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 7,761 to 7,780 of 58,959
Search result ordering

  1. Judische Kultusgemeinde in Prag Gmina Żydowska w Pradze Jewish Community in Prague Židovská náboženská obec v Praze Żidovska Nabożenska Obec v Pradze (Sygn.102)

    Correspondence from the Foreign Department of the Jewish Community in Prague (Transfer Auslandsabteilung Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Prag), November 1939 to July 1940. The Jewish Community staff had to send copies of replies to the Head Office of Emigration of Jews (Zentralstelle fuer Auswanderung der Juden). The letters from the Jewish Prague community had to be concise and refer only to emigration matters: including possibilities of departure, the route, information about affidavits, visas and other required documents, fees, transportation costs, lodging, deposits, etc. Included is co...

  2. Appenzeller family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs relating to Adam Emmanuel Appenzeller (donor's father), b. November 20, 1889 in Krakow and Josefa Peppi Appenzeller (donor's mother) b. March 16, 1902 in Jurcoutz, Bukovina.

  3. Zell Family Collection

    Contains photographs and correspondence illustrating Berek Zielonka and Rachel Jakubowitz and their daughter Jochewed (Julie) in Sosnowitz, Vilna, and their journey across the Trans-Siberian Rail to Japan, and ultimately to the United States in 1941.

  4. Americans vacation in France and Italy

    With intertitles in English. Pan of a city from up above. A man and a woman pose on an outside patio overlooking the coast. Views of the city. 0:45 “Cap D’Antibes and a British Flotilla.” Coastal views with ships in the distance. 1:05 “The Funicular Railway down to Cannes.” Shots of the railway. A woman walks towards the camera from an upscale home. 1:25 “Hotel Imperiale and Gardens in Mentone.” A woman walks in front of luxurious hotel; walks around the gardens, stopping to smell a flower. The same woman sits at a table and then again walks around the gardens. 2:30 “Venice, Italy. St. Mark...

  5. Silvia Rosenfeld photograph

    Photograph of the Friedmann family in Gherla, Romania. The photograph shows Silvia in the back row between her brothers Jakob and Bumi. Her sister Lucica is seated between their parents Reghina and Herman Friedmann.

  6. Iasi, Romania Photographic Collection

    Photographs of the destruction of Iasi, Romania and of German soldiers in Romania.

  7. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 6. The Americans drink wine in a wine cellar at a vineyard. They sail down the Rhine River. President Schanz takes numerous photos. Steam rises from the funnel of a boat on the water. The University of Bonn, cloisters, Nazi flags decorates the streets of Bonn. The group visits the house where Beethoven was born, bronze statue in garden. They tour Cologne. The gothic cathedral architecture. They go to nearby Liblar where Carl Schurz was born. President Schanz places a wreath against the wall beneath the bronze plate in memory of Carl Schurz. The final stop is Hamburg. Sightseeing in the...

  8. Graf Rothkirch; Ludwigslust

    Wochenschau. Lenski rides through Ludwigslust, ex Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. Ludwigslust city.

  9. Oral history interview with David Krauthammer

  10. Woman's story of the German occupation

    A Boehner Film. German culture, woman driving a car, hilly landscape, three girls, historic buildings, street scenes, children playing, German Occupation, School of the SS, cyclists

  11. Gliders

    Private film. Gliding school Leba. Lonske Düne. Pomerania. "Moderne Ikarier". "Ein Tag bei Segelfliegern". "Aufnahmen mit Zeiss-Ikon.Kinamo K.S.10".

  12. Germans awaiting deportation from Horovice; Soviet soldiers arrive in town; funeral procession

    Brief shot filmed in the 1960s of a group of young children and people standing in the street in Hořovice. 00:12 Town hall in Palacky Square in 1945 with a group of Germans awaiting deportation. German troops leave. Trucks. Soldiers walk along a road, carrying gear. A member of the Revolutionary Guard on the phone. They set up a machine that acts as a telescope/binocular for them to enhance their sight of the surrounding area and monitor airspace. They look over a map. Two soldiers look out other tools used for better vision. Armed civilians in the square. Soldiers on the rooftop. Men in a ...

  13. Graf Zeppelin; Leipzig fair; 35th birthday

    AGFA. Title “W.L. Film 1” with silhouette of Walther Lenger’s face. “Leipziger Allerlei!” “Leipziger Fahresschau” “W L 1934, Ein Bild-Bericht von Walther Lenger” “Camera…. Bearbeitung Walther Lenger Projektor….” Lenger works with film reels. “1930” with Walter Lenger film logo. “April 1930: Gelehriger Affe Im Waldrafe.” A small monkey with a chain around its neck eats food. A man in Lederhosen leads it around by the chain. 10:01:53 “5. Oktober 1930: Graf Zeppelin besught Leipzig.” A zeppelin flies over Leipzig. Multiple shots of the Zeppelin in the air. Crowds of people below watch as it la...

  15. Ella Spiegler papers

    Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote poetry, greetings, drew pictures, and left other expressions that wished her well as she prepared to leave her homeland. However, since her father, Wilhelm, was the first family member who was abl...

  16. Compiled private films of a German soldier

    Film reel threaded through projector. Maneuvering scenes in summer. Moerser, horse cart, MG. 10:10:20 Construction of a pontoon bridge, guns, heavy bunkers, aerial combat, train ride "Dahlem", trains. 10:13:18 Paris shots. 10:16:12 "Soldatenkino" fishing port, French women with fellow countrymen, Germans with hats, posters. 10:22:50 Observation stand on the western front, newspaper "Der Sieg". 10:32:00 Winter, flood, France. 10:38:50 (1937) Archery in Stolpmünde, train ride. Eating, anti-aircraft shooting, guns, rest, loading. 10:55:30 (1938) Invasion of the Sudetenland, "Teichbaude", heavy...

  17. UNRRA selected records AG-018-004 : Bureau of Areas

    Selected files of the Executive Office, Office of Country Mission Affairs, and European Mission Affairs: Agreements to establish various country missions, postwar relief plans, reports, polices and analysis on displaced persons, health and medical requirements, field and intelligence reports and statistics on country field missions, European mission affairs, and miscellaneous correspondence.

  19. Hungary & Yugoslavia

    Private film of the Batschka region in Hungary and Serbia

  20. Lester Striker collection

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the efforts of Szyja and Beila Lazar and their children, Perla and Samuel, to emigrate from Kraków, Poland in 1940. Included is a typed letter that Beila sent to the American Consulate in Berlin, Germany on which she also wrote a personal letter to her brother Max Striker (donor's father) in Brooklyn, NY. Letter indicates that the family has been deported from Kraków, and asks for packages of food and clothing as conditions are not good. Szyja, Beila, Perla and Samuel were killed.