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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. 2 video programs about the Holocaust: Nuremberg and other war crimes trials

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second floor (2.08b) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #2 Second floor (2.08c) - Other Trials

  2. Medal ceremony; baseball; crossing the Rhine

    A French general leads a V corps medal decoration ceremony in Meschernich, Germany. Village scenes, including shots of Murray and other soldiers. Ruins of buildings and a railroad depot. Soldiers play baseball. The crossing of the Rhine into Neuwied, Germany, over the Victor Pontoon Bridge.

  3. United Jewish Appeal trip to Israel

    This film may show part of the UJA's "Destiny Drive" fundraiser, during which officials from the United Jewish Appeal philanthropic organization spent four weeks visiting Europe and Israel. Titles on screen: "Visiting the Jewish State," "Journey in Israel of the United Jewish Appeal Overseas Delegation," "Photographed by Lasar Dunner," and "Tel Aviv - only all-Jewish city in the world." CU hand draws a circle in red pencil around Tel Aviv on a map. Cars and bicycles pass on city streets. A man in a military uniform looks at advertisements posted on a freestanding pillar. Title on screen: "F...

  4. Restaurant interiors

    INT, restaurant, waiters.

  5. Burning the barracks at Belsen

    Burning barracks. Brief shot of British flag on flagpole. Crowd of survivors watching barracks on fire.

  6. Russians meet Americans at Torgau; refugees

    Color film coverage of Americans linking up with Russians on the Elbe River in April 1945. Jeep passing another on country road. Road sign reads: "Torgau." Stevens and others at Bahnhof Drogerie. Parked jeeps on road in town. Group of Russian soldiers and a woman. Pan to Russian soldiers and brief shot of Ivan Moffat. Stevens with goggles on, pan to group of soldiers. CU of Russian soldier holding a machine gun. More CUs of Russian soldiers. Stevens with helmet and goggles and Russian soldiers, cameramen kneeling taking a shot of the scene. Stevens in FG, bombed out bridge in BG. Lieutenant...

  7. 1922 funeral of a Jew

    Concordia Film 2. “Az áldozatok temetése” (The victim’s funeral) and a decorative border with CONCORDIA FILM at the bottom. Men in coats stand in front of the glass windows of a shop, price tags attached to every item. “Mintegy 20000 ember vett részt az áldozatok temetésén” (About 20,000 people attended the victim’s funeral). The crowd dressed in dark colors. Bearded man. “A közismert amerikai Pedlow kapitány a temetésen” (The well-known American captain Pedlow at the funeral). A man in uniform (Pedlow?) thumbs through a book. More shots of the funeral crowd. “Az áldozatok hozzátartozói”. S...

  8. Oral history interview with Marge Weiss

  9. Illich family activities in 1939

    Family activities in the year 1939. Introduced with German titles throughout, some are comical. Frame line of the opening scenes are off. The three Illich boys pull their cousin Hanni and their grandfather in a sled on the snow on New Year's morning in 1939. In the Third Poetz Revue, one of the twins plays the guitar and sings for the camera (the first revue after Marion Stein's family fled Austria). Play-acting in costume. 02:37:54 (B/W) People walking through a garden in early spring, flowering trees. Children take photographs. 02:38:51 Fritz, Ellen (Maexie), and the three boys singing ou...

  10. GIs firing mortars; German prisoners and weapons

    Sign reads: "Berlin 137 kms, Duben 3 kms" on right. Pan left to another sign that reads: "Leipzig 32 kms" on left. GIs firing mortars, situation clearly genuine action. They are in a field behind some houses. LS of what apparently is the target in the distance. VS through an aperture of some sort viewing across a green field. More shots of GIs firing mortars. Another angle of mortar firing. CUs, three American GIs. GIs sweeping up shells in street next to armored vehicle. Group of GIs by tank. Pan of men walking across a narrow pontoon bridge over a river, continues pan to reveal German sol...

  11. 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...

  12. Oral history interview with Suzie Steiner

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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]

  16. Oral history interview with Joel Aleksander

  17. 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]

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. Oral history interview with Trudi Birger