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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Lithuanian

  1. Sightseeing in Paris

    Title reading, in English and French: "Paris La Nuit / Paris by Night." Sights by night, with lights, Place de la Concorde, yellowish light, nice effect, especially fountain, with traffic rushing by. Arc de Triomphe, camera lingers on details, pans upward. Les Grandes Boulevard. Paramount theater, various theaters and advertisements in lights. People window shopping, lots of activity on the street. Tout Va Bien restaurant. Interior of a restaurant with people drinking coffee, reading [motion is fast forward]. Montmartre: cafes, more lights, Moulin Rouge. Gaumont

  2. Defeat of France -- Compiegne -- Foch's railcar

    The narrator announces that is it the "21st of June, day of Compiegne." Franco-German armistice negotiations began at Compiegne, France, on June 21st, 1940. German soldiers are shown draping a French war memorial with a Nazi German flag. German troops holding rifles march into the camera, then into the Glade of the Armistice (a large plaza which was created as a memorial to the French victory in 1918), in the center of which stands the train car of Marshal Foch. This is the location of the signing of the armistice ending World War I, on November 11, 1918. It was destroyed by the Germans thr...

  3. Theater performance; balcony

    INT of a theater. People in costume rehearse a scene in which a king and queen process across the stage, followed by men holding the King's train. Two women (not seen heretofore on Film IDs 2719 or 2720 are shown sitting in the audience, no one else in audience. One of these women is shown on a balcony in the sunshine, cuddling and playing with a cat, which doesn't seem happy about the situation. A bald man in civilian clothes is shown briefly playing with the cat as well (man seen at 01:06:10 in Story 4409 and in Story 4411). Brief shot of mountain and lake.

  4. Warsaw street scenes; construction; shops, women

    MCU, passengers boarding a train. Uniformed conductor or a police officer stands on the platform. Young man in knickers and a cap looks at the camera before boarding, another young boy comes up behind him to board. Building under construction in Warsaw, the sign reads: "Dzwigi Bracia Jenike" and another "Felzytyn Skalenit" Shop window with female mannequins. MLS, on the street in Warsaw, three women at a fruit vendor's stand. MS, architectural detail and supports of a building. Fabric store window with a mannequin, a woman looks from the street. Passersby turn toward the camera. Woman conti...

  5. Volunteers from Nazi-occupied countries

    Volunteers from Nazi-occupied or collaborator countries sent to help Germany in the fight against the Soviets. A column of Dutch Nazis marching down the streets, giving the fascist salute. The narrator describes them as the first transport of Dutch volunteers to travel to Germany, where they will join the army and fight against the Soviet Union. Crowds of well-wishers on a train platform wave goodbye to the volunteers. A close-up of a Dutch volunteer kissing his wife or girlfriend before boarding the train. The train pulls out of the station. Scene switches to Croatia, where Marshal Slavko ...

  6. Invasion of Poland; Poland surrenders

    Title on screen: Ozaphan 11/39 Monatsschau; Krieg in Polen (Loosely, November monthly report on the war in Poland). View from a low-flying aircraft of smoke and destruction on the ground, including a bridge collapsed into a river. Title on screen: Brennende Haeuser kennzeichnen den (?) Rueckzugsweg der Polen [Burning houses indicate the retreat of the Poles]. Aerial shot along a line of burning structures on the ground. An explosion; soldiers walking through burning and smoking rubble. Title on screen: Hier sassen Heckenschuetzen [Here sat the snipers]. German soldiers climb over rubble tow...

  7. Workers and townspeople in Katowice, Poland 1936

    TRIMS feature a range of MCUs and CUs of locals in Katowice, Poland (Silesian region) in 1936. The first two CUs are of a worker from the zinc mine, on break, drinking water from a metal cup. The next few trims feature a farmer in the region churning a grain threshing machine, with CUs of the mechanism at work. The rest of the trims feature older men of the town, wearing traditional dress (heavy coats with fur collars and some embroidered details), they stand around smoking and talking to each often staring intently at the camera.

