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 10,061 to 10,080 of 58,959
Search result ordering

  1. John Regnier collection

    Consists of photocopies of photographs taken by John Regnier after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, as Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton toured the camp, as well as one original photograph of soldiers viewing corpses. Also includes a panoramic photograph of the town of Ebensee, Austria, the typed text of a letter written by Regnier from Austria on May 6, 1945, and an essay entitled "My Visit to a German Concentration Camp" which Mr. Regnier wrote as a term paper in 1946 after returning to the United States. In the essay, he describes what he saw at Ohrdruf and the operations ...

  2. Tepper family papers

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating Jenny and David Tepper (donor's parents) who fled Germany in 1938 for the United States. Included is correspondence received by Jenny and David in the United States from their relatives who were exiled to Sosnowiec, Poland in 1938 from Germany. Also included is the paperwork detailing their exhaustive efforts to extend their visas in the United States while waiting for citizenship, and affidavits of support made on their behalf. Also includes documentation concerning Zitta Tepper (David's sister) and Dora Tepper (David's mother), both o...

  3. Lakhovitzky family collection

    The Lakhovitzky family papers contain birth certificates, marriage certificates, certificates of identity, travel documents, photographs, and similar materials documenting the family’s migration from Russia to France in 1927-1928, their internment in camps from 1941-1942, and their immigration to the United States in 1942. Outside of birth certificates from Russia for Natan Lakhovitzky, and documents attesting to the marriage and Russian citizenship of Natan and Vera Lakhovitzky from their stay in Turkey in 1927, the majority of the documents date from the period of their residence in and a...

  4. Leo Berger photograph collection

    Collection of 12 photographs including images of displaced persons Lampertheim, as well as post-liberation photographs of the Nordhausen concentration camp.

  5. Pohronská county Pohronská župa

    Records relating to implementation of the Jewish Codex in Pohronská county; guidelines for a census of the Jewish population; official decrees and orders by the Ministry of Interior banning Jews from residing within certain neighborhoods and in various municipalities; official decrees and orders by the Ministry of Interior prohibiting Jews from attending public areas; punishments and administrative actions for employing and affiliating with Jews; regulations concerning Catholic Jews; rescinding of concessions and permits from Jewish business and restaurant owners; expropriation of Jewish-ow...

  6. District Court in Zamość Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Zamościu (Sygn. GK 299)

    Records from trials at the District Court in Zamość, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  7. Levy and Kupferstajn families papers

    Collection of photographs (56) and documents illustrating the families of the Kupersztajn family from Bilgoraj and Warsaw, Poland and the Levy family from Banja Luka in Yugoslavia. Most members of the both families were murdered in Poland and Croatia. Klara Kupersztajn Dulman, later Clara Levy (donor's mother) survived German occupation, the Warsaw ghetto, and Soviet forced labor camps. David Levy (donor's father) survived German and Italian occupation, an internment camp, and later in hiding. David and Clara met in the Bagnoli DP camp in Italy and immigrated to the United States in 1950. D...

  8. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate in several camps

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Bernard Klajminc and likely issued in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in November 1943. He then wore it until April 1945 in Warsaw, Dachau, and Mühldorf concentration camps. When Germany invaded Belgium on May 10, 1940, Bernard, his wife Bertha, and their children Marie-Jose and Henri, were living in Brussels. In August 1942, the family was arrested and deported to France. Bernard was deported to Pithiviers internment camp and then transferred to Drancy transit camp in Paris. Bertha and the children also were imprisoned in Drancy. On S...

  9. Shulamit Goldstein photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs taken on November 9, 1938 in Oldenburg, Germany. The photographs depict the Nazis arresting Jewish men in Oldenburg as part of the Kristallnacht pogrom. The men were then taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  10. A.C. Williams collection

    Consists of five photographs from the collection of Captain A.C. Williams of the 272th Infantry regiment of the 69th Infantry Division, United States Army. The photographs were taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, depicting the crematoria; one photo includes prisoners in uniform. Also includes one small card regarding talking too much and warning that both the enemy and the CIC (Counter-Intelligence Corps) are listening.

