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Lecture at DP camp in Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000686
- English
- 1945-1948
- Updated 1 year ago
Men and women listening to lecture at DP camp; slow pan left to right of audience. Sign: "Emigrant Assembly Center Reception Billeting." Man pacing/standing in front of sign, talking to another man.
DPs boarding truck with luggage
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000687
- English
- 1945-1948
- Updated 1 year ago
Displaced persons boarding truck with luggage. Men kissing. More boarding/luggage.
Landsberg DP camp; UNRRA activities
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000688
- English
- 1945-1948
- Updated 1 year ago
At Landsberg DP camp, men speaking at a table, passing out certificates to children, returning papers to UNRRA officer. CU, sign in Hebrew for religious school. Children exiting school with backpacks. Man speaking. CU, ORT diploma with name: "BLUM, SARA". Children with diplomas/certificates. Official speaking into a megaphone. Man toilet training a baby. Scouts pose next to sign in Hebrew. Quick view of banner "Wir ehren die Opfer des barbarischen Nationalsozialist." Brief, fuzzy sequence with children dressed in Hebrew scout uniforms and UNRRA or JDC official speaking to another, with Jewi...
Landsberg DP camp: UNRRA; Zionist demonstration; rebuilding life
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000689
- English
- 1945-1948
- Updated 1 year ago
Transfer of defendant to a trial. Shots of crowd, MPs, UNRRA officials, judges moving/walking through streets of Landsberg DP camp. VAR, UNRRA or military officials walking in streets, entering and exiting a building, talking. Children boarding train, some in scouts uniforms. More views of the UNRRA officials on the street. Parade of scouts marching, rally, flags. Some men in suits. Demonstration of DPs, young crowd. Man speaking with Hebrew banner in BG (seen briefly in RG-60.0088). Flags. 01:09:10 Pan, INT, another demonstration, DP officials grouped on a platform, singing, various men gi...
Sport events; opening of new synagogue in Munich; Landsberg DP camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000690
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Life in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. DP children writing in journals. Hebrew "Olympiad" sports events: calisthenics, flag-raising, ceremony, spectators, track races, high jump, sack races, crowd, award ceremony. People gathered in streets, on bicycles. DPs getting off truck. DP family walking slowly down road. Raking/gardening. Children, families, playing in park. Babies. Girls dancing the Hora. INT, men talking at table. EXT, synagogue in Neu Freimann DP camp. 01:06:31 Dedication of a new synagogue on Reichenbach Street in Munich, Germany on May 20, 1947 (see Photo Archive WS 2222...
DP tent city and rally
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000691
- English
- 1945-1948
- Updated 1 year ago
Tent city and displaced persons in Landsberg, Germany. Families, children, baby, elder crying. Pan feet (mostly barefoot). Toilet training a baby. More of the displaced families. Laundry. Teenage Hebrew scouts sitting on grass. Boy getting water from a military jeep. Standing in line for food with buckets, eating, soup distribution. Pan food lines. Man dragging child in cardboard box. Feeding child soup. Elderly woman eating bread. Waiting to talk to commanding officers in tent marked "Kommanding Officer". Man standing on chair in courtyard, above crowd of DPs arriving at camp with luggage....
Life in DP camps in Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000692
- English
- 1945-1948
- Updated 1 year ago
A documentary film about the life of the Jewish people in the DP camps in Germany. Children boarding trains. Supplies. UNRRA. Men kissing. Loading displaced women and luggage onto flatbed trucks. MS, baby lifted onto truck. More shots of DPs boarding truck, loading luggage. CU, boy with guitar and other children, waving goodbye as trucks depart. In Landsberg, women with babies and carriages in the park, children playing. Man speaking to crowd, davening. Religious ceremony. Hebrew memorial sign reading "150,000." Pan, men at meeting, sitting at table. Man delivering speech, reading. Crowd lo...
Hospital for former Jewish prisoners; medical care
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000693
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
St. Ottilien Hospital for Jewish Former Political Prisoners near Landsberg, Germany. Pan of hospital. Shots of doctors and patients: in beds, during examinations, surgery. Patients walking the hospital grounds. Labor: sewing, making uniforms. Bris ceremony (circumcision).
Landsberg DP camp: school, library, children
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000694
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
CU DP boy in Landsberg, Germany. Hebrew sign. Teacher and children dancing, playing, learning. Children in classroom at desks learning Hebrew. Teacher pointing to map of Israel. Reading posted notices. Men and women outside. Sign reading "Landsberger Szpigel Ojshams Cusztand in Erec Jisroel." Man dictating letter to women with typewriter. The woman at the typewriter has been identified by a patron as Minna Aspler (nee Friedland.) Distributing newspapers. Men smiling at camera. More, reading papers posted on board. CU, Chaim N. Bialik Library sign. Reading in library. Men reading papers at t...
Life in German DP camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000695
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Tent city and displaced persons in Germany. Families, children idling near tents (Red Cross and JDC). UNRRA jeeps/trucks. DPs milling about with luggage. Pan, crowd of DPs. Man standing on chair, above crowd view of DPs arriving at camp with luggage. DPs with luggage getting onto truck. CUs, women, children, baby sleeping. Pan feet (mostly barefoot). Standing in line for food with buckets. Eating. Distributing food/soup. Boy getting water from a military jeep. Woman with baby, woman knitting, laundry. DPs idling. CU tents. Man dragging child in cardboard box. Man reading newspaper in Landsb...
