Mairanz collection

    Scrip acquired by 22 year-old Steffa (Shifra) Horowitz Mairanz (Marjanc) from family members who lived in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Steffa, her husband, and their infant daughter, who was born April 12, 1940, lived in hiding in different towns near Łódź to avoid being interned in any ghettos. Steffa managed to smuggle several family members out of the Łódź ghetto before it was destroyed by the Germans in 1944.

  14. Interrogation Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a man threatened by the hands of unseen people

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521154
    • English
    • 1936
    • pictorial area: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) overall: Height: 21.250 inches (53.975 cm) | Width: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm)

    Intaglio print, Verhor, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. This is number 23 from the series, Unterm Hakenkreuz. Lea Grundig and her husband, Hans, were dedicated Communists who created anti-Fascist works documenting and protesting conditions under Nazi rule in Dresden. Such works were prohibited under Hitler and the Nazi regime. Lea, 30, was arrested for her resistance art in 1936, but released. She continued working as an artist and was arrested in 1938 for high treason and sentenced to two years in the Dresden Gestapo prison. In December 1939, Lea was released and left for P...

  15. Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Consists of pre and post-war documents, pamphlets, correspondence, and photographs of Jacob Wiener (born Gerd Zwienicki) and his family's experiences from 1936-1948. Included in this collection is his copy of a 1942 pamphlet on "Questions and Answers on Regulations Concerning Aliens of Enemy Nationalities" from the U.S. Department of Justice; Josef Zwienicki's (Jacob's father) 1916 driver's license; a 1948 marriage certificate issued to Gerd Zwienicki and Gertrud Farntrog (Jacob's wife); correspondence from Selma Stiefel Zwienicki (Jacob's mother), dated 1937-1938; correspondence from Jacob...

  16. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle - Allgemein Erfasste

    1. Bestände vor 1945
    2. Preußische und Reichsbehörden mit regionaler Zuständigkeit
    3. Preußische Behörden
    4. Polizeibehörden
    5. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle

    Vorwort Pr.Br.Rep. 030-02 Polizeipräsidium Berlin-Kriminalpolizeileitstelle 1. Behördengeschichte Nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten 1933 begann eine grundlegende Umstrukturierung der Polizei und damit auch der Kriminalpolizei im Deutschen Reich. Bereits im Jahre 1922 hatte der Reichstag ein Gesetz über die Schaffung eines Reichskriminalpolizeiamtes beschlossen, das jedoch an föderalistischen Störmanövern Bayerns und Preußens scheiterte (Wagner, Hitlers Kriminalisten, München 2002, S. 19) Am 17. Juni 1936 wurde Heinrich Himmler zum "Chef der Deutschen Polizei" ernan...

  17. Wooden trap door beneath a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Trap door entrance beneath a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had ...

  18. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle - Juden

    1. Bestände vor 1945
    2. Preußische und Reichsbehörden mit regionaler Zuständigkeit
    3. Preußische Behörden
    4. Polizeibehörden
    5. Polizeipräsidium Berlin - Kriminalpolizeileitstelle

    Vorwort Pr.Br.Rep. 030-02 Polizeipräsidium Berlin-Kriminalpolizeileitstelle 1. Behördengeschichte Nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten 1933 begann eine grundlegende Umstrukturierung der Polizei und damit auch der Kriminalpolizei im Deutschen Reich. Bereits im Jahre 1922 hatte der Reichstag ein Gesetz über die Schaffung eines Reichskriminalpolizeiamtes beschlossen, das jedoch an föderalistischen Störmanövern Bayerns und Preußens scheiterte (Wagner, Hitlers Kriminalisten, München 2002, S. 19) Am 17. Juni 1936 wurde Heinrich Himmler zum "Chef der Deutschen Polizei" ernan...

  19. Embroidered tea cozy used by Austrian Jewish refugees to store family correspondence

    1. Goldstein family collection

    Tea cozy used in Belgium by Regina Goldstein, the mother of twin boys, Bruno and Jack, to store correspondence and documents written by Goldstein family members in Debica and Opole, Poland, who were unable to escape their German occupied country. Most of them did not survive the Holocaust. Bruno and Jack were 6 years old at the time and used some of the letters for drawing paper. Their family fled Austria in 1939. Their father was deported to Gurs internment camp after the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940. The family avoided deportation in 1942,but at the end of 1942, their mother c...

  20. Wall crucifix owned by an American internee

    1. Leonie Roualet collection

    Crucifix owned by Leonie Roualet while she was interned in Vittel internment camp in German-occupied France from September 1942 through September 1944. Leonie was born in New York to Leonie Calmesse and Henry Charles Roualet, French champagne vintners who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s. In the 1930s, Leonie’s mother returned to France to take care of her ailing brother. While caring for her brother, she too became sick, and in 1939 Leonie traveled to France to take care of her mother and her uncle. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and occupied the northern half of the c...