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 6,181 to 6,200 of 59,136
Search result ordering

  1. Gerald Rosenstein collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and a family book [Stambuch] illustrating Max and Sophie Rosenstein and their children Ernst, Hans, and Gerhard who immigrated to the Netherlands from Bensheim, Germany. Included in the collection are documents surrounding Ernst, who fled to Palestine in the 1930s and then was killed in Action while a soldier for the British. Also included are materials illustrating the experiences of Max, Sophie and Gerhard who were deported to Theresienstadt camp in the Czech Republic. Max and Gerhard were then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and its subca...

  2. The Hildegard Simon Lustig and Herlinger family papers

    Consists of period correspondence and later translations pertaining to the experiences of Hildegard Simon Lustig, a survivor of the Holocaust born in Vienna, Austria who was deported from Nagykanizsa, Hungary in 1944, and her extended family. Letters in the collection were authored by and addressed to Herlinger and Lustig family members of Vienna, Austria, Prague Czechoslovakia, and Nagykanizsa, Hungary.

  3. Hannah Zimmerman papers

    The collection is comprised of affidavits, a passenger list of voyagers on the RMS Queen Elizabeth aboard which Hannah Zimmerman and her parents arrived to the United States, and a luggage tag. It also includes photographs of Hannah Zimmerman as a young child. With the exception of one wartime photograph showing Hannah circa 1 ½ - 2 years of age, the photographs of Hannah were taken while she and her parents lived in Bratislava after the war, and later as displaced persons in Munich prior to their immigration to the United States in 1952.

  4. US Certificate of Citizenship holder

    Holder for Hans Rosenbaum's Certificate of Naturalization, dated May 18, 1944.

  5. Hanukkah lamp

    Hanukkah lamp which belonged to the Altman family in Germany. It was given to Theodore Levite, whose mother was Marie Altman Levite and later to the donor who was a relative by marriage.

  6. Morck and Mayer families papers

    The Morck and Mayer families papers include documents relating to the prewar life and immigration of Anneliese Morck (later Anne Martin) and the extended Morck and Mayer families from Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, Germany. Identification and immigration documents relating to Hugo, Alice, Anne, and Heinz Morck include German passports, certificates of registration for the United Kingdom, certificates of naturalization for the United States, affidavits, visa documentation, packing lists, and passenger booklets for the SS President Harding. Identification and immigration documents relating...

  7. Josef Helfgott papers

    Consists of photographs, restitution-related claims, a business card, newspaper clippings, and photocopies pertaining to the experiences of Josef Helfgott, a Holocaust survivor from Tomaszow Mazowiecki. Among other items, the collection includes a photograph of Josef's wife, Dwora, that he kept with him throughout his internment at various concentration camps, including Auscwhitz. Dwora, and the couple's daughter, Chana, were deported from Tomaszow to Treblinka in 1942 where they were killed. Other documents in the collection concern Josef's extended family as several siblings had immigrate...

  8. WWI medal

    Medal awarded to Hugo Morck for service on the front in WWI.

  9. Spice container

    Spice container which belonged to the Altman family in Germany. It was given to Theodore Levite, whose mother was Marie Altman Levite and later to the donor who was a relative by marriage.

  10. Judith Hershkovitz collection

    Passport and photographs documenting the experiences of Yehudit (Judith) Hershkovitz [donor's mother] and her family, including their prewar experiences, detention in Nyíregyháza ghetto, survival of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and immigration to Israel in 1948 with her spouse Moshe Hershkovitz [1927-2005]. Moshe survived Birkenau and Buchenwald. After the war he returned to his hometown in Transylvania, then moved to Budapest before his immigration to Israel.

  11. Margolius family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs surrounding the experiences of the Margolius family during the Holocaust.

