United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Collections Search
Welcome to the United States Holocaust Museum cross-catalog "next-generation OPAC" system, providing an interface allowing you to search across our Library, Archives, Art & Artifacts, Film and Video, Oral History, Photo Archives, and Victim List catalog records. Collections Search spans 225,564 records including:
- 83,968 books and other publications
- 63,562 oral history testimonies
- 3,323 oral history testimonies--over 7,600 hours--are streamable
- 27,989 names source records
- 27,404 photographs
- 8,320 document (archival) collections (many with downloadable finding aids)
- 4,329 moving image (historical film) records
- 2,611 moving image records are streamable
- 5,385 objects
- 719 collections (groups of more than one item)
Searching
Entering terms in the main search box will return results where those terms occur anywhere in the record. You may target your search to certain fields by changing the dropdown selection to the right of the 'Search' box from "All Fields."
Facets
Use the "facets" to limit your searches. These are the links at the left under the "Limit your search" heading, with categories such as "Record Type," "Language," and "Online." You may find "Record Type" to be particularly helpful in narrowing your search to certain type of record.
Advanced Search
An advanced search is available by clicking the link "More Options (Advanced Search)". If you were, for example, interested in searching across photographic records or document records only, excluding other record types, in the advanced search you can click on "Record Type" and select one or more type of records from the list to limit your results to those selected record types.
Geographic Name Expansion
Collections Search also embodies a "geographic name expansion" feature. Often the same place is referred through different names in different languages and various spellings and transliterations. For example, searching for "Lviv", "L'viv", "L'vov", "Lvov", "Lwow", or "Lemberg" will all bring you the same results. Similarly, searching for "Łódź", "Lodz", or "Litzmannstadt" will bring the same results, as will searching for "Munich", "München", or "Muenchen."
Boolean Queries
Collections Search supports boolean queries including AND, NOT, and OR (which must be uppercase) and parentheses. For example, searching:york NOT ( "new york" OR "memorial books")
results in records including the term "york" but excluding records containing either "new york" or "memorial books."
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