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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Kaluga, USSR

    Sounds of artillery and grainy pan of trees and German soldiers. The narrator says that the infantry is entering Kaluga [USSR]. In the town itself: dead horses in the street, destruction. German soldiers moving along a street. They do house-to-house-searches. Civilians on the street (brief close-ups) as a long column of German soldiers moves through, some pushing bicycles. More destruction caused by Stukas (according to the narrator), including a destroyed and still-smoking transport train. Soviet POWs in "endless columns" march past buildings with thatched roofs. The line of prisoners stre...

  2. Street scenes in Latvia, circa 1937

    Street scenes, streetcars, bicycles, automobiles, people on the move, traffic cop in busy intersection at the crossing between the Old Town and the Freedom Monument Plaza in Riga, Latvia. 01:00:35 The Latvian Freedom Monument, the letters inscribed on the monument read: TEVZEMEI UN BRIVIBAI [To Fatherland and Freedom], a soldier stands guard at the base, pan up the same monument to the statue of a woman holding 3 gold stars above her head. This is the Freedom Monument in old town Riga. Side street with a view of Riga Town Hall Square, a woman is cleaning the street with a hose and water. LS...

  3. YMCA boys, boxing

    Group of boys at YMCA in shorts, smiling, boxing, rolling carpet out to box. Various shots.

  4. Ruins; Czech prison

    EXT, man hammering, a destroyed building in BG. Men work among ruins. Pancraz prison in Prague SEQ (postwar): CU of a prisoner scrubbing the floor; CU, guillotine shadow; three men stand in front of the gallows and discuss. Men work among ruins. CU profile of man who cleaned the prison floor in earlier scene. Games on a table. A woman and a young girl speak with each other in a library. Children play soccer on a snowy field.

  5. Daily life in Poland, street scenes in Warsaw

    A series of TRIMS/short outtakes. 1. 01:00:01:07 MCU, two young Polish women in traditional South Polish folk costumes walk down a dirt path away from a wood frame house and toward the camera. They are on the road leading out of the wooden church. 2. 01:00:04:23 MCU, Warszawa, Poland, house with lion old town, Świętojańska street LAS of architectural details. Several ornate bas-relief designs in the building's facade, and a stepped, curved roof with ceramic tiles. Pan down to more of the building's facade, as well as the street lamps and street corner below. 3. 01:00:13:11, MS, Kraków, Pola...

  6. Jewish wedding in German-occupied Netherlands, wearing stars

    Marriage of Dutch Jews Jim de Zwarte and Rosa Wertheim in the Nieuwe Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Amsterdam, 1942. The couple is wearing star of david badges.

  7. Farming life in rural Poland

    MS, four horses pulling a machine dispersing seed, the horses are guided by a farmer as they make their way across a patch of plowed field.

  8. China landscapes and farming

    Various scenes of China - children, home, farming, agriculture, landscape, mountains, building boat, fishing.

  9. Street scenes in Krakow, Poland 1936

    Train station in Poland, people hurrying along the platform, one orthodox Jew hurries along, the rest of the travelers are dressed in contemporary clothing. The camera is fixed on the platform, soldiers pass by, two orthodox priests pass by, and a porter carries their luggage. Cut to the streets of Krakow, many people moving about, lots of activity, a religious Jew carrying a large parcel walks down the street, a peasant woman carrying a large pack on her back walks behind him, they both turn and enter a building (unmarked). 01:00:42:21 A prototype train car is being tested. CU of the opera...

  10. Finland

    Map showing Norway, Sweden, and Finland. German soldiers loading munitions, animals, vehicles and supplies onto a ship bound for the Finnish front. Views of the soldiers boarding the ship: they are shot from below as they climb steep steps up to the deck of the ship. Life of the troops on board the ship as it speeds toward Finland, including cleaning boots, shaving, eating, playing cards. The Soviet Union attacked Finland in November 1939, launching the so-called Winter War, which lasted until March 1940. The Finns managed to inflict quite a bit of damage on the Soviets, but they nonetheles...

