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 2,521 to 2,540 of 55,777
Search result ordering

  1. Congress hears FDR; Hopkins; DeGaulle inspects warships

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 13, No. 943, Part 1. Release date, 01/17/1941. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:42:00 Part 1A: "New Congress Hears FDR ask All-Out Aid" Washington, DC. Epochal scenes in our history, as the 77th Congress convenes to map plans for enlarging our defense machine to meet US and British needs. President Roosevelt, addressing the legislators and the entire world, says that America must spend billions on weapons to aid the embattled democracies. 12:45:16 Part 1B: "Hopkins Flies to England" New York, NY. President Roosevelt's special envoy in Britain, Har...

  2. Exodus passengers at Port-de-Bouc in southern France

    Newsreel film of Exodus passengers at Port-de-Bouc near Marseilles. After Exodus passengers were forcibly disembarked at Haifa, they were loaded onto three British ships and returned to Europe. On arrival in France, they refused to disembark and spent three weeks during a heat wave at Port-de-Bouc in August 1947. Amid worldwide publicity, British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin then decided to return the passengers to Hamburg, where they were re-incarcerated in refugee camps. The three British ships outside harbor entrance at Port-de-Bouc. Runnymede Park ship and probably Ocean Vigour and Em...

  3. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport

    Small suitcase carried by thirteen year old Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) in July 1939 when he was sent by his parents Julius and Hertha from Germany to Great Britain on a Kindertransport.

  4. War Crimes Trials: Judiciary Case; Telford Taylor Opening Address

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, (Judiciary Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Chief Prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, making the opening address to the court. Pan from Gen. Taylor to defendants and their attorneys and judges. Chief Counsel Telford Taylor: These men were the embodiment of what passed for justice in the Third Reich. Most of the defendants have served, at various times, as judges, as state prosecutors, and as officials in the Reich Ministry of Justice. They are well accustomed to courts and courtrooms, though their present role may be new to them. B...

  5. Leipzig Concentration Camp

    Mass Murder, Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in wreckage. CUs, two escaped prisoners from the camp. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. CUs, partially burned bodies in a shed and burned barracks. MCUs, Russian women, enforced laborers, crying near barbed-wire fence. Summary: A detachment from Leipzig concentration camp was assigned work in the nearby aircraft factory. When the US invasion of the city was imminent, the Waffen SS guards prepared to leave the city. Those prisoners who were in go...

  6. Alexandre Davidowitch collection

    The collection consists of Yiddish language newspaers published in Paris in the 1930s.

  7. Cigarette cards

    Collection of cigarette cards with black and white images of Hitler, Nazi officials and political events. There is a caption, "Gammelwert Nr. 8: Deutschland Erwacht" on each card

  8. Invitation to a Purim festivity, General Organization of Zionists "Theodor Herzl," Shanghai, 1940

    One printed leaflet, announcing a Purim event hosted by the youth of the General Organization of Zionists, "Theodor Herzl," in Shanghai, China, on 27 March 1940. The event was to take place at the Broadway Theatre on Wayside Road, and likely included the performance of a play titled "Zion and Ourselves" by Bruno Guttentag, a synopsis of which is given on the verso of this leaflet.

  9. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: Jews in Poland

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 1 Rolling title card: "The civilized Jews we know in Germany give an incomp...

  10. Tadeusz Marchaj collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Tadeusz Marchaj during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Defendants plead not guilty; Jackson opens Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 20, 1945. "Attention! Tribunal" MSs, Tribunal enters courtroom. MLS, German attorney makes statement to court and Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard advising the defendants that they may consult with their lawyers. Justice Lawrence stresses that provisions according to Article 24 will be followed by the court. Apparently, this refers to the fact that the defendants could plead "guilty" or "not guilty," but otherwise would not be allowed to make any statements. The defense had complained that the defendants had only been informed about thi...

  13. Snatager family papers

    The Snatager family papers include biographical material, correspondence, documents and journals relating to Bernard, Olga, and Leonie Snatager’s pre-war and wartime experiences in the Netherlands. The collection includes Bernard’s birth certificate and telegram announcing his birth, documents relating to his business, and records relating to his death as well as Olga’s birth certificate, vaccination certificates, marriage certificates, and letters regarding her pension. The collection also includes a Dutch ID card for Leonie, poetry written by Leonie for her father, papers relating to her ...

  14. Logging factory in the winter

    A man with a toothbrush mustache is drawn by a horse. It is a winter scene of a logging yard. A group of men sit around a source of steam or smoke, but no fire is visible. Horses bring in the next group of trees affixed to sleds. Grandfather Sperber (with beard). Flagpole. Children appear at 02:38:19.

  15. British enemy

    Reel 3 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  16. Rev. John Grauel collection

    Contains materials concerning the work of Rev. John Grauel. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. The Schmidt and Englander families collection

    Contains documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of the Schmidt and Englander families in Stuttgart and Konstadt, Germany and their flight from Nazi occupation.

  18. Book, "St. Christopher School 1915-1975"

    Book by Reginald Snell

  19. Anti-Jewish sign in Halle

    Title: Die Gaufilmstelle Halle-Merseburg zeigt: Appell des Kreises Liebenwerda in Falkenberg 1936. Nazi flags hang from various buildings in Falkenberg. CU of a relief sculpture of an eagle clutching a swastika. Other views of the small town. Men in various types of uniforms including SA and Hitler Youth arrive at the train station. 01:31:27 Clear shot of a sign that reads: Juden kehrt! Euer Weg nach Palaestina fuehrt nicht durch diesen Ort [Jews turn around! Your way to Palestine does not lead through this area]. Two couples in civilian clothes stand directly behind and below the sign. A m...

  20. Leo Weinrieb: My many lives

    Photocopy of a transcript, 63 pages, of several interviews conducted by Elizabeth Conant with Leo Weinrieb, originally of Poland, but who survived the Holocaust while in hiding in the Netherlands. Interviews were recorded in 2009 and 2010 in Willliamsville, NY, and were subsequently transcribed by Kathleen Hume, under the title "Leo Weinrieb: My Many Lives."