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  1. Ship at sea

    Shot of felucca at sea. George Stevens and two others in outboard motorboat. CU of military police badge on someone's sleeve. Old wooden sailing ship. Loading supplies, tires, etc. on dock, people in summer uniforms, apparently North Africans.

  2. Illich family escapes to Florence, 1943

    [no title] The three Illich boys (much older and leaner) overlook the cityscape of Florence, Italy, where the family fled to in 1943. They eat and place flowers on a grave. The boys walk down a street with cyclists behind them. Horses run on a racetrack. An older man (priest) stands in the streets with the Illich boys and other young schoolboys/classmates. CU, another priest with the twins.

  3. US Army kissing French girls; parade

    Stevens and Moffat in crowd of French civilians, French girls talking, Stevens signing autographs. Solow, Stevens and others in front of Scribe Hotel, crowds in streets, blue and white sign: "M.L.N." in window of Scribe. American GI taking picture with speed graphic. Shot of weapons carrier and jeep with camera set on tripod. Hamilton holding and kissing two girls. Shot of several Americans and French girls driving past in jeep. Large numbers of civilians walking past, American jeep "Flash Gordon." Six or seven men crouched behind jeep firing at sniper in window. Stevens puts rifle on shoul...

  4. Russian fashion designer

    Quick sequence of designer sketching seen earlier on this Film ID 3038. Women's heels. Singer sewing machine.

  5. Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1936

    Introduced with German titles throughout, beginning with "Kamera Regie Schnitt Maexie". Blurry at first. Extreme CUs of the three boys (shot individually). On August 8, 1936, the family loads into a car and drives away with Leithner as the help waves goodbye. They visit the grave of Johanna Regenstreif in Poetzleinsdorf. The car moves along the city streets before the boys exit at the train station, purchase a newspaper, and board the train. Fritz Regenstreif and Leithner shake hands at the railcar door. The boys and their grandfather wave goodbye to Leithner and others on the platform. Maj...

  6. The Sugihara family in Bucharest, Romania, 1942

    8mm film is severely compromised by mold. WS, pan of buildings in the city streets of Bucharest (Patriarchate Hill), pedestrians. Sugihara's official car with a small Japanese flag in FG. Driving along the city street in the car with tall buildings in BG. Toddler boy and mother, Yukiko Sugihara, pick flowers from the garden adjacent to the Japanese diplomat's residence. Sister Setsuko and two siblings join, one on a tricycle. The toddler runs towards the camera along the home's walkway and returns to his mother behind. The children play in the yard, the car is parked in front with the resid...

  7. 700 Years Celebration of Berlin

    Parade of floats. Chimney sweeps. Crowds. Umbrellas. Brandenburg Gate. Children. Berliner Weisse. Old women watch. Some HAS, quick cuts. 01:03:03 "Eröffnung der Wallbergstrasse bei Tegernsee durch Stabschef Lutze" [SA Chief Lutze opens Wallbergstreet near Tegernsee] “Deutsche Arbeit” 01:03:42 Car floats with Nazi themes. One large eagle. "Fest der Pferde." "Pferdezüchter der Bretagne." Horse show. Peasant costumes. 01:05:22 "Verkehrs…" Chemnitz. Traffic signal training. Closeup of traffic signals. Policeman testing cart driver. “Verkehrssünder” [Traffic sinners] 01:07:13 “Slalom im kayak au...

  8. Eddie Cantor radio broadcasts

    Excerpts from "The Robinson Newscast" and "Bedtime Story" broadcast by Eddie Cantor on his radio show "It's Time To Smile" (the show was sponsored by a toothpaste manufacturer) broadcast on March 31, 1943. Apart from Cantor, the voices heard belong to Harry Von Zell (track 1) and Edward G. Robinson (track 2). This full broadcast was "dedicated" to Hitler (for details of the full broadcast, refer to www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/variety/eddie-cantor-its-time-to-smile/guest-edward-g-robinson-1943-03-31). Robinson played prominent role in the touring pageant "We Will Never Die," also in 1943 (...