  12. Family activities at the house in Bítýška; friend in uniform; children get haircuts

    “The last visit in Bítýška at the yard” in September 1938. Baby Elizabeth Shenk with newspaper. 01:00:39 Michael in shorts with tall socks. Cousins from Prague visit the summer cottage: Felix Landsmann (school-age boy in striped suit, b. 1930, died in Auschwitz) with his mother Lilli (niece of Michael Eckstein) in the foyer. Lilli in trenchcoat plays table tennis with her husband Hans (b. 1898, died in Auschwitz) and her son Gustav (b. 1926, died in Auschwitz). Michaela plays in the yard with stroller; Felix on a tricycle. Michael Eckstein (on left) with his brother Jakob Eckstein (in dark ...

  13. The Eckstein family at a fair and playing in their garden

    June 1939. The children in striped jackets outdoors in their garden in Bítýška. Greenhouse. 01:01:13 Pan of the family home at Vev. Bítýška. 01:01:20 The children ride the carousel with the nanny in a checkered jacket. 01:01:54 Michael helps Antonín off the carousel. 01:02:00 The family and nanny pose for a portrait in the funhouse mirror (notice mother Toni with the camera standing at right behind her son Antonín). Very brief shot of only the couple, Toni and Michael, at 01:02:08. [These are the only images of mother Toni across the films]. Antonin and Michaela play in piles of hay in thei...

  14. Selected records of the District Court in Piotrków Trybunalskim Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim (Sygn. 892)

    Court records of civil cases of Jewish population in Piotrków Trybunalski. Includes authorizations, protocols, statements, translations from Russian, court judgments, notices, receipts, marriage certificates related to inheritance, rights of possession, notary acts, acknowledgement of purchase-sales, restoration of property, exclusion of rights of possession, appropriation of land, annulment of last wills, bids, returning of money, divorces and annulment of marriages, ratification of marriage acts, alimonies, determining identity, rectification of register act, criminal acts as homicides, r...

  15. French Anti-Semitic Illustrated Leaflet Issued by Action Française

    A large, illustrated French leaflet (newspaper-format) issued by the political movement Action Française. One of its sides deals with the 40 French kings (Les 40 rois qui, en mille ans, firent la France) and the other side with the Jews "who in sixty years have ruined France": Adolphe Crémieux, Alfred Naquet, Dreyfus, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Blum and more – Marxists, communists, Bolsheviks, and others. The illustrations are by the caricaturist Ralph Soupault. Les Mille Juifs, qui, en soixante ans, ont ruiné la France [The Thousand Jews, who in sixty years have ruined France], Paris:...

  16. Bernard S. Barr photographs

    The Bernard S. Barr photographs include two photographs of Barr during World War II; photographic negatives of the liberation of Dachau, including images of Barr at the camp, along with corresponding prints; and stereoscopic photographs from the 1937 “Reichsparteitag der Arbeit” Nazi propaganda series. The propaganda photographs are numbered 38, 55- 56, 58-61, 64-72, 74, 77, 96, 98-100. They were part of a compilation issued by Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein with photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann and text by Pitter Gern.

  17. Eckdish family papers

    The Eckdish family papers include correspondence and immigration documents relating to Paul Eckdish and his family's experience emigrating from Germany in 1939. Correspondence includes originals and photocopies of letters sent to Paul in the United States, mainly from his brother, Martin, and Martin’s wife Ilse, in Palestine. Immigration documents include clearances, a job referral, and a receipt for passage on the SS Rotterdam. Also included is correspondence and receipts from Paul’s attempts to assist his parents in leaving Europe to go to Shanghai.

  18. Arthur Goldberg collection

    Photographs and a document of Arthur Goldberg illustrating his experiences as an Army Medic (pharmacist) in the 139th Evacuation Hospital of the US Army. Photographs (copy prints) were taken in the Ebensee slave labor camp in Austria; document distributed likely by the US Army; photos taken by Arthur.

  19. Liberation photographs and ration book

    Collection of post-liberation photographs showing corpses, graves, crematorium, and survivors at multiple concentration camps. These include an image of the Jewish cemetery in Neustadt, and recurring liberation images from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, 1945 - 1946. A ration book in Russian from 1941 is also included.

  20. 422nd Night Fighter Squadron collection

    Contains 12 photographs taken by a soldier in the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron stationed in Belgium. Includes images of damage to an unidentified city, and post-liberation photographs of survivors in an unidentified concentration camp.