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  1. Exodus Jews in France

    INTs of refugees sleeping on cots, of floor, rough conditions (too dark). Refugees sleeping on cots outdoors, in trucks (police trucks). Shot of harbor. "Ocean Vigour," the "Runnymede Park," and the "Empire Valour" in harbor. Small boats go up to ship. Shots of refugees on ship (Runnymede) with barbed wire. Sailors on ship, more refugees. French Red Cross on shore, give water to refugees.

  2. Inhabitants of ghetto

    CUs of people standing for the camera in the ghetto. One man holds a crutch.

  3. Children are caught smuggling food

    Five youths are caught smuggling and forced by German (uniformed) police to empty the food from sacks under their clothes. Potatoes, carrots, etc. fall at their feet.

  4. Orphans of Buchenwald; Ex-Prisoners Coming Home

    (LIB 7016) Orphans of Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, June 19, 1945. LS, large crowd at Buchenwald outdoors on hillside. UNRRA official (woman) handing out papers. 01:46:51 Lilly Engelman (from Hungary and previously at Auschwitz) with the bandage on her face, prepares to board the train to Switzerland. Her sisters, Renee and Piri, appear later in this footage. Children at Buchenwald concentration camp are divided into small groups by UNRRA personnel. MS, American military truck taking the orphans to railroad cars. CUs, climbing off truck with belongings/luggage. US soldiers present. LS, w...

  5. German troops in Poland; Polish POWs

    Camp of Polish POWs, long line of POWs marching on road, CUs feet. German troops move east, through rural terrain. Graphic of southern front (Lemberg). Troops cross River San, Hitler reviews. Hitler looks at map. German troops, tanks through burning town. Tired German troops and artillery along road. Troops rest by road, sleeping, cleaning equipment, washing shaving, etc. Read papers while marching. Tanks through terrain, villages

  6. Monument and synagogue in Warsaw

    Monument in city. CU and LSs of street scenes with pedestrians, traffic, trams. Tram passes another building (synagogue?), slow pan up building, crowds exit.

  7. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Czech Army

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. SDP funeral; Czech Army.

  8. Ellsworth Kelly sculpture

    Ellsworth Kelly site specific sculpture commissioned by the United States Holocaust memorial Museum Art in Public Spaces program. The Art for Public Spaces Program was established to commission works of artistic merit that address the singularity of the Museum and contribute to the visitor's experience of the Museum in ways that are substantial and distinct from the permanent or special exhibitions. Four site-specific works of art, 'Memorial' being among them, were chosen by an independent jury comprised of contemporary art curators and specialists. The subcommittee included Holocaust survi...

  9. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 14: VS Farmer, standing on a stone platf...

  10. Gathering, sorting, burning books

    Two men go through stacks of books. Piles, books scattered all over room. CU, pan of books as they are sorted through. EXT, young men (probably university students) throw books onto truck. One man with SS armband. CU, books loaded onto truck. LS, Hitler Youth girls (BDM) marching by fire with banners, tossing books. Marchers throw torches into main fire. Goebbels speaks with animated gestures. Crowd throws books into fire. Elevated wide shots. Strong impression of books flying through the air in arcs into the fire. CU, bookthrowing.

  11. Nazi banner captured by an American soldier from a flag factory

  12. Jacket

    Worn after liberation in 1945 by Misha Mielup. Originally worn by Jewish police, 1943, St. Ottilien, Germany. Given to Misha Meilup while at hospital, St. Ottilien, Germany.

  13. Berestowitz, Poland: street scenes; people

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Scenes of small town with horse-drawn carts, people, houses, and dirt roads. "A Glimpse Around the Market" Similar scenes of town with peasants, horses, wagons, houses. "Peasant Youths out for a lark in the big city..." Five boys walk down dirt road, houses line the street. "When the pretty girls go walking, the boys go walking too." Pan of street with people and houses. "Shawls" "The Synagogue Center" VAR views of synagogue building. Men talk in the street, gesture at camera. MCU, woman in front of a house. MCU, family with children at sign readin...

  14. Warsaw city scenes; women with carriages; children

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. CU, baby in carriage. HAS courtyard with people. Monument/building. Grand view of the city. Arches. People walking about. Aerial shot of pedestrians walking in a park. Women with babies, rocking carriages. CU children. Women talking. Group of boys cross street. Pan up to church/castle/palace tower. CU boys with hats. More children pass by.

  15. War Crime Trial

    EXT Academy of Music. Trial scenes. Bela Imre, Jeno Racz, Pal Tider.

  16. Berestowitz, Poland: people; wagons

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "Somebody's Mother" VAR MCUs faces of townspeople. Street scene. CU elderly woman with scarf. "Grandpa" MCU old man and child. Carts with horses travel along a dirt road, creating dust clouds. Families on the carts. Some people walking. More carts pass by. MCU boy and mother pose in front of fence. Pan of horse-drawn (empty) wagon.

  17. Map of Buchenwald created after his liberation by a former inmate

    Map of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Drawn from memory immediately after Henry Glass's release in Feb. 1939.

  18. prewar Warsaw

    Partial reel (apparently with Yiddish sound track), of "A Day in Warsaw." Various scenes showing Jewish life in the city. Street scenes, markets, the Jewish quarter, newspapers, parks, synagogue, etc.

  19. Interior of ghetto, woman, children, lice

    Grim interiors of very poor, spare house, woman sewing, small children with thinning hair, girl picks lice from smaller child's head.

  20. Corpses carried in wagons, piled in shed, buried in pit

    Men load bodies onto wagon, pushing wagon down street by wall; little boy helps. More shots of corpses, loading on wagons. Wagon brought to central, primitive morgue, bodies unloaded. CU of piles of bodies. Line of hand carts with corpses brought to burial ground, bodies put into pit, as religious men look on. Putting layer of paper and dirt on bodies.