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 3,561 to 3,580 of 55,814
Search result ordering

  1. Edith and Ernst Mayer collection

    The collection consists of a Haftorah scroll, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ernst Mayer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States in 1939, and to those of Edith Kuechler Mayer, who fled Nazi Germany in 1938.

  2. Erna Bernat collection

    The collection consists of six pieces of Theresienstadt scrip relating to the experiences of Erna Bernat who was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

  3. Max Schmeidler family collection

    The collection consists of a pin, six pieces of currency, correspondence, documents, newspapers, negatives and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.

  4. Zyzniewski family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor portrait, correspondence, documents, photographs, photo albums, and publications relating to the experiences of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which Wesley and his mother Janina were arrested for their political activities and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  5. Oral history interviews of the Lausanne Collegiate School collection

    Interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by students of Lausanne Collegiate School.

  6. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of two artworks created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933.

  7. Abba Kovner collection (RG-95-61) = אבא קובנר, ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Abba Kovner (1918-1987) consists of correspondence, drafts, letters, interviews, essays, newspapers clippings on Jewish resistance, partisans, Vilno ghetto , articles on Holocaust, Israeli society, religion, ethics; poems and their English translations. Also includes a catalog for Aba Kovner's personal archive with detailed finding aid. A separate series of the collection contains 125 audio recordings of Abba Kovner from 1961-1987 and includes testimonies (partially from Eichmann trial), speeches, interviews, radio programs from Israel National broadcasting, songs writt...

  8. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and overcoat relating to the experiences of a Jehovah's Witness imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  9. The Judith Sherman collection

    Consists of one report, entitled "Never Forget: A Survivor's Holocaust Experience," written by Jenna M. Lichtenstein, including a biography of Judith Sherman, a Holocaust survivor, and a history of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. Also includes two DVDs of oral history testimony from Judith Sherman, conducted by Jenna Lichtenstein. Mrs. Sherman, originally of Kurima, Czechoslovakia, spent much of the war hiding in various situations before being taken to Auschwitz and transferred to Ravensbrück in 1944. She was liberated by Russian soldiers while on a death march from Ravensbrück in 1945....

  10. Aharon Ben-Zion Katz collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin and pouch relating to the experiences of Aharon Ben-Zion Katz and his son Nachman (later Nathan) before the Holocaust in Rietavas and Klaipeda, Lithuania, during the Holocaust in the ghetto in Siauliai, Lithuania, and in hiding in the countryside, and after the Holocaust in Israel and the United States.

  11. Ina R. Friedman collection

    Consists of research files, oral history interviews, transcripts, and notes produced by Ina R. Friedman during her research for her books on the Holocaust. Collection also includes original documents and identity cards for Dr. Richard Kahn and Ida Stern Kahn, originally of Berlin, Germany, as well as information about Cato Bontjes Van Beek, a member of the Resistance.

  12. Militaerhistorisches Museum Dresden collection

    The collection consists of a V2 rocket booster and a V2 rocket gyroscope manufactured in Nazi Germany.

  13. Deadly Medicine poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: "Mendelian chart" and "Ausmerzung des Kranken und Schwachen in der Natur"

  14. Rachela Frydman collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip.

  15. Winter family collection

    Documents, correspondence, photographs, and certificate illustrating the experiences of Marianne Winter, a refugee from Nazi occupied Austria, who fled with her parents Max and Anna and her brother Stephan. Included are letters to Jane Bomberger in Reading, PA who was Marianne's pen pal since 1935 and whose parents assisted the Winters in immigrating to the United States. Also included are pre-war images of Winter's family, report cards for Marianne, materials documenting Marianne's participation in competitive swimming for Hakoach.

  16. Claude Maly collection

    The collection consists of five newspapers published in France as the war in Europe was ending; four of them are VE Day issues.

  17. Romani encampment collection

    The collection consists of three blacksmithing tools and two drinking troughs used in a Romani encampment during the Hololcaust.

  19. Lovari clothing and tools collection

    The collection consists of items owned by a Lovari family.

  20. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of twelve original illustrations by William Sharp for John Hersey's The Wall.