United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002014
• English
• 1936-1938
• Updated 1 year ago

Religious Jews at work in their agricultural community. Various shots of them building homes and at work in the fields in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Also shown are children weaving baskets, studying and riding horses across a river. This footage contains several good CUs of adults and children, particularly focusing on facial expressions, gestures, and clothing. Shots are well lit and expertly framed. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002015
• English
• 1919
• Updated 1 year ago

This two reel "agitka" (short propaganda film) was one of the first produced by the Soviet regime. Made in 1919 to show to Red Army troops, often on trains, the film tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002016
• English
• 1920-1936
• Updated 1 year ago

Part One. Travelogue shots of landscape-swamp, desert, etc. Aerial and panoramic views of a number of different cities in Palestine. Buildings, camels, Jews praying in a yeshiva and at the Wailing Wall. Brief history of Zionism with images of Professor Chaim Weizmann, President of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, as well as Nahum Sokolow who was present at the Zionist's First Congress. Also featured: Leo Moltkin, Menachem Ussishkin, Louis Marshall, Henrietta Szold, Rabbi Uziel, Professor Brodetski, Chaim Nachman Bialik, Achad Ha-Am, Sir Herbert Samuel. Construction underway, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002017
• English
• 1920-1936
• Updated 1 year ago

Part Two - The film's finale and rallying cry for Jews to come to Palestine. Introductory titles provided by NCJF accompany this film (their restored version): "This film has no other aim except to be a collection of documents. It demonstrates what Zionists desire to accomplish in the rebuilding of Palestine and their accomplishments in the span of some 20 years. It shows this in pictures of the past. The contemporary character has not been altered through retouching or other changes. The film bears the name Hatikvah: the Hope. And even though the sources may seem matter of fact or primitiv...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002018
• English
• 1929
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents on the Sepahardim collected by Ernesto Gimenez Caballero. The following notes come from intertitles from the film, restored by NCJF in 1994: The Jews lived in Spain, more or less tolerated, from the time before Christ until March 31, 1492, the date of the national consolidation of Spain. And in this land of "Galud" (Exile), they produced a rich culture for centuries. For this reason Spain, apart from Zion, is the Sephardi's most sentimental homeland. The ancestral home of their most respected ancestors whose descendants are the aristocratic Sephardim--The Jews of the Spanish Homel...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002019
• English
• 1939
• Updated 1 year ago

German-produced documentary, scenes of life in Krakow. Mostly exterior shots of streets, streetcars, people involved in their daily activities- on the move with bikes, carts, on foot, etc. Various high angle shots of public squares, statues/monuments and architecture. Contrasted with various shots of a market, most likely in the Krakow ghetto, MCUs of bearded and /or bespectacled men dressed in tattered clothing, photographed in stereotypically "Jewish" poses. Trains pulling into a station, where Nazi flags are displayed on the building, uniformed man in FG as train enters station.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002020
• English
• 1934
• Updated 1 year ago

A 1934 newsreel, and "advertisement" to persuade Jews from Europe to travel to Palestine via ship from Constanza (Romania). Original archive copy has title and censor's permission for showing in British occupied Palestine (can be viewed briefly in this video, in a few frames at the beginning of the story: TC 03:52:45:19). Segment depicts the first voyage of a Polish ocean liner to Palestine. The film contains crudely edited footage of the embarkation at the Black Sea port of Constanza, the passengers enjoying the pleasures of the open sea, the recitation of Yom Kippur prayers on deck, an ex...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002021
• English
• 1941
• Updated 1 year ago

Man beaten, pushed around through crowd. German soldier, man pushed into unidentified building. VS, CUs of men's faces. Brief shot of road sign: "Achtung Baustelle". Men with picks, shovels, clearing area. 04:02:30 Subtitles: "Leniwi zydzii" [Lazy Jews] "zostah natychmiast zabrani do roboty" [have been taken immediately to work]. Men getting off trucks and carrying shovels/tools. German soldiers giving orders. Men taking off shirts, looking at camera, continue digging, picking up large rocks and moving them. 04:03:03 Subtitle translation: "Polish population delivers the Jewish 'agents'." Ma...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002022
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002023
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

