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  1. Namering burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6745) Mass murder burial, Namering(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: A woman and two children walking in field; woman searching in ruins, holding up bits of burned clothing and bones. CUs, woman and children. SEQ: Burial of slave laborers exhumed from mass graves. German civilians nail wooden coffins, load them on wagons, lower coffins into graves. Men and women shovel dirt over coffins in graves. MS, German woman placing wreath on rough wooden cross. LS, German children throw flowers into open grave; one of the children spits into the grave. LS, priest holds large cross while his assista...

  2. Schwerin burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6509) Burial of Atrocity Camp Victims, Schwerin, Germany, May 7-8, 1945 MSs, CUs, German civilians digging graves in park area. CU, German uniformed policeman. LS, crowd at burial ceremony. MCUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains conduct burial services. CUs, Germans view bodies. CUs, bodies in graves covered with dirt.

  3. Demonstration by Jews in NYC; Nazi propaganda contrasts with their boycott of Jewish shops

    This is most likely footage from a protest by Jewish war veterans that took place in New York City on March 23, 1933. Men marching down the street: some appear to be wearing military uniforms and they carry a US flag. They pass a group of Orthodox men or rabbis, who doff their hats in respect as the parade passes by.

  4. Atrocities - reburial of slave laborers

    Reel 3: German civilians carrying coffins down cobblestone streets in Nuremberg which are lined with civilians, some of whom remove their hats as the dead pass. MS German civilians put down coffins in street for a short rest before continuing to the cemetery. Buildings in BG. MS various scenes of the procession entering the cemetery. At the cemetery the dead are again laid out in a line and the civilians crowd amongst the tombstones to listen to speakers recount the weight of the dead. A priest concludes the services and then the Germans walk by the dead. MS Lids are placed on coffins and t...

  6. Cytrynowski family correspondence

    The Cytrynowski family correspondence collection consists of letters, postcards, and Red Cross messages to Nathan Citri from Yechiel, Genia, and Miriam Cytrynowski in Łódź, Poland and later in the Warsaw ghetto.The correspondents describe their lives, their preparations to move to Palestine, and their disappointment after plans fall through.

  9. U.S. vs. Ohlendorf recordings

    Recordings of the Einstatzgruppen trial "U.S. vs. Ohlendorf", specifically the proceedings of September 29, October 8-9 and October 14-15, 1947. Otto Ohlendorf, the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which participated in the executions of Jews, Roma, and other persecuted groups, was sentenced to death by hanging as a result of this trial and was executed in 1951.

  10. German soldiers advance; Jewish forced labor

    Map showing Minsk, Libau, Riga. The narrator announces that we are about to see the entry of the German army into Riga. German tanks and other vehicles driving through the streets of Riga. Destruction, destroyed Soviet vehicles, dead horses on the road. Good shot of terribly damaged and destroyed buildings and civilians walking in the streets. The narrator blames the destruction on the Soviets. Huge piles of rubble long shots of Jews at forced labor, removing rubble. Brief shot of someone drawing the scene on a sketchpad. Closer view of Jews at forced labor, including an older man wearing g...

  11. German wounded

    "The victory is achieved" announces the narrator, as a wounded German soldier is loaded onto a truck to receive medical care. He is given a cigarette to smoke and a pat on the head as he lies on the table, waiting for treatment. More wounded on stretchers transported from ambulances in the field to trains that will take them home. They smile out of the train window and sit up in their beds inside the train. Heroic music plays.

  12. Prague, 1946

    EXT shots of the YMCA building in Prague (called YMKA in Polish). VS: reconstruction of buildings in Prague. INT: VS: young adults/university age students; a reading room; CU of books on the bookshelves (Polish titles); MS: a group of young men socialize in a dormitory room, pictures of dignitaries and a poster of Prague hang on the walls; CU of a professor's classroom door. Inside the classroom, English lessons in progress, female teacher. VS: CUs of the students in class and at a social gathering.

