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  1. WWII European refugees arrive in New York City

    New York Harbor, new arrivals to America. DPs from Europe, they are not all Jewish DPs, but they are all war refugees. VS, the ship named US Army Transport General WM. Black. Tracking shot of ship's arrival to NYC. Refugees and the crew of the ship wave to the camera as they enter the harbor. VS of New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty.

  2. Establishing shots, street scenes and buildings in Krakow

    VS, Krakow, Poland landmarks: old maket square, Catholic church, museums, municipal buildings, the castle. Used as establishing shots. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  3. Jewish wedding in German-occupied Netherlands

    Marriage of Dutch Jews Collette de Zwarte and Gerrit Schellevis in the Synagogue Rapenbargerstradt in Amsterdam.

  4. Children's outdoor celebration

    Children eating outdoors during celebration, long table, party hats. Nazi flags hang off chairs.

  5. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    Extreme long shots: German planes flying over Warsaw- these are the shots that Julien Bryan talks about in his book "Siege". These are the shots that he took while standing on the roof of the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland in September of 1939 as the Germans began their air attack of the city. The shots are composed of mostly gray sky with the occasional plane passing through the frame, this is not the most dynamic looking footage, but it documents the beginning of the German air attack and the very beginning of World War II.

  6. Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg

    In Adolf Hitler Platz in Nuremberg, Germans salute/heil en masse for the Party Congress, soldiers marching in BG are barely seen, VAR shots of spectators heiling. LS, parade with flags. View of spectators in windows (some flanked with Nazi flags and flower boxes). Closer shots of parade with swastika flags, drummers, crowd saluting. Hitler arrives, salutes crowd from middle of square. More goose-stepping. Close shots of Nazi elites in uniform. In crowd, brown shirt purchases hot dog and bun from a female vendor. More LSs of Nazi elite, including Goering, Goebbels, Hess, and others standing ...

  7. Visiting Jacob Herz's father & relatives in Wola, Poland

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family visiting the farm of Jacob's father, Israel, in Wola, Poland. Shots of the farm, house, and family. The Polish Herz family poses in front of their home with children. Jacob's wife and daughter Belle posing inside window frame. Daughter Judith pulls the calf. More shots of the family, farm, house, ducks, chickens.

  8. Coal industry in Germany

    Boats in river, barge. Coal. Dumping coal into truck with crane.

  9. Scenes of rural life in the region of Katowice

    VS, scenes of rural village life in the central Polish region of Katowice, circa 1937. Horse drawn wagons move along a dirt road, an orthodox priest in dark vestments walks along the same road. A family carries kindling on their backs. CU, the Orthodox priest stops to speak to two children with a goat. Three women walk along a dirt road, two carry firewood, one walks hand in hand with her young daughter. She picks up her daughter for a CU for the camera. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  10. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, acquired by a Jewish Lithuanian artist

    Factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by the sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz. In June 1942, all Jews in German-occupied France were required to wear a badge that consisted of a yellow Star of David with a black-outline and the word “Jew” printed in French inside the star. The badge was used to stigmatize and control the Jewish population. They were distributed by the government and police authorities, and in France, they cost a textile ration coupon. Jacques was born into a Jewish family in Druskenikin, Russia (now, Druskininkai, Lithuania), and immigrated to Paris, France, in 1909 to pur...

  11. Liberating Soviet soldier

    Voice over in Russian. Tank driving up the street as people on either side wave. Soviet soldier with bouquet of flowers gives woman a kiss. She pours from a bottle into the mug of a Soviet soldier. CU soldier drinking. CU of man in uniform smoking.

  12. YMCA: swim team, singing, basketball; sights in Prague

    Man operates a movie reel projector, children watch and cheer the movie. Boys swim in a pool and cheer each other on. Man sings to a classroom. Man plays piano. Boys play basketball. CUs of Czech language booklets. The Charles Bridge in Prague. Young men learn how to play basketball. Large buildings in Prague. CUs, signs for the YMCA. Men stop and read sign, then enter the building. A group of people in a room sing together and perform hand motions to the song. Camera tracks backwards over Charles Bridge. The Prague Castle. CUs, basketball players. More city scenes of Prague, streets, build...

