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 23,861 to 23,880 of 58,970
Search result ordering

  1. Klapholz and Schlesinger family papers

    Contains birth certificates, passports and identification cards bearing photographs, and marriage certificates pertaining to Erna Meier (later Schlesinger Summerfield) and her daughter Irene Schlesinger's (later Woods Hofstein) lives in Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939.

  2. US tanks moving toward German town

    (LIB 5421) 4th Armored Division Drive, Kuhnhausen(?) Germany, April 12, 1945. LS tank and jeeps moving along road next to woods, GIs sitting on tanks. LS, town with tanks in FG. LS field, smoke rising from woods in BG. LS, plane strafing. MLS, tank rolling into town. Soldiers with rifles on tanks. LS tank and soldiers in field, along road. MLS tank moving away, creating dust cloud. Tank moving toward camera between rows of blossoming trees. GIs marching on foot. Truck goes over repaired bridge. MS, soldiers on foot and vehicles. LS, tanks rolling on road in hilly countryside. LS planes divi...

  3. Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton at Ohrdruf

    (LIB 5419) Ike Visits XX Corps, Gotha, Germany, April 12, 1945. SEQ: Arrival of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Gen. George S. Patton at airfield. Gens greeted by Gen. Walton H. Walker (XX Corps Commander) and Maj. Gen. Troy H. Middleton (CG, VIII Corps). MS, Walker and another officer standing/talking/waiting in field. CU jeep with 5 stars. MS small plane landed, Patton getting out, then Eisenhower. CU, Eisenhower takes off coat after deplaning. MS, Bradley getting out of plane. MS at camp, former prisoner (survivor) with scarf talking to officers, GIs standing in BG. MS, ...

  4. Eisenhower visiting concentration camp at liberation

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Brief footage of a former prisoner (survivor) with scarf speaking to soldiers in a liberated camp. Eisenhower visiting the camp (probably Ohrdruf). Pile of corpses in doorway of barracks.

  5. Liberation: Ludwigslust; US press at Dachau; Buchenwald

    Concentration Camp, Ludgwigslust, Germany, May 5, 1945. LS, concentration camp area. MSs, barracks of camp with bodies of camp victims crowded in open doorway. Screen left-several survivors standing idly about. CU, bodies stacked in doorway of building. CUs, bodies on ground outside of hospital building. MSs, CUs, surviving inmates in courtyard cooking around open fire. Getting water from well. VLSs, camp buildings. VAR shots survivors. American Newspapermen inspect Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, May 7, 1945. CU, US newspapermen and party are sprayed with delousing powder. (LIB 6349) ...

  6. Testimony of Ohrdruf liberation

    Consists of a copy of a letter by Raymond J. Young containing his personal testimony of the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  7. Testimony of Nordhausen liberation

    Consists of a copy of liberator testimony written by Charles Feinstein in the form of a letter concerning the liberation of Nordhausen (a.k.a. Dora-Mittelbau). The testimony describes activities of the Third United States Armored Division and Feinstein's eyewitness account of slave laborers at Nordhausen.

  8. "Family Reunion"

    Consists of a copy of "Family reunion," written by Joseph H. Wachtel. The testimony describes a reunion of several members of the Josef Wachtel family at the Transnistria concentration camp in the Mogilev Podolski area of Ukraine. Other topics discussed are resistance, disease in the Transnistria camp, and mass burials.

  9. Esther Bergman memoir

    Consists of a memoir written by Esther Bergman to pay homage to Madame Odette Hofbauer, a French Huguenot responsible for hiding Bergman for nearly two years during the Holocaust. The memoir describes Bergman's flight to the south of France with her family, her separation from her family while in a transit camp, her time in hiding on a farm belonging to the family of Odette Hofbauer, and her reunion with Hofbauer in 1987 after a 43-year separation.

