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Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 04:00:05 and at right at 04:00:26. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 04:01:31. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 04...

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667 J: At the "Comite Francais d'Assistance aux Refugees," branch of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Paris. The Committee provides legal and juridicial advice, to help the refugees stay in France and prepare their definitive settlement in some country. LS, relief (money) provided to Austrian refugee. CU, refugee signing receipt. LS, crowd refugees waiting in line. LS, refugees waiting in the lobby of the "Comite d'Assistance," and showing papers to officials of the Committee. MS, table where refugees show their identification papers to employee. Same, another angle. 02:52:34 LS...

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December 5-6, 1938. Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. 04:20:42 LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. 04:21:28 Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods [staged]. LS of man peering through bush. 04:22:31 VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. 04:22:45 VS of them listening to radio. 04:23:17 VS in dormitory playing ukelele and singing. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at ca...

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667 S: Relief campaign for China. On street, Chinese students collecting money on sidewalk; 03:03:12 "Buy nothing from Japan"; Embargo the aggressors. 03:03:58 Well-dressed women walking in street with many signs, against Japanese goods, against silk. Wear cotten, rayon, lisle. 03:05:18 MCU, women speakers with microphone, earnestly addressing the gathering. 03:06:49 667 V: People in waiting room. 03:09:07 CU glass door, "Resettlement Division", "National Coordinating Committee for Refugees and Emigres". 03:09:42 People waiting in line near "teller"; older men, women, children. Papers check...

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New School for Social Research, NYC. 03:11:34 CU of sign, EXT: "The New School". 03:12:51 INT, people walking through lobby, information board. 03:13:43 CU, individual names and their subjects. View of faculty members meeting around table in front of mural, with the president of the New School, Alvin Johnson. There are various European exiles, including Leo Strauss, Frieda Wunderlich, Emil Lederer, and Max Wertheimer. (Full list of names is available in March of Time research files). 03:14:07 View of adult students in class. 03:16:52 People at a meeting.

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Citizens' Rally against oppression at Carnegie Hall, NYC. LS, from above, of Carnegie Hall then closer, men seated behind. 03:21:58 Second speaker with curly hair, "Dangers in situation in Germany...". Man, older, waiting behind curtain. 03:24:22 LS, crowd, well behaved. Participants (from March of Time card catalogue) include: Mayor LaGuardia, Victor Ridder, William Dodd, Theodore Green, Fulton Sheen, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Bishop Manning.

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667 KK: Hilly countryside. 03:32:45 Underground bunker with barbed wire. 03:32:54 Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. 03:33:29 Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. 03:34:13 Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). 03:34:26 Ladder. Switchboard. 03:34:45 Nazi Party Rally. 03:35:24 German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM: 03:35:46 Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitle...

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German anti-Jewish riots. Quick flash of store window "Jude" and Jewish Star. 04:09:22 Three folks looking in. SS on second SS shoulders' putting up poster. 04:09:35 LS, in crowded sidewalk (car camera) Jewish star. SS look at camera, street sounds, honking horns. Footage of the New Synagoue in Berlin from September 1932: Interior of synagogue. 04:09:50 Women singing (in choir). Cantor Leo Gollanin sings the Kol Nidre on the evening before Yom Kippur, 1932. LS of synagogue interior. 04:10:57 SS on cars, bike hangs on, street again, crowded sidewalk. Back to synagogue, LS of bimah.

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Farmers, industrialists working. Pan up telegraph pole. 04:12:44 Pushing rocks, cameos, breaking stones. 04:13:47 Fabric factory. 04:14:14 Soap factory. 04:15:40 Woman looking through book, studying, science experiments. 04:16:08 Building, many people entering. 04:16:23 Children sit with chickens. Sheep, cows. 04:17:25 Orange and fruit packing. Men working. Cuts between factories, fruit packing, hard labor, typing.

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• 1938
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Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking. 03:43:18 Nazi speaker heard. 03:43:32 People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. 03:44:23 Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. 03:44:41 Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, 03:45:06 grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). 03:45:24 Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. F...

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• 1938
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667 SS: (with music) Adolf Hitler at Goering's child's christening. Hitler and Mrs. Goering and child. 03:48:47 Hitler playing with baby, holding hand. Goering sitting next to Mrs. Goering. Brief shots of religious ceremony with muffled voices. 667 TT: (silent) 03:49:20 Munich Pact. Generals entering Reichstag from automobiles, saluting. INT, Hitler, Goering, Mussolini, Chamberlain, etc. 03:49:50 Looking at documents, signing, talking. CUs, document. Shaking hands. 667 VV: (silent) Opening of Autobahn in Bavarian mountains. 03:50:28 Sign: "SA baut Alpenstrasse." View of countryside with boa...