  13. Poles bury their war dead, Warsaw, Poland 1946

    Red Cross banner in the center of large memorial wreath- crowds of people- men women and children, this is POSTWAR footage, 1946. Polish soldiers are milling about, several military vehicles. Civilians: men, women and children, some with Red Cross armbands, a group of nurses, etc. They process to a cemetery gate, purchase candles for graves. In the BG a wooden coffin is moving past on the shoulders of some soldiers. White flags drape the gates to the cemetery. This scene cuts out before we enter the cemetery.

  14. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    Woman selling newspapers on the street. Cut to scene behind the American Embassy where, according to Julien Bryan's book "Siege", all the Americans were during the Siege. Scene of Americans practicing for heading underground during an attack, American flag in the ground, sand bags, etc. They are trying to string the flag so that it will somehow be visible from the air so that the Germans will not bomb them. Several of the men are wearing armbands. VS, sandbagging the American embassy in Warsaw. The men continue to point towards the sky, as they head underground, one man takes still photos. ...

  15. Daily life in south central Poland, circa 1936

    EXT, VS depicting daily life in south central Poland, near the town of Katowice. Young children, women and men in traditional central Polish dress with large hoop skirts, head scarves, and woven blankets/shawls. The women walk down a dirt road in the village past rows of small houses. The men gather together, talk, and smoke, etc. The men harness their horses to a cart, an old woman gets in the cart, and it drives away. VS, several CUs of the faces of the villagers. Lfe in this farming community, young children playing, men getting water from the central well, a young girl riding a bicycle,...

  16. Kindergarten - Pestalozzi Froebel Haus

    Berlin - Kindergarten scenes at the famous and historic Pestalozzi Froebel Haus, part of the Pestalozzi educational movement. Girl with baby doll, kids playing indoors with blocks, stomping down wooden slide. Nurses change babies, toddlers, beds, eating, washing dishes, cutting apples.

  17. Farming in central Poland

    Farmers harvest crops in central Poland. They fill their baskets. Country road and horse drawn carriage carrying bundles of hay. More scenes of country life. LS on the thatched roof country home along the river/canal. Trees line the road where a horse drawn carriage passes by.

  18. Lithograph of Israel from Arthur Szyk’s visual history series of the United Nations

    Postwar lithograph by artist Arthur Szyk depicting a visual representation of the history of Israel. Arthur Szyk was a Polish-Jewish artist who fled Nazi-controlled Europe for London in 1937, and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1940. He started his career in book illustration and was considered one of the greatest modern practitioners of the art of illumination. His widely published caricatures made him one of the most famous political satirists during World War II. In 1945, he was commissioned by Canadian philatelist Kasimir Bileski to create illustrations for a series of sta...

  19. Farming in central Poland

    The pastoral countryside of central Poland, a thatched roof house along the river/canal. Four children, barefoot and in peasant dress stand along the water and smile awkwardly for the camera. LS of their house. Townspeople of Lowicz entering the church, in peasant dress. Large ceremony for Easter Sunday. One man, whose coat seems more contemporary and who is also wearing a tie, looks suspiciously at the camera. He then turns to his friend to tell him about the camera, another man turns to look as well. Cut back to the fields, four women and one man tend to their crops.

  20. Paris under German occupation

    Aerial view of German military parading on a street. Camera pans along the street. Shots of a brunette woman (featured in Film ID 2720) being playful with the German in dark-rimmed glasses. Two blondes, not seen before. Rooftops of Paris and the Eiffel Tower in the distance, scenes of Germans at Versailles. Camera focuses on two German officers walking towards camera, including the officer leading the meeting in Story 4414 at the left. As the men exit the grounds of the palace, women converge on the men and attempt to hand them pieces of paper, which the men ignore. Brief scene of a checkpo...