  9. 6 video programs about the Holocaust: Kristallnacht, children, orientation to USHMM Learning Center

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.23a) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23b) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23c) - The Night of Broken Glass Fourth floor (4.23d) - The Night of Broken Glass Second floor (2.09e) - Children: After Liberation Second floor - Learning Center Orientation

  10. Driving tour of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden in ruins

    Road framed by trees. Berlin in ruins. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with a large empty circle that was once the rose window. Buildings to the left and right of the church have also been badly damaged in the air raids. Side of a building: “Burgfeller.” Only the exterior walls of these buildings remain. People walk along the sidewalk. Repeat shots of the church and the surrounding buildings. 01:04:29 Two women and a man by a statue in a garden. The blonde woman and man in front of a large estate, calm lake. They look at a statue and climb to the palace entrance. Shot of trees fr...

  11. Various scenes in Novogrodok, Poland

    EXT, large crowd of men and women, smiling, filing into a building. Title: "The Talmudical" VS, INT of Yeshiva. Boys at desks davening, teacher instructing. Title: "The Metchet" EXT of prayer house. Title: "The Jewish Library" Still of library, MCU books on bookshelves. Title: "House of Tarbuth School" EXT of school, men exiting. Title: "Jewish Trade School" EXT of trade school. INT of boys woodworking, students eating, girls working on sewing machines. EXT, Group of men posing for the camera, some are smoking cigarettes, some are speaking to each other and to cameraman, smiling, all are dr...

  12. Seizure of the S. S. Dromit cargo

    Consists of letters and other documents (some originals and some photocopies) relating to the seizure of foodstuffs and Jewish possessions from the S. S. Dromit in 1949. Included among the documents is a German-language "statement of witness" submitted to the British Civil Police Unit in November 1949 by Josef Rosensaft.

  13. Kriegsberichterstattung: Wochenbericht 10.9.1944 - 17.9.1944

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Tank? "Weekly Report" describing Soviet - German fighting at the "Weichsel Bridgehead" from September 10 - 17, 1944. "Fierce fighting in the Vistula bridgehead" ...

  14. Lecture at DP camp in Germany

    Men and women listening to lecture at DP camp; slow pan left to right of audience. Sign: "Emigrant Assembly Center Reception Billeting." Man pacing/standing in front of sign, talking to another man.

  15. Yankele | Ghetto Vilna

    Yiddish recordings. Tslil 1222 448/455. Recorded late 1940s. Performers: Sonia Vronkov (voice); members of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra: Alfred Lunger (conductor) Side A - Yankele. Words and music: Mordecai Gebirtig Side B - Ghetto Vilna. Also known as "Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg" Music: Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass; text: Hirsh Glik.

  16. Vishniac children

    Two Vishniac children, Wolf (b. 1922) and baby Mara (b. 1926). Mara playing with rattle (the woman with the children is their nanny). Mara laying down. Mara in crib. Mara in crib with rattle.

  17. Anti-US Propaganda Broadcast from Berlin

    April 8, 1943 broadcast by Robert Henry Best, an American journalist who issued anti-US propaganda broadcasts from Berlin.

  18. Illich family activities in 1936

    Family activities in the year 1936. Introduced with German titles throughout, some are comical. The Illich boys play-act for the camera and take a walk through a park in April 1936 with their grandfather, Fritz Regenstreif. CUs of the spring blossoms and the boys getting into a car. A religious procession for communion on May 21, 1936. The twins are part of the ceremony, parade in the square in front of the Maria Treu Piarist Church, and gather with classmates for a group photograph. Ellen (Maexie), Ivan, Sascha, and Micha depart by foot and car. They speak with a priest and plant a tree on...

  19. Yiddish sound recordings from the Medem Library

    Yiddish sound recordings from the collection of the Medem Library, Paris. Selections include Holocaust-related music recorded in postwar France and prewar repertoire largely recorded in Poland. Track lists attached.

  20. 5 revised video programs about the Holocaust: exiles, propaganda, Roma, the others, and collaborators

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). These five monitors were revised in 1993: 1. Fourth floor (4.29a) - To Safety/Exiles 2. Fourth floor (4.13) - Propaganda 3. Fourth floor (4.24a) - Roma 4. Fourth floor (4.24b) - Others 5. Third floor (3.15) - Collaborators (Mobile Killing Squads - Einsatzgruppen)