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 26,581 to 26,600 of 55,818
Search result ordering

  1. Golda Szajniak registration form

    Consists of one document registering Golda Szajniak, born December 30, 1926 in Eichstädt, at her local police station. The document, which is undated, identifies her as Jewish, includes her fingerprint, and is stamped with a Third Reich police and SS stamp.

  2. Records of the Jewish Health Organization (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej), Lwów Branch (Fond 503)

    Contains records of the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zydowskiej (TOZ) of the Lwów. Records relate to the TOZ activities in the Eastern Galicia ( Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisławów counties) during the interwar period. The collection consists of several major types of documents divided into six categories: 1. Bylaws, programs of the activities of the organization, circulatory letters of the central office in Warsaw, monthly reports; 2. Documents related to the activities of the organization and its local sections; 3. Correspondence with the central office of the organization in Warsaw and its local br...

  3. Neil Abramson collection

    Contains material documenting the experiences of the Gaster family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Hanni Sondheimer, her parents, Moritz and Setty, and her brother, Karl, as they emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to Kaunas, Lithuania, and then to Shanghai, China, before and during the Second World War. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. 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.

  6. Battle Front; Destruction in Riga

    Airplanes and pilots flying. Map of USSR showing Jonava, Kovno, Vilna, Riga, and other cities. Military tanks storm Riga. Views of military destruction and ruins in city streets. Men and women civilians clearing up rubble from street.

  7. Ilona Winograd Barkal collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Ilona Winograd Barkal and her parents, Bella and Marcus Winograd, in Łódź, Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust during which they were separated and deported to different concentration camps.

  8. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  9. KdF performance in occupied Paris

    A dance or circus performance of some kind, on a stage, including acrobatics, juggling, ice skating, and a comic routine with man dressed as a cowboy riding a bucking "horse". This was most likely a Kraft durch Freude (KdF) variety performance to exhibit German artists.

  10. Saba Baicher papers

    The papers document Saba Baicher's and Israel Baicher's [donor's husband] experiences in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. Included are photographs and identification cards related to Saba's work for the newspaper, "Jidisze Cajtung," an identification card and ORT certificate for Israel, and a wedding invitation for Saba and Israel dated November 12, 1946.

  11. Larry Berke photograph collection

    Contains 23 wartime photographs of German soldiers, destroyed synagogues in Austria, and printed photographs of Adolf Hitler.

  12. B. Diane Clulow photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs depicting a train with people sitting in the first car leaning out of the open door and holding an Israeli flag; a man is standing on the tracks in the distance. Handwritten inscription on the verso of one of the photographs: "Displaced persons in Germany going home to Belgium."

  13. Selected records of the Royal Belgian Archive

    Contains clandestine underground bulletins, newsletters and other publications selected from the Royal Belgian Archive's Inventory 253. Also contains records of the Belgian Communist Party, papers of René Greindl (wartime governor of the Luxembourg province), an inventory of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, and records concerning the German occupation administration in Belgium, the Belgian National Movement in Luxembourg, partisan armies, the battle of the Ardennes, the Feldkommandatura in Bastogne, and the situation in the Luxembourg province.

  14. Ruth G. Weitzenkorn papers

    The Ruth G. Weitzenkorn papers consist of a letter written by Joseph Kaufherr, who had been a passenger on the MS St. Louis, in Brussels, Belgium, dated February 27, 1940; an account statement ("Abrechnung Lifft G.K. 131"); and two authorizations ("Vollmacht"), one written by Joseph Kaufherr in Brussels (dated February 27, 1940) and one written by Max Strauss (dated March 29, 1940).

  15. Arthur Greenbaum papers

    The Arthur Greenbaum papers consists of six documents relating to Arthur Greenbaum (Szlama Gruenbaum) and his experiences immediately following the Holocaust as a refugee and his immigration to the United States. Included in his collection are two documents for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at the Backnang Displaced Persons Camp. One document recommends Szlama for citizenship in the United States, while the other is a signed statement by Abraham Fuchs, verifying that he was with Szlama Gruenbaum in Mauthausen Concentration Camp and later in the Backnang Displac...

  16. Murdered prisoners buried by German civilians

    (LIB 5907) Murder, Gardelegen, Germany, April 22, 1945. HSs, long line of German civilians carrying grave markers and shovels leave village. CUs dead, skulls, corpses. VS, German civilians burying murdered prisoners who were burned to death. VS, German civilians carrying bodies in cemetery. (LIB 5908) Mass Murder, Leipzig, Germany, April 20, 1945. HSs, burned building in concentration camp with bodies lying in the wreckage. CUs, 2 survivors. CUs, partially burned bodies entangled in electrified barbed wire fence. Corpses in a shed and burned barracks. MCUs, Russian women, forced laborers, c...

  17. Ann Nudelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of seven photographs. The first print is a black and white image of bride and groom standing with two men and two women dated November 3, 1946. The second print is a black and white image of a woman standing outside with a tent behind her with "F-2/210" printed at top dated March 25, 1948. The third print is a black and white image of bride and groom seated at set table, seven men and women standing around them, and lit candelabras on table dated November 3, 1946. The fourth print is a black and white image of men walking in a long column protesting, a banner with He...

  18. Albert Neuwirt collection

    Consists of seven photographs, identification cards, and vaccination cards relating to Albert Neuwirt and his experiences as a refugee in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  19. Nathan Rohloff photograph collection

    The collection consists mainly of photographs of the activities of Nathan at the displaced persons camp in Neustadt in Holstein, Germany. Some photographs in the collection are of his activities in the Boy Scouts and of his family. Also included is a postcard with a drawing of a fleur-de-lis and the words "Esi Modrs" underneath as well as the pre-printed name of a Latvian scouting organization.

  20. Rochelle Weithorn photograph collection

    The collection consists of 28 photographs of David Weithorn, Hella Edelbaum Weithorn, and their children, Rochelle and Victor, in the Gruliasco displaced persons camp in Turin, Italy.