  10. Informations bulletin

    Consists of a copy of a news release entitled "Informations Bulletin" published by Rat der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Bömen und Mären zu Prag in March 1959. The release describes a variety of Holocaust remembrance events concerning the Jewry of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are the killing of thousands of Czechoslovakian Jews in the gas chamber at Birkenau, the treatment of children and the development of children's art in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto, the contribution of research and writing by rabbis and scholars to promote ...

  11. In memory of the Polish Jews

    Consists of a copy of "In memory of the Polish Jews," a slide presentation produced by Epoka Slajd. The package includes 42 color and black & white slides as well as a booklet containing historical information on Polish Jewry and individual descriptions of the slides. The slides depict various aspects of Jewish life in Poland, including persecution by the Nazis, various religious sects in Poland, the Umschlagplatz and transports from the ghettos to concentration camps, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and memorials dedicated to the memory of the Polish Jews who suffered and died during the H...

  12. Poetry and songs relating to German and Stalinist camps

    Consists of poetry and songs in Russian relating to German and Stalinist camps from the 1930s to the 1950s. The individual songs and poems were written by camp survivors in Yiddish. In the 1980s they were compiled and translated to Russian by Roman Kaminsky. The compilation includes personal accounts of eight Holocaust survivors which describe what role music and poetry played in their daily life and their struggle for survival. Also included are survivor accounts of life in Treblinka, Majdanek, and other death camps.

  13. Records relating to the treatment of Roma from the 1920s to the 1960s

    Contains information about treatment of Roma from the 1920s to the 1960s. Among the topics discussed in the documents are police orders and actions resulting in persecution of Roma, methods for identification and registration of Roma, procedures of arrests, and the resettlement and evacuation of Roma from several European cities. Duplicates are included for all documents in the collection.

  14. Fred Reitler papers

    Consists of the press pass card used by Fred Reitler during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the "Last words of the ten Nazi main war criminals, executed on 16 October 1946" recorded by Fred Reitler, and the personal notebook (some segments in shorthand) kept by Fred Reitler during the IMT and subsequent US-administered war crimes trials. The notebook contains the "Last word..." of the ten main war criminals written in German shorthand.

  15. Souvenir book of remembrance from the Liebenau displaced persons camp

    Souvenir remembrance book of inmate signatures compiled by the inmates of the Liebenau displaced persons camp on September 7, 1945.

  16. Correspondence from various concentration camps

    Contains information about inmates in Theresienstadt, Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and Oranienburg concentration camps.

  17. Worker identification cards from the Łódź ghetto for Rela and Mendel Rozencwajg

    Consists of a worker identification card issued to Mendel Rozencwajg and a photocopy of such a card issued to Rela Rozencwajg circa 1941 by the Arbeitsamt of the Łódź ghetto. Mendel and Rela Rozencwajg worked and lived there from 1941 until the time of the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944. The cards include photographs and other vital information concerning the owners.

  18. Edith Jacoby letter regarding the Warsaw ghetto

    Consists of a letter written by Edith Aron Jacoby from the Warsaw Ghetto, during the period 25 January through 18 March 1943. Jacoby's letter describes the climate of severe anxiety and grief after spending three years in the ghetto. She tells of changes in her physical appearance due to stress and her strong desire to be reunited with her children. Also included is a second letter (21 January 1946) from Maria-Ruth Kadlubowska, an acquaintance of the Jacoby family. Kadlubowska informs Josephsohn of the conditions in Poland and the Trawniki concentration camp near the time of her sister's de...

  19. Articles concerning the Hamm Jewish community

    Consists of two articles and three essays relating to several aspects of the Jewish community of Hamm, Germany, at the time of Kristallnacht and during the Holocaust era. One article by Mechtild Brand covers Jewish history from the year 1660 to the 20th century using the Hamm community as an example.

  20. "Babi Yar" poem

    Consists of the poem "Babi Yar" written by Elizaveta Volfson in 1988. The poem describes the massacre of approximately 33,000 Soviet Jews at the Babi Yar ravine near Kiev in September 1941.