  11. Postwar conditions of housing and YMCAs in Europe and the Far East

    Credits. EXT, bridges in San Francisco and Germany. Bridges at war - soldiers and tanks, bombings. Repaired bridge in Manila in October 1946. Views of damage to buildings in Manila. Children and young people in Manila, food shortages. YMCA services. 01:06:36 Boys club meeting of the YMCA outdoors in Manila. Baseball game. Damaged Y building. INTs, woman cooking in her home; her family eats. Student accommodations. Vocational training - repairing an automobile. Boxing match. Amateur night (musical performance). 01:09:55 Cathedral in Prague. City scenes, some buildings with damage. Two men en...

  12. Rebuilding life: refugees board trains in Germany; learn English

    (Color) CUs, weaved crafts. 01:00:37 Displaced persons (DPs) on a transport sponsored by the IRO. DPs get off a truck with luggage and board a train. Handwriting on the side of the train says "US emigr. via Bremen." DPs lean out the windows of the train to look at the camera and talk to IRO officers. Uniformed men and women with badges stating "IRO", "US Committee", and "USCOM." DPs wave and the train departs. CU, luggage. 01:04:35 Blurry footage for three minutes with more takes of men, women, and children boarding the train. Wide views of the train station. 01:07:22 Two official men stand...

  13. Chaya Miron-Katz papers

    The papers consist of three Lithuanian passports and one identification card from Uruguay issued to members of the Cicelskas family.

  14. Anschluss: Annexation of Austria

    Newsreel footage of events surrounding the German invasion of Austria. Intertitles read as follows: Austrian Chancellor Kurt Von Schuschnigg who failed to satisy Hitler's demands. Hitler's answer to Austria: INVASION! The modern Caesar triumphantly re-enters the land of his birth. Nazi troops give "Heil salute" casually, individually, to crowds as they pass in jeeps, armored vehicles. Some shop signs seen in background: Kastner, Wagons-Lits/ Cook, Mercedes. Hitler exits car to walk in street. From the balcony of the Imperial Palace he screamed, "75,000,000 people in one nation- - No force o...

  15. Children's hospital

  16. Film about children in a sanatorium

    with French subtitles. Children in a sanatorium in Otwock the Warsaw district.

  17. Invasion of the USSR

    German soldiers on horseback and in vehicles on a dusty road, moving east, on the march toward Schaulen (Siauliai). The camera focuses on one soldier who has his foot soaking in a bucket, riding on a horse-drawn cart. The music is upbeat and slightly comical. Three soldiers carry radio or telephone equipment between them as they walk. The music changes as the soldiers engage the enemy with automatic weapons and rifles. A few Soviet soldiers, with their hands in the air, surrender to the Germans. More fighting, surrender, burning vehicles. Close-ups of POWs, including one woman, described by...

  18. Postwar damage in Poland, UNRRA, YMCA

    Building ruins. Polish children walking on street, woman waving from window. "Falstria" ship, truck with bundles passing in FG. Cranes, crates, laborers. CU, "UNRRA" on wooden crates. EXT, building ruins, pan down. Wooden scaffolding. Man working, pedestrians. Boys entering YMCA. CUs shell damage to building. "Polska YMCA" sign. Children climbing on pile of rubble.

  19. Kaufbeuren Institution

    Nuns/nurses inside the Kaufbeuren institution. They are shown entering the building and walking around, up and down the stairs. Religious iconography and statues are visible. Separate scenes of group of male and female patients at leisure inside a large room. Interior of rooms with rows of beds. The interior of one room that looks like a private bedroom for a female patient. The interiors look large and neatly kept. Women outside sewing. One woman holds a cat in her arms. Shots of the women looking into the camera. Men sitting outside on a bench, playing cards.

  20. Marie Cuttler collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of Marie Cuttler and her parents, Felicia Grodzicka and Władysław Watnicki, both of whom perished in the Holocaust, as well as post-war photographs of Marie at the Munich Hospital. Also includes one small composition book in which Marie practiced English and one handkerchief embroidered with flowers and the words "Bad Aibling, IRO, Children's Village."