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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Funeral for Werner von Fritsch; Ciano motorcade; Hitler Youth training; Polish Jews

    "Ausklang des heldenmütigen Ringens um Polen" [Concluding the Heroic struggle for Poland] "Staatsbegräbnis für den bei Warschau gefallenen Generaloberst Freiherrn von Fritsch" State funeral for von Fritsch in Berlin, Germany on September 26, 1939. Statue, funeral procession. CU of coffin covered in flowers, Nazi banners. Procession of military officials, civilians at a public square. Large group of soldiers stand at attention, flags are lowered near the coffin. CU of Nazi official. "Zielbewusst und rasch, wie die deutsche Wehrmacht zuschlug, vollendet die deutsche Staatsführung das Werk der...

  2. Cinematography of the Holocaust presentation: March of Time outtakes

    Compilation of March of Time outtakes from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a presentation given by Leslie Swift at the Cinematography of the Holocaust conference in Budapest, Hungary in March 2007.

  3. Levy family visits spa in Baden-Baden

    In Baden-Baden, Germany, Robert and Clara Levy walking. Children and the family visiting the gardens and the spa where they spent a week. 01:26:46 CU, Carl Henry Levy. 01:27:04 CU, Emilie Jane and governess. LS, Europaeischer Hotel where the family stayed. Drinking hall with columns. 01:27:30 CU, Clara Levy.

  4. Still photographer shoots Stevens & camera crew on board ship

    Helmeted officer shooting still photos toward Stevens and his camera crew. Men at stations. Man with Red Cross arm band, heavy white gloves and canvas hood peering through binoculars behind camera. VS of sailors, guns and empty shell casings. Pan of eight ships with barrage balloons overhead. Shot over shoulders of officers on bow of ship. HAS of deck. VS of Stevens looking through 35mm camera on tripod. Shot of aircraft overhead.

  5. Life in German DP camp

    Tent city and displaced persons in Germany. Families, children idling near tents (Red Cross and JDC). UNRRA jeeps/trucks. DPs milling about with luggage. Pan, crowd of DPs. Man standing on chair, above crowd view of DPs arriving at camp with luggage. DPs with luggage getting onto truck. CUs, women, children, baby sleeping. Pan feet (mostly barefoot). Standing in line for food with buckets. Eating. Distributing food/soup. Boy getting water from a military jeep. Woman with baby, woman knitting, laundry. DPs idling. CU tents. Man dragging child in cardboard box. Man reading newspaper in Landsb...

  6. Oral history interview with Jack Rosenthal

  7. German soldiers advance; Russians surrender; Burial ceremony

    The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. Reel 15: Soldiers prepare and eat food in the heat and fraternise with their Italian comrades in arms, whom they are relieving. Tschigirin (Ukraine) in September 1941. Soldiers prepare thei...

  8. Television advertisement for the Jewish Chautauqua Society about Terezin

    Television promotion for the Jewish Chautauqua Society. Murals of children's art created at Terezin concentration camp. Narration of the Butterfly poem, images of butterflies. Cut to stills of Terezin camp, including Block A and barracks. "Stand not idly by plight and poverty and oppression, but love thy neighbor as thyself."

  9. Oral history interview with Hannah Marsh

  10. Food; bazaar; vendors; shop; market

    HAS, INTs, crowds at food bazaar, probably in summertime. CUs, vendors, food and clothing for sale. 01:04:35 Quick sequence of designer sketching seen earlier on this Film ID 3038. Close shots of Russians, appear uneasy in front of camera. Stacks of sardines and canned fish. INTs, women, cashiers, children. CUs, serving/weighing caviar for sale. HAS, cafe. INTs, activity in shop, patrons, register, sales. 01:06:23 Quick, EXT, market woman picking over vegetables for sale. Pan down, chandelier in shop, HAS, INTs shop. 01:06:52 EXT, market, women with babushkas, child drinking. INT, woman tri...

  11. Nazi losses in the Russian campaign

    Reel 10 maps the Russian encirclement of Nazis at Stalingrad. Marshal Nikolai Voronoff confers with his aides. The encircling Red armies meet in Dec. 1942. Flamethrowers, rockets, and artillery are used to force the surrender of remnants of 22 Nazi divisions. The final scene maps Russian gains and cites statistics on Nazi losses thus far in the campaign.

