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  1. German munitions

    Panning shot of German heavy and light weapons for use on the front. Emphasis on the numbers and might of the tanks and weaponry. Close-up of tanks wheels rolling past as the narrator reports that the Soviets are being decisively defeated on all parts of the front, and that neither "General mud nor General winter" can stop the German advance. Vehicles of all types rolling along the road. Low aerial shot of the convoy along the road with triumphant music.

  2. Ghetto in Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. Policeman passing quickly close to camera. Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two boys smiling awkwardly at camera, man with beard. Crowd on street, CU. Crowd walking, smiles and excitement. Men arm i...

  3. Battle for Kharkov

    Map showing the "southern sector of the front." Troops marching in the area of "Donez" (Donets'k) and "Ckarkow" (Kharkov). Odessa and the Dnieper River also appear on the map. German troops marching and riding bicycles along a road. Shots of horse-drawn carts and soldiers on horseback from a ground-level perspective. A German soldier rides a camel down the road, because "the Asian border is not far away." A plane flies overhead; we see the line of horse-drawn carts and a gasoline storage facility from its perspective. From the perspective of the ground again, we see German soldiers rolling ...

  4. Trade school in Berlin

    Trade school in Berlin. Woodshop, airplanes. CU, blond boy.

  5. Antonescu visits Hitler

    Hitler greeting Ion Antonescu as he arrives by train at Hitler's Hauptquartier (headquarters). There is snow falling and already on the ground as Hitler greets Antonescu. They are shown driving away in a car and walking into the Hauptquartier, where there are other officials waiting, including General Alfred Jodl. Maps are visible on the walls. The narrator states that there were discussions about political and military issues during this visit. The group gathers around a table and consults a map; Jodl appears to be bringing certain points to the attention of Hitler and Antonescu. Antonescu...

  6. Passengers boarding a train in Poland, near Warsaw

    Short clip, unidentified location in Poland, circa 1937. Several people standing on a train platform as the train pulls into the station. Quick shots of passengers boarding the trains: men, women, and some teenage boys, all are well dressed, some carry parcels, in one shot a conductor is visible in the background and two adolescent boys board the train in the foreground. Several of the subjects look directly at the camera. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  7. Coal mining

    Coal mining. 01:22:01 Ford factory, workers on break, smoking, eating. EXT, glass building. Workers gathered around car. Mining coal, Ford tower in BG. CUs, coal. On river, boats in BG. Coal workers operating pulleys.

  8. Sightseeing in Paris; women modeling new dresses

    Another day, showing monument/great building, two women with another German officer. Focus on one (not the same woman as shown previously), who is smiling and laughing. She tips her hat to the camera. 01:05:18 in a park. Two women from the previous scene are laughing and swinging on a swing set, standing up. An older woman speaks to them, appearing to chastise them (perhaps for standing or for swinging too high, or she wants the children to get a turn). Children in BG. Two women and the officer at a food stall of some kind. One of the women (in dark coat) feeds something to the German offic...

  9. Portfolio

    Book, Arbeit Macht Frei, of reproductions of 16 drawings of concentration camp scenes by Frantisek Reichtental. This edition, signed by the artist on the title page, is number 449 of a limited run of 5000 copies, of which 1000 were signed by Reichtental. The majority of the proceeds from the book sales were dedicated to the children's homes of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Slovakia.

  10. Train; crowds

    Train cuts through snowy mountains. LS, town in distance, and body of water at base of mountain. Storefront with Cyrillic sign. Crowd of people stand around a building looking at news. CUs, photographs of current events.

  11. Selected records from the Archives départementales du Nord

    Contains materials pertaining to the persecution of Jews and Freemasons in the Département du Nord.

  12. Reproduction of a spoon and box smuggled out of Warsaw ghetto with an infant

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512972
    • English
    • 2002
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Reproduction of a silver spoon smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto with 5 month old Elżbieta Kopel (later Ficowska) in a wooden box hidden under bricks piled in a wagon in May 1942. It was given to her by her Jewish parents, Izrael and Henia Rochman Kopel, and is engraved with her nickname, Elżunia, and her birthdate, January 5, 1942. The spoon and case were presented to the Museum on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Zegota's formation because Elżbieta's escape from the ghetto was handled by Irena Sendlerowa and members of that underground organization, which assisted Jewish people in ...

  13. Daily life in Zakopane, Poland 1936

    Snow in Zakopane. Traveling shot from the funicular in the Zaprowy (Tatra) mountains at Zakopane. This is where the Poles would go to ski. VS, panoramic shots of the countryside. The funicular travels over the village- a few shots of villagers below, then more snow and mountains. The gondola approaching the top of the mountain; MCU gondola operator, CU on the gears, another shot of it approaching the end of the run, from a slightly different angle- people disembarking. VS from the gondola, shadows of the gondola along the mountainside. 01:03:08:25 Someone in a bear costume in the village te...

  14. Diary of Anna Dashevskaya

    The diary of Anna Dashevskaya, a Jewish young student of the Kiev University, provides thorough account of her family evacuation from Kiev to the Ural Mountains describing major events, daily life and many problems she and her family encountered during the evacuation to the Urals.

  15. Liberation of Lublin, Majdanek

    Liberation of Polish towns. Liberation of Lublin, Majdanek.

  16. Preparations for Easter in the region of Lowicz and Witów

    VS, preparations for church in Lowicz, Poland. VS of the procession (likely for Easter Sunday) of townspeople, all in traditional clothing, to the church. They are led by the local clergy and several carry banners as they process through the streets. VS of the young children dressed in their finery, two flower girls sprinkle the path to the church with flower petals. Polish highlanders march from the church through the Polish village of Witów, in Kościelisko Commune, Tatrzański County. The priest visible in the middle wearing a dark cassock and elaborate hat is then parson of Chochołów pari...

  17. Marshall Plan parade

    Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Marching band and elaborate floats process while spectators line streets. Float sponsored by Dutch airline KLM passes, followed by one proclaiming "Thank You Marshall" with girls dressed in white. CUs, marching band members. Dutch flags posted on apartment buildings, spectators watch the parade from their apartment windows, street traffic.

  18. Luftwaffe officers & Goering's staff tour Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii

    Scenes of Mt. Vesuvius and ruins of Pompeii in Italy with uniformed Luftwaffe men. Men in civilian clothes include at least 3 Luftwaffe staff or officers closely associated with Goering (they also appear in Film IDs 2548 and 2549): Fritz Goernnert in lederhosen; wavy-haired man in knickers who may be Kattengel; dark-haired man seen in target practice scenes; and the man with dark-rimmed spectacles and photo camera (Eitel Lange, the personal stills photographer for Hermann Goering, who joined Goering's staff in the summer of 1940). 01:01:02 WS with volcano. Priest in long black frock scamper...

  19. Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

    Peasants baking bread, harvesting grain, going about their daily lives in this rural, mountainous region. This footage is stunning. Julien Bryan himself is featured in this footage. He traveled at this time with the noted anthropologist Maurice Hindus and a group of Princeton University students on a journey through Russian villages. Several of the students can also be seen in this sequence. They traveled with local guides, with horses and mules through the mountains. VS of their local guides, the mountains, children and women in the villages, sifting grain and baking flatbread, local men h...

  20. Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia

    LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." MS, workers in uniform, wearing caps, masks around their necks, on break outside the refinery. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. VS, of women sorting pieces of zinc on a conveyor belt before processing. Good shots of quick, nimble fingers at work, several CUs of their hands.