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  1. Americans meet Russians

    Sign reads: "Nothing in hell can stop the Timber Wolf Division" at Gen. Terry Allen's headquarters at Torgau. He was the leader of the Timber Wolf Division. Shot of troops with American flag and red flag on a jeep and whole series of jeeps driving through town. It is a meeting of Russian and American officers. American two-star General Terry Allen walks up and salutes a Russian officer. They all turn in a three shot and salute a new arrival as the band plays. Sequence of shots of officers listening to band music. American general appears to be pinning a medal on a Russian general. They shak...

  2. Oral history interview with Suzie Steiner

  3. Prewar Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine; tourist views

    June 8-15, 1927 in Ingwiller (the family stayed at the Hotel de la Gare in Alsace-Lorraine). Stone house in Ingwiller, France where August Levy grew up. Emilie and Robert play. Street life in the village - cow pulling a wagon with passengers moves along the town's main road passing "Epicerie et Mercerie" shop. 01:03:07 CUs of Levy relatives: Lucy Levy; Rachel Meis, half-sister of Henry Meis (who brought August Levy to Cincinnati in 1892), and August; Henry Meis (1857-) with Lucy Levy; another relative (woman) with Clara Levy; Henry Meis with Lucy Levy again, followed by Rachel Meis; Clara L...

  4. 7 video programs about the Holocaust: liberation and encountering the camps

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). This master tape is dated March 19, 1993. Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: British Army - Bergen-Belsen Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: British Army - Bergen-Belsen Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: Soviet Army - Majdanek & Auschwitz Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: Soviet Army - Majdanek & Auschwitz Second floor (2.07a) - Liberation: US Army - Nordhausen, Dachau, Buchenwald Second floor (2.07b) - Liberation: US Army - Nord...

  5. Representations of the Jew in Nazi German Propaganda

    Eight archival film segments compiled for a summer staff seminar in 2008. The production was also created as a possible program related to the Musuem's propaganda initiative. Segments include: Goebbels, February 10, 1933 [01:17] "Kaufmann, nicht Haendler" (1933/1936) [02:40] Goebbels, UFA newsreel 1935 [01.04] "Der Ewige Jude" (1940) [07:25] "Juden, Lause, Wanzen" (1942) [01:25] "Kampf dem Fleckfieber" (1942) [01:30] Warsaw ghetto, unfinished film (1942) [12:20] Propaganda film team in Theresienstadt (1942) [01:00]

  6. Oral history interview with Joel Aleksander

  7. Expanding German culture in East Prussia: Gdansk to Krakow

    Kulturfilm - Map of Sudeten territory, ”ausbreitende deutsche Kultur” [expanding German culture]. Rivers, towns, cows. 12th, 13th, 14th centuries, “Ostraum” 01:02:48 "Ordensburg auf den Weichsel" Ruins (between Danzig and Krakow). Travelogue style scenes of churches, castles, etc. Kopernicus statue. Schlesien. Geese. Posen. City hall. Kaiser castle. "Durch Deutsche geist, deutsche Kraft, deutsche Arbeit - wurde der Ostraum wieder Deutsches Raum!” [Through German spirit, German strength, German work, the Ostraum will become German land again]

  8. USHMM public programs: Eichmann Trial

    AV production shown at the Eichmann Trial public program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on February 12, 2002. Three clips from USHMM Film IDs 2036, 2039, and 2108 feature survivor testimonies about the Warsaw ghetto uprising and gassing experimentation, CUs of Eichmann, Abba Kovner's testimony, and Servatius questioning Eichmann.

  9. Jewish people in Lublin and Krasnik, 1940

    Lublin, late summer 1940, man rides bike down the street. People mill about on the sidewalk. A Polish officer crosses the street. German soldiers march in twos down the street. More men in uniform walking along the sidewalk, as well as women and children. Large trees line the sidewalk. Another group of soldiers walking together. A woman walks across the street but halts as a line of men march on in her path. They make a right and turn down another street. Swastika flag on building, mostly obscured by trees. Horse-drawn carriage. Buildings bombed out along the street. The Cathedral of Lublin...

