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Filming of the 1942 Theresienstadt propaganda film
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004141
- English
- 1942
- Updated 1 year ago
Scenes from the filming of a 1942 film about Theresienstadt. Interior of a crowded coffehouse with a band playing on stage. Star of David badges are visible on clothing. A man sits down at a table with his young daughter and a waitress serves them coffee. The scene is repeated. Shots of the band and people in the audience. The next scene shows a man leaving the coffeehouse. A sign on the door states that entrance cards must be presented when entering and leaving the coffeehouse. An outdoor shot of a uniformed German with a camera filming two signs. Two other Germans accompany him. A close u...
Jews with armbands in destroyed Warsaw
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004142
- English
- 1939
- Updated 1 year ago
Jews wearing armbands on the heavily bomb-damaged streets of Warsaw. People on foot and in horse-drawn carts pass in front of bombed out buidlings.
Schoolteachers receive instruction in racial theory
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004143
- English
- 1934
- Updated 1 year ago
Daily life at a Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund (NSLB) school. The NSLB was founded in 1929 in association with the NSDAP. Its task was to indoctrinate teachers into the Nazi worldview. Title on screen: Weltanschauliche Schulung [education in the [Nazi] worldview]. A group of men, presumably schoolteachers are instructed by Stadtradt Fink, who is speaking. They are outside under a tree. Title on screen: Stadtrat Pg. Fr. Fink spricht ueber die Judenfrage [Fink speaks about the Jewish question]. Interior shot of Fink, standing in front of a swastika flag and speaking animatedly. The camera...
Antisemitic float in parade
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004144
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Scenes from the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the town of Schneeberg. SA men on horseback carry banners with the town's symbol on it. Close-ups on a parade float show a caricature of a Jew paying wages to a German citizen. In the other hand the "Jew" holds a bill of huge denomination. A caption along the bottom of the float states: The Jew led the nation into hunger, poverty, and inflation. In the next scene, men wearing Prussian helmets assemble in formation and then march. A brief shot of people working on a float, then a shot of another float labelled, Schluss d...
Antisemitic signs during an NSDAP gathering
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004145
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Streets in Merseburg bedecked with swastika flags. Two signs hang above the streets. One invites citizens to come to the Party gathering to be held on the 24th and 25th of August. The other, larger, sign states that anyone who buys from Jews is a traitor. In the next scene, several people stand in front of a Der Stuermer kiosk, reading the newspapers posted inside the case. Another sign hanging over the street: Ein Jud und ein Laus ist wie die Pest im Haus [One Jew and one louse is like the plague in the house].
German women involved in war effort; woman wearing Mother's Cross greets her son; German army in France; Warsaw Uprising; action on the Eastern Front
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004146
- English
- 1944
- Updated 1 year ago
Cameramen listed on screen: Ammer, Berna, Garms, Grigoleit, Groeninger, Jaeckisch, Kilian, Lempert, Mahla, Pahl, Ritter, Selbach, Stollsteimer, Zeiss. Close up on an announcement requiring both women and men to register with the employment office. Women in an office page through piles of registrations while the narrator says that women must now enroll in the total war effort. Women must fill positions so that men can be free to go to the front. Shots of women operating drill presses, working in an armaments factory, and being trained as streetcar conductors. Women serving in the police and ...
Compilation for Cinematography of the Holocaust
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004147
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection and other collections at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr at the Cinematography of the Holocaust conference in Budapest, Hungary in March 2007. Clips include: Benjamin Murmelstein (12:37); Hermann Landau (5:53); Hansi Brand (24:06); Auschwitz (3:23); and Tom Veres (12:45).
Compilation for Representations of the 'Other' at West Chester University
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004148
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Compilation of Nazi propaganda films in the SSFVA collection shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr at the Representations of the 'Other' conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania in March 2007. Kaufmann nicht Haendler [Merchant, not Peddler], 1933/1936: Story #3294, Film ID #2504A. To 01:02:37 Juden, Laeuse, Wanzen [Jews, Lice, Bugs], 1941: Story #3295, Film ID #2504A. To 01:04:55 Kampf dem Fleckfieber [Fighting Typhus], 1942: Story #3297-3300, Film ID #2504A. To 01:06:32 Warsaw Ghetto, 1942: Film ID #2270. To 01:22:41
USHMM Tribute to Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004149
- English
- 2007
- Updated 1 year ago
AV production shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Memorial Tribute to Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff during the 2007 annual Days of Remembrance ceremonies.
