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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Placing grave markers at Lidice, postwar

    Amateur footage. Opening shot, LS from high angle to green valley below, many Czech flags, on tall flagpoles waving in the valley below. People gathered in the valley, milling about. MCU, women, children and a nurse, with their backs to the camera standing outside of what appears to be a rescue or ambulance vehicle, the vehicle is bright red with a blue stripe, lettering on the truck is illegible due to poor image quality. MCU, a man and two women seated on a horse drawn carriage, they are all wearing shawls, their heads are covered and they look away from the camera. VS, men, women and chi...

  3. Pamphlet

  4. Gross and Herskovitz Families collection

    Group of black and white photographs and one handwritten book of poems with beige cloth covers with painted designs of flowers, entitled "Minden elmulik egyszer?" Also includes photographs relating to the Gross and Herskovitz families from the Holocaust era in Czechoslovakia, and a booklet of poems written by Serina Gross (donor's wife).

  5. Sign

  6. Book

  7. VE Day in London; Airplanes in formation

    (18 SFP 9490) May 9, 1945. LS of Westminster Abbey. Big Ben. Pedestrian traffic. Crowds. Women dancing on street. People carrying flags. Parade. Couples dancing on square. Megaphone. Crowd surrounding Buckingham Palace, Queen Mother and King on balcony. Billboards in Piccadilly Circus, shop signs, traffic, crowds line streets. Buses squeeze through people. Burning hangar. 01:34:44 (18 SFP 9491) March 1945. Planes flying in formation of six. CU, sides of planes "A-YU." CU of pilot in plane cabin.

  8. Refugees/POWs; VE Day in London; postwar Nuremberg

    Railroad. Entrance to bunkers. Piles of ammunition near Leipzig (wired to blow all the ammunition when captured by the Americans). Sign: "Munitionsabhol = kommandos hier melden." CU of German eagle with swastika. Tanks. Liberated Russian POWs waving at camera. German POWs guarded by US soldiers. Repatriated English soldiers. French refugees walking down road. German prisoners enter POW cage, march across shallow river. 01:22:13 Sir Winston Churchill in his office. Saluting crowd from car. LS of Big Ben. Crowd on streets of London, running towards passing car, waving flags. British soldier (...

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- workers; factory

    Different views of Zlin. Workers' houses. Building a new highway. Building a dam; men at work in FG. Gravelling a high road. Building the largest concrete building in Central Europe. Workers leaving a factory; on the factory street. A colony of workers' homes. Workers leaving the factory. View of the main gate. Bricklayers at the new factory (building in construction); other building in BG.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- pre-war Prague; Sudetenland

    Air raid rehearsal in Prague. Tear gas released, soldiers, journalists, and cameraman wearing gas masks. Soldier on ground pretending to be dead. Nurses tend "injured." 01:17:52 Czech president Benes horseback riding near Prague. 01:18:53 Views of Prague. Konrad Henlein speaking to crowds in Hohenelbe in the Sudetenland. Parade. People wearing German national costumes.

  11. Bela Sampson collection

    Contains one certificate of naturalization for the United States (dated 1952); one United States citizenship declaration form for Bela Sampson and Joseph Samuel Sampson (dated 1946); one marriage license form (dated 21 October 1945) for Bela Bajnesz and Joseph Sampson; and two marriage certificates, one dated 9 January 1946, the other a Ketubah in Aramaic and English.

  12. Views of Prague, Czechoslovakia

    Amateur footage of an unidentified origin. Brief glimpse of the city of Prague. Views of the Charles bridge, castle, pedestrians walking across the bridge, etc. The longest shot is a MS which focuses on a statue on the bridge. Another statue of the crucifixion of Christ, flanked by the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, with Hebrew writing.

  13. 10th Anniversary of the independent state of Israel

    A special Film Report on the celebration of Israel's 10th Anniversary of Independence. As witnessed by Adolph Kiesler, Chairman, National Campaign Committee, United Jewish Appeal.

  14. Destruction in Berlin; Truman at Gatow airfield

    MCU, Berlin woman picking up firewood, wrecked cannon and bomb damage in BG. Bomb damage around Tiergarten. MLS, woman picking up stick for firewood. Bomb damage and debris. Civilians on bicycles. More bomb damage, civilian traffic. Wrecked vehicles, burnt-out car. Bomb damage, sign: "You are now leaving British Sector." Five star automobile passes camera. Sec. Byrnes shaking hands with civilians and general. MS, officer directs C-54 to parking place at Gatow. MS, President Truman disembarks C-54. President talking to Russian officers, walking in crowd. MS, President's car. Activity at Gato...

  15. Jews in Warsaw in 1938

    The following notes are from NCJF documentation: The lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial "beehive" Nalewki Steet, were home to 400,000 Jews before World War II. "A Day in Warsaw" sets Warsaw's modern multistoried buildings and broad streets against its old market square and Jewish quarter. Trucks, trolleys, autos and buses meet horse-drawn carriages, pushcarts, and porters in the bustling commercial district. Also shown are the Yiddish Theater, Gensza Cemetery and other Jewish institutions-the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogu...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sudeten-Deutsche Party; customs

    Can 18, 100 feet. Meeting of the Sudeten-Deutsche party at Eger (Cheb in Czech), frontier town between Germany and Czechoslovakia. This meeting was particularly jubilant because two of the three German minority parties united and agreed to work under the leadership of Konrad Henlein. VS, overflow of the meeting who were unable to get into the hall. Listening to the speakers in the hall by means of loudspeakers outside in the cold. Overflow estimated at 5,000. Can 19. 100 feet. VS, INT of the meeting, showing the audience estimated at 15,000. Chief speaker was Ernst Kundt, leader of the Parl...

  17. Jewish Refugees in the US

    UJA and JDC appeal for funding to aid Jewish refugees of WWII. Footage of New York, Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Shanghai, etc. intercut to tell the story of Jewish refugees.

  18. Book

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  20. Prayer book

    One prayer book, printed in black ink in Hebrew and English, abridged for Jews in the Armed Forces of the United States.