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  1. Krakow Jewish quarter; business district

    Two orthodox Jews arguing in the street in the Jewish quarter of Krakow at the main market square at the intersection of ul. Sw. Jana and the Rynek Glowny. They lean close to each other in a heated conversation at the door. Street scene in the business district in Krakow, many pedestrians, kiosk, people looking at bookshop/newssatand window. Man walking around with a sign advertising the film premiere of the 1936 American film, and Oscar winner, "Anthony Adverse." Scenes of shops and shop windows, crowded streets full of men, women, children, baby carriages, automobiles, etc. A quick cut to...

  2. Invasion of Denmark

    A harbor in Copenhagen, Denmark, with German ships, troops, and military vehicles. Troops raise a German flag atop a citadel. Germany invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940, meeting almost no resistance from the ill-prepared Danes. German planes fly overhead and drop leaflets stating that the Danish population should view the Germans "not as enemies, but as friends" and that the Germans are only occupying Denmark to protect Danish neutrality. This was the official reason given by the Germans for the invasion; they claimed they were protecting Denmark from an imminent British attack. An expanse of...

  3. Film crew in action at Theresienstadt - cabaret, soccer

    Shooting film at Theresienstadt in 1942, prior to the famous 1944 footage. Interior cafe scene. Three uniformed German cameramen and cameras seen in action. Sign: Theresienstadt Terezin Kreis: ------ 3 cameramen with camera and tripod set up; all into automobile with SS license plate, drive away. One armed guard (local police?) patrolling, near sign: "Juedisches Siedlungsgebiet, Stehenbleiben verboten!" / Jewish settlement area, No loitering! Cabaret performed on stage, assorted costumes; accordionist. Painted scenery. Woman in flowered dress performs alone on stage, dance movements. Two me...

  4. Street scenes in Berlin; Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten; Kranzler Cafe; Woolworth; telephone

    Streets. Exterior of large brick building: Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten in Berlin. Woman walks baby carriage, dog in middle of street, pedestrian. Outdoor café - Kranzler. Dining outside. Nazi flag hangs from building. Waitress with giant bow. Aerial shot of café, pedestrians, patrons. Street traffic, buses, trolleys, cars, people. Woolworth. Nazi posters with Hitler. 01:11:42 Above ground trains, city traffic, police officer directs traffic. Woolworth windows, storefront. 01:13:32 Women using telephone booth "Offentlicher Fernsprecher" Men putting coins into machine. CUs.

  5. Defeat of France; Hitler with Mussolini

    Hitler surrounded by top Nazi leaders. Close up of Hitler speaking, smiling. General Keitel presents a document to Hitler for his signature. The narrator states that after the capitulation of Petain, Keitel is obtaining Hitler's signature on an invitation for Mussolini to come to Munich, which happened in mid-June 1940. A shot of Hitler looking happy, smiling with others, as the narrator exults that France is defeated. In his 1995 documentary about Hitler's cameraman, Walter Frentz, Juergen Stumpfhaus asserts that Hitler was somewhat unhappy about this piece of footage, because he was usual...

  6. International Exposition in Paris at night: fireworks

    International Exposition in Paris, 1937 at night, fast speed. "Philips RADIO" Lights, fireworks. "Les fetes de Nuit" "Les Illuminations" "L'embrasement de la Tour"

  7. Trade fair; German factory; sports racing; doctors; Mussolini

    Reel 1. Part 1: Trade and industrial fair held at Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany. 01:23:47 Part 2: Pencil factory in Germany. 01:25:30 Part 3: Bicycle race held in Germany. 01:26:25 Part 4: Swimming race and fancy diving in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 01:27:20 Part 5: Man fishing with his bare hands in Italy. 01:27:58 Part 6: Medical doctors in German hospital demonstrate modern equipment to visiting foreign physicians. 01:28:42 Part 7: Train bound for Copenhagen leaves German railroad station. 01:29:39 Part 8: Benito Mussolini acclaimed by Roman crowd.

  8. Robert Adam memoirs

    Contains a memoir, typescript, 110 pages, of Robert Adam's family, attempts to emigrate to Palestine during war, internment by British on Cyprus, then opportunity to leave and fight with de Gaulle's Free French, and postwar events related to creation of Israel.