  11. Fabian Brunner letter

    Fabian Brunner’s letter is the last letter written before he was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he perished in June 1944. The letter, written while working as a forced laborer at an unidentified agricultural center, refers to his wife Sidonia Brunner being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. The letter reflects Fabian’s anguish at not knowing the fate of his family. The woman to whom the letter is addressed is unknown but believed to be a Christian woman who was assisting or at least trusted by Brunner. The English translation of the letter was compiled by the donor's ...

  12. Brown leather and cork men’s dress shoes crafted in Sedan Kaserne Ulm DP camp by a Jewish Polish soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47425
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) b: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)

    Brown leather dress shoes crafted by Noel Galicki in Sedan Kaserne displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany, between 1946 and 1949. Noel was taught and certified as a shoemaker in the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) vocational training program at the camp. Noel, 27, was a soldier in the Polish Army during the German invasion on September 1, 1939. Seventeen days later, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland and Noel was captured. On June 29, 1940, the Soviets deported Noel and his wife Henja to Komi ASSR. Henja died during childbirth on March 30, 1941, and their daughte...

  13. Selected records from the State Archives in Poznań

    Contains selected records of the district Starosties (Landraturen) in Konin, Ostrów, Śrem, municipal files of Czerniejewo, Gołańcz, Kłecko, Buk, Dolsk, Kostrzyń, records of the Umwandererzentralstelle (Central Office of Migration) in Poznań, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP) in Poznań, the collection of announcements, posters, and leaflets as well as records of the Bodenamt SS (Land Office) in Poznań. Includes records relating to displacements of people, the relationship of Germans towards Poles and Jews, registration of Jews occupied in medical service, statistics of ...

  14. Esther Kerdeman photographs

    Consists of four enlarged photographs taken of members of the Jewish Brigade, likely taken in the Netherlands in 1946, and one enlarged photograph taken of the interior of an exhibit entitled "Les Juifs en France" ["The Jews in France"] described on the verso as the version of the exhibit shown in Bordeaux, France, in March 1942. The photographs were collected by Esther Kerdeman, who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in the Netherlands in 1946.

  15. The hallucinatory vision of our typhic comrades, parked in barracks 8 Print 13 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a blanket-wrapped prisoner has been detained in barrack 8 for those sick with typhus and forgotten about at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and ...

  16. Max and Paula Hess photograph

    Contains a portrait photograph of Dr. Max Hess and Paula Fleischer Hess, taken in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1939. This portrait was sent to donor’s grandparents who received it en route to New Zealand, on the ship "Oronsay" in Port Said on May 3, 1939. Max and Paula Hess were deported from their hometown, Prague to the Theresienstadt camp and on October 21, 1941, they were deported to the Łódź ghetto and placed at Hochensteinstrasse 17/27. On May 6, 1942 Dr. Max Hess petitioned not to be deported from Łódź, but the answer was negative. On September 20, 1942 Max and Paula Hess were depor...

  17. Joodsche Weekblad flyer

    One flier, published by "Het Joodsche Weekblad," the publication of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, 10 July 1942 as an extra edition of the newspaper. The flier announces that approximately 700 Jews had been arrested that week, and were scheduled to be deported to a concentration camp in Germany.

  18. Personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann Nachlass Erich A. Hausmann

    Contains personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann, the Swiss-Jewish educator and pedagogue. Papers consist of his biographical materials and documentation on helping Jewish refugee children and youth during and after the war. Erich A. Hausmann worked with many organizations as the Schweizer Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder (SHEK), Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen (VSJF), Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), Jüdisches Lehrerseminar Basel, and the Jüdische Schule Zürich (JSZ).

  19. Raymond Lee Howley photographs

    Consists of eight photographs taken by Raymond Lee Howley, a member of the American Army during World War II, who toured the Dachau concentration camp soon after the liberation of the camp. Includes images of the crematorium, of piles of corpses, of a sign leading to the camp, and of a guard dog.

  20. Oral history interview with Dieter Protsch