  10. Oral history interview with Trudi Birger

  11. Silent film star marries in synagogue

    Magyar Híradó 62. Gitta Alpár and her fiancee stand in front of a synagogue, with crowds of people to the right and left. Gitta clutches a white coat around her and dons a crown-like headpiece. They walk down the stairs, and Gitta shakes a few people’s hands. Her husband tips his hat. Behind them is a young flower girl, carrying a bouquet. A man to Gitta’s right hands her a bouquet of flowers. CU of the newly married couple. Gita in a carriage, smiling. Her husband joins her, and the carriage pulls away. Another man and woman dressed in furs and sitting in a carriage, likely members of the ...

  12. Sport events; opening of new synagogue in Munich; Landsberg DP camp

    Life in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. DP children writing in journals. Hebrew "Olympiad" sports events: calisthenics, flag-raising, ceremony, spectators, track races, high jump, sack races, crowd, award ceremony. People gathered in streets, on bicycles. DPs getting off truck. DP family walking slowly down road. Raking/gardening. Children, families, playing in park. Babies. Girls dancing the Hora. INT, men talking at table. EXT, synagogue in Neu Freimann DP camp. 01:06:31 Dedication of a new synagogue on Reichenbach Street in Munich, Germany on May 20, 1947 (see Photo Archive WS 2222...

  13. Jewish family visits Switzerland and Italy prewar

    In Switzerland, John and Jetje Bed walk toward the camera from the entrance to the Hotel Gotthard. Passing landscape and a sign reading “Bally” shot from a moving car or train. Views of Lucerne from a ferry. The ferry sails past the Vitznau, Switzerland mountain railway (Rigi Bahn) station. Dog sits on a dock and very steep rocky cliffs. The family exits a train in an (Italian?) town, CUs of each family member as they ride in a horse-drawn carriage. 04:14 John carries a box camera around his neck. John and Jetje play with pigeons in a town square. The family enjoys refreshments at an outdoo...

  14. Lwow compilation: video finding aid

    Compilation of footage on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. 01:00:05 to 01:04:52 RG-60.3121 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.1 (1939) 01:04:54 to 01:06:12 RG-60.3122 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.2 (1939) 01:06:14 to 01:15:04 RG-60.3112 Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian land from Polish landlords Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos and Sound, 539 R.2 (1940) (in 00:14:59 out 00:23:40 of original tape) 01:15:05 to 01:25:15 RG-60.3119 Soviet...

  15. The Nazi Plan, edited version

    Edited version of "The Nazi Plan" for screening at the Goethe Institut on November 29-30, 2005, in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's public program commemorating the 60th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg called "Filmmakers for the Prosecution: Budd Schulberg, Stuart Schulberg, and the Nuremberg Trial."

  16. Refugees in France

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 74, Released May 1941 “Preview of Despair” Voice: Gilbert Martyn "First authentic films of refugee camps in conquered France - the first real hint of what's going on throughout a Europe in Nazi chains." Refugees work in unidentified internment camp; French flag; man digging with one arm. Wounded refugees. Women walk into women’s barracks (probably Rivesaltes). INT of barracks, fixes bunks, luggage on shelf, scrubs clothes. INT, wounded men in hospital (matches photo from Récébédou), nurses. “1938” Refugees trek over mountain in snow, warm a boy’s feet at fire (acco...

  17. SS Sonderlager Hinzert in 1946

    Collection du Film Scolaire no. 204 SS Sonderlager Hinsert Sign: "SS-Sonderlager-Hinzert." LS camp, barbed wire, snowy grounds, destroyed camp buildings, debris. Some dark shots and interior shots of graffiti on walls. Gravesite 164 in forest, pan. 00:02:58 Cart with corpses. Int, barracks with bodies.

  18. Oral history interview with Leo Weil

  19. DPs boarding truck with luggage

    Displaced persons boarding truck with luggage. Men kissing. More boarding/luggage.

  20. Jewish Brigade, 1940-1949

    The Jewish Brigade in action in Italy: Mortars firing; soldiers showing Star of David on tank. Brig Gen Benjamin talking to Major Jackson. 25 pound gun in action. CUs, soldiers, badges. Night fighting patrol lined up and receiving instructions from officer. Funeral ceremonies for member killed in action, Star of David tomb marker. German prisoners captured by the Jewish Brigade. VAR, CUs of Germans and smiling Brigade officers.