  9. Jewish district in Palestine; Jabotinsky in Warsaw

    With Polish titles. Camel caravan across the desert. Jewish district in Palestine. Jerusalem, men praying at Wailing Wall. Destitute people. Nablus. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. Road or building construction. Jewish police in Tel Aviv: at attention, inspecting rifles. A Polish-Jewish settlement (kibbutz?). Agricultural labor, tents in a field. The Polish Consulate. 00:17:20 Zabotynski (Jabotinsky) in Warsaw. CU Uri Jabotinsky (son of Vladimir) in uniform. Seen at train, arriving. Shots of Jabotinsky posing uncomfortably for the camera. Huge crowds leave (cinema?) Colosseum, where Jabotinsky was spe...

  10. German War Memorial in Berlin

    Funeral/memorial procession in Berlin, men in uniform marching in city streets, large wreath carried at front. Huge parade/military review, marching band, spectators line the streets, bus passes in BG. Guard stands with rifle in doorway German War Memorial (columned building); CU, boots. LS, small crowd gathers at memorial, building with columns seen in LS. EXTs.

  11. Black Sunday; partisans; Plaszow concentration camp

    Black Sunday in Krakow. Footage shot from behind a fence (?) shows people being loaded into the back of trucks by German soldiers. Pedestrians look as they pass on the street. Streetcars passing by. People being arrested. Amateur footage, considerable camera movement. Footage probably shot clandestinely. 00:03:25 Home Army partisan group "Kamienczyk". Young boys wearing military-style caps in the yard of a home. They smile at the camera and aim bow and arrows. Unclear if this is related to the next part, which shows the Home Army partisan group "Kamienczyk". About a dozen men in uniforms do...

  12. Children's hospital in Poland, postwar

    CU Female doctor speaking while wearing a stethoscope. Nurse and doctor administer a tuberculosis test to a boy. The doctor palpates a small child’s chest and listens to her breathing. A radiologist takes an X-ray of the child’s chest. X-rays being evaluated. CU X-ray of lungs. Doctor writing. Boy helping a younger boy TB patient take off his jacket and outer shirt and tucking him into bed. Boy waking up in bed and a woman preventing him from getting dressed. The woman helps the boy wash at sinks where other boys are also washing. Woman brushes the boy’s teeth as another boy laughs. 4:38 Wo...

  13. Blue felt hat worn by a German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    Blue felt hat worn by 11 year old Lilly Cohn when her parents, Margarete and Ernst, sent her from Halberstadt, Germany, to Rochdale, England, in July 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. Lilly wears the hat in photographs in the collection taken with her parents and older brother Werner at the train station. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, Lilly’s father Ernst was arrested and send to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released after 5 weeks and the family began preparing to leave. Lilly and Werner were registered for the Kindertransport. In July, ...

  14. Fishing in China

    Various scenes of China - children, cleaning wok on small boat, fishing, traveling shots from rowboat, home, scenic landscape views, fishing on river, ducks.

  15. One-room schoolhouse in central Poland

    LS of young schoolgirls and boys in traditional Central Polish costume walking in an orderly fashion along a dirt road. They walk toward the camera, a hen follows. Blonde girl with long braids in a classroom draws intently. A girl runs on the playground, her head covered with a scarf. LS, brick schoolhouse in the BG. Young boys and girls exit the building to play. Boy on a bicycle in Lowicz. INTof male instructor pointing to Polish letters on a blackboard. An icon image of the Madonna and Child hangs above the board. Two boys recite the letters along with the teacher at the blackboard. Girl...

  17. German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939

    The first days of September 1939, Warsaw, Poland under siege: MCU of German soldiers who are prisoners of the Poles, talking, smoking, cutting one cuts another's hair. It is believed that the soldier who is seated in the shot is a German Jewish soldier, according to Julien Bryan's accounts of this footage. This is NOT a confirmed fact. VS of destruction; people climbing over rubble, looking for their belongings that may remain in the wreckage of their homes. A young boy with a pet canary in a cage that survived the bombings. CUs of the dead and wounded. A woman plants a memorial of branches...

  18. Marshall Plan parade

    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.

  19. Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

    Crowd at Nazi party rally in stadium. Military review. Flag performance (fast motion). Formations on field, eagle/swastika. Night.

  20. Stalingrad (Battle)

    Animated map showing Stalingrad and surrounding area. The narrator announces "The Battle for Stalingrad." Stalingrad, which lasted from October 1942 to February 1943, and ended with a German defeat, was the turning point in the war against the USSR. This footage must be from the early days of the battle, when things were going well for the Germans. Two men, with their backs to the camera. One looks through binoculars into the distance. The narrator says that the Germans are firing on an ordnance factory. Shots of cannons firing alternate with shots of the city being shelled. Stukas flying o...