Sport events at DP camp; Eisenhower visits Neu Freimann
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000696
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Men and women outdoors doing calisthenics, gymnastics, various track and field events at a DP camp in Germany. Women playing tennis. Crowd of men watching a boxing match. Pan, men's soccer team. Men playing chess. 01:55:32 General Dwight D. Eisenhower arriving at Neu Freimann DP camp, touring buildings, school, warehouse, synagogue. Crowds gathering for Eisenhower. Eisenhower leaving in automobile.
German surrender; Dachau; Rundstedt captured; Landsberg
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000697
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
(LIB 6263) Surrender of German Army Group, Haar, Germany, May 5, 1945. INTs, German officers meet with Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, CG, Seventh Army; Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, CG, Sixth Army; Lt. Gen. Wade H Haislip, CG, XIII Corps; Maj. Gen. John W. O'Daniel to sign surrender agreement. German delegation includes Lt. Gen. Foertsch, CG, First German Army. EXTs, US Generals shaking hands and congratulating one another. 08:04:16 (LIB 6171) Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1, 1945. MS, CUs, naked bodies of emaciated camp prisoners who had died after their liberation. 08:05:25 (LIB 6179)...
Kesselring; Mauthausen at liberation
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000698
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Kesselring Meeting, Zellam See, Austria, May 8, 1945. VS, occupants of a halted convoy study maps. (The convoy of US vehicles, led by German officer in a German vehicle, attempts to make contact with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.) MSs, convoy of US jeeps and German jeeps passing camera. VS, convoy pulls into hotel area. MLS, train pulls into railroad station at Saalfelden. CU, Nazi insignia. INTs (underexposed footage), meeting between German Gen. Westphal and other officers. Field Marshal Kesselring, Bertchesgaden, Germany, May 10, 1945. MSs, CUs, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with Ma...
Ardeatine Caves Massacre: cave
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000699
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. EXT shots of Rome streets. Sign on wall: "Catacombe di San Callisto." Entry into cave, INT of cave hallways. Vehicle. MLS, entrance to cave. Sign: "Via Rasella." Aerial view, street in Rome. Cart. Still photographs. EXT, shutters of window. VAR, EXT pocked walls. Still photograph showing corpses piled in front of stone wall and men with hands behind their heads. CU, man's face. VS, CUs documents with names of victims. Aerial shots, city buildings, MLS, apartment building with windows open. Note: 320 Italian civilians were murdered in Ardeatine Caves on March...
Jewish Infantry Brigade celebrates Passover
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000700
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8th Army, Faenza Area, Italy, March 27-29, 1945. LS, hillside farm. LS, column of brigade marching along mountain road, past evenly spaced trees. MLS, men walking in single file towards the camera, farm in BG. Men with British military gear carrying weapons, camoflauge on helmets. CUs, faces. MLS, long line of soldiers moving along road, squad leader puts arm up and line halts, points to side of road and soldiers rest against embankment. MCU, two men smoking, Star of David patch on uniform. Soldier checking equipment. CU, individual faces. LS, column o...
Ardeatine Caves Massacre: human remains
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000701
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. MSs, pan, CUs, cave with human remains. INT, three men digging with shovels and ax. Removing dirt from bodies. Preparing for burial, placing on litters and carrying away. Inside cave, two stretchers on ground against wall. More shots of more bodies. CUs, doctor with white lab coat taking notes. Removal of objects from bodies. Blessing of bodies by priest. Pile of empty coffins. Men carrying one. CUs, human remains. Head forensic pathologist, Attio Ascarelli. examining body, removing personal effects. CUs, personal effects, including watch and wedding band. N...
Landsberg DP Camp conditions investigated
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000702
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
(Paris 429) Investigation of Jewish DP Camp, Landsberg, Germany, December 6, 1945. MS, train at station. Seq: Lt Gen Walter Bedell Smith accompanied by Maj Gen Albert W. Kenner, Judge SH Rifkin (Theater Commander's Adviser on Jewish Affairs), correspondents and photographers entering camp and touring the barracks, mess halls, and other buildings. They stop to speak to some of the DPs and question them regarding the conditions of the camp.
War Crimes Commission: Belsen Concentration Camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000703
- English
- 1945
- Updated 1 year ago
"Belsen Concentration Camp" British Royal Artillery officers in charge of the camp describe conditions after liberation, "So far, we've buried 17,000. When we came here, conditions were indescribable...no food for six days...none of us are likely to forget what German people have done." 06:02:32 A woman doctor (survivor - Hadassah Bimko, later Hadassah Rosensaft), who was a prisoner in charge of the female section, describes conditions before liberation. She speaks in German, partly translated into English by the film's narrator. "There were no covers, straw stacks, or beds of any kind. Per...
Interviews with Buchenwald survivors
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000704
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 26, 1945. CUs, MSs, internees of Buchenwald concentration camp are interviewed with other survivors. [Image is scratched] CUs, internees from Vienna, Brussels, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands speaking of the horrors of the camps in which they were held prisoners. MSs, CUs of the following persons: Kurt Gatner, former chief of bodyguard of Kurt von Schuschnigg of Vienna, Austria; Jean Blum of Brussels, Belgium; Victor Herskovics of Prague, Czechoslovakia; Serge Kaplan of Eindhoven, Netherlands; Otto Feuer of Hamburg, Germany; and George Henning of B...
Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1000705
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, April 17, 1945. LHSs, concentration camp area with internees and visitors walking about. MLS, soldiers entering camp area. MSs, picture of Joseph Stalin on camp building. In FG, arms are raised in Communist salute. Head-on-shot, Red Cross trucks with "Switzerland" on bumpers enter camp grounds. MLS, group of young inmates marching from the camp. Many of them wearing the striped prison uniform. MSs, CUs, two former inmates remove bodies from hand truck, place them upon a pile of bodies near building. CU, Pan, dead bodies in a long pile. ECUs, faces of ...