United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002084
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Multiple shots of a set of three swings, children playing on swings, British troops push the swings. CU of (unnamed) soldier pushing swing. MCU of children crowded on jeep, moving through camp. CU of boy's face as he sits on the hood of the jeep. Children eating soup. Shot as children file from left to right, given biscuits and chocolate. Russian Jewish woman (former internee, wearing Red Cross uniform) ringing bell as children, smiling, swarm past her, entering doorway. CU of woman (unnamed). Row of six swings set up by REME. Children playing on swings. Two close up shots of young girls sm...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002085
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Interior of hospital ward, drawing on wall of "Tiger" tank passing over barbed wire. Camera pans down, child lying in hospital bed. Chalking FULL on wall. Stretcher removed from back of ambulance; one of the stretcher bearers is member of Quaker Relief Service team RS100. German orderlies take stretcher into hospital. "Contaminated" drawn on ambulance doors. CU of woman's shoulder badge combining Red X and Order of St. John symbols. Ambulance being unloaded in BG. Female relief worker, Miss Russell Smith, drives "clean" ambulance off screen right. TYPHUS sign at right. German medics in whit...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002086
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Ambulance enters camp. Sign reading DDT CENTER. Women and men unloading stretchers from ambulance. Pan, cemetery, men digging graves, crosses erected. Tents. Doctor and patients walking about. LS camp, watchtower, people walking, some with shovels.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002087
• English
• 1945
• Updated 1 year ago

Women in hospital. Babies being baptized. Women laughing, breast feeding. CU babies.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002088
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

German officers and others talking, smoking. Forest and barracks in BG. LS Allied POWs with KG stamped on their backs.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002089
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food Kaunitz:...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002090
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism]. Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Arnstadt: tents in camp; corpses Belsen: survivors; corpses; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials Gardelegen: corpses; i...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002091
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report on War Crimes, including shots of the London meeting of the investigating commission, the opening of Quisling's trial in Norway, and the execution of two German spies by the US 9th Army.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002092
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Notes from NCJF documentation. This NCJF compilation demonstrates the overt use of film to denigrate Jews. All three excerpts emphasize exotic Jewish physical types and modes of dress. 1. A segment from "Dr. Frank's Journey Through Poland," a 1939 travelogue: footage of the Jewish district (Cracow); references to Cracow as a once great city now overwhelmed by Jewish types (2 minutes). VS, MSs, MCUs and CUs of city life, and 'ethnic' looking faces. 2. A 1940/41 German newsreel segment with staged sequences of Jewish storekeepers caught hoarding food and cheating local Poles (2.5 minutes). 3....

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002093
• English
• 1947
• Updated 1 year ago

MLS, panning shots of buildings, various architectural details. MLS, panning Tyn Church from across a large town square. MCU, local girl in traditional dress poses with a man in uniform. Ceremony at the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror located at the Church of Saint Cyril and Saint Method (previously called the Carlo Boromeo Church). MS, large group of people gathered, men and women in line formation, young men in various uniforms carry various flags. Older men in civilian dress are also in formation. MLS, large group of nurses, in white uniforms, flanked by soldiers i...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002095
• English
• 1950
• Updated 1 year ago

Notes taken from NCJF documentation, cribbed from narration presented by Cedric Hardwicke: "This film describes the life of the "hard core" displaced persons in a village in South Germany. They were the handicapped, the old, and the victims of polio that no country wanted. For them no jobs were made available and their lives seemed hopeless until the Norwegian government allowed small numbers to immigrate and settle. The rest of the film shows two people: one woman whose husband and two children had TB but were rehabilitated and were able to return to normal family life, and a blind man who...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002096
• English
• 1948
• Updated 1 year ago

Excerpt from the film beginning with opening titles: "This film is made available for television by the Department of the Army in the public interest. Europe 1945." VS of destruction, rubble, etc. incurred in the European theater of war. Men, women, children, babies, walking aimlessly through piles of rubble. German intertitles list the major Nazi Party leaders, all on trial at Nuremberg. VS, scenes of the courtroom, prosecutors/judges speaking, translators in booth. Pan of International Military Tribunal. VS, crowds, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party rallies, large crowds running in the streets, Hi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002097
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report from Nuremberg. A chart illustrates the NSDAP organization. Defense lawyers raise questions of translation, etc. A discussion break for the accused and counsel. Robert Jackson's opening prosecution address. Concentration camp orphans fly to England to spend Christmas. They enjoy a welcoming meal at the airport.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002098
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. More shots of camp: smoke, tents, cooking fires, people wandering. MS through barbed wire fence where bin full of potato peelings is tipped over, two women look through waste for scraps. One Hungarian and one British sentry observe as female internees reach through fence for scraps; guards kick remnants towards them.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002099
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Against a background of authentic newsreel footage showing the condition of the remaining survivors, the audience is urged to give to the campaign. The funds will allow these people to immigrate, either to Palestine, or the United States, where they can resettle. The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Remnants of Warsaw Ghetto ruins, DP survivors, people in rags, walking aimlessly. Concentration ca...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002100
• English
• 1960-1961
• Updated 1 year ago

Notes from NCJF documentation: A group of people await the arrival of relatives and friends at the dock in Haifa. While they wait they share their stories. They represent the many different groups who came to Israel and the various and difficult adjustment problems they all faced, from those shared by the Yemenite Jews to those who came from Europe. The film is introduced by blowing the shofar, marking the beginning of the year 5721. "THEODORE HERZL" ship docks in Haifa, Israel. Immigrants getting off ship with nothing but "a lump in their throat and hope in their heart." People waiting for...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002102
• English
• 1946-1947
• Updated 1 year ago

Notes taken from NCJF documentation: The film provides a rare look inside DP camps, the crowded living conditions, the lack of activity, the new generation born in the camps, and the attempt at creating some normalcy under difficult conditions. Smiling children eating. Training dentists, lab technicians. People arriving at unidentified DP camp, waiting in line, loading belongings onto truck, truck leaves, people waving. Long lines of people, uniformed man directs traffic. People waiting, some sitting on suitcases, another truck pulls up, people get on with belongings. Buildings in BG. Train...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002103
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping over streams, sheltering under a bridge. Arriving at foot of mountain, getting instructions. 11:18:27 (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of J...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002105
• English
• 1967
• Updated 1 year ago

CBS News correspondent Alexander Kendrick interviews the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion on the Bible and his individual religious ideology.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002106
• English
• 1945-1950
• Updated 1 year ago

Introduced and narrated by Cedric Hardwicke. UJA appeal for relief for new refugees, immigrants to Israel. This segment of the Adventures in Freedom series focuses on daily life in Jerusalem, both religious and secular. Screen credits at end: "Support the United Jewish Appeal on behalf of the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Commi​t​tee United Service for New Americans ​Through Your Local Campaign​"