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  1. Liberation of Paris, France

    (INV1485) Wide shot of street filled with ruins on the ground or some kind of small blockade constructed from ruins. 00:07 American Army cars driving down the street. Civilians approach the car to shake hands with soldiers. 00:23 MS of civilians approaching soldiers. Crowds looking and waving at the camera. 00:29 Larger crowds. 00:35 Two boys approach and kiss soldier 00:52 CU of soldier speaking next to a young boy. 00:57 Crowds advancing quickly down the street 01:05 (INV1484) Armed soldiers (French resistance) walk around Shell gas station. 01:21 Tank with Free French Forces symbol. 01:2...

  2. Kriegsberichterstattung: Tiger nach vorn Teil I

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Joachim Manzinoki, SS Standarte Kurt Eggers, 3. Kriegsberichter-Kompagnie. "Tigers to the Front" Part 1. Report on the drum and a short radio extract.

  3. Kriegsberichterstattung: Tiger nach vorn Teil II

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Joachim Manzinoki, SS Standarte Kurt Eggers, 3. Kriegsberichter-Kompagnie. "Tigers to the Front" Part 2. Report directly from tanks with radio extension. Battle Report. 5 tanks shot down: "Mein lieber Otto das haste wieder gut gemacht"

  4. Nur für Natur | Rusalkas Lied an den Mond

    "Nur für Natur" and "Rusalkas Lied an den Mond" Tilophan 254/255. Two art songs recorded in Austria or Germany, circa 1931-38. This may have been an audition recording for the aspiring US vocalist Gladys Miller (Kurt Frederick's future mother-in-law; Kurt Frederick was an Austrian born violinist and conductor who immigrated to US in 1942.)

  5. Max Eisikovits recordings

    A collection of recordings by Max Eisikovits, Romanian composer, conductor, musicologist and pedagogue, including a publication and documentary: 1. Toamna Muzcala Clujeana Cenenar 'Max Eisikovits' - An autumn musical at the Max Eisikovits Center in Cluj. Performance recording dated October 8, 2008. 2. "Seara de muzica romaneasca" - Evening of Romanian Music including performers: Formatia Art-Contrast (Art-Contrast ensemble, Violin, Viola, Piano). Features two instrumental works by Max Eisikovits. Performance recording dated March 12, 2012. Track listing on CD insert card. 3. Barabas Kasler ...

  6. Excerpts from private film collections of prewar Jewish life

    A glimpse into the lives of individuals who were soon swept into the destruction of the war. (28:45 minutes) Part One 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 conve...

  7. Ponar Yizkor

    A personal-poetic statement by the Holocaust survivor Meïr Shapiro with (commercially recorded) background music.

  8. Bookburning special exhibition monitors 1-5

    AV monitors 1-5 exhibited as part of "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from April 30, 2003 to October 13, 2003.

  9. Tourist ferry and boats on town harbor

    VAR shots of civilians on ferry/tourist cruise ship moving slowly. City harbor seen from boat. From land, shots of boat "VOLGAR" pulling up to dock full of people. Another boat operating by steam, CUs, steam vent. Larger ships at city port, shots of city from water. Villagers at land port, some waiting in line to board boats, another walking towards the camera carrying a bundle on his shoulder. Man raises flag with three boys watching. Life preserver. MS, smaller boats. Flag flying on mast. Shots of water, land from boat. MS, group of American students on small motorboat. City from the rive...

  10. 8 video progams about the Holocaust: rescue, collaborators, the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the Nazi takeover, rescued and hidden children, Nazi terror and expansion

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second floor (2.04) - Courage to Rescue Third floor (3.15b) - Mobile Killing Squads - Accomplices Third floor (3.19) - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Fourth floor (4.09a) - Takeover of Power Second floor (2.09a) - Children: Rescued to England Fourth floor (4.09b)- The Terror Begins Second floor (2.09b) - Children: Hidden Children Fourth floor (4.18) - Expansion Without War

  11. Warsaw after German occupation

    Shot by unidentified German soldier. HA panning shots of Warsaw showing people in a wide open space, probably after rubble from destroyed buildings was cleared. Camera pans in the opposite direction and shows the Central Railway Station. Ground-level shot of the Hotel Polonia and buildings next to it on Jerozolimskie Avenue. People pass by on foot and in horse-drawn carriages. 00:41 Man (foreground, carrying briefcase) and woman (background, carrying shopping bag) wearing armbands among other pedestrians on Marszalkowska Street. Panning shots around Zbawiciela Place show halted street car, ...

