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Language of Description: Latvian

  1. Russian Christian Orthodox church service

    EXT, LS of unidentified factory, quickly cuts to an INT scene in an orthodox church whre people receive communion, exact location and date, as well as the reason for the service are unknown; images of Russian iconography. EXT, church procession, large crowds are gathered outside the church. This is a different location and church than the church featured in the first scene of this story. 01:07:23:25 CU of a bearded Russian Orthodox priest reading from a book of scripture outside the church, the pages of the book are blowing in the wind. VS, several angles on the priest and the congregation ...

  2. Touring Europe; mountains

    Tourist photography of mountains, family in the FG posing next to their car. Hikers prepare for trip in snow-topped mountains. More shots of mountains, landscape, hiking. Farmers.

  3. German capture of Vinnitsa, Ukraine

    Map showing Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Ukrainian citizens and German soldiers work to repair roads destroyed by the Soviets. German military vehicles attempting to drive down muddy roads; a large van slides along the road and must be pushed by a number of German soldiers. More street repair and muddy roads. The narrator announces the fight for Vinnitsa. German soldiers in a field; sound of gunshots. Destroyed bridges and vehicles, with some corpses visible. Germans marching through Vinnitsa after capturing the city. German soldiers greeted by a Hungarian officer.

  4. Touring Paris

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. LS, Versailles. Plaza, park in Paris, horse and buggy. Woman running towards the camera. Paris street scenes and shots of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. Crowds.

  5. During my childhood Gouache created postwar by a former inmate of a people in a transit camp being loaded on a truck

    Multi-colored gouache created by Maurice Rosen based upon his experiences as a prisoner in Pithiviers transit camp in France.The painting depicts men and women standing on the flatbed of a truck located in front of a barbed-wire fence with soldiers standing nearby.

  6. Berlin street scenes; memorial ceremony; coal

    Sequence of outtakes. Park in Berlin, several people walk by, people sitting on wooden benches in the park, a child plays as an older woman looks on. CU of signs: Top: Citizens are asked to keep their dogs on leash. Bottom: "Die gelben Baenke sind fuer Jueden." [The yellow benches are for Jews.] VS of the park, but none that show the sign in context of park. (Olivaerplatz near Kurfuerstendamm) LS Airship hangar. Memorial for the fallen, Berlin. MS, Crowds assembled along the street. Wreath laying ceremony for Nazis (rainy day/overcast). Procession with dignitaries and military officers. Mil...

  7. Polish YMCA in Prague, 1946

    Prague, 1946. Polish YMCA: young adults take classes at the YMCA. The classes are co-ed. They are learning English. Scenes of socials, teas, mixers, etc. VS: young men learn to play basketball.

  8. Nazi Germany trims: Leica factory, ferry, Pestalozzi Froebel Kindergarten, airplanes, peasants, exhibitions, nursery, tobacco, anti-Jewish signs, Goldschmidt school

    TRIMS. INTs, Leica factory, various shots. 01:00:43 Fountain at industry exhibition. Crowds looking at exhibitions, including "Das Weisse Gold," "Glaswolle," yarn/textiles, boots, "Continental" tires, "Sicherheits-Glas." Man standing next to large machine. 01:02:01 Small town in Germany. LS, Leica factory, INTs. CUs, lens, laborers, on lunch break, polishing, inserting film into camera. 01:04:01 HAS, LS, German village, cathedral spires, train in FG. 01:04:09 LS, factory, smokestacks. 01:04:18 Laborers on dirt mound with pick axes and sledgehammers. CU, "Krupp" insignia. Locomotive, rail li...

  9. Daily life in Warsaw, 1936

    MLS: town square, women and children are walking through the square. CU of bas relief sculptures on buildings, and a Jewish shop right below in this ornate building. CU of a street vendor blowing up a balloon. Warsaw: VS: park, statues, monument, women out strolling with their babies in fancy carriages. More street scenes, activity, shops, etc. MLS of trolley car as it approaches the camera, the sign on the car reads to Dworska Street.

  10. Ceremony at church

    Very brief trim, INTs of church, many clergy seated in formal dress for some kind of official visit or ceremony. Most likely related to Eleanor Roosevelt's visit seen in Story RG-60.4652.

  11. Tito in office; map of Yugoslavia

    EXT, building. INT, Tito walking into his office. He sits, smokes and looks through papers. A man walks in to show him a folder. Men meet in a large room, smoke and review papers. CU, map of Yugoslavia. Tito walks through his garden and around a sculpture, followed by a dog.

