DIGITAL ARCHIVES SEARCH TIPS

Doing a search in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Digital Archives is easy! Just type one or more search terms into the search box and press Enter on your keyboard, or scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Submit Query button.

IF YOU TYPE IN YOU WILL FIND RECORDS CONTAINING:

letter train the words letter and train

Belgium OR Poland either the word Belgium or the word Poland, or both

letter –train the word letter but NOT the word train

pol* words starting with the letters pol, such as Poland, Polish,

politics, political, pollution, etc.

“soldiers viewing bodies” the exact phrase soldiers viewing bodies (quotation marks

required)

MORE ABOUT SEARCHING:

Capitalization

Searches in the Digital Archives are NOT case sensitive. For example, searches for mauthausen, Mauthausen, and MAUTHAUSEN will all retrieve the same results.

Combining search terms (and, or, not)

AND is assumed between words typed in a search box

Words separated by OR (must be upper case) means find either word (or both)

Exclude a word by immediately preceding it with a hyphen

Truncation

Use an asterisk (*) to search truncated words. For example, art* will find records containing the words art, artist, artists, artistic, article, artisan, and any other word beginning with the letters art.

Phrase searches

To search for an exact phrase, put quotation marks around your search term.

ADVANCED SEARCHING:

For more search options, including combining fields, date searches, and browsing indexes, click the Advanced Search link above the search box on the main search screen.