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  1. Oral history interview with David Saltman and Curtis Whiteway

  2. German Army South advances in Ukraine

    Pan of the Ukrainian landscape with a Christian cemetery and camp below it. Two German soldiers tour the area. Railroad tracks. 00:09:55 Quick shot of a band playing in an open market. 00:09:57 Destroyed Allied fighter plane. German trucks move out of camp through muddy roads. 00:10:23 CUs of German officers talking. One smiles at camera from a truck. Destroyed and muddy motorcycle towed by a van. 00:10:46 Soldiers eat. Tanks. 00:11:00 A woman carrying a baby examines destroyed fighter plane. Ukrainian fields and a low-flying plane. German soldiers kill a cow. End of reel. Landscape. Train ...

  3. US liberates French towns

    Shots of WWI cannon. Stevens in overcoat walks out of woods to vehicles. They talk with French civilian. Hamilton in shallow trench. Pan of graveyard with sea of white crosses. "Here rests in honor, glory, and American soldier known but to God" (sign on cross). American flag flying over cemetery. Fresh cross says "James D. Brokow." Another cross says "Helmut W. Fesoa." These are recently dug graves with soil on top. Another cross "Jim Shaw." Stevens and two men with still cameras exit from church holding book, apparently register of Americans buried there. Book open, with swastika in front,...

  4. Oral history interview with David Saltman

  5. 257th German Infantry in Krakow region

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. German officers pacing along a dirt road, likely just outside of Krakow. 10:00:15 A German officer and a soldier smoke near a stone quarry in Krzeszowice, Poland (25 km outside of Krakow). Officers walk in front of Wawel, an architectural compound and center of Christianity in Krakow that overlooks the Vistula River. A row of bronze statues surround the perimeter of a church. Soldiers and officers of the 257th Infantry and some civilian...

  6. The Jolly Boys recordings

    Side A: Kabootar (Khatibi) ["La Paloma" by Sebastian de Iradier (c. 1860)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 189. Side B: Yasseman (Fakoor) ["Solamente una vez" by Agustin Lara (1941)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 191. An instrumental recording featuring Polish popular jazz band, "The Jolly Boys," exiled to Iran. The performers include Stanislaw Sperber, Sonia Vartanian, Ghanbary, F. Socolow, and Igo Krischer. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group ...

  7. Masha: Why Me?

  8. Simon and Eva Mahler visit their family in Krosno, Poland

    Simon and Eva Mahler on board a transatlantic ship to Europe on their way to Simon's hometown in Krosno, Poland. The American couple poses for the camera and play ball. Boys wave an American flag. 00:02:20 Men in Krosno, Poland. Mahler family members and friends pose for the camera. 00:03:02 Daily life in Krosno's market square, later referred by Nazi troops as "Horse Square." Quick circular pans of the busy marketplace and the American relatives. Kids ride tricycles. Family members walk along the sidewalk. 00:05:39 Wolf and Bascha Mahler, Simon's parents, in the courtyard behind their fami...

  9. Home movie of prewar Denmark

    Several people riding on bicycles in a city, streetcars in BG, probably in Copenhagen. Sign on the building in th BG, it appears to say “Spirella Veterport” Horse-drawn carriages and a large majestic white building. Sculpture of a man playing a violin. (00:33) Film damaged. (00:46) Crowd walking outside, a social gathering. (2:37) Urban scene of people riding bicycles, streets, trolley car and boats in the water. A man is getting his shoes shined, people talking and laughing. People walk in and out of a building. Taking pictures. Two men walk on the street. Fountain and a large table set fe...

  10. American soldier life in Belgium

    "Welcome to our home theatre.” Scenes from soldier life in the wintertime of 1944 in Belgium. The men wash mess kits, use latrines, walk around town, and have snowball fights. Panoramic shots of buildings and factories in Dolhain. The Grand Bazaar, a department store in Verviers. Scenes from a three day pass in Eupen, including destroyed buildings and rubble. Shots of Murray Goldblatt in a military office in Dolhain. Street scenes of soldier life in Dolhain.

  11. Excerpts from private film collections of everyday life inside Nazi Germany

    Life under the Nazi regime from the inside (13:59 minutes) Part Two of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today-- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from over 30 collections, the production conveys private domestic life and everyday activities wi...

  12. At leisure

    Stevens and others leaning against rail, camera pans to show bathers at sea. Sign in German and Russian reads: "Americans are forbidden." Another sign reads: "Beach Club" with a picture of two GIs and an Army insignia with the number 2 on it ("Hell on Wheels"). Two men pitching golf balls on a putting green.

  13. Oral history interview with Edith Lande

  14. Oral history interview with Anna Stern

  15. Eksodus 1947

    Dr. Marc Fingerhut performs "Eksodus 1947", a Yiddish topical song by Yitzchok Perlov (text) and Lola Furman (music). Chamber orchestra accompaniment. Recording made for the DP exhibition curated by Lillian Gewirtzman at Columbia University on March 9, 2003.

  16. Dutch radio broadcast recordings

    Dutch radio broadcasts: CD 1: Stemmen Des Tijds 1942-1943 (a Radio Nederland documentary) CD 2 and 3: Radio Oranje broadcasts transcribed in occupied Netherlands. Includes signature tune, speeches by Dutch royalty and politicians, cabaret, music. Audible noise as Germans attempt to jam broadcasts.

  17. Zlatke fun Rogatke | Der rebe mit di talmidim

    Yiddish performance of "Zlatke fun Rogatke" (A Side) and "Der rebe mit di talmidim" (B Side). Performers: Elvira Boczcovska and Shimon Nussbaum, vocals. Recorded in Paris, circa 1947; reissued in Argentina early 1950s.

  18. Two songs from the Anders' Army Performing Ensemble

    Songs from the repertoire of the 2 Korpus Polski (Anders' Army) Performing Ensemble. Privately recorded in Rome, Italy, 1945. Side A: Czekam (piosenka dla lotnika) [I am waiting (song for an aviator)] Music: Henryk Wars Words: Ref-Ren (Feliks Konarski) Vocalists: Renata Bogdańska; Filip Ende. Performing ensemble of the 2 Korpus Polski: Wydział Dobrobytu Żołnierza (Polish 2nd Corps, Soldier Welfare Department) Music Director: Henryk Wars Plyta Polska - La voce del padrone (BA-5928 N. 205). Side B: Gdzie Najlepiej (piosenka lwówska) [Where was it best (song about Lwów)] Music: Henryk Wars Wor...

  19. Postwar Munich

    Bombed and vacant buildings. Lots of rubble with barely any civilians on the streets. Train station platform with mother and daughter. Views from moving train of train depot and countryside. City square with trolley and crowds, possibly in Spring. Men with pushcarts and bicycle carts, horse carriages. People are well dressed. (3:08) Field with derelict planes with swastika insignia. Young boy and girl walk around the ruined aircraft. Ruined bridges. Views from a moving car of the countryside and mountains. Mother with young boy and girl waving and walking towards the camera, they go in a bu...

  20. Children in Horodok, Poland

    Distributing bagels to children. Children walk in a line, holding each others' shoulders, some boys wear gymnasium caps. Wooden synagogue or school, children pose in group. Teacher walks with children in pairs. Teacher receives a new yarmulke. Families on street. 01:08:43: Street scenes with water carrier. More families pose on street. Cattle through street, droshkes, water carriers.