  12. BDM: exercise; marching on roadside

    Entire clip intercut with titles, beginning with "Education in Germany today". BDM girls exercising in a circle, running, and practicing the javelin throw. Younger girls walk along a country road in Saxony, stake a flag, eat lunch, read, nap, and perform silly skits. According to a transcript of Bryan's film lecture on Nazi Germany in the U.S. in 1938, this is a country road from Nurnberg to Dresden in Saxony. This particular compilation of trims may have been compiled for screening at one of Bryan's public lectures.

  13. Catholic church service in central Poland

    Undercranked shots (action sped up) inside a Catholic church for services. The church is full with men, women and children. The priest performs the mass facing the altar and the sacristy with his back to the churchgoers. VS of communion, Overhead shot from the pulpit of the congregation.The priest speaks from the pulpit.

  14. Prelude to war and scenes of destruction inflicted by the invading German army in Warsaw

    Sequence of outtakes begins with German planes flying overhead in 1939 during the German invasion of Poland. The Germans surround Poland from the south and the north, eventually reaching Warsaw and destroying the city. CU at 01:18:19 that shows an eagle insignia, in the hands of a soldier, who is marching along the street, air attack over Warsaw, scenes of Warsaw and posters that were on the streets. They are all in Polish, they are propaganda posters featuring swastikas and soldiers. Warsaw burning [most likely stock news footage] at 01:18:32, followed by shots of Poles taking to the stree...

  15. Linz and Salzburg, Austria, 1948

    VS in Linz, Austria: trolley cars, street scenes, etc. MCU people look at the camera as they board a street car. Street cars, motorcycles, bicycles, traffic cops. CUs at 01:22:00:00 of posters advertising film screenings and other events. Date on poster is August 1948. The film being advertised is called "Spuk" it is a joint US-AUSTRIA production, more posters for Folk festivals, and other events in September 1948, and another for "Funk Film." 01:22:23:20 Location switches to Salzburg, Austria. LS of the United States Information Center from across the street from this building, then moves ...

  16. Street scenes in Danzig, circa 1937

    Danzig, street scenes: streetcars, buses, supply trucks, shops, civilians going about their daily routines. 01:04:12:00 LS of trolley traveling down tracks in the center of the street. Nazi insignia and flags are visible everywhere, in every window of every building, most buildings have multiple flags displayed; continues with more street scenes of the entire street full of Nazi flags and banners. CU of sign for Adolf Hitler Strasse. MS of Hitler Youth, three young boys pose for the camera and smile; more shots of all the Nazi banners, stormtroopers, etc; 01:06:17:24 MCU of sign that reads:...

  17. Events leading to WWII

    War film about the background of World War II (Orientation Film No. 1). Reel 1 shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor, London air raids, cavalry and tank battles in Russia, and Panzer and Luftwaffe operations in western Europe. Fascists in Italy and Nazis in Germany riot and parade. Titles appear at beginning of reel.

  18. Zinc refinery in operation in Katowice

    Scenes from the Giesche zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, circa 1936. VS, inside near the furnaces, men coming out for a break and getting water, women sorting the ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, men drilling inside the mine. 01:14:55 Good shots of the digging in the mine, workers leaving the mine. Scene with the workers collecting their bicycles at the end of the day. Several good CUs of the faces of the workers, the raw zinc ore, machinery, etc. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  19. Nazi Germany trims: HJ, wreath laying

    Sign "Unser gruss ist 'Heil Hitler'". Peasant and cart. Marching band in city square. Nazi (Leipzig?). Man leaning against railing over river. Books in shop window. HJ motorbike. Spectators. Wreath laying. Parade, marching band. Goosestepping. Military review. Soldier guards memorial, CU boots.

  20. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto

    Engraved silver ring made from a spoon for Gerda Gerstl, 12, in March 1943 in the Riga ghetto. Gerda and her friend Hanka Spiegel had rings made for Hanka’s 12th birthday by Issi Lurie, a silversmith who worked with Hanka’s father Karl in the Luftwaffe uniform deposit. Gerda and Hanka traded their rings in fall 1943 when they were separated. Hanka kept Gerda’s ring until her liberation in March 1945, wearing it upside down on her hand and hiding it in her mouth during selections. Gerda and Hanka met at the Viennese school in the ghetto. Hanka and her parents were sent to Riga from Theresien...