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 2,821 to 2,840 of 55,776
Search result ordering

  1. Hohenberg and Gottschalk families papers

    Consists of approximately 150 items of correspondence pertaining to the experiences of the extended Hohenberg and Gottschalk families of Helmarshausen, Germany, Haifa, and the United States. The correspondence ranges in date from the 1940s to the 1950s.

  2. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note

  3. Visiting Panevesz and Kovno

    Home movie coverage of a trip to Poland taken by Walter Wiener in 1934. Scenes cover the farewell in New York, on board the ship, arriving in England, touring through France, greeting family members in Panevesz, Poland, a synagogue sponsored by Americans, the market, meeting relatives in Kovno, Lithuania, and returning to the United States. The film includes Yiddish intertitles.

  4. Oral history interview with Peter Rein

  5. Unidentified home movies: Palestine and North Africa

    Home movies probably shot in 1934 of Palestine and North Africa. Scenes may include street scenes, a synagogue interior, and rural Palestine.

  6. Oral history interview with Agnes Wohl

  7. Oral history interview with Jerry Jacobs

  8. Schwarz family papers

    The collection documents the Hungarian Holocaust-era experiences of the extended Schwarz family, including George and Magdolna Schwarz, their daughter Mariette, and Magdolna’s sister Klári Kovács (née Haberfeld) and her husband László Kovács. Included are identification papers, immigration documents, and photographs.

  9. Arnold Grossblatt collection

    Arnold Grossblatt (1924-1945) WWII photograph album, loose photos, letters from him to his family, draft of a letter from his mother Miriam to President Harry Truman, correspondence from the U.S. Army after he was killed in an accident in September, 1945, clippings, pamphlet

  10. Handmade flax figure

    Small handmade braided flax figure with hat and shoes; mounted onto adhesive album page with “May 2, 1945” collaged separately beneath the doll; made for Irene on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday by a Polish Jewish girl who worked with Irene in the flax factory at Merzdorf, where they were liberated on May 8, 1945.

  11. Pratiche relative ai cittadini di origine ebraica Practices relating to citizens of Jewish origin

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in Pesaro, Italy. Consists of list of Jews and seizures of Jewish assets in Pesaro.

  12. Ullman family papers

    A book about the Konijns and three original envelopes to/from family members (dating back to WWII), which were opened by the Germans.

  13. Mittelbau forced labor camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note

  14. Emil Spiro papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Emil Spiro, originally of Butzbach, Germany, who survived the Holocaust in Switzerland after arriving there in 1939 on a Kindertransport. The collection primarily consists of Swiss documents, immigration paperwork, and correspondence. Biographical materials include immigration paperwork, restitution files, and documents related to Emil’s life as a refugee in Switzerland from 1939-1947. Swiss documents also include papers requiring Emil to report to an immigrant labor camp in 1945, and letters from the Red Cross regarding his efforts to learn the f...

  15. Arthur and Ruth Balsam collection

    Collection of postcards, received by Artur and Ruth Balsam in New York City from family in the Łódź ghetto; documents and correspondence relating to the Artur and Ruth (Rosalia) Balsam journey to the United States and attempts to track down the fate of their loved ones.

  16. Zborow Association in New York

    Zborov Landsmanshaften association events in New York City filmed by Nathan Okon.

  17. Joe Freda papers

    Letters, envelopes, and newspaper clippings. Letters written from donor's great uncle, Joseph Freda, a United States Army soldier, from Germany and France describing his viewing of the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps. Written to his future spouse, "Birdie" Thomas in Pittsburgh, PA in May 1945.

  18. Irma Maurer memoirs

    Consists of one handwritten memoir, stapled and bound by a red cover with each entry dated 1985, telling the story of her family, childhood, and adulthood, ending with her family’s arrival at the Riga ghetto in 1941.

  19. Pratiche relative alla campagna razzista, Questura Pesaro e Urbino Practices relating to the racist campaign, Pesaro and Urbino Police Headquarters

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the precincts of Pesaro and Urbino. Include records relating to: race investigations, revocation of citizenship of people of Jewish race Anti-Jewish racial policy; land registry; Montenegrins and Dalmatians Jews to be interned, registration of Jews in the province of Pesaro-Urbino", dated 10/12/1938, prohibition of licensing of businesses and any economic activities of Jews; registration of national and foreign Jews to be arrested, 1943; and collection of any information related to movement of Jews...

  20. Samuel Comis letter

    Letter, five pages, written by Samuel J. Comisaroff (donors' father), enlisted American Army soldier, to his family in the United States describing his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp on April 20, 1945.