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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. 1939 Day of German Art; Hitler and high Nazi officials

    Archival footage in color from 01:10:19 to 01:27:32 shows amateur 16mm film footage of the Day of German Art filmed by Hans Feierabend in Munich in 1939. Includes scenes of Philipp Bouhler (in glasses) seated among Nazi dignitaries for viewing parade from 01:23:59 - 01:24:02 and 01:24:09 - 01:24:12, Albert Speer appears at 01:24:03, and Himmler and Goebbels.

  2. Five Cities

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: This rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work, at play, in the synagogue, and in school. Vilna's famous landmarks-the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute-are among the film's highlights.

  3. JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful message to the audience." Trains with Jewish DPs leaving Germany for Israel (reference to trains leading to concentration camps). People saying goodbye (but many are still left behind afte...

  4. Jewish families pose for camera; street scenes in Humenne

    Reel 2. Shows families (the Sommers, the Kleins, the Grosmans) in Humenne. Man greets the camera. Girls at play, dancing in a circle, including Zuzana Sermerova (b. 1924). Family group poses. CU sign, "Garage." Two men peel potatoes. Roof of garage building. Family members pose in front of gate. CU Judith Klein (sister of Bernard and Emery) in a baby carriage. Group of kids wave and walk to camera, CUs. Men walk to camera, one takes off suspenders, walks towards camera. Bernard and Emery sit in the grass with the movie camera case. CU, Judith in carriage. Family in garden; in front of house...

  5. Family business; market; shops

    Reel 3. Marketplace in Humenne with tents and shops. The Klein family's shop was located across from this market. Peasants from the local villages traveled to Humenne on Mondays and Fridays to sell their wares. Local policemen pose for the camera with one of the American relatives (Louis or Harry Sommer in a dark suit and hat). Cousins stand before their leather goods shop owned by uncle Jacob Grossman. Pan up to sign on store: "Jakob Grossmann. Obchod Kozou." Carts with horses and people pass through streets of village. 01:15:32 Hermann Klein's brick-making factory. Smoke stack. Pan up and...

  6. Holiday celebration; street scenes; shops

    Reel 3. Intertitle: "Holiday Celebration". Street scene with townspeople in costume to celebrate the Easter holiday. People walk towards camera in street, dressed nicely. Women with packages pass by. Shops in BG. Men and women in fancy clothing. Umbrellas. LV, men and women walking. Religious procession past shops on square, man in front holds metal post. People walking towards camera. LV, cows, people roaming in streets, children playing. Man leads herd of cows. City streets, square. Family shops/businesses. Pan, signs of shops seen. Huts/houses. People walking/milling about.

  7. Jewish families before the Holocaust in Slovakia

    Reel 3. Women from the Sommer, Klein, and Grosman families gather for the camera. Intertitle: "My Home Folks - Mother, Sister, Their Family and Friends." Family (well-dressed) walk and pose for camera. Pan of entire family (including the visiting Americans, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grosman (the father of Ladislav at 01:03 in a light-colored suit)). Children playing on swing. Posing in front of the family shop and walking down the street towards the camera. 01:23:58 Another family on the main street.

  8. Family poses for camera; city square

    Reel 4. Women and children from the Sommer and Klein families in alley and doorway of house; they walk towards the camera. Some gather in BG (VQ: fuzzy). Children and women in a group. CU, children slowly walk towards camera. 02:00:43 Pan (left to right), men posing (all in suits, hats, overcoats), glimpse of an automobile next to them. Women and children at family's storefront; pan (left to right) of sign, "Houstinec, Sommer." Man and boy alley (same as before) walk towards camera in an alley. Other members of the family walk towards camera as well, including women, children, and cameraman...

  9. Train station in Humenne; village square

    Reel 5. Brief pan of Budapest (gray, repeated in RG-60.1451). Intertitle: "Humenne -- My Home Town, A Typical Slovakia Village." Trains, people board and deboard. Train station. Boy on peasant cart with cows and a wagon in the main square of Humenne. People gathered in the town square for market days (on Mondays and Fridays). Lots of people, carts, wagons, activity, shops, and houses in BG. Hotel, pan through marketplace. Peasants selling boots, coffee house, man with bales of hay. Horses. People and shops on square. Tea house. Carts with a wagon (possibly with Hermann Klein on board). Hors...

  10. Market; shops

    Reel 5. Intertitle: "Market Days - Monday and Friday." Crowds mill about town square (fuzzy) on market day. 02:07:03 One of the visiting Americans (Louis or Harry Sommer) buys a chicken from a vendor. Carts, cows, automobiles at the marketplace on the main square (across from the Klein family's shop). People walk towards camera. Buying and selling material. Shops in BG. Carts pass, followed by women. 02:07:50 Brief scene of Sommer and Klein family members walking towards the camera in alley. Crowds in town square for market days, walking toward and past camera. "Jakob Grossman", a leather g...

  11. Reichsarbeitsdienst (Labor Service)

    Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD): Young men working and training. Boots lined up in a row. Digging ditches, mountains in BG, stop to exercise in unison. Working as train passes in BG. Seated on ground, eating from mess kits, resting. HAS camp, running into lake to swim. HAS barracks, men lined up. Marching in uniform with spades. Man with swastika armband takes photograph. Men exercise with logs. [White screen from 00:05:31 to 00:05:46, then footage repeats men resting, eating, marching until 00:06:37] Bare-chested men sit outdoors with instructor, Politische Weltkarte map. Men swimming, throwing ...

  12. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Prague

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Prague; gas masks; books.

  13. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Assistance to refugees.

  14. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Henlein

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. SPD Party; Henlein.

  15. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: comedians

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Map; comedians (Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich).

  16. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: children

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Aid to children; puppets.

  17. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: job sites

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Job sites.

  18. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: anti-Nazi rally

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Hospital; anti-Nazi rally.

  19. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: fascists

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Fascist activities; rally.

  20. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: mobilization

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Mobilization.