  12. Landsberg DP camp; UNRRA activities

    At Landsberg DP camp, men speaking at a table, passing out certificates to children, returning papers to UNRRA officer. CU, sign in Hebrew for religious school. Children exiting school with backpacks. Man speaking. CU, ORT diploma with name: "BLUM, SARA". Children with diplomas/certificates. Official speaking into a megaphone. Man toilet training a baby. Scouts pose next to sign in Hebrew. Quick view of banner "Wir ehren die Opfer des barbarischen Nationalsozialist." Brief, fuzzy sequence with children dressed in Hebrew scout uniforms and UNRRA or JDC official speaking to another, with Jewi...

  13. Italian fascists; Germans advance into Russia; POWs; bombing North Africa

    No. 634. Part 1, Italian Fascist symbols and flags as fascists celebrate Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome. Mussolini poses with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, speaks from a balcony, and breaks ground for a new building. Scenes of highways, schools, Italians in Libya, and the Italian Army, Navy, and Air Force show Italy's progress under Mussolini. Gen. Badoglio poses. Part 2 maps the German front in N. Russia. German Gen. Keller decorates an officer, Gen. Krauss inspects troops, and Gen. Eicke plans a campaign. Part 3, German troops move up and attack Russian positions with the assistance o...

  14. American entry into Paris

    (INV 1481) Slate reading "Marthey - 3 Paris" 00:04 Back view of three soldiers wearing helmets watching Army vehicles drive. Cars driving in street with some civilians. 00:20 American soldier, officer, and French soldier leaning over to examine documents (map?). Some civilians attempt to look also. 00:32 Red Cross workers speak to soldier in jeep. Soldier smoking cigarette. Street with Army vehicle driving through. A man across the street stands under a "photo" store sign waves to soldiers driving by. A British flag on the upper left corner. Street scene. 00:50 Army vehicle with a soldier h...

  15. Victory parade; Hitler

    “Das ganze deutsche Volk dankt dem Führer für den glänzendsten Sieg der Geschichte. Die Fahrt von der Front zurück nach der Reichshauptstadt wurde zu einem wahren Triumphzug.” [The entire German people thank the Fuehrer for the most glorious victory in history. The journey from the front back to the capitol city became a true victory parade.] Pretty young woman hands Adolf Hitler a basket during a train stop. Hitler Youth boy does the same. Train passes. Marbach/Neckar sign. Passing through. Hitler’s train on the move. Crowds waving, flowers… Hiitler at train window. Shaking hands out the w...

  16. Compilation for Representations of the 'Other' at West Chester University

    Compilation of Nazi propaganda films in the SSFVA collection shown during a presentation given by Raye Farr at the Representations of the 'Other' conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania in March 2007. Kaufmann nicht Haendler [Merchant, not Peddler], 1933/1936: Story #3294, Film ID #2504A. To 01:02:37 Juden, Laeuse, Wanzen [Jews, Lice, Bugs], 1941: Story #3295, Film ID #2504A. To 01:04:55 Kampf dem Fleckfieber [Fighting Typhus], 1942: Story #3297-3300, Film ID #2504A. To 01:06:32 Warsaw Ghetto, 1942: Film ID #2270. To 01:22:41

  17. Oral history interview with Eugene Messer

  18. 4 video programs about the Holocaust: war crimes trials

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #1 Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #2 Second floor (2.08) - The Killers: Eichmann Trial Second floor (2.08) - Other Trials

  19. Vishniac family in the snow

    Luta Bagg Vishniac (first wife of Roman Vishniac, mother of Mara and Wolf Vishniac) wearing a thick winter coat in the snow, pulling a sled (the other women in the background and waving cannot be identified - possibly the children's nanny or Luta's sisters). Luta sledding down the hill, facing the camera. Roman Vishniac sledding down the hill, he tosses up his hat and playfully catches it, facing the camera.

  20. Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1937

    Out of focus in the center of the frame for a few seconds. The boys sit on a wooden fence in the country surrounding an unknown teenager. CUs, Grandfather Fritz (Pucki) at an outdoor café, then Sascha. At the train station, the boys lean their heads out of the train window, waving to Pucki, Leithner, and Uncle Paul on the platform. Leithner follows the train as it departs. View of another station, the boys walk through it (filmed from a distance). Mountains, farms from the train window. A train pulls into the platform with Pucki, the boys greet him with hugs. The city of Bad Gastein, waterf...