  12. Parade; Krosno town square; ship to America

    Parade with elaborate floats and crowds of spectators. CU, three children and their elders. Toddler with bowlegs. MS, portraits of families outside village homes (still in Krosno?). 00:12:55 Polish troops marching in the street. Banner in Polish above the street. A man with white beard and hat holds a Torah scroll behind gentlemen in formal dress. The American visitors and friends wave at the camera. Locals. 00:14:08 Synagogue (?) in Krosno. MS of a Polish soldier in uniform. The Krosno town square, local children, Jewish men, and crowds. 00:16:16 The large group of Mahler family and Krosno...

  13. Allied troops advance; Tirpitz ship bombed; Japanese-American soldiers

    Part 1, Ceremonies at Compiegne. Part 2, Allied troops advance through mud and snow in Europe. Part 3, the German battleship Tirpitz is bombed and sunk on the coast of Norway. Hitler at its launching in 1939. British Air Marshall Harris. Part 4, Japanese-American soldiers rescue soldiers of the 36th Division surrounded in France.

  14. The Nazi Rise to Power film on display in the USHMM Permanent Exhibition

    4.08 The Nazi Rise to Power (with and without English subtitles/captions)

  15. Roma in Hungary 1944

    Hungarian intertitles. “A csentei gederr (cigány település) messze a falvak népétõl…” Two young girls and a boy wander through a field of tall grasses on the edge of a forest. The two girls sit down in the grass on a slope. The tall grain sways in the wind. Intertitle: “Feltünnek a földbevájt kunyhók.” A vast field with a few trees on the horizon. Children run. The kids smile and sing. Women and children use a pot to cook on the ground. They are in tattered clothing. Intertitle: “az ebéd…” Someone uses a spoon to move around the food in the pot over the flame. Huts. Intertitle: “a bagó mind...

  16. Hitler Youth torchlight parade on skis; Germans advance on Russia; Bulge offensive; V-1 rocket; POWs

    No. 2. Part 1, Hitler Youth members hold a torch-light parade on skis. Alpine troops train on a snow-covered mountain. Part 2, Figure skaters perform in Berlin's Sportspalast. Part 3, Fighting on the Russian front. German planes dive bomb and smash advancing Russian tanks, shells burst, buildings burn, and artillery fires. Views of wrecked Russian tanks and of Germans in trenches. A German Col. who destroyed 475 Russian tanks. Part 4, The German "Bulge" offensive of Dec. 16, 1944. V-1 bomb in the air, a rocket barrage, artillery firing, and U.S. POWs and dead. German tanks and infantry are ...

  17. Tanks in combat in seaside town

    Contemporary town, bombed buildings, American jeeps, civilians wandering through ruins. Bombed out pharmacy (Pharmacie-French language sign). Local men doing cleanup. Several explosions going off in BG. Men firing mortars. Shot of three tanks crossing scrubbed brush field with troops following. Tanks are firing. More shots of men going through green brush with tanks firing. Armor firing, considerable smoke. Stevens, William Mellor and two other men swimming in ocean. Stevens swims ashore and walks toward camera. Combat shots of tanks clearing frame to reveal troops with rifles running behin...

  18. US military advance in Germany

    Misc. film, no. 1342. Reel 6, US troops and tanks advance over snow covered German fields. POWs are marched to the rear. Airplanes parachute supplies to troops. Corpsmen carry wounded on stretchers. Bombs drop on a German city.

  19. Germany advances into Poland; Polish POWs

    Part 3 (Reel 1): German assault troops land on river edge and advance rapidly through city streets. LS, bombed buildings explode as soldiers move forward along streets. HS, harbor. MCU, CU, heavy artillery fire. Telescopic view of area which is being shelled. LS, battleship in harbor fires directly upon port city. MS, civilians of Poland exit from shelters. Travel shot, troops and mobilized equipment move through streets and over bridges. Hitler in car rides through streets and is saluted by German soldiers. German soldiers rush forward, surround car and greet Hitler and high command. Hitle...

  20. Survivors at Dachau; service

    (LIB 6520) Male survivor attempts to hold up a deceased man to the camera. 00:15 They move his body across the room. Other survivors lying down, looking. 00:41 Male survivors lying on the floor, filling the barrack, with blankets, looking at the camera. 00:54 CUs of five different men silently looking at the camera, not moving. 01:29 Cleaning process: Men stand in the BG in line for washing. Man with an amputated leg leans on a walking stick, zips up his pants. 01:43 Men washing each other with the hose. 01:53 CU of the water hose reel. 01:58 A soldier puts powdered soap from buckets in a d...