  8. Touring Germany

    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. In Germany, along the Rhine, tourist shots of river, a boat, crane industry on the shore, sailors. CU, Herz girl with camera. LS, chalets on shore, bridges. Street scenes with civilians on bicycles, steamboat, chalets in the mountains. In German town (Nuremberg?), street scenes, MS of food and ice cream vendor. CU Coca-Cola sign.

  9. Boxing

    Boys seen through a doorway playing ping pong. Two men and a boy walk through the doorway and watch the boys play. CUs, boys. They shadowbox. They scramble to grab boxing mitts off the floor. Boys lace up boxing gloves. Two pairs of boys practice while the instructor and other boys watch. CU boxing. Boys walk down stairs with wrought iron railing.

  10. Postwar Poland; destruction

    Snow-covered and war-damaged Poland, 1946. Horse with cart, building ruins. Three men looking at architectural drawing of a shelled building, pointing to destruction in BG. CU, blueprint of building.

  11. Martha Shemtov papers

    Contains 11 photographs, five legal documents, and one memoir pertaining to Martha Shemtov's experiences in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.

  12. Eva Metzger Brown collection

    The Eva Metzger Brown collection contains three primary records. The first two are affidavits for her parents, Ernst and Doris Metzger. These affidavits were required for the Metzger family to immigrate into the United States. Also included in the collection are two copies of Eva’s memoir, titled “Healing from the Traumas of the Holocaust and the Years Thereafter.” They recount the early years of Eva’s life, as well as her parent’s background. The memoir also details Eva’s experiences growing up in the United States as a young child.

  13. Deutsch family papers

    Contains correspondence between Alexander Hoffmann and his sister Roszi Hoffmann Deutsch. Roszi Hoffmann immigrated to the United States in 1921 and married Eugene Deutsch, while Alexander Hoffmann remained in Cluj, Romania (which became Kolozsvar, Hungary in 1940). Letters include references to Alexander's experiences on the "Kasztner Train" from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen, then to Switzerland; requests from immigration assistance to the United States from Montreaux; and mentions meeting Reszo Kastner in Switzerland.

  14. Signal Corps liberation photographs

    Consists of 17 black and white images taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in April and May 1945 during the liberation of concentration camps.

  15. Relocation of displaced persons

    INT, processing center for IRO (International Relief Organization). Families line up at desks where young men and women review their identity papers, create new documents, and arrange for them to emigrate to North America (Canada, United States), and various countries in South America. They are fingerprinted as well. VS, CUs of the refugees talking to the IRO workers. Expressions on the faces of refugees range from terrified to elated. 01:03:23:28 CU of a set of identity papers being created for a young woman, and her fingerprints being imprinted on the back of the paper. The same action is...

  16. Susy Raful photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs relating to the experiences of Edith, Mary, and Zsuzsi Taubner [donor] in Hungary before and during World War II.

  17. Bleiweis family papers

    Contains correspondence, documents and photographs related to the family of Hermann (Juda-Hersz) and Nesie (born Schwalb) Bleiweis, who lived in Gladbeck, Germany, in the 1920s and 1930s. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1937 and from there, to the United States. Includes pre-war photographs and documents of life in Gladbeck, as well as Schwalb family correspondence sent from Rozhnyatov, Poland, to the Bleiweis family in the United States from 1938-1941. Included in the correspondence is testimony of the events surrounding the expulsion of Polish-born Jews living in Germany back to Poland.

  18. A. Fokker films: von Richthofen, Goering, WWI flying aces, Fokker

    Various locations and dates, probably Northern France near St Quentin and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's "Flying Circus"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head: "RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 1. Teil" German military men on roof of train during World War I, stationary, moving along curved t...

  19. Stan Ostern documents

    Contains a notarized copy of the birth certificate of the Stan Ostern [donor] (born March 22, 1935, Poland) under Russian occupation and an identity card from the Feldafing Displaced persons' camp.

  20. Inge Spitz papers

    Contains information about Inge Spitz's experiences as a hidden child during the Holocaust: two photoprints; one identity card; and one membership card for Makkabi Hazair.