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 12,221 to 12,240 of 58,959
Search result ordering

  1. Sammlung Schumacher collection on the History of National Socialism Sammlung Schumacher zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus

    The Schumacher collection contains very diverse files of German government and NSDAP offices between 1933 and 1945, including documents of NSDAP branches abroad, the Office of Racial Policy, the SA, the SS, Hitlerjugend, and other agencies. It includes examples of Nazi propaganda, orders by Heydrich and other officials, documents on the Freemasons and similar associations, and documents relating to Austria, Italy, and other countries.

  2. Moshe Gershon Frydenzon collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to donors family before the war; during the war in the Łódź ghetto, and after the war in DP camps and Paris, France.

  3. Collection of documents of Anti-Jewish Laws and Decrees of Hungary

    This collection consists of the texts of Hungary's anti-Jewish laws and decrees from 1938 to 1944 that appeared in official serial publications. Records are derived from five periodicals: Magyar Törvenytár, Magyaroszági Rendeletek Tára, Budapesti Közlöny, and Csendörségi.

  5. Events in Germany in the 1920s

    Onscreen title reads "Generalstreik. Buergerkrieg [General strike. Civil war]" (perhaps refering to the so-called Sparticist uprising in January 1919?) Nice shots of a communist demonstration. People marching down the street, many carrying dark colored flags. Lots of children in the parade. Title at 01:10:51 reads "1920. Innere Kaempfe [1920. Inner struggle]." Huge crowd in the Lustgarten in Berlin. Dark colored (red?) flags and banners. The camera pans across the crowd. Shots of a dormant factory and soldiers in trucks. 01:11:25 title: "Kapp-Putsch." Crowds on Unter den Linden in Berlin du...

  6. Helene Bloch collection

    Consists of eight photographs documenting the donor's family in Villefranche, France, during the Holocaust and immediately after liberation.

  7. Collection of non-official German documents (RG 90) Nazi Party in Palestine.

    The collection contains records from the Nationalist Socialist Party Headquarters in Palestine, 1932-1939 and files and registers of the Temple Society, 1878-1948, as well as documentation on German enterprises.

  8. Edith Leuchter collection

    Consists of photograph of a group of Girl Guides in Moissac, France, in 1945. Pictured on the far right is Edith Leuchter, a Jewish girl in hiding. Also includes a newspaper clipping from the "La Vie a Marseilles" reporting on the emigration of child survivors to the United States in 1946.

  9. Prison in Radom Gefängnis in Radom Wiezienie w Radomiu (Sygn. 417)

    Contains 14,147 personal files of prisoners in the Radom prison imprisoned during 1939-1944. Files contain the following information: the prisioner's name, and the father name, the mother maiden name, the date and place of birth, the last domicile, the date and reason of imprisonment, prisoner’s fate. Some files include annexes in a form of reports, correspondence, court's sentences and prisoner's smuggled correspondence. Majority of prisoners were Poles (80%), others were Jews (15%), German, Roma, Russians and some others (5%).

  10. Print 1, Swierk w Sloncu w Goscieradzu, depicts spruce trees

    Print 2 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  11. Trial of the 20th of July plotters against Hitler

    People's court trial of the July 20th plotters against Hitler at the Supreme Court in Berlin. Defendant Fritz Thiele stands before judge Roland Freisler. Freisler asks him whether, in retrospect, he realizes that Germany's enemies would have celebrated the success of the plot (?). Freisler further asks him about the leaflets prepared by the English. Joachim Sadrozinski stands before Friesler and tells of the aftermath of the coup attempt, when Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm convened a hasty court martial and execution of Stauffenberg and some of the other conspirators in an attempt to hide h...

  12. Felix Popper collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Felix Popper, originally of Dzialoszyce, Poland. Includes post-war photographs of Felix Popper presumably burying bodies in the summer of 1945 outside of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Also includes Mr. Popper's embarkation card for his 1947 immigration to the United States, his immigration intention declaration, and several receipts for restitution he received as a Holocaust survivor.

  13. Mary Popper Strauss Lewin collection

    Consists of the birth certificate and United States naturalization certificate of Mary Popper Strauss Lewin, originally of Most, Czechoslovakia. She was born in 1905, survived Theresienstadt (Terezin), and immigrated to the United States at the end of 1949.

  14. Anna Grun manuscript

    Anna Grun's manuscripts include one Polish and two English versions entitled, “Remembrance,” about Anna's childhood in Kraków, Poland, her experiences in the Kraków ghetto and Płaszów concentration camp, and working at Oskar Schindler's enamel factory.

  15. Jehuda Feitelson collection

    Consists of documents illustrating Jehuda Feitelson's experiences immediately following his liberation from concentration camps, 1945-1947.

  16. Transport Units Todt-Speer Transporteinheiten Todt-Speer (R 50 II)

    The collection contains records of the “Hauptabteilung Truppenverwaltung” or “Zahlmeisterei” (Main Bureau for Troop-administration) of the “NSKK-Transportstandarte Speer” (NS Motor Corps-transport-regiment Speer). Mostly contains reports of troop levels and various correspondence. Also includes files of several other transport units which served abroad, e.g. “NSKK Transportgruppe Nord, Abschnittsführung Russland-Nord”.

  17. Prewar Warsaw: street and family scenes

    The camera pans across a bustling street scene, including lots of people, streetcars (one is marked with the number 21), buildings, and a horse-drawn buggy. The large building which dominates the background is the Grand Theater. The streetcar runs along Senatorska Street. An older Jewish man makes faces at the camera and several younger men wrestle with him briefly. Another elderly Jew smiles. He is instructed by the young men around him to look at the camera. 01:01:11 More crowded street scenes in Nalewki Street in the Jewish quarter. Many shop signs visible, including one sign with Hebrew...

  18. Jean Wise collection

    The Jean Wise collection includes an Austrian certificate of citizenship issued to Wise’s mother, Hedwig Bachrach Levendula, in 1933 and a photograph of Wise’s father, Deszo Levendula, with Hedwig Levendula and friend in Klosterneuburg, Austria, in 1931. Deszo and Hedwig Levendula fled Nazi-occupied Austria for the United States.

  19. Central Historical Commission : Collection about displaced persons (M.1.P)

    The collection contains materials gathered by The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee (CHC) of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich related to the post-war activities-political, social, and cultural-of then-liberated Jews in the DP camps and in the newly-established Jewish communities in Germany in the American zone. Types of materials: documents, name lists, reports, correspondence, statistical table, posters, announcements, and excerpts from publications.

  20. Aviva Slesin papers

    Two photo albums containing photos of Aviva Slesin and her family circa 1947-1948. Selection of loose photos including Aviva's rescuers Matilda and Juozas Salenekas, as well as images of Aviva and her mother reunited in Munich after the war and arriving in the United States. Business card for A. Slezinas (Aviva Slesin’s stepfather) employed by Warner Bros. First National, SAR, as well as a letter attesting to his employment there from March 1935-January 1939. Period photocopy attesting that Abraham Slesin was detained in Dachau concentration camp. Report card for Aviva for Hebrew Primary Sc...