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Einstein outside at microphone speaking from notes, hair blowing, big crowd, California

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Refugees to Canada. Good scenic shots, mountains, trains and wheat fields. 04:31:24 Title: "Great Four-Engine Freights Creep Up the Wilderness Grades" 04:31:28 Train, title: "Twilight" 04:32:00 Title: "Wheat" 04:32:35 Title: "Wheat - Dim Horizons Across Endless Prairie"

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• 1938
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Hitler in Sudetenland. 03:51:52 MCU on Hitler, acknowledging crowds, cheering throngs. Nazi elite, including Goebbels, behind Hitler, looking pleased. Crowd, policemen four deep. 03:53:13 Hitler, Goering walk down street, in motorcade, town covered with swastika banners. 03:53:40 EXT banquet of Nazis. Himmler at Hitler's left, ring of Nazi soldiers surround them. 03:54:06 Hitler in motorcade. Great shots of crowds and people everywhere: windows, corridors, women crying from joy and chanting. MCU Hitler. Chaos. 03:55:17 Flowers.

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Butcher of Warsaw, Kawaguchi, Japan, September 6, 1945. MSs, Gestapo Col Joseph Albert Meisinger, known as the "Butcher of Warsaw," walking into deserted dining room of Fuji Hotel and surrendering to war correspondents. CUs, MSs, correspondents interrogating Meisinger. MSs, CUs, Meisinger is shown to jeep by correspondents and escorted by them as they drive along road. CUs, Meisinger. Mitsubishi Aircraft and Engine Works, Nagoya, Japan, September 7, 1945. VS, US officer with Japanese civilians inspecct the aircraft plant. Scenes showing complete destruction of factory and equipment. AV, wre...

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(LIB 5421) 4th Armored Division Drive, Kuhnhausen(?) Germany, April 12, 1945. LS tank and jeeps moving along road next to woods, GIs sitting on tanks. LS, town with tanks in FG. LS field, smoke rising from woods in BG. LS, plane strafing. MLS, tank rolling into town. Soldiers with rifles on tanks. LS tank and soldiers in field, along road. MLS tank moving away, creating dust cloud. Tank moving toward camera between rows of blossoming trees. GIs marching on foot. Truck goes over repaired bridge. MS, soldiers on foot and vehicles. LS, tanks rolling on road in hilly countryside. LS planes divi...

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Slave Labor Burials, Nordhausen, Germany, April 13, 1945. VS, distorted cadavers lying in yard of concentration camp. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds under the direction of US MPs. CU, emaciated bodies of victims. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. LSs, head-on-shots, German civilians carry shovels as they walk on highway. LS to CU, common burial grounds for victims of Nazi atrocities. German soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. Freed American Prisoners, Graselben, Germany, April 12, 1945. MLS, happy, released American priso...

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(LIB 6573) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. MCUs, US soldier removes German sign over doorway: "Strasse der SS" MSs, statue of Nazi soldier in the camp. MCUs, pan, pile of prison uniforms burning in open field. Sign nearby: "Typhus, Beware." MSs, former inmates push prison clothing in wagon and unload it at dump. MSs, through barbed wire fence, victims of camp lying on litters. CUs, ragged dirty prisoners cooking around small fires. CUs, ragged dirty prisoners picking lice from their bodies and clothing. MSs, German civilians viewing pile of bodies through open doorway. MSs, Maj....

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US Publishers and Editors Visit Weimar, Germany and Rheims, France, April 24, 1945. Seq: Newspapermen greeted by Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen at airport and are taken on tour of Buchenwald concentration camp. CU, Gen. Omar N. Bradley at his headquarters. Seq: Newspapermen visit prisoner of war enclosure and Cathedral at Rheims, France. MSs, visitors greeted by Gen. Bradley and other officers.

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(LIB 5963) Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 22, 1945. Seq: Members of the House of Representatives visit concentration camp; view piles of bodies; visit crematoria of the camp. Included in the group of visitors: Frances E. Walters, PA; Eugene Worley. TX; Carter Manasco, AL; Albert Rains, AL; Henry W. Jackson, WA; Earl Wilson, IN; Marion Bennet, MO; Gordon Canfield, NJ; Maj. Gen. Vanier of the Canadian Army; Maj Walter Mosmiller of SHAEF in charge of the tour. (LIB 5965) Hungarian Regt Surrenders, Near Cham, Germany, April 23, 1945. VS, 102nd Work Hungarian Regt with large numb...