The following notes are from NCJF documentation: MCU, overhead shot, woman rubbing shoulder of a man who is lying face down on the ground. Pan of hills, pan to bodies in a pit. MCU corpse. Pan across many bodies, side by side, people walking past sign at barracks: "HALT! SEIS MUIDULASEN!" (also in Cyrillic characters). VS, barracks filled with bodies, EXT, bodies stacked like lumber, intermingled with lumber, bodies in various states of decomposition, Russian soldiers walking through areas. EXT, MS, crowd, low angle, men on platform, one is speaking, many flags (not identified) in the crowd...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002024
• English
• 1920
• Updated 1 year ago

Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Town, streets, man on bicycle. "The Old Synagogue" Pan up and down old synagogue. Street activity with pedestrians and many shops. Group of people pose in front of synagogue. Children. Pan up to synagogue.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002025
• English
• 1920
• Updated 1 year ago

Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Scenes of small town with horse-drawn carts, people, houses, and dirt roads. "A Glimpse Around the Market" Similar scenes of town with peasants, horses, wagons, houses. "Peasant Youths out for a lark in the big city..." Five boys walk down dirt road, houses line the street. "When the pretty girls go walking, the boys go walking too." Pan of street with people and houses. "Shawls" "The Synagogue Center" VAR views of synagogue building. Men talk in the street, gesture at camera. MCU, woman in front of a house. MCU, family with children at sign readin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002026
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Polish refugees with ox-driven carts along road with people and all their possessions. Peasants who have lost everything sitting on ground. CU, children and crying woman. Photographic stills of destroyed Polish villages with quick intertitles - German villagers escaping from Russian army and desolate Polish countryside. Three people flee on a sled. Group of women and children in front of snow dugout/hut.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002027
• English
• 1920
• Updated 1 year ago

Children (mostly) exiting building, a man observes at left, a woman (teacher?) follows the children. Children are escorted through a gate, walking in line, dressed in uniform. Girls dance in a courtyard. Boys enter the courtyard, dressed in uniform, teachers stand aside them.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002028
• English
• 1920
• Updated 1 year ago

Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "The Home for the Jewish Aged in Warsaw. Many of the inmates were wealthy before the Great War brought devastation to Poland." EXT, men talk in FG, women on bench in BG. "Main Roadway to the Jewish cemetery" Slow pan, people walking on narrow tree-lined road, away from the camera, tombstones not seen. Different SEQ: Men and boys walk along road in the cemetery, towards the camera. MCU faces of people. Tombstones. "The Grave of...Jewish millionaire..." View of large, elaborate, and decorated tombstones. Pan, more gravestones (less decorated). Man (b...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002029
• English
• 1920
• Updated 1 year ago

Monument in city. CU and LSs of street scenes with pedestrians, traffic, trams. Tram passes another building (synagogue?), slow pan up building, crowds exit.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002030
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Arrival of train and departure of the Victoria and Albert." Different views of a train moving on elevated tracks above water into a city, people watch and wave hats.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002031
• English
• 1920
• Updated 1 year ago

Market scene. BAZAR sign. People, carts, horses. Shops line busy streets. Kiosks with posters. Some signs in Cyrillic.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002032
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Tracking shot from train, passing houses, trees, fields.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002033
• English
• 1925
• Updated 1 year ago

Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "Somebody's Mother" VAR MCUs faces of townspeople. Street scene. CU elderly woman with scarf. "Grandpa" MCU old man and child. Carts with horses travel along a dirt road, creating dust clouds. Families on the carts. Some people walking. More carts pass by. MCU boy and mother pose in front of fence. Pan of horse-drawn (empty) wagon.