  13. Polish villagers relocating, receiving new clothing, relaxing

    Poles on country road, moving with carts/horses. CUs, women eating soup. Map. Tent city. Well-made civilian clothing and shoes distributed to peasants. Performance, dancers. Group walking, smiling. Waterfall, families at rest, relaxing, knitting by lakeside. Church service outdoors. Polish soldier speaking to family. Waving goodbye. 01:16:08 Children eating at long tables, at school outdoors, working in fields. Female and male officers marching.

  14. Linz, Austria, 1948

    Austrian footage, c. 1948 in Linz, a factory town where several DPs were put to work and began rehabilitation postwar. Scene of men leaving the factory on bikes, some women, some children, and several Austrians (non DPs) are in the group as well. Another group of men walking from the factory, at the gate, exiting the factory grounds, there is a guard who checks them as they exit. Truckloads of workers also exit the factory- they are all seated in open military style supply trucks.VS, EXTs the factory in Linz, smoke stacks, etc. INT of the factory: men at work, VS. A rail car pulls up to the...

  15. Polish children after WWII

    SEQ: Kids hold hands and dance. Parents with their child. The teacher? eats. Boys in a woodshop learn how to plane wood. Boys practice with a hand tool and push lumber through a saw. EXT children slide at a playground. Boys on a seesaw. Children play with blocks and small wooden shapes at tables indoors. They hold hands in small groups and high-step. Boy reads and eats. Textbook and magazine with a boxer on the cover. Boy enters room and takes away the magazine. The two boys begin roughhousing and leave. Man puts a child in a crib. He reads the boxing magazine and shakes his head. Woman (th...

  16. Nightlife; entertainment; park in Warsaw, 1936

    A sequence shot in the Warsaw nightclub "Adria". VS of the crowd, the bandstand and stage with dancers performing. Patrons dancing on a revolving stage, lively scenes of musicians and patrons enjoying themselves for the evening. The first band is the Franciszek Witkowski group. MCU, daylight scene- a park in Warsaw, a toddler wheels around a baby in a carriage. VS of baby carriages and families in the park. MS, a woman boarding a bus at a bus stop in Warsaw. MS, a horsedrawn carriage passes a palace in Warsaw. The same building is seen in RG-60.4156, on USHMM Film ID 3015 but in LS.

  17. Invasion of France

    Columns of German troops walking along a road in France. Destroyed buildings line the road. Tanks traveling along a road.

  18. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach

    Boy playing on rings, jungle gym. 01:01:02 Swimming, playing in water. 01:03:11 Hana's brother Jiri on bench eating. Fuchs family dressed well, preparing for departure. Eating at table, garden, playing cards (game called Marias). 01:03:55 Older woman? 01:04:06 at restaurant. 01:05:03 CUs of girls. Hana with tennis racket. 01:06:14 Hana's parents Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs, in garden. 01:06:27 Playing cards. 01:07:05 At beach, mountains, in water, slide. 01:08:03 In front of house, preparing to leave the beach, with motion picture camera. 01:08:47 Hana, dressed. CUs 01:09:06 At beach...

  19. Staged (comic) sequence in Zakopane

    A comic sequence of an individual dressed in a furry bear costume who teases passersby on the streets of Zakopane in central Poland. CU of the bear hiding in bushes along the roadside. A young girl in traditional central Polish dress walks by on cue, and the bear jumps out of the bushes, feigning to attack the young girl. The girl laughs and plays along. Two takes of this action. The bear then proceeds to walk into the center of the road, and approach two men on a horse drawn cart. The bear plays with the cart and the horse, attempting to get the horse to move, eventually the driver of the ...

  20. Sightseeing in Paris

    Title reading, in English and French: "Paris La Nuit / Paris by Night." Sights by night, with lights, Place de la Concorde, yellowish light, nice effect, especially fountain, with traffic rushing by. Arc de Triomphe, camera lingers on details, pans upward. Les Grandes Boulevard. Paramount theater, various theaters and advertisements in lights. People window shopping, lots of activity on the street. Tout Va Bien restaurant. Interior of a restaurant with people drinking coffee, reading [motion is fast forward]. Montmartre: cafes, more lights, Moulin Rouge. Gaumont