Clips from WETA filming of the USHMM in 1993
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004150
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Compilation of footage from WETA's filming of the USHMM for their one-hour documentary "For the Living." The clips were prepared for the AV production of the Memorial Tribute to Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff (HMM250).
Public television feature on the USHMM
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004151
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
WETA's program on the development and construction of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum broadcast on public television in 1993.
Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor (ORT) training at Marseilles
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004152
- English
- 1939
- Updated 1 year ago
In 1939, Roman Vishniac was commissioned to make a promotional film at a Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor (ORT) vocational training facility near Marseille. The film was never completed, and only outtakes have survived. ORT schools throughout Europe worked to train and certify Jewish refugees in whichever skills were most desired by host countries. When French military mobilization reduced the available agricultural manpower, ORT refugees provided labor, and also eased the immersion of these foreign workers into French society. ORT training activities. Group of men with suitcases w...
On board the Exodus
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004153
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Video copy of Bill Bernstein's 8mm color home movies aboard the ship Exodus 1947. Exodus 1947 carried 4,500 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who sought to illegally immigrate into Palestine. Even before the ship reached Palestine's territorial waters, British destroyers surrounded it. Bill Bernstein, the Exodus's second officer and a Jew, was clubbed to death trying to prevent a British soldier from entering the wheelhouse on the ship. The remaining passengers were eventually transferred to DP camps in Germany. Exodus ship at sea, flag on ship. 01:03:20 MSs, snow on board steamship (probab...
Soviet film of atrocities shown at Nuremberg Trials
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004154
- English
- 1945
- Updated 1 year ago
Reel 1: Documents. Atrocities, corpses, women weeping, Soviet soldiers. Exhumation of mass grave, Russians weeping. Corpses at camp. 01:18:32 Reel 2: Human remains. Doctors, exhumation, skulls. Human remains at camp, beach. Reburying children in coffins, women weeping. Watchtower, barbed wire, corpses. Gravesite in forest. Fires. 01:31:40 Klooga: corpses, CU of victim with number and Star of David. 01:33:51 Reel 3: Lublin, INTs corpses. Civilians view bodies and camp barracks. MS, survivors. Aerial views of Majdanek, barracks. Skulls and bones, crematorium. Victims' belongings (shoes, passp...
Ceremony at church
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004155
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Very brief trim, INTs of church, many clergy seated in formal dress for some kind of official visit or ceremony. Most likely related to Eleanor Roosevelt's visit seen in Story RG-60.4652.
Marshall Plan parade
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004156
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Marching band and elaborate floats process while spectators line streets. Float sponsored by Dutch airline KLM passes, followed by one proclaiming "Thank You Marshall" with girls dressed in white. CUs, marching band members. Dutch flags posted on apartment buildings, spectators watch the parade from their apartment windows, street traffic.
Postwar steel wire factory
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004157
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout). Various MSs and CUs of interiors, workers, and equipment. 01:04:07 Multiple takes, at end of shift, worker takes his bicycle and rides it around the EXT of the factory building past other employees. INTs, factory. CU, woman in window talking to someone below. Different shot of EXT of building with bicycles parked out front, same worker rides one. City street scenes, busy intersection, buses, man on bicycle passes by (multiple takes), traffic. CUs, man. EXT, factory with smokestacks (minor film damage).
China landscapes and farming
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004158
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Various scenes of China - children, home, farming, agriculture, landscape, mountains, building boat, fishing.
Postwar steel wire factory
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004159
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout), workers, and equipment.
Marshall Plan parade
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1004160
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Dutch flags on buildings. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Float proclaiming "Thank You Marshall" with girls dressed in white passes the camera. Various MSs, CUs of spectators watching parade and cheering. More floats process. Another view of the Dutch flags. CUs, Dutch spectators.